The Draper Technology Digest - Draper Laboratory

Authors’ BiographiesJonathan J. Bernstein is Laboratory Technical Staff in the Micro/Nano Systems group. He has beenat Draper Laboratory since 1986, except for the period 2000-2003 when he served as Vice Presidentof Technology at Corning–IntelliSense Corporation. He has led many projects, including inertialMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) such as the tuning-fork gyro and accelerometers, vibrationsensors, acoustics (condenser microphone, condenser hydrophone, high-frequency imaging sonar),micromirrors for optical switching arrays and optical coherence tomography (OCT) endoscopes,optical spatial light modulator arrays, RF resonant tags for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), amicrofluidic DNA identification chip, solid-state cesium sources, and many others. Technologiesutilized include electrostatic and electromagnetic transduction, PZT on silicon devices, opticalwaveguides, and solid-state ionic conduction. He has over 38 patents and has published over 59papers. Dr. Bernstein holds a B.S.E.E. from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering andComputer Science (EECS)-Physics, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,Berkeley in EECS with concentrations in Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. While atBerkeley, he was awarded both NSF and Hertz Foundation graduate fellowships.Steven A. Feller, B.D. Silliman Professor of Physics, came to Coe College in 1979 after completing hisdoctorate in Physics at Brown University. Since that time, he has worked with more than 200 studentsin undergraduate research studying physical properties and atomic structure in a wide variety of oxideglass systems. Over 125 journal papers have been published in refereed journals in the field, and morethan 250 student and faculty presentations have been given at national and international meetings.Honors include Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the British Society of Glass Technology,Distinguished Iowa Scientist by the Iowa Academy of Sciences (1999), and Iowa Professor of the Year(1995) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He also received the 1993American Physical Society Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution.During spring and summer 1996, he served as a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom where hedid neutron scattering studies of glasses. In 2001, 2006, and 2011, he was Visiting Professor of Physicsat Sojo University (Japan) and at the University of Warwick (England). From 1996-2002, he served onthe national board of the Society of Physics Students. In 2002 and 2004, he was elected the president ofSigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society. He was especially gratified to have been awardedthe C.J. Lynch Prize as Teacher of the Year by the 1993 senior class of Coe College. Last year, he playedNiels Bohr in Coe’s production of the play Copenhagen.Jason Maldonis is currently an undergraduate at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He hasconducted glass science research under Dr. Steve Feller characterizing the structure and propertiesof alkali borovanadate and silicovanadate glasses. He has also worked to develop a radiation-hardscintillator for the CMS experiment at CERN under Dr. Ugur Akgun. Mr. Maldonis presentedresearch in poster form at the International Congress on Glass (Salvador, Brazil, 2010). He is activelyinvolved in the Society of Physics Students as a member of the national planning committee for the2012 Quadrennial Physics Conference in Orlando, Florida.Mark J. Mescher is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory. He conductsresearch and development of MEMS systems and devices, with emphasis on component design andfabrication process development. He has served as the Technical Lead for projects including MEMSbasedinertial and vibration sensors, microfluidic drug delivery systems, chip-scale atomic clocks,and MEMS ultrasound underwater imaging systems. He has won Draper’s Best Patent (2007) andDistinguished Performance Awards (2005). Dr. Mescher received M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. degrees (1999)in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a Departmentof Defense Fellow, and holds a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from Wright State University (1993).74 Best Paper Award: All Solid-State Ion-Conducting Cesium Source for Atomic Clocks