Dr. ZHENG YUAN
Vice president and general manager for 200mm Semi and Subfab Products in the Equipment Product Group (EPG) for Applied Global Services at Applied Materials, Inc.

Dr. Zheng Yuan is appointed vice president and general manager for 200mm Semi and Subfab Products in the Equipment Product Group (EPG) for Applied Global Services at Applied Materials, Inc.  He is responsible for Applied 150/200mm product lines and upgrades as well as subfab energy-saving and greenhouse gas-reduction solutions.  He also manages the EPG engineering organization.

Dr. Yuan has held a number of management positions at Applied over the last 15 years in dielectric gap fill technology for the Semi business, thin film solar products for Display and EES, and 200mm and Subfab Products for AGS.  He was instrumental in Applied’s Producer HARPTM for Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) and Pre-Metal Dielectric (PMD) gap fill for advanced flash and logic device applications.   Most recently, he led product development and expanded Applied’s legacy products to emerging markets for MEMS and power devices.

Dr. Yuan holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Waterloo, Canada, a master of science degree in chemistry from Brock University, Canada and a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China.  He holds more than 20 U.S. patents in thin film semiconductor technologies.