Burn-Jeng Lin (Chinese: 林本堅; born 1942) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer.
[1][2] During his tenure at IBM, which began in 1970,[3] Lin became the first to propose immersion lithography, a technique that became viable in the 1980s.
[6] Lin was named an IEEE Fellow in 2003, and granted an equivalent honor by the SPIE.
[7] In 2008, Lin was elected to membership of the United States National Academy of Engineering "for technical innovations and leadership in the development of lithography for semiconductor manufacturing.
[1][7] Upon his retirement from TSMC, he was offered a position on the faculty of National Tsing Hua University.