Srini Raghavan

Dr. Srini Raghavan is currently a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He obtained his M.S and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973 and 1976, respectively. Following his graduation, he worked as a lecturer at Berkeley for two years and then joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in November of 1978. He served for forty-three years as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona and retired in 2021. In July 2024, he was appointed as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Ira Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University.

During his academic career, his main research and teaching interests were in the fundamentals of wet chemical processing of materials, including semiconductors and metals, corrosion and degradation, and applied surface chemistry. As a principal investigator with the SRC-funded Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing Center at the University of Arizona, he focused his research on developing new methods and chemical formulations for cleaning, etching, planarization, and waste treatment. 

He supervised and graduated 42 PhD and 39 MS students, many of whom work in semiconductor-related companies. He has one hundred and eighty peer-reviewed publications and seven patents to his credit. Professor Raghavan has enriched his academic career with many industrial engagements and visiting professorships. In 2006-2007, he took a leave of absence from The University of Arizona to work as a principal scientist at Intel’s Flash Technology Development group in Santa Clara, California. 

During the summer of 2015, he worked as a visiting faculty member at Micron’s R&D fabrication in Boise, Idaho. In 2018-19, he spent his sabbatical leave at Intel SPTD (Substrate Processing Technology Center) in Chandler, Arizona. 

He has served as a visiting faculty at the International College of Semiconductor Technology at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; the Institute of Microelectronics at Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin, China; and the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in India. He has provided technical consulting in the field of semiconductor processing for many integrated circuit companies and their suppliers in the US and abroad.

Focus Area

Research and Teaching Experience in Semiconductor Processing as a UA faculty. Worked at Intel as a Principal Scientist.