MAY 2000
ROGER WILSON WARD
MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED, 2 CHILDREN HEIGHT: 1.80 m
DATE OF BIRTH: 02 Dec 1944 MASS: 74 kg
EDUCATION
M.S. Physics, 1969, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
B.A. Physics, 1967, McMurry College, Abilene, TX
GPA=3.54/4.0 (Cum Laude). Major Professor: Dr. Virgil E. Bottom
EMPLOYMENT
Summer, 1966:
HEWLETT-PACKARD
LABORATORIES, 1501 PAGE MILL ROAD, PALO ALTO, CA 94304.
Member of Technical Staff. Designed x-ray double crystal refractometer for
production angle correction of AT-cut quartz plates to an accuracy of 5
seconds of arc on both phi and theta.
Supervisors: Charles Adams and Don Hammond.
Summer, 1967:
COLLINS RADIO, RICHARDSON, TX. Helped install microwave telephone repeater stations in Southern
California. Supervisor: Leon Brandon.
Sep 1969 to Sep 1975:
HEWLETT-PACKARD LABORATORIES, 1501 PAGE MILL ROAD, PALO ALTO, CA 94304.
Member of Technical Staff. Quartz crystal research and development.
Projects:
1) Determination of frequency versus temperature as a function of angle for precision 5 MHz AT-cut quartz resonators. (See Publications List item 1.)
2) Evaluation of Sawyer Research Products' cultured quartz for making precision resonators. (Dr. Sawyer used this information for deriving his "Alpha Q" equation.)
3) Development of a precision quartz resonator heated with an integrated circuit mounted on its edge.
4) Research on quartz microresonators made using photolithographic techniques with a goal of learning manufacturing processes, optimum design, and improved packaging techniques. (See Publications List, Item 2.)
5) Development of a quartz pressure transducer consisting of a 15 MHz quartz resonator mounted such that force could be applied to its edge. The device had a pressure resolution of <0.7 Pa (0.001 psia). (See Publications List Item 3.)
Supervisors: Charles Adams, Ed Karrer, and Don Hammond.
Sep 1975 to Nov 1977:
LITRONIX, 19000 HOMESTEAD ROAD, CUPERTINO, CA.
Product Manager of Quartz Operations. Responsibilities included:
1) Set up a production facility capable of producing 100,000 quartz tuning fork resonators for quartz wristwatches per month. Included technical design of production equipment and developing production process techniques.
2) Writing and reviewing production specifications.
3) QA activities.
4) All development sustaining engineering.
5) Liaison between quartz manufacturing and vendors; liaison with in-house and outside crystal customers.
6) Ceramic package design.
7) Studies on photolithographically produced AT-cut strip resonators and monolithic crystal filters.
Supervisor: Bob Anderson
Nov 1977 to Mar 1979:
STATEK CORPORATION, 512 N. MAIN STREET, ORANGE, CA 92668.
Design/Development Engineer. Responsibilities included:
1) New process development. This included implementation of chemical polishing of quartz wafers on a production basis. This process resulted in a 100% increase in productivity and the elimination of a second shift.
2) Sustaining engineering in the wafer fabrication area (where quartz wafers were made into tuning forks, 1 million/month). (Publications List Items 7-9.)
3) Mask design and new mask processing.
4) Transducer research utilizing tuning forks--pressure, gas density, temperature, and acceleration.
Supervisor: Juergen Staudte, President.
Mar 1979 to May 1979:
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 5301 STEVENS CREEK BLVD., SANTA CLARA, CA 95050.
Member of Technical Staff: Design/Development Engineer. Duties included:
1) Production engineering of SC-cut quartz resonators.
2) Implementation of production processes on SC-cuts.
3) Evaluation of mounting locations on the SC-cut for minimum "2g" performance.
Supervisor: Jack Kusters
May 1979 to Jun 1981:
COLORADO CRYSTAL CORPORATION, 2303 W. 8TH ST., LOVELAND, CO 80537.
Vice President of R&D. Responsible for:
1) Development and introduction of new products, including SC-cut quartz resonators from 4 to 100 MHz; high Q 10 MHz 3rd overtone AT-cuts; 10 MHz 5th overtone AT's; and low phase noise 5 MHz 3rd overtone AT's. (Publications List Items 4-6.)
2) Development of new production and test processes.
3) Liaison between Colorado Crystal and its customers.
4) All crystal design from 1 MHz to 200 MHz.
5) Sales per person per day increased 50% during this time period, due mainly to the efforts of the engineering department.
