5204 E. Ben White Blvd.
MS-512
Austin, TX
USA 78741
Email: jerzy.gazda@ceriumlabs.com
Biographical Sketch:
- Ph.D., 1999; Northwestern Universiy, Materials Science and Engineering
- M.S. 1993; University of Illinois, Metallurgy
- B.S. 1991; University of Illinois, Engineering Physics
- Dr. Gazda currently serves as the Section Manager at Cerium Laboratories LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spansion Inc. leading a 12 person group. In this role, He is responsible for operations of analytical equipment group providing nano-scale metrology and analysis to support Spansion manufacturing efforts at Fab-25 in Austin, and wide range of customers with materials characterization needs in Semiconductor, Green Energy, Nano-Technologies, and Catalyst industries
- Dr. Gazda joined AMD Inc. in December of 1999. He supported the manufacturing efforts in three AMD Fabs world wide as TEM analysts and since 2001 as Group Leader. During his tenure, he has helped in introduction of the first 1 GHz microprocessor, semiconductor manufacturing technology transitions from 0.25um to 60nm transistor nodes, and participated in R& D efforts to develop advanced transistor/memory cell designs and interconnects structures for AMD and Spansion devices.
- Since June 2004, analytical services of the Cerium Laboratories are being offered to a brad range of customers. Currently Cerium Labs serves over 100 customers and provides services in areas of Analytical Imaging, Surface Characterization, and Analytical Chemistry. As one of the original founding mangers of the company, Dr. Gazda has been involved in developing market for TEM, FIB, SEM and other analytical services offered by Cerium Labs.
- Dr. Gazda has bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics and M. S. in Metallurgy from University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern in 1999. Prior to AMD, Dr. Gazda worked for over 8 years at Argonne National Laboratory developing structural alloys for nuclear industry applications.