Dr. Mark Pinto, Applied Materials CTO, Receives Prestigious 2008 J.J.
Ebers Award
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The IEEE
Electron Devices Society today honored Dr. Mark Pinto, chief technology
officer of Applied
Materials, Inc., with its prestigious 2008 J.J.
Ebers award, which is considered to be one of the technical
community’s highest honors. Dr. Pinto was presented with the award at
the 2008 International
Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco in recognition of
“his contributions to widely applied semiconductor technology simulation
tools.”
Dr. Pinto obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985, where he
co-developed the first general purpose 2D device simulator PISCES-II.
This device simulator became the industry standard for over 10 years and
formed the basis of commercial simulators still used today. He then
joined Bell Laboratories and led efforts to develop many enabling
computational models and algorithms that have been widely implemented
for understanding and predicting phenomena over a broad range of
applications, including silicon, III-V materials, and optoelectronics.
Through his enabling work, technology simulation became a fundamental
tool underlying many generations of semiconductor technology.
Dr. Pinto currently is a senior vice president at Applied Materials
where he serves as general manager of the Energy
and Environmental Solutions Group, in addition to his role as CTO.
As part of his efforts to extend the Company’s nanomanufacturing
technologies, he led the establishment of Applied’s rapidly growing solar
business, which was recently honored with the Wall
Street Journal’s 2008 Technology Innovation Award for its SunFab™
Thin Film Line.
The J.J. Ebers award, established in 1971, is intended to foster
progress in electron devices and to commemorate Jewell James Ebers,
whose contributions shaped the understanding and technology of electron
devices. The award annually recognizes and honors accomplishments of
unusual merit in the electron device field and is given for outstanding
technical contributions to electron devices. Previous winners include
Herbert Kroemer, Andrew Grove and Simon Sze.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) is the
world’s largest technical professional society. Through its more than
375,000 members in 160 countries, the organization is a leading
authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems,
computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric
power and consumer electronics. Dedicated to the advancement of
technology, the IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in
the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields,
and has developed nearly 900 active industry standards. The organization
annually sponsors more than 850 conferences worldwide. Additional
information about IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org
.
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the global leader in
Nanomanufacturing Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio of
innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication
of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells,
flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials,
we apply Nanomanufacturing Technology to improve the way people live.
Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