Supervisor: Canon Bradley, President
Jul 1981 to Jan 1983:
MOTOROLA, INC., 8000 W. SUNRISE BLVD., FT. LAUDERDALE, FL 33322.
Engineering Manager/Principal Staff Engineer/Lab Manager.
Responsible for:
1) Management of 10 engineers and 7 technical support people developing a photolithographically produced four-pole monolithic crystal filter with on-blank local oscillator, for use in a "next generation" pocket pager (SENSAR
®).2) Capital and salary management for FY 1982—$1.75M.
3) Managing the setup and turn-on of a factory to product this crystal at a volume of 10,000/month.
4) Regular presentations to upper management (Vice President level) regarding program status.
Supervisor: Larry Conlee, Product Manager, Franklin Park, IL.
Jan 1983 to Jul 1990:
QUARTZTRONICS, INC., 1020 ATHERTON DRIVE, BUILDING C, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84123.
Vice-president and Partner. Responsible for:
1) Research and development in down-hole oil and gas quartz pressure and temperature transducers utilizing both thickness-shear and flexure mode crystals. (Patent List Item 5.)
2) R&D in fluid density sensors utilizing quartz tuning forks, with applications in temperature, pressure, weighing, acceleration, etc. (See Patents List Items 2, 4-6 and Publications List Items 13 and 14.)
3) R&D on vibration induced frequency shifts in precision frequency control crystals, resulting in a practical method of reducing the crystal's sensitivity to vibration. (Patent List Items 9 and 10.)
4) In charge of manufacturing quartz pressure transducers for down-hole oil and gas, laboratory transfer standards, etc.
Jul 1990 to 01 Jul 1999:
QUARTZDYNE, INC., a Dover Resources Company (as of 04 January 1998), 1020 ATHERTON DRIVE, BUILDING C, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84123.
President, CEO. Responsible for:
1) Management.
2) Manufacturing of quartz pressure transducers for the oil and gas field.
3) Domestic and international Sales and Marketing of Quartzdyne’s products.
4) Engineering of the quartz related components used in Quartzdyne’s products.
Quartzdyne grew from a start-up company to having an internationally recognized product that captured >75% of the precision down-hole pressure measurement market in its first 3 years. Currently 45 employees.
Quartzdyne was sold to Dover Resources, a Subsidary of Dover Corporation, on 04 January 1998.
02 Jul 1999 to Present:
RETIRED.
380 GLENWAY STREET, P.O. BOX 394, PALMER LAKE, CO 80133-0394
1) Restoring Estemere.
PUBLICATIONS
1. C.A. Adams, G.M. Enslow, J.A. Kusters, and R.W. Ward; "Selected Topics in Quartz Crystal Research," Proc. 24th Symp on Freq Control, p 55ff., 1970. (P)
2. J.A. Kusters, C.A. Adams, H.E. Karrer, and R.W. Ward; "Analytical and Experimental Investigations of 32 kHz Quartz Tuning Forks," Proc. 30th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 175-183, 1976. (P)
3. H.E. Karrer and R.W. Ward; "Low Range Quartz Resonator Pressure Transducer," ISA Transactions, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 90-98, 1977.
4. R.W. Ward; "The SC-Cut Crystal—A Review," Colorado Crystal Corp. publication; May, 1980.
5. R.W. Ward; "Design of High Performance SC Resonators," 35th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 99-103, 1981. (P)
6. R.W. Ward: "2-Year Update on Processing SC-Cuts," 3rd Annual Quartz Crystal Conference, Published by E.I.A., p. 112ff, 1981. (P)
7. "Semiconductor Techniques Applied to Quartz Crystal Processing," IBID., p. 284ff. (P)
8. R.W. Ward; "Review of Thin Film Deposition Techniques," Proc 4th Quartz Crystal Conference, Published by E.I.A., pp. 175-188, 1982. (P)
9. "Update on Semiconductor Process Techniques for Crystals," IBID., p. 276ff. (P)
10. R.W. Ward; "Quartz Resonator Mounting and Packaging: Requirements and Techniques," Proc of 5th Quartz Crystal Conference, published by E.I.A., p. 162ff, 1983. (P)
11. R.W. Ward; "The Constants of Alpha Quartz," Proc 38th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 22-31, 1984. (P)
12. R.W. Ward; "Mechanical/Electrical Determination of Q," 6th Quartz Devices Conference, EIA, pp. 107-114, 1984. (P)
13. R.W. Ward and E.P. EerNisse; "A Filled Thermal System Utilizing a Gas Density Sensing Quartz Crystal Tuning Fork," Proc 39th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 575-580, 1985. (P)
14. R.W. Ward and E.P. EerNisse; "A Quartz Fluid Density Sensor Pressure Transducer," Proc 40th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 211-215, 1986. (P)
15. R.W. Ward; "An Overview of Quartz Resonator Design Engineering for the Layman," Proc 8th Quartz Devices Conference, EIA, pp. 16-23, 1986. (P)
16. R.W. Ward and E.P. EerNisse; "A Reduced Hysteresis, Extended Range Quartz Pressure Transducer," Proc 41st Symp on Freq Control, pp. 344-349, 1987. (P)
17. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, and R.B. Wiggins; "Survey of Quartz Bulk Resonator Sensor Technologies," IEEE Trans. of UFFC, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 323-330, May, 1988.
