SEMICON West 2016

Mike Chudzik
Sr. Director of Technical Projects, Transistor and Interconnect Group
Applied Materials


-B.S. Metallurgy, University of Washington -Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University. -Join Applied Materials in 2014 -Manages a cross business unit group responsible for product and process gap analysis and response at Applied Materials for channel/device, gate, contact and interconnect modules. -Spent 14 years at IBM (2000-2014) Dr. Chudzik started his career working on high-k dielectrics for DRAM and logic devices. He spent 2 years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) working on atomic layer deposition (ALD) of high-k and metal gate films. Since then, Dr. Chudzik has held a number of management positions both within IBM Research and the IBM Systems and Technology Group where he brought high-k/metal gate technology from research into development. Dr. Chudzik is an author or co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and is an IBM Master Inventor with over 60 patents in the areas of electronic materials, CMOS processing and CMOS device structures.

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