Dow Electronic Materials and Texas A&M; University Win SPIE’s 2013 Willson Award for Best Technical Paper

Philadelphia, PA - March 20, 2014

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Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), announced that it was jointly recognized with Texas A&M University by SPIE with the 2013 C. Grant Willson Award for the best oral paper presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013.

The winning paper was titled "Bottom-up / top-down high-resolution, high-throughput lithography using vertically assembled block brush polymers." The Board of SPIE thanked the authors for their contribution, commenting that the paper "was a clear highlight of the 2013 conference and it is very rare for the conference committee to be as unanimous as it was in selecting a paper for the award."

Dow's Peter Trefonas, Dow Fellow, accepted the award during this year's SPIE Advanced Lithography conference during a ceremony on February 24, 2014. Recognized authors included Dow Fellows Peter Trefonas and James W. Thackeray of Dow Electronic Materials, along with the Texas A&M researcher team of Assistant Research Scientist Guorong Sun, graduate student Sangho Cho, Research Scientist Stanislav V. Verkhoturov, Dr. Michael J. Eller, students Corrie Clark, Ang Li and Adriana Pavía-Jiménez, and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Karen L.Wooley and Professor of Chemistry Emile A. Schweikert.

Photo Caption: Peter Trefonas, at left, is presented by conference cochair Christoph Hohle with the 2013 C. Grant Willson Best Paper Award in Patterning Materials and Processes, sponsored by IBM, for "Bottom-up/top-down high-resolution high-throughput lithography using vertically assembled block bottle brush polymers," authored by Peter Trefonas, James Thackeray, Guorong Sun, Sangho Cho, Corrie Clark, Stanislav Verkhoturav, Michael Eller, Ang Li, Adriana Pavia-Jiménez, Emile Schweikert, and Karen Wooley.

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About Dow Electronic Materials

Dow Electronic Materials, a global supplier of materials and technologies to the electronics industry, brings innovative leadership to the semiconductor, interconnect, finishing, photovoltaic, display, LED and optics markets. From advanced technology centers worldwide, teams of talented Dow research scientists and application experts work closely with customers, providing solutions, products and technical service necessary for next-generation electronics. These partnerships energize Dow's power to invent. Its key end-use applications include a broad range of consumer electronics from personal computers, to television monitors, smart phones and tablets and other mobile devices as well as electronic devices and systems used in a variety of industries. More information about Dow Electronic Materials can be found at http://www.dowelectronicmaterials.com.

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