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Dr. Johnson worked in Austin, Texas for a time, and I had the distinct honor of meeting him. He was one of nine African American Vice Presidents I featured during Motorola's Black History Month celebrations. He used one of my products - D54H - as test vehicle for something that's now quite common in the industry: manufacture on 300mm (12") wafers. At the time, standard was 4 - 8" wafers. That was in the microelectronics era, or when gate feature sizes were measured in micrometers or microns in measure. I was not on that high-powered team (PhDs only), but they showed that boules could be pulled, sliced and processed in that circumference. Nanotechnology is acknowledgement of the current feature size in nanometers (10^-9 meters) in direct adherence to the predictions of Moore's Law, and the multi-functionality we enjoy one cell phones, flat screens, etc.

The industry is now currently working on 450mm (18"), or "pizza sized" wafers. As we shrink smaller, the increase in area allows more product to be shipped and purchased, thereby increasing profitability.

BUSINESSWEEK: Dr. Barry C. Johnson, Ph.D. served as the Dean of the College of Engineering for Villanova University from August 2002 to March 2006. Dr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Honeywell International Inc. in Morristown, NJ. from July 2000 to April 2002. He served as a Corporate Vice President of Motorola, Inc. and Chief Technology Officer for its Semiconductor Product Sector in Tempe, AZ. He joined Motorola in 1976 and held a variety ... of technology, product development and operations leadership positions during his 16 year career with Motorola, Inc. Dr. Johnson served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, and serve a three-year stint as a Senior Research Fellow at E. I. DuPont & Co. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Verisae, Inc. He has been a Director of Rockwell Automation Inc., since September 7, 2005. Dr. Johnson has been a Director of Cytec Industries Inc. since August 13, 2003. He has been a Director of Idexx Laboratories Inc., since March 2006. He serves as a Director of Cytec Engineered Materials Inc. He served as a Member of Advisory Board at Plextronics, Inc. He serves as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and the first U.S. citizen to be elected to the Fraunhofer Society in 1999, Germany's prestigious applied research organization in 1999. He is an inventor named on seven U.S. Patents. He is the recipient of numerous professional honors. He has been awarded eight patents and has authored over sixty technical papers. Dr. Johnson studied Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering and materials science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.