11/07/2013
We are proud to have Dr. Noren Pan in attendance at this year's Khmer Student Coalition Conference 2013
Dr. Pan has served as President of MicroLink Devices since May 2000. After founding MicroLink Devices, Dr. Pan established Mitsubishi Electric, Agilent Technologies, and GCS as key customers. Dr. Pan led the company to profitability in 2005 and continues to build significant value around MicroLink’s core competence in epitaxial wafer manufacturing for HBTs and solar cells. He is responsible for the development of novel processes and device structures for improvements in microwave and solar cell device performance. His current work centers on the advancement of HBT- and HEMT-based structures for wireless and optical communication applications. Dr. Pan served as chief scientist at Kopin Corporation from 1995-2000. He led the marketing and engineering efforts to develop AlGaAs and InGaP HBT materials for cellular phone applications. Dr. Pan has built more than 10 successful HBT programs worldwide for companies such as Skyworks (formerly Rockwell), Triquint, Anadigics, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba, GCS, RFMD, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Agilent Technologies, and Nortel Networks. Most of these programs are still ongoing. The yearly revenue from these programs peaked at $80M in 2000, the year in which Dr. Pan left Kopin to start MicroLink Devices. Dr. Pan was previously a senior scientist at Raytheon Research (1988-1995) where he demonstrated novel high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and bipolar transistors by the metal organic chemical v***r deposition epitaxial growth technique. He was the first to demonstrate conventional and inverted pseudomorphic AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs HEMT by the MOCVD technique. He also pioneered low temperature growth of InAlAs using a combination of arsenic sources which resulted in a record demonstration of an InP based InAlAs/InGaAs HEMT with a current gain cutoff frequency exceeding 200 GHz. He also developed a 2.0 µm wavelength saturable absorber based on InP materials, which resulted in the first 2.0 µm mode locked fiber laser. Dr. Pan is a senior member of IEEE and was inducted to the Chicago Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has published more than 60 papers.