David Thompson is the Managing Director of the Chemistry Center of Excellence at Applied Materials. He leads a team of chemists at Applied Materials tasked with supporting the discovery and identification of chemistries for new differentiated tool offerings and is an expert in the chemistry of ALD and CVD. He did his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering and received a PhD in the organometallic chemistry of fullerenes and nanotubes. Both of these degrees were obtained at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Thompson has 98 granted U.S. patents in semiconductor chemistry, process, and integration.