Steven H Voldman

Dr. Steven H. Voldman received his B. S. in Engineering Science from the University of Buffalo (1979); M.S. EE (1981) and Electrical Engineer Degree (1982) from M.I.T.; MS Engineering Physics (1986) and Ph.D. EE (1991) from the University of Vermont under IBM Resident Study Fellow program. At M.I.T., he worked as a member of the M.I.T. Plasma Fusion center, and the High Voltage Research Laboratory (HVRL). At IBM, as a reliability/device engineer, his work included pioneering work in bipolar...See more

Dr. Steven H. Voldman received his B. S. in Engineering Science from the University of Buffalo (1979); M.S. EE (1981) and Electrical Engineer Degree (1982) from M.I.T.; MS Engineering Physics (1986) and Ph.D. EE (1991) from the University of Vermont under IBM Resident Study Fellow program. At M.I.T., he worked as a member of the M.I.T. Plasma Fusion center, and the High Voltage Research Laboratory (HVRL). At IBM, as a reliability/device engineer, his work included pioneering work in bipolar/CMOS SRAM alpha particle and cosmic ray SER simulation, MOSFET gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) mechanism, hot electron, epitaxy/well design, CMOS latchup, and ESD. Since 1986, he was responsible for defining the IBM ESD/latchup strategy for CMOS, SOI, BiCMOS and RF CMOS, and SiGe technologies. He has authored ESD and latchup publications in the area of MOSFET scaling, device simulation, copper, low-k, MR heads, CMOS, SOI, SiGe and SiGeC technology. Voldman served as SEMATECH ESD Working Group Chairman (1996-2000), ESD Association Technical Program Chair (2000), Vice Chairman (2001), General Chairman 2002, and ESDA Board of Directors (1998-2006), International Reliability Physics Symposium ESD/Latchup Sub-Committee Chairman (2002-2006), International Physical and Failure Analysis (IPFA) Symposium ESD Sub-Committee Chairman (2003-2005), ESD Association Standard Development Chairman on Transmission Line Pulse Testing (2000-2006), ESD International Committee on Education (ICE) Asian University Liason and "ESD on Campus" program founder, and serves in the ISQED Committee, Taiwan ESD Conference (T-ESDC) Technical Program Committee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), and the International Conference on ElectromagneticCompability (ICEMAC, Taipei, Taiwan). Voldman has provided ESD lectures for universities (e.g., M.I.T. Lecture Series, Taiwan National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), and Singapore Nanyang Technical University (NTU)). He is a recipient of over 136 U.S. patents, over 100 publications, and recently wrote a textbook on ESD entitled ESD: Physics and Devices (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd) as well as contributing to the text "Silicon Germanium: Modeling, Technology and Simulation," and providing talks on patenting and invention. He has been highlighted in EE Times, Intellectual Property Law and Business and authored the first article on ESD phenomena for the October 2002 edition of Scientific American entitled "Lightning Rods for Nano-electronics," and Pour La Science, Le Scienze, and Swiat Nauk International editions. In 2003, Dr. Voldman was accepted as the first IEEE Fellow for ESD phenomena in semiconductors for "contributions to electrostatic discharge protection in CMOS, SOI, and SiGe technologies." See less