Richard Payne

Dr. Richard Payne has extensive contributions to the US semiconductor industry. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University, he joined Bell Labs where he built the first Ion Implanted BJT and developed, patented, and produced the Twin Well CMOS technology. Richard is a true pioneer in the US semiconductor industry. In 1986 he took MEMS from an idea to high-volume manufacturing production over course of nine years and made Analog Devices one of the market leaders in high-performance MEMS accelerometers. From 1998 to 2014 he successfully ventured into four MEMS-based startups where three of four got acquired by larger corporations including the last one, Pixtronix by Qualcomm in 2011 for $200M. He holds many patents and received the J. J. Ebers.Award from the IEEE.