SEMI award winners at Semicon West 2023 in flexible electronics

Below are winners in flexible electronics awarded by SEMI at the FLEX Conference and Exhibition, co-located with SEMICON West 2023 in San Francisco: Pradeep Lall, MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor and Director at Auburn University, was recognized for his landmark contributions in developing additive manufacturing processes and reliability testing for additive printed flexible electronics. His research has been instrumental in achieving surface-mount assembled additively printed circuits. He has regularly presented papers at the FLEX Conference focusing on process, material, and reliability advancements for additively printed FHE and is the academic co-lead of the SEMI Task Force on FHE Reliability Standard Development. Product Innovation and Commercialization – Dr. Azar Alizadeh, Principal Scientist, and her team at GE Research won a FLEXI for developing low-cost wireless, flexible, and wearable medical devices for both military and clinical use. The wireless vital sign monitoring system has significantly advanced low-power, wearable, wireless multi-parameter devices and analytics capable of monitoring heart rate, respiration rate, blood oxygenation, continuous changes in blood pressure and skin temperature for ambulatory patient monitoring and decision making. Environmental Sustainability – Robert Praino, co-founder and COO of CHASM, received a FLEXI for lea...