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Arizona, United States

Olching, Bavaria, De

IR Detectors: Wavelengths SWIR to THz. Extended InGaAS Photodetectors.End User Applications - Full Spectrum Electro-Optics & Infrared (EO/IR) to THz and beyond. Long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectral imaging. Portable & Standoff Spectroscopy, FTIR, Gas & Flame Detection, Medical CO2 & Anesthesia Monitoring, Breath Analysis, Food, Wine & Dairy QC, Space Exploration Spectroscopy, Extended InGaAS detectors for Spectroscopy. DLaTGS Detectors. High Speed Pulsed Laser Detection > 5 um.

Lake Forest, Ca, Us

- Collaborated with European LWIR imaging company to develop a long range gas cloud imager for the global oil and gas market. Awarded U.S. Patent US 7,687,776.- Development and launch of industry leading UV/IR flame detectors for hydrocarbon (HC) and hydrogen (H2) flame detection.- Fundamental studies on discharge lamps in MWIR, leading to an industry leading product: an open path hydrocarbon and VOC monitoring system, sensitive to parts per million. Applications in industrial safety and atmospheric methane monitoring (Aliso Canyon, Porter Ranch, SoCal).

Senior Scientist promoted to R&D Manager for optical, chemical and acoustic sensing technologies for combustible and toxic gas detection. Led a diverse group of scientists and engineers to develop new sensing technologies for novel, yet robust, high performance industrial products:- Optical design, signal processing and detection algorithms for industry leading optical gas and flame detectors. * An open path MWIR hydrocarbon and VOC monitoring system, sensitive to parts per million. * The first (and only), multi-spectral, industry leading MWIR flame detector operating on artificial neural networks, US patent 7,202,794. International Society of Automation (ISA) Awards: Excellence in Individual Technical Innovation Award (2012), ISA Fellow (2018), ISA Life Fellow (2022).

Infrared/Electro-Optics - Infrared materials and sensors for industrial, railroad, space and defence applications. Developed thermistor bolometers, lead salt, high-Tc superconductors, pyroelectric detectors and imaging arrays. Setup hybrid microelectronics facility for space-qualified pyroelectric detector fabrication. Developed horizon sensors using pyroelectric detectors and LWIR optics for major aerospace companies. Lead scientist for detector development for NASA CERES program. Developed a novel pyroelectric reference (light trap) detector for detector characterization from 0.3 um to IR 200 microns. US patent 4,948,976 titled Two Color PbS/PbSe Coincident FOV Detector. Materials Research - Developed manufacturing process for rf magnetron sputtering of transition metal oxides for IR thermal detectors and arrays. Conducted fundamental studies on electrical and optical properties of multi-valent transition metal oxides. Early fabrication and publications on high-Tc YSrCuO superconductors in collaboration with CNRS, Meudon, France. Investigated process for spin coating and polarization of copolymer pyroelectric films, including on MEMS architectures, U.S. Patents 5,502,307 and 5,620,740. Multi-Spectral IR Analysis - Project Manager for natural gas BTU content measurement by multi-spectral LWIR infrared signature analysis for a Long Island utility company. - Partnered with a mid-west medical instrumentation company for a multi-spectral LWIR anesthesia monitor using a patented 8-channel pyroelectric detector, US Patent 5,497,003.

Elmsford, Ny, Us

Research & fabrication of superconducting devices both conventional (Nb, NbN ) and emerging high-Tc (YBaCuO) superconductors. USAF contract for a superconducting phase shifter for a Terahertz Imaging Radar System; designed and built a Mach-Zehnder modulator as proof of concept. ONR contracts for IR Detection with Superconducting Thin Films, Josephson Junction Devices and Arrays.

Ph.D., Physics

M. Tech., Ee

M.S., Physics