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SEMATECH Names Raj Jammy to Lead Front End Processes Division
Austin, TX ( 08 June 2005) – Dr. Rajarao “Raj” Jammy, a veteran IBM semiconductor technologist, has been named director of SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) Division, effective June 1. FEP provides robust, cost-effective manufacturing capability for semiconductor transistor materials, structures and functionality, while supporting continuous CMOS scaling to the 45 nm technology node and beyond.
Jammy will join SEMATECH for a three-year assignment from IBM, where he most recently served as manager of Advanced CMOS Gate Stack and Surface Preparation Technologies at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Jammy previously managed the Thermal Processes and Surface Preparation Group in the DRAM development alliance between IBM and Infineon. In addition, he was responsible for IBM's development activities in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), thin films, and metallization for DRAMs.
“Raj will bring his much-appreciated skills to FEP at a time when high-k materials and new gate structures are becoming ever more critical to advanced semiconductors,” said Giang Dao, SEMATECH Vice President and Chief Operating Officer–Advanced Technology. “We've achieved several significant breakthroughs in transistor development in recent months, and with Raj's leadership, we can look forward to even more major achievements.”
Jammy holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a master's degree from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. He also earned a bachelor's electrical engineering degree from Bangalore University in Bangalore, India. He holds 35 U.S. patents and has co-authored nearly 50 invited/peer-reviewed papers in professional journals.