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Maurits De Jong from Intel Corporation will present at this week's Physics Colloquium. Dr. De Jong's presentation is titled "Reliability: Small Devices, Great Importance".

The seminar will be presented  at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday (Dec.4) in Fisher 139. The coffee hour will be held at 3:30 in the Fisher Hall Lobby.

Abstract  For the past few years, the semiconductor industry has become one of the biggest and fastest growing industries. From laptops and smartphones to cars and planes, semiconductor chips touch every component of our life. The future will find even more ways of utilizing these chips, which has become more and more clear with the rise of technologies as drones, self-driving cars or AI. To ensure that the chips allow continued development, there has been a push to make each generation of chips faster, more energy efficient and smaller. To make sure that even the smallest devices can offer the highest performance to facilitate future research and development, one of the backbones in chip semiconductor development is quality and reliability. This includes both the manufacturing of the devices, how to guarantee that the devices function as intended and stay operating. This talk will discuss how physics affect degradation of devices, what some of the concerns in industry are and how does this translates into various quality and reliability methods in R&D for the next generation of chips.

Bio Dr. Maurits de Jong is a Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer in the “Technology Development, Quality and Reliability” department for Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon, having earned his PhD in semiconductor reliability physics at the University of Twente. He earned his Masters degree at he university of Groningen in the Netherlands, researching graphene. His PhD research focused on how semiconductor transistors get damaged and on various ways to repair them at device level. After which, he continued the research of transistor reliability into industry, where he ensures that the chips coming out of the fab are up to spec and working as intended.