EPC CEO Alex Lidow Receives SEMI Award
Efficient Power Conversion's (EPC) CEO Alex Lidow has received a 2015 SEMI Award for North America for the innovation of power device technology, enabling the commercialisation of GaN.
Lidow was honoured for his work in the area of process and technology Integration.
Other 2015 award winners were Chenming Hu for the Berkeley Short-channel Insulated-gate FET Model (BSIM) families of compact transistor models and an Intel team for implementation of bulk CMOS FinFET production.
SEMI (the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the micro- and nano-electronics industries), publicly recognises and honours technological and industrial leadership through the annual SEMI Award North America program.
The awards program was established in 1979 to recognise enabling technical contributions by individuals and teams to the microelectronics industry. The enabling technological contributions to the microelectronics industry can be as broad as Integrated Circuit Design, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), new mask manufacturing methods, new device manufacturing architecture and methods and the assembly and test of integrated circuits and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices.
In 2009, SEMI expanded criteria to include outstanding achievements in developing new and emerging technologies expected to have significant future value to the semiconductor industry. This change in criteria broadens the scope of the SEMI Award to recognise technology developments including semiconductors, photovoltaic solar displays and solid state lighting.
Lidow was formally presented the SEMI Award at the Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) banquet on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California.
