ShinHwa Li

Business Development Manager @ Vacuum Engineering & Materials

About

Strategic Thinker, Analytical Mind, Innovative Engineer, and Ethical Person. Catalyst from Technology to Markets, from Prototype to Volume Production. Liaison between America and Asia, Company and Customers. Specialties: Processes: PVD, CMP, EPI, ALD, CVD, ECD, RTP, MOCVD, MBE, etc Materials: Transistor (Si and III-V), Memory (conventional and NVM), Interconnect, 3DIC, etc Applications: IC, Discrete, Optoelectronics, PV, Sensors, RF, MEMS, etc. Publications: 1 book, 56 technical paper/presentations, 13 patent/trade secrets

Country

United States

City

Chandler

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

PVD, CVD, IC, Materials, CMP, EPI, Semiconductors, PV, Thin Films, Information Systems, Semiconductor Industry, Failure Analysis, Metrology, Design of Experiments, Interconnect, SPC, Characterization, Discrete, R&D, Manufacturing

Experience

Business Development Manager

Vacuum Engineering & Materials

2026-4 - Present · 6 mos

North America

PVD for Asian customers, CMP for US customers, focus on new businesses

Business Development Manager

Vacuum Engineering & Materials

2024-8 - 2026-3 · 1 yr 8 mos

United States

Business development, project management, sales. PVD/CMP focused.

Principal Engineer

ASM

2021-8 - 2024-8 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Develop epitaxy for sub-5nm IC technologies. Pre-clean. Intake/Change control coordinator. Product lifecycle. Green energy. Recipient of Spot Award.

Product Manager

Kurt J. Lesker Company

2013-8 - 2021-8 · 8 yrs 1 mo

Develop new products for electronics/semiconductor applications and boost global materials sales. Successfully increased revenue and penetrated tier-1 customers worldwide.

Application/Product Manager

Heraeus

2005-4 - 2013-5 · 8 yrs 2 mos

Absorb semiconductor industry trends and develop products (sputtering targets) using existing internal material and fabrication capabilities. Introduced/marketed new products or existing products to customers. Resolved customer issues technically, business-wise, financially, if any.

CMP CIP Manager

Novellus Systems acquired by Lam Research Corporation

2002-10 - 2004-9 · 2 yrs

Trouble-shooting customer problems. Improving process capabilities of our own tools. These included particles performance, retaining ring design, pad conditioner, and PVA brush cleaner re-design, etc.

Senior Process Support Engineer

Applied Materials

1999-9 - 2002-9 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Published the first industry CMP book: Chemical Mechanical Polishing in Silicon Processing. Successfully ramped up 120 Mirra tools and resolved process issues at Intel's virtual factory. Coordinated beta-testing of Electro Cu Plating (ECD) at customer site.

Senior Application Engineer

DuPont

1999-1 - 1999-9 · 9 mos

Hayward, California, United States

EKC Technology. Successfully introduced/marketed the oxide and W CMP slurries into Asian customers in Taiwan, Singapore, and Japan. Technical liaison between internal R/D and customer applications.

Senior Process Development Engineer

STMicroelectronics

1994-6 - 1998-10 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Initial key engineer for the Phoenix fab. Benchmarked the specifications and processes for PVD, RTP, CVD, CMP, and many metrology tools. Successfully ramped up the wafer outputs to volume production. Developed the hot Al process for the 350nm technology node. Pioneered WCMP using the W2000 slurry for 250nm technology.

Research Fellow

University of Michigan College of Engineering

1991 - 1994 · 3 yrs

Ann Arbor, MI

Managed Gas-Phase Molecular Beam Epitaxy, also called Chemical Beam Epitaxy. Epitaxial growth of pseudomorphic Si/SiGe. Fabrication of high speed transistor and nano-devices using state of art integrated circuits processes. Supervision of graduate students.

Research Assistant

University of Utah - Employment

1985 - 1991 · 6 yrs

Salt Lake City, UT

Reaction mechanism study of epitaxial GaAs and related compounds for optoelectronics applications. Managed MOCVD laboratory with mass spectrometry. Novel CVD precursor developments.