An ESM life: Tales of drift, diffusion, innovation and hopefully inspiration!

Abstract: Often graduate students wonder what life experiences await them after graduation. As a case study, this seminar will attempt detail the events leading up to the speaker’s entering ESM for his undergraduate degree and continuing on for a Ph.D. in ESM. It will cover some key patents including those from his co-op education at Delco Electronics, Penn State and with Motorola. It will review the amazing transformations in thin-film transistors and CMOS process technology going from 0.25 micron to 5 nm technology nodes over the past 20 years. Finally, it will cover excursions as an expatriate in France, as co-chair of the Green Party of Texas and in solar cell research. Ultimately, this seminar hopes to provide inspiration for current ESM graduate students.

Bio: Dr. Douglas Reber graduated with his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Penn State in Engineering Science and Mechanics. His work in the semiconductor industry began with Motorola in 1998 and continued with its spin-off, Freescale Inc., which is now part of NXP Inc. He is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at NXP working as a design rule manual engineer covering semiconductor technology nodes from 55nm to 5nm. He was a device integration engineer in the BEOL (Back-End-Of-The-Line) copper interconnect module for Motorola’s first copper product and a polysilicon gate integration engineer for the 90nm node. He was expatriated to France for 2.5 years and he holds more than 46 patents. He also served as the co-chair of the Travis County, Texas Green Party in 2000 and as co-chair of the Green Party of Texas from 2006 to 2008.

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For Zoom information and password, please contact Lisa Spicer at lms8@psu.edu