The International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) has announced that Dr. Hans Stork, chief technology officer of Texas Instruments, will be the keynote speaker at IRPS 2004. The 42nd annual symposium for the scientific exploration of microelectronic reliability will take place April 25-29, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix at Civic Plaza, Phoenix, AZ.

Dr. Stork, who was recently named CTO after serving as senior vice president of Silicon Technology Development at TI, will discuss "Reliability Challenges of sub 100nm-CMOS SoC."

Other highlights of the symposium will include technical sessions featuring the largest number of papers submitted and accepted in IRPS history. The two day tutorial series on reliability engineering for upcoming professionals features sessions on Future CMOS, Gate Dilelectrics, Low K/Cu Interconnects, RF/MMIC Reliability, Failure Analysis, General Reliability, Design Practices, ESD, High K Dielectric, NBTI and SER. The conference will also feature a poster session, a half-day Reliability-Year-In-Review seminar and a technically oriented, hands-on exhibit that will allow attendees to test and evaluate state of the art reliability analysis equipment.

The three-day technical program kicks off with Novel Transistor Reliability Findings, followed by sessions on transistors, back-end integration, gate dielectrics (SIO2 and High-K), latchup, products and circuits, memory, interconnects, MEMS, SER/SEU,ESD, back-end dielectrics and failure analysis.

Dr. Stork joined TI in 2001 from Hewlett-Packard, where he served as director of the Internet systems and storage lab at HP Laboratories, and earlier as the director of the ULSI research lab.

Dr. Stork has written or co-authored approximately 90 papers and holds five patents. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1994 for his contributions to SiGe devices and technology and is also a fellow member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, where he has served on and chaired a number of committees.

Dr. Stork joined the Sematech board of directors in 2002 after serving for several years on the organization's executive technical advisory board. He also has been a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corp. since 1999 and serves on the Semiconductor Industry Association's (SIA) technology strategy committee. Additionally, he served as a technical advisor to government efforts on high-performance computing benchmarks and the national security issues emerging from Internet computing.

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