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Senior Intel lithography expert joins four-year old start-up |
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Nov 27, 2006 at 04:46 PM |
 Dr. Bob Gleason, a senior engineering manager at Intel Corp., has joined four-year old start-up Luminescent Technologies as managing director of engineering. Dr. Gleason is a well-known expert in lithography and related fields having represented his employers on numerous industry consortia advisory boards.
These roles included: co-chairman of the Sematech Lithography Technical Advisory Board; chairman of the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Lithography Science Technical Advisory Board; and Member of the SIA Lithography Technical Working Group, which developed the 1997 National Road Map for Semiconductors. He also held positions on BACUS committees.
He joins Luminescent Technologies at a time when the young company is transitioning its unique Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) products, which are starting to be used in volume production environments at the 65nm node and into the 45nm node in 2007.
"Bob has built a superb reputation for carrying advanced lithography technology initiatives through development and into manufacturing," said Dr. Moris Kori,
executive vice president for products at Luminescent Technologies. "He will apply his considerable engineering expertise to ensure the quality and integrity of our products in production. His impressive lithography credentials, coupled with a unique understanding of sub-wavelength mask synthesis challenges on the manufacturing side, will also make him an invaluable technology resource for our customers."
Dr. Gleason spent seven years as an engineering manager at Intel Corp where he led a team of 40 software and CAD engineers developing software and methods used to transform IC designs into mask pattern data. He represented Intel on the SEMI task force that developed the OASIS pattern data format, and led the introduction of OASIS at Intel. He also served on the technical team responsible for Intel's lithography strategy.
He holds a Ph.D. degree in physics, along with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree, all from Rice University, Texas.
Luminescent Technologies has been able to attract other high profile experts to the company that include Dr. Dan Maydan and Dr. Joel Monnier to its Board of Advisors that was announced in July 2006.
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