Richard Heller Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

• Silicon Reliability lead for next generation process nodes in Foundry Technology.• Skilled in reliability modeling, extrinsic & intrinsic defects, fab process technology, accelerated life testing, and screening techniques.• Best Paper winner in global internal AMD "Technology Showcase" as co-author of "Application of Adaptive High Voltage Stress Testing on 5nm & 7nm Process Nodes".• US Patent "Compensation of Operating Time-Related Degradation of Operating Speed by a Constant Total Die Power Mode" -> http://bit.ly/HellerPatent1• Sole author on 2016 IEEE IRPS conference "Near Neighbor Sort Yield and Wafer Sort Yield Impact on Product Burn-In and a Time-Dependent Reliability Study" -> http://bit.ly/ieeenearneighbor• Skilled in JMP, Weibull++, Excel• Gave keynote invited talk at the 2021 AMD Asia Technology Showcase.

Austin, Texas Area

• Semiconductor reliability expert.• Led product reliability efforts on AMD’s 7nm products (datacenter/server, high end desktop, game console,...) including qualification of High Temperature Operating Life-time stress (HTOL) as well as experiments to evaluate the Si-performance degradation impact of Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) and Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI).• Led efforts for reducing product burn-in by up to 80% through use of (1) design of experiments, (2) defect density analysis, (3) Near Neighbor statistics, and (4) Weibull statistical modeling.• Developed techniques to skip burn-in based on Near Neighbor and "Known Good Die" techniques.• Helped develop High Voltage Stress (HVS) techniques to enhance product burn-in to balance the tradeoff between yield/cost and outgoing dPPM.

65nm Process Integration and 90nm Front-End-of-Line Device Engineering.

Austin, Texas Area

• Design and process of MOCVD compound semiconductor (InAlGaP/GaAs) quantum well and quantum dot lasers and LEDs.• Silicon device physics and Silicon process technology.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

College Internship at Sony Semiconductor's SRAM Fab in San Antonio.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

- Focus on Semiconductors - Doctoral Dissertation: "Short-Wavelength InAlGaP Quantum Well Lasers and InP Quantum Dot Coupled to Strained.

Master'S Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering With Honors

- Elected to the Cockrell School of Engineering Student Engineering Council (SEC). - Helped create a student-run annual "Idea to Product.