18. M.H. Watts, E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, and R.B. Wiggins; "Technique for Measuring the Acceleration Sensitivity of SC-Cut Quartz Resonators," Proc 42nd Symp on Freq Control, pp. 442-446, 1988.
19. M.H. Watts, E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, and R.B. Wiggins; "Technique for Measuring the Acceleration Sensitivity of Quartz Resonators," Proc 10th Quartz Devices Conf & Exhibition, pp. 92-97, 1988. (P)
20. P. S. Evans, L. D. Clayton, R. B. Wiggins, R. W. Ward, E. P. EerNisse, Sam E. Blalock, and John R. Dennis; "Precision Pressure Measurements with Thickness-Shear Mode Quartz Resonators," Proc Sensors Expo, pp. 304A-1, Sep, 1988.
21. L.D. Clayton, E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, and R.B. Wiggins; "Miniature Crystalline Quartz Electromechanical Structures," Proc IEEE Workshop Micro Electromechanical Systems, 1989. (Also published in Sensors and Actuators, 20, pp. 171-177, 1989.)
22. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, and O.L. Wood; "Acceleration Induced Frequency Shifts in Quartz Resonators," Proc 43rd Symp on Freq Control, pp. 388-395, 1989.
23. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward, M.H. Watts, R.B. Wiggins, and O.L. Wood; "Experimental Evidence for Mode Shape Influence on Acceleration-Induced Frequency Shifts in Quartz Resonators," IEEE Trans. on UFFC, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 566-570, Nov, 1990.
24. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; "Quartz Resonator Sensors in Extreme Environments," Proc. 45th Symp on Freq Control, pp. 254-260, May, 1991.
25. R.W. Ward; "Quartz Resonator Design Workshop for the Layman," Proc 14th Piezoelectric Devices Conference and Exhibition, Vol. 2, EIA, pp. 14-23, 1992. (P)
26. R.W. Ward; "The Constants of Alpha Quartz (1992 Update)," Proc 14th Piezoelectric Devices Conference and Exhibition, Vol. 2, EIA, pp. 61-70, 1992. (P)
27. R.W. Ward; "Etching of Quartz Crystal Spheres," Proc. 1993 IEEE Freq Control Symp, pp. 390-396, June, 1993.
(P) denotes formal presentation made.
MISCELLANEOUS
1. "Automatic Laser Frequency Adjustment of Quartz Tuning Fork Resonators," Presentation to Circuit Adjustments Workshop, Rancho Santa Fe, CA April, 1977, (Sponsored by IEEE).
2. Conceived of the x-ray angle correction technique now incorporated in the Automated X-Ray Orientation System (AXROS) (see Patent List Item 1) developed by Aracor and now being utilized on U.S. Army Contracts requiring precise angular measurement of quartz resonator orientations. Aug. 1978.
3. Organized a "Conference on Etch Channels in Quartz," held 27 Oct 1978 at U.S. Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ. Seventeen industry attendees.
4. "Semiconductor Techniques Applied to Quartz Crystal Processing," Presentation to Florida Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, 11th Annual Symposium on Applied Vacuum Science and Technology, Tampa, FL, Feb, 1982.
5. Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). Senior Member, Instrument Society of America (ISA). Member Sigma Pi Sigma (American Physical Society).
6. Served as Session Chairman at the Annual Frequency Control Symposium (co-sponsored by IEEE and Dept. of the Army) and at the Annual Piezoelectric Devices
Conference & Exhibition, Sponsored by the Electronics Industry Association, on several occasions.
7. Responsible for Raymond A. Heising's book Quartz Crystals for Electrical Circuits being republished in 1978 by the EIA. Over 1000 copies have been sold by the EIA to quartz crystal engineers.
