Burn-Jeng Lin
{{short description|Taiwanese electrical engineer (born 1942)}}
Burn-Jeng Lin ({{zh|t=林本堅}}; born 1942) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer.
Education
After graduating from National Taiwan University in 1963 with a degree in electrical engineering, Lin earned his doctorate in the same subject from Ohio State University in 1970.{{cite news |title=Burn J. Lin |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=672 |access-date=13 February 2023 |publisher=Academia Sinica}}{{cite news |title=ECE Alum Burn Lin receives IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal |url=https://ece.osu.edu/news/2013/04/ece-alum-burn-lin-receives-ieee-jun-ichi-nishizawa-medal |accessdate=2 December 2018 |publisher=Ohio State University |date=30 April 2013}}
Career
During his tenure at IBM, which began in 1970,{{Cite web |title=Burn Lin: The 2023 SPIE Mozi Award |url=https://spie.org/news/burn-lin-the-2023-spie-mozi-award |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=spie.org}} Lin became the first to propose immersion lithography, a technique that became viable in the 1980s.Burn J. Lin (1987). "The future of subhalf-micrometer optical lithography". Microelectronic Engineering 6, 31–51{{cite news |last1=Handy |first1=Jim |title=Father of Immersion Litho Receives Award |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2013/06/26/father-of-immersion-litho-receives-award/#70fe8c817eee |accessdate=2 December 2018 |work=Forbes |date=26 June 2013}} Lin left IBM to found his own company, Linnovation, Inc., in 1992. He began working for TSMC in 2000.{{cite news |title=Biography: Burn J. Lin |url=https://www.src.org/calendar/e003804/lin-bio/ |accessdate=2 December 2018 |publisher=Semiconductor Research Corporation}} Lin was named an IEEE Fellow in 2003, and granted an equivalent honor by the SPIE. The next year, SPIE gave Lin the inaugural Frits Zernike Award.{{cite news |title=Semiconductor Pioneer Burn Lin Joins NTHU |url=http://nthu-en.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/14-1902-106872,r4806-1.php?Lang=zh-tw |accessdate=2 December 2018 |publisher=National Tsing Hua University |date=2016 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203010928/http://nthu-en.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/14-1902-106872,r4806-1.php?Lang=zh-tw |url-status=dead }} In 2008, Lin was elected to membership of the United States National Academy of Engineering "for technical innovations and leadership in the development of lithography for semiconductor manufacturing."{{cite news |title=Dr. Burn Jeng Lin |url=https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/31038.aspx |accessdate=2 December 2018 |publisher=United States National Academy of Engineering}} Lin received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal in 2009 and 2013 respectively. In 2014, Lin was named a member of Academia Sinica. Upon his retirement from TSMC, he was offered a position on the faculty of National Tsing Hua University.{{cite news |title=TSMC Burn Lin Academic Salon |url=http://thoric.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/15-1893-104248,c11356-1.php?Lang=en |accessdate=2 December 2018 |date=2016 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055432/http://thoric.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/15-1893-104248,c11356-1.php?Lang=en |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Taiwanese electrical engineers
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
Category:Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Category:Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University