Sanjiv, Sc.D., General Manager, Applied Materials, Santa
Clara, CA, USA.
Dr. Mittal is currently responsible for managing Applied's North
America Service business. He also held an executive position at the
KLA-Tencor. Prior to that, Dr Mittal was at Intel Corporation for
17 years, where he was Director of Worldwide Foundry Operations and
Factory Manager for Intel's D2 Fab. He has spent extensive time
developing foundry management methods, yield improvement methods,
and technology development of logic and flash technologies. As
worldwide Foundry operations manager, he worked closely with
foundries on technology, yield, quality, and design related issues.
Dr Mittal also held various management positions within the factory
that included Manufacturing manager and Yield manager, prior to
becoming Factory Manager. He managed yield improvements for Intel's
0.6um and 0.25um logic technologies and managed the 0.18um new
technology startup using Intel's copy exact process.
Dr. Mittal has published numerous papers on multi-level
metallization and yield enhancement and holds two U.S. patents. He
received a Sc.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a MS in Materials
Engineering from Purdue University, and a BS degree in
Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology.
Dr Mittal has been a member of the CEI-Europe faculty since
2004.
Mr McDonald and Dr Mittal take turns in teaching courses #36 and
#61.
Course #36
Silicon Device Technology: Materials and Processing
Overview
Course #61
Yield and Reliability in VLSI Development and
Manufacturing