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As Director of Silicon Technology Research, led development of advanced CMOS, packaging and mixed signal process technologies. Before TI, was Director of the Internet Systems and Storage Lab at Hewlett-Packard and focused on highly scalable, dynamic, federated computer and storage systems, improved clean room facility productivity per person hour to best recorded in HP where researchers developed high performance 0.18 um CMOS technology with Al/low-k interconnect, and developed then world's lowest dark-current CMOS image sensors and technology. The Lab demonstrated the world's smallest FRAM cell feasibility jointly with TI and Applied Materials in 1999.

Responsible for Applied’s technology direction, its advanced R&D programs and for developing new business opportunities. Includes several high-growth businesses, equipment for the flat panel display industry, and the Maydan Technology Center, the focal point for Applied’s activities with integrated silicon processes.

With 19 years at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Microelectronics Group, later Agere Systems. Most recent as vice president and general manager of product divisions engaged in network ICs and as CTO leading all central IC and optoelectronics R&D, including the Bell Labs research spun off as part of Agere. Named a Bell Labs Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor, for his contributions to semiconductor devices and simulation. Has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and professional conference papers and has nine patents. Active in industry consortia including serving on the board of directors of Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Technology Strategy Committee of the Semiconductor Industry Association. A Fellow of the IEEE and has served as Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University.

Leading in numerous metrology and wafer inspection product groups for 17 years. Overseeing Reticle and Photomask Inspection Division, Films and Surface Technology Division, Wafer Inspection Group, CTO Software, and Customer Groups. Expert in lithography and yield management through engineering positions with Ultratech Stepper and Cypress Semiconductor. Degreed, electrical engineering, University of Michigan; master's in engineering management, Santa Clara University.

General Manager of Nanotechnology Research Center at Fujitsu, also Fellow of Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe. Work has focused on research and development of compound semiconductor devices. Highlights include self-aligned GaAs MESFET's using refractory-metal-silicide Schottky gates, the first success in fabricating hot-electron transistors, and the invention of resonant-tunneling transistors. Awards include 1987 GaAs Symposium Young Scientist Award and 1998 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award. Elected Fellow of IEEE in 2000. Also a Fellow member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and is the former chair of Japan Chapter of IEEE Electron Device Society. Degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Osaka University.

Manager of IBM's Advanced Process Technology team at Albany Nanotech, a partnership of New York State, the University of Albany, and industry, including a number of other major semiconductor equipment and manufacturing companies. Bringing leading-edge technology, Research and Development for use by IBM and other partners.

Works closely with IBM's Aerospace & Defense team on radiation-hardened silicon business opportunities. Worked in development of advanced optical lithography and for Extreme UltraViolet mask. Managed Unit Process Team developing and optimizing processes and equipment for advanced semiconductor logic and memory programs for IBM. Designed and developed vertical devices inside capacitive storage trenches for future DRAM (Dynamic-Random-Access-Memory) components. Silicon-On-Insulator equipment and process development. Management of logic development process and technology, including enabling new-generation photolithography, Shallow Trench Isolation, and integrated deposition-and-etch systems.

Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (NPI, www.nano-proprietary.com) and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Nanotech, Inc. in Austin, TX, guiding the company to become a pioneer in nanotechnology in general and a leader in the display industry utilizing electron field emission from carbon films/carbon nanotubes, in particular.

Dr. Yaniv is an authority in electro-optics, liquid crystal technology, amorphous semiconductors, technology commercialization and business management. He has published over 200 articles, holds more than 50 patents, and has extensive contacts in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Far East.

"Nanotechnology will completely restructure industries and economies and is recognized as technology disruptive to every field. Entire business segments are going to disappear while new exciting segments will be created. Major government initiatives by countries all over the world and large funds have already been committed to win the nanotechnology race."

Responsible for science and engineering activities of nanoscience and technology, materials science, advanced fusion development, high performance computing, radiation sciences, microelectronics and microsystems, engineering sciences. Also VP Science, Technology, and Engineering Strategic Management Unit, and Chief Scientist of the Nuclear Weapons Strategic Management Unit. Has served as Director of Homeland Security Systems and Development Center, on prototype deployments.

One time Director of Exploratory Systems and Development Center, Director of Materials and Engineering Sciences, Deputy Director of Science Based Engineering and Technology and CEO and COO of the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Virtual National Laboratory, with scientists and engineers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. Won Lockheed Martin's prestigious NOVA award for Technical Excellence. Served DoD Science Board Study on Homeland Security. Ph.D., solid state physics, Purdue.

Develops programs for technology-based economic development, including the Texas Technology Initiative, which drove state legislation for the Texas Enterprise Fund and Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Works extensively with state and national leadership and industry and university researchers on emerging technologies that leverage advanced nano-fabrication and R&D in the semiconductor industry. Participated in all of SEMATECH's internal startups, directing technical programs in silicon wafers, metrology, standards, and factory and equipment productivity. Numerous papers on R&D collaboration, industry technology transitions, modeling, and advanced materials analysis.

