Best of West Award The Best of West Award is given to recognize important product and technology developments in the microelectronics industries. The Best of West Award will provide maximum visibility and value to exhibitor winners, spotlighting exciting new products and technologies in front of a large global audience. All exhibitors are encouraged to participate. Winners will be selected by an independent panel of highly qualified judges. Best of West finalists and award recipients will be selected based on the submission’s financial impact on the industry, engineering or scientific achievement, or societal impact and benefits. Both finalists and winners will be recognized throughout the industry for their new products and technologies that have the highest expected impact on the microelectronics industry. Special encouragement and consideration will be given to start-up and smaller companies. Submissions are free and open to all exhibitors.

Consideration for the Best of West awards will be limited to all products, services and technologies publicly introduced from May 1, 2009 to SEMICON West 2009. Submitting companies must be developers of the product or technology (no rep firms or third parties) and must be exhibitors at SEMICON West. SEMI reserves the right to make all final decisions on eligibility. Entries are limited to two per exhibitor.

Call for Entries is now closed.

Alchimer	AquiVia
IMEC	Stress-induced LIft-off Method, or SLIM-Cut
K-Patents	K-Patents Semicon Refractometer PR-33-S
Nano Green Technology	CCS-1000 Critical Cleaning System
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.,	Gore® Filters for Semiconductor Applications

Finalists were selected by vote from a distinguished panel of judges from academia, industry and SEMI. Finalists will receive recognition for their achievement through press releases, on the SEMICON West website, through online exhibitor directories, and special booth displays.

Winners will be announced during SEMICON West and will be selected from the pool of finalists. Judges may visit exhibitors during SEMICON West to obtain further information on the submission.

Dr. William Chen Senior Technical Advisor ASE Group		Dr. Robert Doering TI Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Texas Instruments		Dr. Paolo Gargini Intel fellow Director, Technology Strategy Intel
Dr. Bernard Meyerson IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technologist, Systems & Technology Group, IBM		Dr. Godfrey Mungal Dean, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University		Mark Osborne Editor in Chief, Semiconductor FabTech
Dr. Yoshio Nishi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Director of Research, Center for Integrated Systems, Director, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, Stanford University		Laura Peters Editor-in-Chief, Semiconductor International		Dr. David Parent Associate Professor, San Jose State University
		David Ridsdale Editor in Chief EuroAsia Semiconductor