Women in Microelectronics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Alice Cline Parker, Leda Lunardi

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3. From Crystal Growth to New Product Introduction

   • Susan Palmateer

   Pages 9-28

4. Thin-Film Deposition of Hybrid Materials

   • Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts

   Pages 29-48

5. Nanoscale Materials Engineering for Microelectronics

   • Santosh K. Kurinec

   Pages 49-64

6. Smart Skin: Multifunctional Flexible Sensor Arrays

   • Zeynep Çelik-Butler

   Pages 65-78

7. Nanodevices and Applications: My Nonlinear Career Trajectory

   • Xiuling Li

   Pages 79-88

8. Gate-All-Around Silicon Nanowire Transistor Technology

   • Ru Huang, Runsheng Wang, Ming Li

   Pages 89-115

9. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors and Monolithically Integrated Photoreceivers Among Other Applications

   • Leda Lunardi

   Pages 117-132

10. Integrated Circuits, MEMS, and Nanoelectronics for Sensor Applications

    • Mona E. Zaghloul

    Pages 133-144

11. From Microwave Communication Systems to Nanomedicine Tools: Using Advanced Microelectronics Fabrication as an Enabler

    • Rhonda R. Franklin

    Pages 145-158

12. A Creative Path Towards Becoming Female Engineer Enabling the Next Opportunities in Computing

    • Jennifer Hasler

    Pages 159-172

13. From Silicon to the Brain Using Microelectronics as a Bridge

    • Alice Cline Parker

    Pages 173-186

14. VLSI and Beyond: The Dream of Impact, Creating Technology with Inclusive Cultures

    • Telle Whitney

    Pages 187-199

15. An Exciting Journey: From Finite State Machine to Circuit Design and Ultimately to Web-Based Silicon IP Exchange

    • Gabriele Saucier

    Pages 201-214

16. The Quest for Energy-Aware Computing: Confessions of an Accidental Engineer

    • Diana Marculescu

    Pages 215-231

17. Semiconductors to Light Antennas: A Woman Engineer’s Career at the Turn of the Third Millennium

    • Lauren Palmateer

    Pages 233-259

18. Back Matter

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This book contains stories of women engineers’ paths through the golden age of microelectronics, stemming from the invention of the transistor in 1947. These stories, like the biographies of Marie Curie and the National Geographic’s stories of Jane Goodall’s research that inspired the authors will inspire and guide readers along unconventional pathways to contributions to microelectronics that we can only begin to imagine. The book explores why and how the women writing here chose their career paths and how they navigated their careers. This topic is of interest to a vast audience, from students to professionals to university advisers to industry CEOs, who can imagine the advantages of a future with a diverse work force.  

• Provides insight into women’s early contributions to the field of microelectronics and celebrates the challenges they overcame;
• Presents compelling innovations from academia, research, and industry into advances,applications, and the future of microelectronics;
• Includes a fascinating look into topics such as nanotechnologies, video games, analog electronics, design automation, and neuromorphic circuits.

• Women in science and engineering
• Women in electrical engineering
• Women in STEM
• Women in technology
• Microelectronics history
• Women in microelectronics
• VLSI design

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Alice Cline Parker

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

  Leda Lunardi

Alice Cline Parker is Dean’s Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Univ. of Southern California. She obtained her BS and Ph.D. from N.C. State University and an MSEE from Stanford University. She began her academic career on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. At USC, as professor in Electrical Engineering, she continued synthesis research, and showed that her software could produce a chip design from a high-level specification of required behavior in 48 hours from inception to final manufacturing plan. She began artificial brain research in 2006. Her BioRC group was the first group to demonstrate the use of nanotechnology in artificial neurons and the first group to incorporate astrocyte cells (a cell in the brain that interacts with neurons) in artificial neuron designs. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, an awardee for teaching in the Viterbi School of Engineering, an ASEE award winner, and an awardee for volunteer work done for the Josh Groban Foundation (now the Find your Light Foundation) and the South Central Scholars. Her research has been funded by SRC, DARPA, NSF, IBM and other organizations. She is the author of over 180 refereed publications.

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