Integrated Circuit Fabrication : Science and Technology by Plummer & Griffin

Jim Plummer was born in Toronto, Canada. He obtained his BS degree from UCLA and his MS and PhD degrees in EE from Stanford University. He became professor of electrical engineering in 1983. At Stanford he has served as director of the IC Laboratory and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department. He was Dean of the School of Engineering from 1999 - 2014.

His early work focused on high-voltage ICs and device structures. This led to several power MOS device concepts such as the IGBT which have become important power switching devices. A major focus of his work has been on silicon process modeling. Recent work has focused on nanoscale silicon devices for logic and memory and on SiC and GaN power devices.

Plummer is a member of the NAE, the AAAS and a fellow of the IEEE. He has received many awards for his research, including the 2003 IEEE J. J. Ebers Award, the 2007 IEEE Grove award and the 2015 IEEE Founders Award. He has been elected to the Silicon Valley and ISPSD Halls of Fame. He has graduated more than 90 PhD students with whom he has published more than 400 journal papers and conference presentations. He has served and currently serves on the Board of Directors of several public companies including Intel and Cadence and is involved with a number of startups in the device and technology areas.

Peter Griffin is an expert in microfabrication, having co-authored one of the most widely used textbooks in the area. A new version titled “Integrated Circuit Fabrication – Science and Technology” co-authored with Prof. Jim Plummer will be published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. He is an electrical engineer by training with a BE and ME from University College Cork, Ireland and a PhD from Stanford University. He remained at Stanford as a research scientist.

For the past two decades, he has performed interdisciplinary work in microfluidics at the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) with a particular emphasis on digital microfluidics. He is particularly interested in how technology can contribute to bioengineering and was the lead author on major DARPA, NIH and SRC grants in various application areas. Griffin has enjoyed long term collaborations with leading researchers on those interdisciplinary grants which has made his time at Stanford very productive. Griffin’s current interest is on impedance measurements for diagnostics in the laboratory of Prof. Lars Steinmetz at SGTC.