Barry J. Lin currently serves as CTO of Wavetek Microelectronics Corp, responsible for compound semiconductor technology development. Under his technical leadership, Wavetek has become one of the major compound semiconductor foundries in Taiwan to offer a complete portfolio of platforms, including HBT, pHEMT, GaN RF, GaN power devices, and SAW filters.
He had served as Sr. Director of Design Engineering in RFIC groups for infrastructure business unit in Triquint Semiconductor and later in Qorvo Inc. during 2008-2016.
Before that, he was the VP Technology in WJ Communications in 2004-2008. He co-founded EiC Corp (later merged with WJ) in 1997 and served as Sr. VP for Manufacturing and Sales/Marketing. In this period of time, he was responsible for technology and product development for handset PA and infrastructure RFICs using III-V compound semiconductor devices.
He started his technical career in HP Labs, Palo Alto in mid-1980s. His focused research areas were on GaAs based pHEMT and HBT technology development which he participated in the early phase of device and epi-layer development.