Current technical focus: Developing microelectronics-technolgy-inspired techniques for non-intrusive characetrization of wildlife behavior
Representative microelectronics consulting areas :
Contact: mketchen@octevue.com
Mark B. Ketchen, PhD
Mark B. Ketchen is the sole proprietor of OcteVue, having provided technical consulting services in microelectronic technologies since 2013 to clients at Microsoft, Stanford University, IBM, Cornell University, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, University of CT, Northrop Grumman and NIST. He is also a founder member of AvianActs, an independent enterprise exploring non-intrusive scientific methods for study of wildlife. He earned a MIT Physics BS in 1970 followed by four years as a Naval Officer and a UC Berkley Physics PhD in 1977. He spent 36 years at IBM holding positions in science and technology ranging from individual investigator to Director of IBM's international program in Physical Sciences. He has been a pioneer in the design, fabrication and characterization of integrated dc SQUIDs, led design and test efforts in IBM's early attempt to build a superconducting computer, and drove initial advances in qubits for IBM's quantum computing program. He worked in silicon bipolar technology integration, ran the silicon fab line at IBM Research in the late 1980s, and worked on design and utilization of custom DC and high-speed test structures for CMOS characterization and evaluation at the 180 nm through 32 nm technology nodes.
Dr. Ketchen has 46 US patents , 185 publications and is co-author of Microelectronic Test Structures for CMOS Technology and CMOS Test and Evaluation: A Physical Perspective, published by Springer in 2011 and 2014. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and of the American Physical Society, and received the American Institute of Physics Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics and the IEEE Leeds award, both recognizing advances in superconducting device technology.