Title:
Academic Overview of Microchip Technology and the Semiconductor Industry


Abstract:
A general technical overview of the original CMOS semiconductor technology, its applications and its evolution to the present.

This presentation is a personal general overview by the author on the following essential key notes of the semiconductor industry:

  • CMOS technology Frontend Industry

  • Essential components of microelectronics

  • Evolution of the CMOS Frontend Technology

  • Chip Design and the Backend Industry

Luis Miguel Custodio

The author holds a master’s in engineering physics with a major in theoretical physics from the Faculty of Science at the University of Porto. While in academia, he worked at the IFIMUP research centre as the lead researcher on an FCT project funded by CERN on Cloaking Metamaterials of Extreme Optics, producing pioneering results published in an American Physical Review paper and cited in a review in Nature Photonics.

In 2011, he joined the Metrology Team of NANIUM Semiconductor Industry (ex-Infineon) in Mindelo, which was acquired in 2017 by the American multinational Amkor Technology Inc.

In the earlier years at Amkor, he participated as an FCT technical coordinator on a long-term European-funded project for the implementation of machine learning solutions in the industry (SEMI40), and later he supported the technical coordinator of a crossfab implementation of an advanced FDC solution.

More recently, while assuming the technical coordination of the WLP Metrology Eng Team, he has also technically designed and coordinated other development projects for the implementation of MSA and ADC solutions at Amkor (ATEP). Today, he coordinates a team of seventeen process engineers of different academic backgrounds and responsibilities.

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