Rita Fox Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California

Thin film characterization, metrology (composition, thickness, magnetic properties, resistivity, thin film stress, contamination, defects), X-ray Fluorescence systems calibration, R&D, process&tool qualification, failure analysis, resolving daily scrap Issues, statistical process control, statistical data analysis, DOE, R&R Gauge Capability analysis, New product integration, numerical simulation of thin film electrodeposition and magnetization processes, key person for tool capital request in metrology.

Concord, California

• Design of Experiment (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), process capability analysis, troubleshooting and process continuous improvement.• Physical vapor deposition (PVD) and ion beam sputtering deposition processes.• Yield monitoring, investigation product related problems and reject trend analysis (masking area).• Statistical data analysis, data mining, pattern search, statistical chart preparation and work with Databases (SQL).• Validation semiconductor processes and transferring in production line.• Testing, experimental measurements and data acquisition for product quality control.• Project management, planning, cooperation and help with long duration projects.• Work with documents, engineering drawings, deviations and manuals.Projects/Accomplishments: • Metallization investigation and investigation effect of temperature on Cr/Au deposition; • Algorithm development and implementation in the production line the data collection software for thin film deposition process control;• Development and implementation Rinse Optimization techniques for reduction of point-of-use Ultra Pure Water consumption in technological manufacturing processes;• Statistically Validation the Reclaim Gold process in a production line;• Statistically Validation the Ozone MicroStrip Method in a production line to reduce impact on environment;

Scientific researches in area developing predictive statistical model, utilizing Bayesian statistics, that allows computer to recognize acoustic signature of antipersonnel/antitank mines in noisy data from False Alarms and increase speed for cleaning of minefields;Accomplishments/Projects: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA474976• Grant of the Office of Naval Research (USA) (N000140210878), 2002;• Grant of the Army’s Future Combat System (USA), 2003

Hydrophysics and Hydroacoustic Division:Scientific researches in the field of Underwater Acoustics, oil/gas exploration of coastal shelf and global climate warming.Accomplishments/Projects:• International Tomography Experiment Thetis II: Investigation of Global Climate Warming – Data acquisition, DSP, data analysis and developing computer model for solving inverse problems.• Russian Foundation for Basic Researches: Grant No 00-05-64956: http://www.rfbr.ru/default.asp?doc_id=4497 Principal Investigator: 447. Fokina M.S. “Resonance Approach to determination of acoustic characteristics of elastic layered bottom” (in Russian: 447. Фокина М.С. Резонансный подход к определению акустических характеристик упругого слоистого дна (00-05-64956)), 2000;

Ph.D., Physics And Mathematics (Applied Acoustics)

Activities and Societies: Member of American Institute of Physics Member of Acoustic Society of America Member of Russian Acoustic Society.

M.S./B.S., Physics

Touch course of Lectures and Labs on Physics (for college students).

Engineering Technologies (C++,C#,Java, Pearl, Python)