SEMICON Europa 2016

Johan Klootwijk
Senior Scientist
Philips Group Inovation, Research, MicroSystems & Devices


Dr. Johan H. Klootwijk received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In October 1997, he joined the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Johan’s research activities have included development and characterization of Si and SiGe bipolar transistors, non volatile memories (EEPROMs), SOI/SOA technologies, reliability of thin dielectrics, development of InP based HBTs wideband RF applications, development, characterization and integration of high-density 3D devices, in particular capacitors and all solid-state batteries, EUV spectral purity filters, new materials for direct conversion CT scanners, nanowire sensors and miniaturized GC.

Currently, he is responsible for technology and teststructure development of several projects in the Micro Systems and Devices group, where part of his work is on (nano-)sensors and part of his work is leading a project on EUV membranes.
Johan has authored or co-authored several scientific publications and conference contributions, holds several patents and he is a senior member of the IEEE. He has been a senior lecturer on semiconductor devices at the CTT from 1999 to 2008. He received the Best Paper Award for his contribution on the ESSDERC Conference in 2001 and a best poster award on the NATO-ASI summercourse on ALD in 1995. For part of this work he received a Bronze Award for the ‘NXP Invention of the Year 2007’ and a Bronze invention award in 2015. He served as the Tutorial Chairman of the International Conference on Measurement and Teststructures, ICMTS, 2002, 2008 and 2011 and as the Technical Chairman in 2014.



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