Biographical sketch of author
Son Van Nguyen
IBM Storage Systems Division, San Jose facility, San Jose, California 95193
(son1@vnet.ibm.com).
Dr. Nguyen is a Senior Engineer in the IBM San Jose air-
bearing surface advanced process fabrication technology group. He joined IBM
in 1981 at its research and development laboratory in Essex Junction, Vermont,
and has worked on advanced chemical vapor deposition and etching processes,
plasma- and laser-based processes, surface tribology, and fabrication
technology for both silicon integrated circuits and computer disk storage
applications. Dr. Nguyen received a B.A. in chemistry in 1978 from the
State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and a Ph.D. in solid-state
chemistry in 1981 from Brown University. In 1980, he worked at the Exxon
Research and Engineering Laboratory on catalysis for coal gasification. Dr.
Nguyen has more than 44 patents issued and filed, and he has received twelve
IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He has published and presented more than 88
papers in various technical journals and conferences.
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