AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE

WU DEXIN

Wu Dexin, a specialist in semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, was born in Dec. 20, 1936， in Hebei Province of China, and graduated from Department of Radio Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1961. She is the Prof. of Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was elected the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Now she is the standing member of Board of Chinese Institute of Electronics, the director of Chinese Semiconductor and Integrated Technology Association and the member of Standing Committee, 10thNPC of China.
From 1998 to now, She has mainly engaged in the research of compound semiconductor devices and circuits. She successfully investigated 0.1m T gate GaAs /AlGaAs heterostructure field effect transistors with high density two dimensional electron gas by the ultra deep submicron technology, GaAs/InGaP heterojunction bipolar transistors, which have been applied successfully to 10Gbps optic modulator driver IC for optic fiber communication and GaN/AlGaN power heterostructure field effect transistors. She had been awarded the first prize of Beijing Science and Technology Achievement in 2003.
From 1990-1997, she was successfully in charge of the research of 0.8m CMOS LSI processing technologies. The achievements had been applied to variety of ASICs. As the chief scientist she was in charge of the research of “Deep submicron structure devices and the basic theory of mesoscopic physics,” which paved the way for the future research in this field. She made important contributions to develop and manufacture a series of Junction Field Effect Transistors. This kind of products has been exported to U.S.A. She had been awarded the first prize of Science and Technology Progress of Chinese Academy of Sciences and second prize of State Science and Technology Progress in 1997 and 1998 respectively.
From 1975-1989 she successfully investigated 4K ,16K and 64K bit DRAM, first adopted single transistor cell and advanced technologies in the LSI in China. Afterwards these achievements had been extended to factories. She had been awarded the first prize of science and technology achievement of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981and 1982 .
In the early 1960s, as one of the chief leaders, Wu was in charge of research and development of semiconductor high speed switch transistors. She put forward the method of raising switch speed. She had been awarded the first prize of state new products in 1965.