Kern, Werner

Werner Kern is president of Werner Kern Associates, a consulting firm for Semiconductor Materials Processing. From 1959-1987, he was a scientist at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey as a Fellow of the Technical Staff. While at RCA he developed the RCA Standard Clean Process for silicon wafer cleaning, which in its various forms is still used worldwide after nearly 40 years. In 1988 he joined Lam Research Corporation as a Senior Scientist and currently opened his own consulting company.

Werner Kern is the holder of 11 US Patents and is the author and co-...