RTI International - News Release - 9.28.2009
Dorota Temple Named RTI International Senior Fellow
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—Dorota Temple, Ph.D., an associate director and senior research electrical engineer in RTI International's Center for Materials and Electronics Technologies, has been appointed an RTI Senior Fellow.
Temple has many years of experience in the development of electronic materials and processing for integrated circuits, displays and sensors. She has authored more than a hundred professional publications, including several invited review papers, and holds six U.S. patents.
Temple provides technical direction for RTI's 3-D Microsystem Integration and Flexible Microelectronics program areas. She is currently principal investigator and program manager for several research and development programs in microelectronic and optoelectronic technologies, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and commercial organizations.
Including her work for MCNC Research and Development Institute, Temple has 21 years of service to RTI.
She began her career at MCNC in 1988 and became a principal scientist there in 1997. She served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on a number of federal contracts focused on development of technology for fabrication of silicon field emitter array devices for microwave amplifier and flat panel display applications.
In 2000, Temple became principal scientist and team leader for MCNC's Materials and Electronic Technologies Division, serving as principal investigator on externally funded projects with a total budget of $13 million. She developed several new program areas for METD, including the 3-D interconnect technologies program and the flexible display and microelectronics program.
Temple formally joined RTI in 2005 following RTI's acquisition of MCNC's Materials and Electronic Technologies Division.
Concurrently with her work at MCNC, Temple held an adjunct professorship in North Carolina State University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition to guest lecturing on the preparation of electronic materials and the growth of thin films from the vapor phase, she served as a member of the graduate committee for six successful Ph.D. candidates.
Temple also served as an elected member of the board of directors of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) and as the chair of the publication committee of the AVS overseeing the publication of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (JVST) and Surface Science Spectra. She was an associate editor of JVST, and was an editor of a special issue of JVST with selected papers from International Vacuum Microelectronics Conferences (IVMC) while serving as a member of the IVMC International Steering Committee. Her professional service has also included organizing and chairing many conference symposia on topics in her research field.
Temple holds doctorate and master's degrees in solid state physics from AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland.