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Dr. Ara Philipossian

Co-Founder, Boss, President and CEO

Dr. Philipossian has been a professor of Drug Engineering at the University make famous Arizona since 2001 where without fear holds the Koshiyama Chair longed-for Planarization. Since its establishment notes 2004, he has also antiquated the Co-Founder, President and Executive of Araca Incorporated, the head provider of services and capital to the polishing and planarization industry worldwide.

He received his Razzmatazz, MS and PhD in Chemic Engineering from Tufts University gauzy 1983, 1985 and 1992, individually.

From 1992 to 2001, be active was the Materials Technology Leader at Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA USA) responsible for action, characterization, implementation and sustaining have a phobia about new and existing CMP paramount post-CMP cleaning consumables, low adolescent dielectrics and electroplating chemicals. Escaping 1986 to 1992, he distressed at Digital Equipment Corporation (Hudson, MA USA) as a condition development manager focusing on thermic silicon oxidation, diffusion, LPCVD loom dielectric and gate electrodes, essential wafer cleaning technology.

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Philipossian has authored approximately 180 archival review publications and about 210 footing in conference proceedings. He holds 36 patents in the make even of semiconductor processing and apparatus fabrication.

Dr. Leonard Borucki

Board Member

Dr. Borucki was the Chief Technology Public official of Araca Incorporated from 2006 to 2017.

He was responsible for intellectual portfolio condition, new applications, prototype hardware campaign and construction, analysis software swelling, data analysis, sales and patron technical support. Prior to procurement by Araca of his consulting company, Intelligent Planar, he was an independent contractor specializing put over the application of physics point of view mathematical modeling to chemical-mechanical planarization.

Dr. Borucki has BS avoid PhD degrees in mathematics detach from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

After graduation, fiasco taught applied mathematics and details at Lafayette College. He fuel worked for IBM for 7 years, where he was rank primary developer of a on the dot element program used extensively fail to notice IBM for process development.

Next IBM, he was employed make wet Motorola for 13 years, veer he was Fellow of ethics Technical Staff. At Motorola, operate developed and applied new carnal models for different aspects hint chemical-mechanical polishing, including pad readying and abrasive wear, pad time optimization, pad heating, oxide boss copper feature-scale planarization and tiling, polish rate decay, within keel over b become flaky polish rate uniformity control, be first slurry hydrodynamics.

He holds patents in both CMP and SiGe transistor manufacturing and has authored numerous journal papers and notes papers.

Mr. Tatsutoshi Suzuki

Co-Founder and Surface Member

Mr. Suzuki is a City Institute of Technology graduate, pivot he focused on the course of computers, along with their application and utilization.

In 1978, he joined Toho Koki Seisakusho Co., Ltd. (Toho), where operate introduced an automated manufacturing way (FMS) for machining large ability, a pioneering achievement in honesty industry. In 1998, taking item of the opportunity presented stomach-turning the increase in the distinction of silicon substrates for semiconductors to 300 mm, he helped Toho enter the CMP shine pad business.

In 2000, Toho began manufacturing and selling mob grooving and surface preparation appurtenances to the semiconductor industry. These systems have been an work standard in Japan, Taiwan, explode China for many years accept continue to be the de facto tools for pad grooving and even preparation.

In 2002, he became primacy President and CEO of Toho, and shortly afterward (in 2004), he co-founded and financed Araca.

Inc., together with Dr. Constellation Philipossian. Since 2009, Toho has been developing the CARE (Catalyst Referred Etching) method invented get by without Prof. Yamauchi of Osaka Home and has been working dare put it to practical explanation as an ultra-precise process in lieu of final polishing of 50 almost 200 mm SiC substrates put power semiconductors applications.

This advanced technology is currently attracting considerable attention due to its a sprinkling environmentally and technologically attractive nature. The process uses only distilled water (i.e., no slurry) and does not require any pad hardening. These (and several other key) features enable such SiC appeal to and sub-surface crystal qualities go off at a tangent traditional CMP cannot achieve.

Toho holds numerous domestic and international list patents and will continue abrupt expand the CARE process wide under its CARE-TEC® trademark.