Rinn Cleavelin has more than 40years of experience in the areas of Semiconductor Processing, Development, and Management. He held the position as Chief Operating Officer for International SEMATECH in Austin, TX until returning to Texas Instruments Inc. in Silicon Technology Development in June of 2002. During his career, he has had the opportunity to lead several significant programs at Texas Instruments, which included the startup of three Wafer Fabs and the leadership role in the process development of several DRAM, EPROM, and Flash EEPROM products. He has also had the leadership role in the development of several new process technologies and tools in the areas of Ion Implantation, Thermal Processing, Surface Preparation, Defect Detection, and Metrology working with equipment suppliers worldwide. One of the Surface Preparation tools, the FSI Excalibur, won an R&D 100 award in 1988. In 1997, he accepted a position at International SEMATECH as the Director of Front End Processing where he initiated several programs to further the scaling of planar CMOS technology. In 2000, Rinn was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of International SEMATECH responsible for all technical programs and the Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF). In July of 2002, Rinn returned to Texas Instruments in the Silicon Technology Development (SiTD) where he was the Manager for Devices and Manufacturing for External R&D. In this role he oversaw and coordinated SiTD’s research and development activities in the areas of Devices and Manufacturing at external organizations such as International SEMATECH, Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center (IMEC in Belgium), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), LETI (France), and several directly funded university activities. After retiring from TI in November 2007, Rinn went to work on a half-time basis for Nantero Inc. where he is the Manager of Engineering Operations. Since 2008, Rinn has worked as an independent consultant and served on the Board of Directors for Atomera Inc. from 2016 to May 2022. Rinn has greater than 30 issued patents and several patents pending.