ASMC 2010 Best Paper Winner

Each year at the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC), best paper awards for the conference- one professional, one student - are selected by the technical and steering committee members and presented at the start of the next year's event. This year at ASMC 2011 held in Saratoga Springs, NY, the best professional paper for ASMC 2010, sponsored by Entegris, was awarded to:

Sridhar Ramaswamy, Michael Guse, Michael Linnane, IBM Corporation; Nithin Yathapu, Bill Peterson KLA-Tencor Corporation; Gerhard Lembach GLOBALFOUNDRIES for their paper, "Leveraging Blanket Wafer Film Inspection to Efficiently Characterize Root Cause for Lithographic Micro-Masking Patterning Defects". Congratulations!