Michael Ramon MSE
Michael E. Ramon, Ph.D.
Mr. Ramón is a patent agent primarily focusing his practice on patent
prosecution in a range of electrical engineering disciplines including computer
hardware and software design, analog and digital integrated circuit design,
microprocessor architecture, solid-state device physics, semiconductor
processing, optoelectronics, and signal processing.
For several years, Mr. Ramón worked in several different roles as an electrical engineer for Freescale Semiconductor, where he has authored and co-authored numerous technical reports, abstracts, as well as conference and journal publications. In his role as a research engineer with the APRDL Technology Solutions Group, he performed electrical characterization and reliability analysis of High-K gate dielectrics. This work included standardization and development of sub-50 nanometer CMOS AC & DC electrical characterization methodologies, and development of parametric test programs to accelerate the technology development cycle. Mr. Ramón also developed a critical methodology for studying the reliability of tunnel oxides in flash memories and for characterizing the distribution of interface traps along the bandgap.
Prior to this, Mr. Ramón worked in the area of analog design, both for the
electrostatic discharge (ESD) network design team, where he became
proficient with transmission line pulse ESD analysis, and for the advanced
vehicle systems design team. Lastly, his experience at Freescale began as a
device engineer in the MOS-13 manufacturing facility where he gained
experience with semiconductor processing, yield enhancement, and failure
analysis. While an undergraduate, Mr. Ramón was also employed at
Testchip Technologies, where he acquired skills in the physical layout of
electrical test structures and learned the foundations of technology
development in a semiconductor lifecycle.
Mr. Ramón received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton
University with a minor in Latin American Studies, his M.S. in Electrical
Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and is currently pursuing
his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UT-Austin. His university research includes undergraduate work (“Characterization and Modeling of Amorphous
Semiconductor Photodetectors”), his master’s thesis (“Application of Strained Silicon Technology to Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors”), and his current Ph.D. work in the area of III-V channel metal gate/high-k MOS transistors. At Princeton, Mr. Ramón was actively involved with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and worked in the admissions office as a high school recruiter. Also, at The University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Ramón was recognized with the Engineering Scholar Award, presented by the UT College of Engineering, and he was initiated into the Texas Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi.
Mr. Ramón is licensed to practice patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Ramón is a member of the Austin Professional Chapter of the Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists, is still involved with Princeton admissions as an alumni interviewer, and is fluent in Spanish.