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`JEFFER MANGELS BUTLER & MITCHELL LLP
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`STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP
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`MILTIADIS HATALIS, PH.D.
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`VOLUME I
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`BY MR. MANZO
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`EXHIBIT
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`DESCRIPTION
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`Exhibit 2008
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`Display Research
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`Laboratory website
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`material
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`THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Good morning.
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`We are on the record at 9:02 a.m. on July
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`lst, 2013.~ This is the video—recorded deposition of
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`Dr. Milt Hatalis. My name is Scott Slater, here
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`92614.
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`The caption of this case is Innolux
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`Corporation versus Patent of Semiconductor
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`7,876,413.
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`MR. MANZO: Agreed.
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`MR. GIBSON: That's fine with me.
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`For the plaintiff —— sorry.
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`For the patent owner, my name is Edward
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`Manzo, M—a—n—z—o.
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`With me are Mark Murphy and Stanley
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`Steptoe & Johnson.
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`Stan Gibson on behalf of the
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`MILTIADIS HATALIS, PH.D.,
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`Good morning, Professor. My name is Edward
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`Manzo, and I'm here on behalf of SEL to ask you some
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`Good morning.
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`Could you please state your name.
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`A Miltiadis Hatalis.
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`And do you live in Pennsylvania somewhere?
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`In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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`Thank you.
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`How old are you, Doctor?
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`54.
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`I'm going to hand you what's been
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`Could you just take a quick look at that
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`How did you prepare for today‘s deposition?
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`I reviewed the board decision,
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`Yes.
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`Sukegawa and Nakamoto.
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`We'll call Exhibit 1003, which is U.S.
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`Patent 5,636,329 the Sukegawa patent.
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`Is that okay with you?
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`It will be fine.
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`And we‘ll call the Japanese reference to
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`Nakamoto, N—a—k—a—m—o—t—o, and that was filed as
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`Okay.
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`Thank you.
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`Did you meet with anybody in preparation
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`I met with my counsel, Stan Gibson,
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`I am a professor in the field of
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`scientific journals and in conference proceedings.
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`A process engineer and a circuit design
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`engineer —— a process engineer deals more with the
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`change positions and if his education has been good,
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`he could move from processing to circuit design and
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`Would you consider yourself closer to a
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`that go into electronic systems, but
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`Do you teach any courses in process
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`Technology," and I taught it several
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`right after page 51,
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`I think it was SEL against Sanyo.
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`I am not an expert who is against who.
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`Correct.
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`Correct.
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`And you were an expert against SEL in a
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`The record shows —— this is
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`So far.
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`engineer that works in the laboratory.
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`Acer?
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`NO.
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`ViewSonic?
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`Vizio?
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`dollar numbers, what portion of your personal
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`income
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`your compensation from the university for teaching?
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`percentage.
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`A Well,
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`that percentage, it varies from year
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`to year, and it —— and, as you see, my litigation or
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`year or you are talking about since 2001?
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`Q Well, let's start with 2013, year to date.
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`The contribution of the patent litigation
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`Q More than 50 percent?
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`Up to now?
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`Yes.
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`It may.
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`I didn‘t do the calculation.
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`But this is an unusual year, because the ——
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`some of the legal fees —— some of the work that I‘ve
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`done in 2012 were paid in 2013,
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`What would you say —— between 2001, between
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`the interval of 2001 through 2013, what would you
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`say is the highest percentage in a single year that
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`was represented by compensation for working as an
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`expert witness?
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`and a year in round numbers.
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`ObDW
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`Of the total income earned that year or ——
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`Yes.
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`~— compared to my academic year salary?
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`Total
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`income earned.
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`The highest amount total income earned in
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`any year since 2011 ——
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`Q
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`2001.
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`Sorry.
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`2001.
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`I'm only asking for percentage, not
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`dollars, again.
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`Right, but
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`I haven't done the calculation.
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`That's many tax years I have to try to go back and
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`try to do it.
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`But in round numbers,
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`I don't know,
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`to 40 percent may have been the highest.
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`litigations besides patent cases?
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`Expert
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`to law firms?
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`Law firms or others.
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`I have been an expert and I have a section
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`since 1997,
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`Page I of my vitae —— actually, page 51 of
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`Exhibit 1005.
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`Q
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`I see that you list a number of companies.
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`Have you been an expert witness for any of those
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`companies in litigations?
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`You compare this list to the list that I
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`list in my litigations, you see that none of them
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`have been involved in litigation.
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`Q
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`Professor,
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`the listing in section V is
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`confined to patent cases, and my question is not
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`confined to patent cases.
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`So there are many other kinds of cases
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`besides patents.
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`You‘re talking about in general legal?
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`Yes.
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`No.