B.S., Caltech, physics; Masters and Ph. D., University of Oregon, experimental solid state physics.

Specializes in technology transfers to manufacturing. Microelectronics technology pioneer of CVD Ti, Plasma MOCVD TiN among others, which are currently employed in mainstream IC manufacturing. Introduction of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) based processes into IC manufacturing. Ion implantation, deposition technologies, plasma processing, CMP, Litho and front-end and back-end module integration technologies for IC processing. Author of over 75 technical papers and holds more than 500 U.S. patents.

Chairman and chief executive officer since inception in 1983. Also president from 1984 to January 1997. One time principal engineer with Tektronix, Inc. and TriQuint Semiconductor, where he designed and evaluated high-frequency gallium arsenide integrated circuits. A BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Also President of Colibrys Inc., Stafford Texas USA. Member of steering committee NEXUS and the management board of EURIMUSS. At CSEM was Executive Vice-President responsible for the Microsystems Manufacturing Division with the specific mission of preparing it as a spin-off. As Assistant Chief Executive Officer MICRONAS SA in Switzerland assisted in the restructuring of European Operations following the acquisition of ITT Intermetall GmbH.

At GEC MARCONI established facilities for SAW crystal filters, also management of Microwave Technology Research & Development, RF Component Production lines, and Microwave Sales & Marketing. Experience covers a vast range including Silicon, Silicon Germanium, III-V Monolithic and discrete semiconductor components, Thin & Thick Film Hybrids, Mobile telecommunications, Military / Aerospace. With GEC PLESSEY SEMICONDUCTORS supplied innovative RF electronic subsystems to first tier manufacturers e.g. BMW, Rover and Volvo. Physics degree, Imperial College of Science & Technology, London

Global supplier of photomask products and services supporting the semiconductor and display industries. Primarily responsible for global R&D, technology strategy and communications, intellectual property and exploration of new technology oriented ventures and partnerships. Once held both R&D and manufacturing positions with IBM Corp, Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics.

Fellow and Board member of SPIE. Also serves on a number of corporate and consortia advisory boards addressing industries served by Photronics. Published extensively in the fields of lithographic optics and semiconductor technology, and is visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas department of electrical engineering. Graduated with BS and MS degrees in Optics from the University of Rochester and holds a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Was on the Nobel Prize team which discovered C60 and fullerenes in 1985. Work focused on chemical reactivity and photophysics of carbon clusters with and without endohedral metal atoms. After a postdoctoral position involving femtosecond dynamics measured by Raman spectroscopy, joined Texas Instruments. In 15 years at TI has worked on late stage R&D for memory and ASIC chips. For the past 8 years has worked on advanced photolithography using 193nm light. He is currently assigned to IMEC in Belgium to bring immersion lithography into production.

Leads global research-and-development programs, supporting customers' technology roadmaps. Focused on photomask resolution-enhancement technology issues, leading company-wide programs improving quality and yield of products.

Formerly at DuPont Photomasks, DPI Reticle Technology Center (RTC), electronics group of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. Holds sixteen U.S. patents, published numerous technical papers. Doctorate in optics, University of Rochester; bachelor's degree, physics Emory University.

Responsible for Nanotechnology and Semiconductor/MEMS markets. Chairman of the APiA (Advanced Packaging and Interconnect Alliance), serving the advanced packaging and interconnect industries. Also held Marketing,
Applications and Technical Sales Management positions at Ultratech. At Nihon Semiconductor, Japan, joined wafer Fab team responsible for sub-micron process integration; as program manager at Sematech, managed
DUV lithography program and implemented initial DUV lithography processes; at LSI Logic, managed Fab development and sustaining activities in photolithography, plasma etch and reticle control operations; and at Micro Mask, developed new photomask processes.

Has served as a technical advisor to PDF since the company's founding, and named its chief technologist in 1997. Has held senior technical positions at Harris Semiconductor Co., AT&T Bell Labs, Texas Instruments, NEC, Hitachi, SEMATECH, and KLA-Tencor. Dr. Strojwas has consulted for semiconductor companies, equipment vendors, and electronic design automation companies in the area of statistically based CAD/CIM of VLSI circuits. A Keithley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Electronic Engineering, Warsaw Technical University; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

Develops and manufactures imprint lithography tools. Former Chief Technical Officer for Lucent Technologies Microelectronics, the forerunner of Agere Systems. Also one time CEO of SEMATECH and recently a Venture Capital Partner with Austin Ventures. Thirty-five year career in high technology with a wide variety of technical and management positions in R&D, manufacturing and business management, including Executive Director of the Bell Laboratories Photonics and Integrated Circuit Division, and also as VP and General Manager of AT&T Lightwave Business Unit. Serves on Board of Directors for Power-One (Camarillo, CA), Technitrol (Philadelphia, PA), Metrosol (Austin, TX) in addition to Molecular Imprints (Austin, TX). BS, PhD and MBA degrees.

