Silicon Components and Processes Self Study: Rectifying and Ohmic Contacts, Bipolar Junction Transistors

About Badih El-KarehLou N. Hutter

Badih El-Kareh is an independent semiconductor consultant. He previously worked with IBM Texas Instruments and Micron. He has over 40 years of experience in semiconductor device design process integration and characterization. This includes the implementation of CMOS and BiCMOS technologies and devices for memory logic and analog applications. He authored/ co-authored books on Introduction to VLSI Silicon Devices Fundamentals of Semiconductor Processing Technologies Silicon Devices and Process Integration and Silicon Analog Components. He authored/co-authored 32 papers and was issued 27 US patents. He also has 21 years of experience in academic and industrial teaching. Dr. El-Kareh is a senior member of IEEE. Lou Hutter is a veteran of the semiconductor industry. He spent 29 years at Texas Instruments Inc. until 2007 as Director of TIs Mixed-Signal Technology Development organization where he was responsible for worldwide analog power SiGe and mixed-signal technology development design enablement production ramps and transfers that supported every business unit in the company.  He was elected a TI Fellow (top 1%). In 2008 he joined Dongbu HiTek in Seoul S. Korea as Senior Vice President and GM of the Analog Foundry where he was responsible for technology development design enablement IP development and sales and marketing. During his tenure he helped establish Dongbu HiTek as a leading analog/power foundry. Since 2012 he is the Principal of Lou Hutter Consulting LLC assisting foundries IDMs fabless companies and others in the areas of analog/power technology design enablement and business development. In 2014 he co-founded Cricket Semiconductor to establish Indias first high-volume production wafer fab focused on analog/power technologies. In 2018 he co-founded PDG Automation focused on automating the layout of power transistors. Lou has 47 U.S. patents has co-authored over 35 journal articles and one book entitled Silicon Analog Components now in its 2nd edition.