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`Q
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`Have you had any direct discussions with
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`CMO, CMI,
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`Innolux, Acer, ViewSonic, Vizio,
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`Westinghouse about this case?
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`About this case? No.
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`proceedings at the patent office, as well as the
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`district court litigation.
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`Again, related to this case, no.
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`I'm going to show you several pages, but
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`all related to one another.
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`I'll staple them together if they are from
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`a single place.
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`These are pages from our laboratory Web
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`page.
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`MR. MANZO: Okay. Let me make that a
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`single exhibit, which I'll staple together, as
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`Exhibit 2008.
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`(Deposition Exhibit 2008 was marked
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`reporter and is attached hereto.)
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`So your answer is that Exhibit 2008 comes
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`from the website for the Display Research Lab;
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`is
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`that correct?
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`Q
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`Yes, it appears so.
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`And that's a picture of you on the very
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`first page at the top, correct?
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`From a long time ago.
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`It looks much the same.
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`Thank you.
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`two pictures of doctoral
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`candidates of yours —— or, sorry.
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`The first one is a doctoral candidate and
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`the next one is a master's candidate;
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`is that right?
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`Our website is a bit outdated.
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`The master
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`student is also a doctoral candidate right now, and
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`there is another student that has been hired, and
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`there is a post doc also.
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`Look at the last sheet, please.
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`There are
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`These are IV characteristics. We call them
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`IV characteristics.
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`before that one,
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`"Polysilicon TFT on Steel."
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`Yes.
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`the first drawing there is a
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`sectional representation;
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`is that right?
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`It is a cross section, a representation,
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`correct.
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`It sits on top of passivation oxide?
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`That is correct.
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`That is correct.
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`regions;
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`is that right?
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`That is correct.
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`How is metal-l connected,
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`source or drain regions?
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`A Well,
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`in this particular device structure,
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`after we form the source drain and gate regions of
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`the transistor,
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`the whole device is —— structure is
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`covered by an oxide, which is labeled as passivation
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`oxide.
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`Then there is a lithographic step that is
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`define contact holes,
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`followed by an etching step
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`that opens and removes —— open the contact holes and
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`removes the passivation oxide above the source and
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`drain regions.
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`Then there is a deposition step that lays
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`form what‘s known as a source and drain electrode.
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`This is the metal—l regions that are attaching the
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`source and drain regions of the device.
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`opening,
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`the contact hole that you talked about,
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`to
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`reach the source and to reach the drain region?
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`The metal—l conformily coats
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`the walls of the holes and the bottom of the contact
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`hole and establish a region between the two vertical
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`walls of the opening where the metal—l and the
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`source or the drain is in direct contact.
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`Does metal—l contact the source region or
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`The metal goes down the metal hole and
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`contact hole in the semiconductor industry,
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`Professor?
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`MR. MANZO: Strike that.
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`in the semiconductor industry?
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`express an opening in a contact hole, and sometimes
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`we call contact hole, sometimes we call them
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`opening, sometimes we call them via.
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`The contact is
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`way to accurately depict whether you have the hole
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`open directly above —— the hole has been open
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`through the layer that is deposited in between the
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`two layers that you want to make a contact.
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`intermediate insulating layer and you need to open a
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`contact hole or the via or form some sort of an
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`opening in the insulating layer,
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`then the metal goes
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`It has to cover
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`conformily the edges of the hole, otherwise there
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`or the opening,
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`declaration, namely,
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`IBM, Kodak, et cetera, did you
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`Yes, we did.
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`So is there a shorthand way in the
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`semiconductor industry that you are aware of for
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`this type of contact in a semiconductor circuit?
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`structure, and there are many different ways to
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`fabricate a device structure, we always list the
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`sequence of the layers. We describe the device
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`structure and we list the materials and we list the
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`order with which the materials are laid down. And
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`we have a very specific description of the device
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`structure of how it is made and what is —— in what
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`order the different steps are performed and what
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`order the different layers and materials are put
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`down.
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`So within that context, words that you
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`like through hole, get a specific meaning
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`and been understood by the experts in the field what
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`they mean or ordinary skilled in the art of what
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`If they give me the structures —~ and even
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`That's the name of the mask layer we use to
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`He is a lab manager who takes care of some
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`Professor, you have many published papers,
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`yes?
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`Q More than a hundred journal papers and
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`I think it is more than 150, but, yeah.
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`Okay.
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`But it's not a world record.
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`Understood.
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`How about patents, do you have any patents
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`in your name?
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`Yes,
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`I have a patent that was issued this
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`spring.
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`Q What is it about?
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`It is about a way to drive a new type of
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`active metrics display called active metrics organic
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`light—emitting diode displays.
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`AMOLED?
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`Correct.
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`You're the —— are you