8. Nominated and presented the CADY Award to Juergen Staudte at the 1986 Frequency Control Symposium (IEEE and U.S. Army, co-sponsors).
9. Committee Chairman for 1987 Quartz Devices Conference (EIA).
10. Successfully nominated Dr. Baldwin Sawyer for the 1989 Cady Award.
11. Listed in Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th Ed., 1984.
12. Listed in American Men and Women of Science, 18th Ed., 1992.
13. Listed in Who's Who in the West, 23rd Ed., 1992; 24th Ed., 1994; and 25th Ed., 1996/7.
14. Member of Math and Science Advisory Board for McMurry University, Abilene, TX, 1992-1994.
15. Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, 23rd Ed., 1993.
16.
Listed in Men of Achievement, 16th Ed., 1992/93.
17. Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 49th Ed., 1994.
18. Listed in Who’s Who in Technology, 1995.
19. Received the C.B. Sawyer Memorial Award "For technical and industrial contributions to the design and fabrication of quartz crystal resonators," at the 1994 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Boston, MA, 01 June 1994.
20. Awards Chairperson for 1995, 1996, and 1997 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium.
21. Presented a Tribute to John Silver at 1995 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium in San Francisco, 01 June 1995.
22. Received the Piezoelectric Devices "Man of the Year" Award "For Many Years of Dedication and Contributions to the Industry," at the 1996 EIA Piezoelectric Devices Conference & Exhibition, Kansas City, MO, 14 August 1996.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium 1996-present.
Successfully nominated Dr. Shih Chuang to receive the C.B. Sawyer Award at the 1999 Frequency Control Symposium.
PATENTS
1. T.S. Workman, J.L. Chambers, M.A. Pugh, and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,412,345 "Apparatus and Method for Precise Determinations of Crystallographic Orientation on Crystalline Substances," 25 Oct 1983.
2. R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,526,480 "Fluid Density Temperature Measurement Apparatus and Method," 02 Jul 1985.
3. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,535,638 "Resonator Transducer System with Temperature Compensation," 20 Aug 1985.
4. R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,574,639 "Pressure Force Measurement Apparatus and Method," 11 Mar 1986.
5. R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,644,796 "Pressure Measurement Apparatus and Method," 24 Feb 1987.
6. R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,644,803 "Force Measurement Apparatus and Method," 24 Feb 1987.
7. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,754,646 "Resonator Pressure Transducer Structure and Method of Manufacture," 05 Jul 1988.
8. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,802,370, "Transducer and Sensor Apparatus and Method," 07 Feb 1989.
9. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,837,475, "Crystal Resonator with Low Acceleration Sensitivity and Method of Manufacture Thereof," 06 Jun 1989.
10. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward and O. L. Wood; U.S. PATENT #4,935,658, "Crystal Resonator With Low Acceleration Sensitivity and Method of Manufacture Thereof,"
19 Jun 1990.
11. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #4,936,147, "Transducer and Sensor Apparatus Method," 26 Jun 1990.
12. E.P. EerNisse and R.W. Ward; U.S. PATENT #5,012,151, "Thermally Matched Strip Mounted Resonator and Related Mounting Method," 30 Apr 1991.
13. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward and O.L. Wood; U.S. PATENT #5,022,130, "Method of Manufacturing Crystal Resonators Having Low Acceleration Sensitivity," 11 Jun 1991.
14. E.P. EerNisse, R.W. Ward and O.L. Wood; U.S. PATENT #5,168,191, "Crystal Resonator with Low Acceleration Sensitivity and Method of Manufacture Thereof," 01 Dec 1992.
15. R.W. Ward and R.B. Wiggins; U.S. PATENT #5,231,880, "Pressure Transducer Assembly," 03 Aug 1993.
16. E.P. EerNisse, L.J. Perry, R.W. Ward, and R.B. Wiggins; U.S. PATENT #6,131,462, "Pressure/Temperature Transducer with Improved Thermal Coupling and Enhanced Transient Response," 17 Oct. 2000.
Carlene E. Stephens, Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of American History interviewed me on 07 Aug 2001 about my knowledge and involvement in the history of the digital watch. Carlene is developing an exhibit and preparing a book on the subject. I gave Carlene my Watch Crystal Processing Display from Litronix along with some quartz tuning fork crystals encapsulated in glass envelopes from the 1940s and a photolithographic mask set for making Statek tuning fork watch crystals.
Carlene E. Stephens
Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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