John Carruthers is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Portland State University. In addition, he is a co-director of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnology Institute (ONAMI) overseeing that organization’s nanoscale metrology and electronics initiative. He joined PSU after having served as the head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Oregon Health and Sciences University’s OGI School of Science and Engineering. Dr. Carruthers brings a rich body of expertise and technical acumen to the ESI Scientific Advisory Board coupling his background in academia with his experience in industry and government research at Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, NASA and Intel. While at Intel, he served as the Director of Components Research, guiding the migration to 300mm wafer and 90nm feature size technology. Dr. Carruthers holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Toronto. |