Scientific Advisory Board
Larry R. Dalton – University of Washington
Alex Jen – University of Washington
Seth Marder – Georgia Institute of Technology
Harold Fetterman – University of California, Los Angeles
William H. Steier – University of Southern California
Professor Larry R. Dalton
Larry Dalton is Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the Director of the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Information Technology Research. He is also the Director of the DOD MURI Center on Polymeric Smart Skin Materials.
Dr. Dalton also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Professor of the Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was the Moulton Professor of Chemistry and the Co-director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute at the University of Southern California. Prior to USC, Larry held positions at Vanderbilt University and SUNY Stony Brook.
His expertise spans a wide range of technologies including macromolecular and polymer synthesis and processing, electroactive polymers, optoelectronic materials and devices, nonlinear optics, as well as nanoscience and technology.
He currently serves on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nanoscience & Technology Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Research & Education on Advanced Materials at Norfolk State University.
Dr. Dalton's numerous awards include the 2003 American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials and the 1996 Richard C. Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society.
He has a A.M and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard and an M.S. and B.S. from Michigan State University.
Professor Alex Jen
Dr. Jen is currently the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Thrust Leader of Electro-optic Materials & Devices in the new NSF-funded Science & Technology Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 under the tutelage of Professor Michael Cava. He started his career as a Research Chemist at Allied-Signal Inc., (1984-1988) where he was responsible for the discovery of several classes of processible and thermally stable conducting polymers for opto-electronic applications. In 1988, he joined Enichem America Inc. as a Principal Scientist and established the nonlinear optical (NLO) materials program in the company. He moved to ROI Technology in 1995, where he was Vice President of materials. In 1997, he joined Northeastern University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, moving to the University of Washington at Seattle in 1999.
His research interests are focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of novel conjugated materials, NLO dendrimers, highly fluorinated polymers, self-assembled monolayers and block copolymers, and hybrid materials. He has co-authored more than 250 papers and 30 patents on topics related to materials chemistry and devices.
Professor Seth Marder
Seth Marder is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a co-founder of Arizona Microsystems, L.L.C.
Dr. Marder obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and his Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, where he was a W. R. Grace Fellow. Dr. Marder then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 1985–1987. After his stay at Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a National Research Council Resident Research Associate from 1987–1989.
He later became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Member of the Beckman Institute at Caltech and Associate Director, for the Office of Naval Research Center for Advanced Multi-Functional Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Molecular Assemblies, until he moved to the University of Arizona in 1998. He has been appointed the founding director of the Consortium for Advanced Nanoscopic Science and Technology at the University of Arizona and is an Associate Director and co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center: Materials and Device for Information Technology Research. In 2003 he moved to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was appointed the founding director for the Center for Optical Photonics and Electronics.
His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry. Recently, his research group has been systematically designing dyes for large two-photon absorption cross sections for a variety of applications ranging from two-photon induced polymerization to dyes for two-photon fluorescence microscopy.
Dr. Marder was the 1993 recipient of JPL's Lew Allen Award for outstanding research by a scientist in the early part of his career, a recipient of an NSF Special Creativity Award, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002). He has co-authored over 175 research papers, has organized or served on organizing committees for over twenty scientific conferences, including chairing the Seventh International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics. In addition Dr. Marder has co-edited several proceedings including an ACS symposium series monograph entitled "Materials for Nonlinear Optics: Chemical Perspectives", as well as proceeding for SPIE and MRS. He has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science Magazine and as a member of the Editorial Board for Chemistry of Materials. He has also been a guest editor for several journals including a recent issue of Advanced Functional Materials.
Professor Harold Fetterman
Professor Fetterman's research focuses on optical millimeter wave interactions, femtosecond evaluation of high-frequency devices and circuits, solid-state millimeter wave structures and systems, and biomedical applications of laser.
He joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1969, where his initial research concentrated on the use of submillimeter sources for spectroscopy. Dr. Fetterman studied the detailed properties of shallow donor transitions and cyclotron resonance in a number of semiconductors. Subsequent to his work at Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Fetterman has devoted his efforts to investigating new solid state devices. This includes FETs, HEMTs, HBTs, quantum well structures, and traveling wave transistor structures. During this period he was one of the founders of the highly respected Millitech Corporation. In 1982, he joined the UCLA EE Department as a Professor and served as the first Director of the Center for High Frequency Electronics. As part of the Center, he initiated programs in monolithic millimeter wave devices, six port network analyzers for high frequency applications, and millimeter wave imaging with detector arrays.
Dr. Fetterman, along with his colleagues, Dr. Larry Dalton and Dr. William Steier (both also on Lumera’s SAB), was awarded the 2006 IEEE LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for his seminal work with polymer photonic devices and materials. Over the past decade, Dr. Fetterman and his two colleagues have revolutionized the field of polymer photonics. Awarded annually, the Streifer award is the highest award to be given by the Lasers and Electro-optics Society of IEEE.
Dr. Fetterman received the B.A. with honors in Physics from Brandeis University in 1962 and the Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1968. Dr. Fetterman’s thesis was a study of molecular-like defect centers in solids and their perturbation by applied stress, electric and magnetic fields. Upon leaving Cornell, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Residence at UCLA, where he specialized in lasers and non-linear optics. A fellow of both the Optical Society and the IEEE, he is currently the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA.
Professor William H. Steier
Dr. Bill Steier is the W. M. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. After completion of his PhD, Dr. Steier spent several years at Bell Laboratories where he worked on the burgeoning field of fiber optic communications and integrated optics. He collaborated on the first demonstration of phase locking of lasers.
In 1968, Dr. Steier joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at the University of Southern California, serving as Department Chair from 1970 until 1984. He has also held over administrative posts including Director of the Joint Services Electronics Program, co-director of the Center for the Integration of Optical Computing, and principal investigator of the DARPA National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology.
His research group has over 300 publications and conference proceedings in several areas including optical communications, optical materials, and nonlinear optics. In recent years, his research has focused on the development of new polymer materials and polymer integrated optical devices for optical communications.
Professor Steier is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. His numerous awards include the USC School of Engineering Faculty Service Award, the USC School of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award, and the University Associates Award for Creativity in Scholarship and Research. In 2002 he was named a Distinguished Alumni of the EE-CS Department at the University of Illinois.
He received the BSEE from the University of Evansville and the MSEE and the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana. b