Organizing Committee Member
Ivo Koutsaroff
Principle Engineer at Qualcomm
Sun Yat-Sen University
Japan
Biography
Dr. Ivo(yl) P. Koutsaroff is Pentalingual (2 Asian Languages and 3 European) Professional working on Advanced Thin film Materials & Devices, Qorvo Inc. He authored ~80 publications and inventor on more than 35 patents with over 244 citations. over 20 years of experience in research & development, new materials development, process development, intellectual property, device performance improvement by leading small development teams. His technical competencies include physics, materials science, electrical engineering, thin film deposition, complex oxide and oxynitride materials, surface science, plasma processes, ferroelectrics, multilayer devices, passive components, software for automation, and optics. His main R&D activities cover conceptual & experimental design of new high performance ferroelectric (FE) and high-K dielectric thin films, passive devices (IPDs) and development of novel anion-controlled inorganic material systems for various energy-storage applications. Strong utilization of conceptual and experimental combinatorial and film stoichiometry variation approach for creation of new functional oxide/oxynitride materials and optimization of their functionalities by using various deposition techniques. The key difference is in utilization of sample size on large wafer size level sufficient for direct testing of various device concepts. He is expert on plasma deposition techniques and process development based on PECVD, RF, HiMIPS, quasi-reactive sputtering (PVD), PECVD, MBE and ALD. He was a Guest-Editor of CGD journal ACS. He organized a FE Thin Films symposium at the MRS (Boston, 2003) and he is the founder of ANIM1 Symposium (E-MRS Strasbourg, 2013). He was also Session Chair at a ISIF, a MRS, E-MRS Symposia, etc. He is regularly invited to conduct a peer review for articles published in APL,JAP, APL Materials, etc.He had Professional Engineer license from PEO to practice as an Electronic Engineer in Canada.
Research Area
High Density Thin Film Ferroelectric Capacitors, BST Tunable Varactors (Ferroelectric varactors), Perovskite Oxides Thin Film Deposition, PVD combinatorial equipment, Solid State Chemistry, Perovskite films growth and properties control, Non-Pt electrodes materials, Thin Film Device Integration,