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Materials Scientist, Electrical Engineer, Physics, and Inventor. Donald is an IEEE Fellow and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Patents and PublicationsDonald is the inventor of 135 issued U.S. patents and some pending/allowed patents including for high-frequency voltage converters, energy storage devices, electrochemical capacitors, inductors using magnetic materials, and copper and layered aluminum alloys metallurgy for interconnections. Donald has published 160+ electrical engineering and materials science papers in journals and conferences. Over 7,900 authors have cited his publications (h-index = 43).AwardsHe has received Intel’s highest technical award (IAA) “For Fundamentally Changing Platform Power Delivery with Integrated Voltage Regulators and Magnetic Inductors on CMOS” and an award for the "World's First Integrated Voltage Regulator". He has received five Best Paper and Poster awards at conferences and his inductor paper in IEEE IITC 2001 received the top score.AccomplishmentsDon conceived the idea of creating high-frequency integrated voltage regulators that were implemented by a team of circuit designers in Intel microprocessors resulting in longer battery lifetimes in laptops. In addition, Don developed integrated inductors with magnetic material that have the highest inductance density known. He conceived new electrochemical capacitors for energy storage for IoTs. He invented embedded MIM capacitors that are in Intel microprocessors. He also created reflowed copper interconnections and used it to fabricate the first working chip with copper, then published on interconnection size effects that is the first study that showed this to be an interconnect scaling issue. He invented Al alloy/Ti interconnections that were widely used by most microchip manufacturers.Email: don.gardner@alumni.stanford.edu