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TB An

Member Group Technical Staff
New Taipei City, Taiwan

Summary

Possess a deep understanding of sensor and actuator physics and MEMS technology. Specialized in evaluating MEMS device wafer process integration and enhancing yield on large volume consumer devices. At Texas Instruments, led cross-site meetings and spearheaded initiatives to resolve wafer and assembly processes defects; contributed annual cost savings exceeding $1M. At TSMC and APM, developed MEMS device wafer process integration (motion sensor, microphone, force sensor and scanning mirror) and published 2 patents.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Member Group Technical Staff

Texas Instruments
01.2024 - Current
  • Managed cross-sites meetings, drive wafer defect issues resolutions and evaluated device's parametric impact by wafer process changes.
  • Reviewed engineering changes and sign-off spec/control changes.

Product Development Engineer

Texas Instruments
02.2015 - 12.2023
  • Pioneer of forming yield incentive team in Assembly & Test site, and champion of coaching crews with yield analysis skills. Improve major devices yield which equal to cost savings over $1.7M per year.
  • Developed automation wafer bond pair system and improved yield by 0.5%.
  • Invented systematic in-line defect measuring methodology and integrated work flow involving cross-function teams.
  • Conducted more than 10 NPI projects in AT site and successfully delivered to production.
  • Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with subcontractor.

Senior MEMS Engineer

TSMC
02.2018 - 10.2018
  • Evaluated MEMS device wafer process integration and enhanced yield with focus on surface treatment, and critical dimensions of mask layout. (motion sensor and force sensor devices).

Principal Engineer

Asia Pacific Microsystem
08.2010 - 01.2015
  • Developed MEMS scanning mirror wafer process flow and transferred to production.
  • Developed MEMS resonator (clock) wafer process flow. The device performed greater Q-factor than our competitor.
  • Developed MEMS microphone wafer process flow. The device achieved 60dB SNR.

Education

Master of Science - Power Mechanical Engineering

National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
09.2008 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
09.2004 - 06.2008

Skills

    Data acquisition and analysis (JMP, SpotFire, MS Sql, VBA, MATLAB)

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Timeline

Member Group Technical Staff

Texas Instruments
01.2024 - Current

IATF16949 Lead auditor certificate (by Plexus International)

10-2023

Senior MEMS Engineer

TSMC
02.2018 - 10.2018

Product Development Engineer

Texas Instruments
02.2015 - 12.2023

Principal Engineer

Asia Pacific Microsystem
08.2010 - 01.2015

Master of Science - Power Mechanical Engineering

National Tsing Hua University
09.2008 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

National Chiao Tung University
09.2004 - 06.2008

Certification

IATF16949 Lead auditor certificate (by Plexus International)

PUBLICATIONS

Patent
  • First author of “MEMS wafer structure and manufacturing method thereof” (#106140670, Taiwan)
  • Co-author of “Outgassing material coated cavity for a mirco-electro mechanical system device and methods for forming the same” (#20210246014, U.S.)
Texas Instrument Taiwan Engineering Symposium
  • Novel methods of wire bond yield improvement on DLP Products.
  • Systematic FA for mirror defects of DLP Products, 2020
  • Anti-stiction improvement for micro-electro-mechanical-system DLP device, 2019


PUBLICATIONS

Patent
  • First author of “MEMS wafer structure and manufacturing method thereof” (#106140670, Taiwan)
  • Co-author of “Outgassing material coated cavity for a mirco-electro mechanical system device and methods for forming the same” (#20210246014, U.S.)
Texas Instrument Taiwan Engineering Symposium
  • Novel methods of wire bond yield improvement on DLP Products.
  • Systematic FA for mirror defects of DLP Products, 2020
  • Anti-stiction improvement for micro-electro-mechanical-system DLP device, 2019


TB AnMember Group Technical Staff