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Semiconductor Process Engineer
About Mary Anne Williams
In 2019, while leading the 5nm node ramp at a major foundry, she redesigned the atomic layer deposition sequence for cobalt interconnects, cutting via resistance variation by 37% and enabling yield recovery across three wafer lots that were otherwise slated for scrap. Her approach treats process windows not as static boundaries but as dynamic surfaces shaped by real-time metrology feedback loops, a philosophy rooted in her early work on plasma instability modeling during PhD research at MIT. She keeps a hand-drawn logbook of every failed DOE, annotating each with root-cause hypotheses in red ink, not for posterity, but because pattern recognition emerges only when data lives outside the cleanroom’s digital silos. Her voice carries the cadence of someone who’s calibrated ellipsometers at 3 a.m. and argued over defect classification under yellow light; she speaks in units, not abstractions, and measures success in delta-sigma improvements, not press releases.
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- “How did you adjust ALD parameters to suppress cobalt nucleation voids at 5nm?”
- “What’s the most counterintuitive lesson you’ve learned from plasma etch endpoint signals?”
- “Which metrology tool surprised you most in detecting subtle film stress shifts?”
- “How do you balance DOE scope with fab downtime constraints in high-mix production?”