Education: Institution Location Date Degree Society Affiliations: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, American Physical Society, Life Fellow of IEEE, and member National Academy of Engineering. Work Experience: Dr. J. R. (Bob) Biard became Chief Scientist of the Honeywell MICRO SWITCH Division in 1987. He retired 12/31/98 and was hired by Honeywell and Advanced Optical Products as a consultant. In the AdOpCo job assignment Dr. Biard is part of a team developing Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs). He also is involved in the interface between the VCSEL team and universities. In his Honeywell assignment he is working on magnetic sensors and helping to develop a BiCMOS process. He started the MICRO SWITCH IC & Sensor Design Center in Richardson, Texas and his product development responsibilities include optoelectronic components (light emitting diodes and photo detectors), fiber optic components and transmitter & receiver modules, and silicon Hall effect and pressure sensors. He is also on the staff of Texas A&M University as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has served in this capacity since 1980. From 1978 to 1987 Dr. Biard was Chief Scientist of the Honeywell Optoelectronics Division and was a member of the Components Group Sensor Planning Team. He was also the Components Group representative on the Honeywell Technology Board (HTB). The HTB was concerned with the development and transfer of technology throughout the Honeywell corporate structure. Dr. Biard joined Spectronics, Inc. as Vice President of Research in 1969 when the company was founded. Spectronics, Inc. was acquired by Honeywell in 1978. Previously he worked for Texas Instruments, Inc., from 1957 to 1969. While at TI he participated in the development of transistor circuits, microwave and optoelectronic components, avalanche photodiodes, silicon MOS technology, and compound semiconductor materials technology. In 1991 Dr. Biard was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. In 1989 he received the Honeywell Lund Award. In 1986 he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M University. In 1985, He was a recipient of the Patrick E. Haggerty Innovation Award for his contribution to the design and development of Schottky Logic. Dr. Biard is a Life Fellow of IEEE; he was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in 1969 with a citation "For outstanding contributions in the field of optoelectronics." Publications: In the course of his technical career, Dr. Biard has published more than two dozen technical papers and made about the same number of unpublished presentations at major technical conferences. He also developed a one-week seminar on Fiber Optic Data Transmission that he presented on five occasions in various parts of the U.S.. He served as a distinguished lecturer for LEOS in 2000-2001. Some of the key papers are listed below: W. T. Matzen and J. R. Biard, Differential Amplifier
Features D-C Stability," Electronics, January 16, 1959. J. R. Biard, "Low frequency Reactance Amplifier,"
IEEE Proc., Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 298-303; February, 1963. J. R. Biard, "Degradation of Quantum Efficiency in GaAs Light Emitters," GaAs: 1966 Symposium Proceedings, (Reading England, September 1966), Institute of Physics and Physical Society, pp. 113-117. Ralph H. Johnson, Brian W. Johnson, and J. R. Biard, "Unified Physical DC and AC MESFET Model for Circuit Simulation and Device Modeling." IEEE Electron Devices Transactions, September, 1987. Ananth Ramaswamy, Jan P. van der Ziel, J. Robert Biard, Ralph Johnson, and Jim A. Tatum, “Electrical Characteristics of Proton-Implanted Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 34, No. 11; November, 1998. Patents: Dr. Biard holds 38 U.S. and 17 foreign patents;
twelve other patents are pending. Five of his more significant patents
are listed below. These patents include one of the first transistor
DC differential amplifiers, the GaAs light emitting diode, the optical
isolator, Schottky clamped logic circuits, and the MOS read only
memory (ROM). |
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Robert Biard, Ph.D.