Girish Dixit, vice president, worldwide process applications and field process support at Novellus Systems, talks about the challenges introduced by smaller features and new materials, as well as behavior changes of traditional elements when designed into these smaller nodes.

Dan Herr is director of Nanomanufacturing Science Research at SRC. An important part of his research focuses on nanotechnology’s demands on metrology, and he discusses his work to determine where metrology technology’s gaps are, and how to fill them.

Raj Jammy is an IBM assignee working at Sematech as director of the Front End Processes Division. In this interview, he evaluates some of the materials and design hurdles facing the implementation of high-k/metal gate beyond 32 nm.

David K. Lam, founder and CEO of Lam Research Corp., reflects on changes in the semiconductor industry, offering insights on growth of the fabless model, skyrocketing costs, declining research funding, and other market issues.

Albert Fazio, Intel Fellow and director of memory technology development for Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, is responsible for exploring and developing flash memory and multilevel cell memory technologies, and novel memory technology ideas. In this interview, he gives his perspectives on some of the new technologies being developed.

Darlene Solomon, Agilent’s CTO and vice president of Agilent Laboratories, talks about the company’s technology roadmap and the hurdles that face the industry as it approaches fundamental limits in metrology.

Fairchild Semiconductor, “Silicon Valley’s father,” celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Mark Thompson, Fairchild’s president and CEO, talks about the company’s process and technology roadmap, developing timely products, and the company’s move into the “green” sector.

Jodi Shelton helped found the FSA in 1994, and has served as the organization’s executive director since. Under her guidance, the FSA has grown to more than 450 corporate members, and has done much to polish and establish the image and credibility of the fabless/outsourcing business model.

Nanotech pioneer David K. Ferry, Regents Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, worked in what was called “ultrasmall devices” even before the term “nanoelectronics” came into use.