Katherine Derbyshire

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  (3-20-98) Engineer/Journalist Katherine Derbyshire Joins Semiconductor Online

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  (3-20-98) Engineer/Journalist Katherine Derbyshire Joins Semiconductor Online(3-20-98) American Greetings Adds Clifford the Big Red Dog and Teletubbies to Licensed Products(3-20-98) Business Resource Center and Entrepreneur Magazine Help Would-Be Business Owners Get a Headstart(3-20-98) Tilton Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Market Reporter
  
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  About Thin Film Manufacturing - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/30/2009    Last Visited: 9/30/2009  

  Katherine Derbyshire, the founder of Thin Film Manufacturing, has a BS in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MS in materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published research on diamond thin films, high temperature superconductors, and archaeological bronzes.
  
  She has been involved with the semiconductor manufacturing industry since 1994, when she joined Solid State Technology as Senior Technical Editor. She won two American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) awards before departing as Chief Technical Editor in 1998. Next, she joined Semiconductor Online , where she quadrupled traffic and established the site as a leading information provider for the industry. She left Semiconductor Online in 2001 to found Thin Film Manufacturing.

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  Published on: 9/8/2004    Last Visited: 8/10/2005  

  Katherine Derbyshire, founder of Massachusetts-based consulting firm Thin Film Manufacturing, explains that for years, the semiconductor industry used silicon dioxide as its gate insulator.SiO2, with a dielectric constant, or k value, of 4.2, did the job perfectly because it was well understood and was highly compatible with the transistor's underlying silicon metal layer.
  
  As semiconductor size shrinks in keeping with Moore's law, the SiO2 transistor gate must be made thinner and thinner to maintain adequate capacitance across it.But below 2 nm or so, Derbyshire says, the gate becomes so thin that electrons can leak through and sap power from the device.
  
  A product like hafnium oxide, with a k value of about 30, gets around this problem because it can form a thicker gate that blocks electrons while maintaining capacitance.But the use of hafnium oxide presents fabrication challenges."The problem," Derbyshire says, "is that silicon dioxide is a wonderful material to work with, and nothing else even comes close."

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  Published on: 3/31/2002    Last Visited: 3/12/2003  

  Katherine Derbyshire, founder of Thin Film Manufacturing, a Boston, Massachusetts consultancy for the integrated circuit manufacturing industry, agrees Peregrine may be on to something.But that doesn't necessarily mean it will be a sure fire winner, she says.
  
  "Silicon-on-sapphire does offer real performance benefits, but the big open question will be technology and economics," Derbyshire says."Will the silicon quality be good enough to compete with gallium arsenide and silicon germanium?And will the process prove economical enough to compete on price?It remains to be seen."
  
  Leaving Peregrine's offices, and heading back to Olympic Park's train station, it's easy to see the blue line in the pavement on Olympic Boulevard.The line marked the final stretches of the marathon event that closed the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

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  Published on: 2/10/2002    Last Visited: 2/10/2002  

  Katherine Derbyshire, founder of Thin Film Manufacturing (www.thinfilmmfg.com), points out that the very definition of "defense" is likely to change in this changed world."Defense" will no longer be synonymous with "military," but will extend in certain ways to the domestic airlines, to give one example.No one is thinking of arming commercial aircraft, but military-level surveillance and detection technologies will be appropriate.Continuous real-time television coverage of events in the cockpit is one possibility.So are enhanced sensors of various kinds for airports.
  
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