A leading Nanotechnology company; Oversees operations focusing on partnerships, involving companies such as LSI Logic, BAE Systems and ASML. Assist Nantero with intellectual property management and government programs involving the Navy and various agencies.

Expertise also includes Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Semiconductors. Active member steering committee, Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative (MNI); executive member, Massachusetts NanoExchange (MNE); member Advisory Board, New England Nanomanufacturing Center for Enabling Tools (NENCET); and the planning board for Nanotech 2006. One Board of Directors, Coretomic, Burlington, Vermont; and ENS Biopolymer, Inc of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PhD Chemistry, Harvard. Co-author of over 100 patents.

Minerva Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Worked in R&D of first multi-slice CT scanner for Elscint (Israel), and as Product Manager CT for Elscint (Asia-Pacific), thereafter as Director of Business Development for Philips Medical Systems (Asia-Pacific).

German/Israeli national, Ph.D. (1993) and M.Sc. in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

HORIBA Jobin Yvon, Inc., Dr. Adam Gilmore, Ph.D, Application Scientist

Key in organizing nanotechnology related projects and issues within the HJY Fluorescence Division where nanotechnology is an increasingly important focus. Coordinates with the international HJY Fluorescence team to stimulate the application of photoluminescence as one of the main tools for academic research and industrial applications of nanotechnology. Has over 20 years experience in the field of fluorescence technology along with a wide array of international contacts and collaborations in both the academic and industrial nanotechnology arenas. Before joining HJY two years ago, filled an appointment for 8 years as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. HJY markets the World's most sensitive research-grade instruments and has played an important role in many of the major discoveries and subsequent characterization of the semiconducting properties of carbon nanotubes and quantum dots.

Also silicon micromachined gas chromatography systems and organic semiconductors. Served as technical consultant with USAF Scientific Advisory Board, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, Johns Hopkins University, the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies Laboratory, SRI International, Presby Corporation, American Research Corporation of Virginia (ARCOVA), Technispan LLC. Over 20 years pioneered design, fabrication, modeling and experimental characterization of microsensors and microactuators as Vice Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology. Holds 12 U.S. Patents, author of over 125 refereed journal articles/book chapters and technical reports. Received research grants from DARPA, the NSF, the USAF.

Research supported by the NSF, SRC, NASA, TEHCB, Motorola, Legerity, ST-Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Raytheon and ARO. Awards inlude IEEE-Dallas Section Electron Devices Society Outstanding Service Awards (1995, 1997), IEEE - Electron Devices Society, Service Recognition Award (1995), Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Awards (1996, 1997, 2001), and SMU- Sigma Xi Research Award (1997) Senior member of IEEE, Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE-Electron Devices Society

Dual B.S. degrees, electrical engineering and physics, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, electrical engineering, University of Rochester.

Specializing in Electronic materials, Display technology, Materials characterization, Nuclear chemistry. United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Proposal review panel, 2000-2003.

U.S. Dept. of Defense, Information Science and Technology study group on "Computational Fabric", 2000. Past Program Manager, DARPA; 14 years with Texas Instruments. Professional organizations include: Materials Research Society, American Physical Society. Peer Reviewed publications – 85, Issued US Patents- 65, Issued Foreign Patents - 29.

Member, European Union Phoremost Network of Excellence on nanophotonics. Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics Department. Awards include Turkish Academy of Science Distinguished Young Scientist Award (2006), European Union Marie Curie Faculty Fellowship (2005), Stanford Intel Research Fellowship (2000), and Stanford University Edward L. Ginzton Fellowship (1998).

B.S. degree, electrical and electronics engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, electrical engineering, Stanford University.

A 30 year veteran of semiconductor business operations and technical management experience. Previously founded EMCORE Corporation, a leading supplier of compound semiconductor fabrication equipment. Also established nLine Corporation and managed the New Materials and Technology Group at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Associated with Molecular Imprints since its inception and provided the seed capital to start the company along with two professors at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sponsors:

McKool Smith, P.C.
Applied Materials
Lockheed Martin
Texas Instruments
Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.
Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc.
TIPRA
Zyvex
Japanese Consulate
BioForce NanoSciences
Foresight Nanotech Institute
Metroplex Technology Business Council
Authentix
Raymor Industries

CoSponsoring Associations:

Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas
Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute


CoSponsoring Universities and Colleges:

University of Texas, Dallas
University of Texas, Austin
UT Pan-American
UT Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas, Arlington
University ofTexas, Brownsville
University of Houston
Rice University
Texas State Technical College
Lamar University
Texas State University-San Marcos
Texas A&M
University of North Texas
Austin Community College


Participating Organizations:

Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau



Press Release:
(found at Nanotechnology Now)

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