Donald Wu is a highly skilled electrical engineer/scientist with comprehensive applied and theoretical background in microwave and millimeter wave technology with extensive design experience of chip and wire hybrid MIC components such as amplifiers, mixers, filters, oscillators, detectors, antenna phase arrays, transceivers and multi-function assemblies for radar and communication applications, fabrication, packaging and mass production. Dr. Wu obtained his MS and PhD in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology in EE from University of Electronics Science and Technology of China.  Both his MS and PhD dealt with millimeter-wave passive and active components.   Afterwards, he pursued his Postdoctoral research both at Institute of semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China and at Microwave Lab, EE department, Texas A&M University in microwave and millimeter wave passive and active components, for example active antennas, mixers, amplifiers, oscillators, transceivers, power combiners and  spatial power combining technology.  Since 1995, he has worked for several US companies, including a microwave Engineering Fellow position at Honeywell International, where he led projects on development of K band, Ka and V band components and subsystems such as scanning antenna array, transceiver modules, FMCW Radar, pulse radar, security sensors and high power SSPAs. Dr. Wu has published 17 peer reviewed journal papers and holds 12 US patents.

Jim MacDonald joined Nuvotronics in early 2011 as a Senior Member Technical Staff. He brings 30 years of experience in microelectronic packaging development and production in both commercial and defense industries. His work has covered the fields of sensors, MEMS, RF and Optoelectronics, specializing in wafer level packaging. Most recently, he led MEMS packaging development and formed an Automotive Radar group at a leading US semiconductor manufacturer. He holds 29 patents in packaging.

Nuvotronics welcomes new staff member Dr. Anatoliy Boryssenko, an antenna and millimeter wave expert. He obtained his MS and PhD in EM Engineering Systems from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Kiev, Ukraine. Both his MS and PhD dealt with millimeter-wave integrated passive and active components based on dielectric waveguide and radiator structures. Afterwards Dr. Boryssenko was teaching at Kiev Polytechnic Institute in radar, antennas and numerical analysis. At that time, he also lead several projects on development of short-range communication and sensing system across 30-60 GHz. Later on he worked mainly on R&D of ultra-wideband technologies for in-matter sensing and imaging including ground-penetrating radar techniques across HF, VHF, VHF and microwave bands. In this area, Dr. Boryssenko has led development, manufacturing and deployment of several custom-built UWB imaging radar systems used for subsurface survey, non-invasive material inspection, and through-the-wall vision. From 2000, he has worked in the USA including a Research Professor position at University of Massachusetts, Amherst where Dr. Boryssenko was involved in design of components and systems for active and passive imaging with electromagnetic waves up 100 GHz. Dr. Boryssenko has published 15 peered review journal papers, several book chapters and more than 50 conference papers.

Read "PolyStrata Transmission Lines Withstand Vibration", written by Steve Huettner and featured in Microwaves & RF.

http://www.mwrf.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=23390

Dr. Rob Reid joined Nuvotronics in late 2010 as a Senior Member Technical Staff.  Dr. Reid’s latest work was in development of highly reconfigurable radio front ends, supported by a career in tunable and MEMS RF components.  He received his PhD from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and then served as a research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Sensors Directorare, Hanscom AFB, MA.  At AFRL, he led a team exploiting micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) to improve the performance and reduce the cost of antenna front ends.  Dr. Reid has worked extensively on RF MEMS switches, low cost wafer level packaging of RF MEMS, and highly integrated millimeter-wave systems. He is a widely recognized expert in MEMS with over 40 technical publications and three patents in the field. 

Nuvotronics is pleased to announce the hire of Scott Meller as VP of R&D.  Scott joined Nuvotronics with the main responsibilities of scaling the company's innovative research and development business and of ensuring its successful growth.  Prior to joining Nuvotronics, Scott was President of Luna Innovations, a publicly traded $25M annual sales high-tech company in Blacksburg, VA.  Scott holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a licensed Professional Engineer.  He has been awarded three patents in optical sensors and devices.

On September 22, 2009 Nuvotronics, LLC was awarded a contract from the US Army to develop Microfabricated Antenna Technology for Performance Enhancement and/or Miniaturization.  The contract with options is up to $1,285,396 over 4 years.  Nuvotronics will develop novel methods to improve microwave conformal antennas for mobile platforms.  "This project leverages the advantages of our PolyStrata(TM) metal micromachining technology platform for key applications requiring small size, low loss, and high integration, ultimately enhancing the communications capabilities of the armed forces," comments David Sherrer, President and CEO of Nuvotronics.  Work is to be performed at Nuvotronics' Radford, VA facility.  CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ, is the contracting activity.

Nuvotronics is now booking remaining slots on our Multi-User Run to commence in early 2010.  Our last Multi-User Run of 2009 has sold out and we are in process on our final PolyStrata run for the year.    

Nuvotronics is designing NOW for slots on a PolyStrata multi-user run scheduled for Q3 of 2009.  Customers interested in custom components from several GHz on up: power dividers, couplers, hybrids, filters...contact us to book your spot on a PolyStrata wafer. 

Nuvotronics will exhibit at IMS 2009 in Boston, June 7 to 12, Booth #113.