Philipossian

About Philipossian

Dr. Philipossian is currently a Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus at the University…

Experience

1. Co-founder, President and CEO

   Araca, Inc

   Oct 2004 — Present · Tucson, AZ, US

   in 2004 and headquartered in Tucson (AZ), Araca Incorporated provides unique, enabling and fully customized solutions to our clients in the integrated circuit planarization and semiconductor polishing fields worldwide. Our clients include leading IC makers, consumables suppliers, OEMs, universities, research centers and international consortia.Our product provide you with the most non-intrusive way to lower the cost of ownership of your CMP or polishing modules. By working with us, you can save money and do your part in saving the environment by reducing slurry and rinse water consumption, increasing pad and diamond disc life, increasing polisher availability and throughput, and most importantly, increasing yield.By providing sensorized and affordable polishers to the CMP and polishing communities, we significantly reduce process and consumables development cost. Our slurry injection systems, which are compatible with most rotary polishers in the world, are being rapidly adopted in high volume manufacturing due to tremendous cost of ownership benefits.We provide foundry services for substrates of all types and sizes. When testing consumables, we take pride in the quality and the scientific value of our work. When it comes to confocal microscopy, pad surface preparation and grooving, and high-throughput pad dimensional QC services are second to none. We help our clients to develop customized CMP, polishing and cleaning consumables and processes for a variety of applications.

Education

• Northeastern University

  Certificate of Professional Achievement

  1990 — 1991

• Tufts University

  BS, MS and PhD

  1980 — 1992

Skills

• Advanced Process Control
• Supplier Management
• Silicon
• Management Consulting
• University Teaching
• Higher Education
• Team Leadership
• Patents
• Process Simulation
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Thin Films
• Risk Assessment
• Professional Mentoring
• Expert Witness
• Semiconductor Process
• Supplier Development
• Chemical Mechanical Polishing
• Chemical Engineering
• Creative Writing
• Higher Education Research
• Supplier Sourcing
• Semiconductors
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Peer Mentoring
• Materials Science
• Spc
• Semiconductor Industry
• R&D
• Metal Fabrication
• Supplier Quality Management
• Semiconductor Fabrication
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Characterization
• Management