LESLIE A. FIELD
e-mail: leslie@memsinsight.com 
MEMS Insight, Inc., 325 Sharon Park Dr., #632 Menlo Park, CA  94025
Phone: (650) 823-2020

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006 – present:	STANFORD UNIVERSITY							   Palo Alto, CA
Consulting Professor, Electrical Engineering.  Duties include guest lectures, student mentoring, joint research interests.
2005 - present:	SMALLTECH CONSULTING, LLC					             Menlo Park, CA 
Founder and Managing Member.  Work includes technical, business, strategic, due diligence and intellectual property consulting in the fields of MicroElectroMechanical Systems and Nanotechnology.  Examples of completed projects include VC due diligence, bioMEMS strategy, valve technology evaluation, and extensive patent evaluation.
2002 - present:	MEMS INSIGHT, INC.					             	        	Menlo Park, CA
Founder and CEO.  Work includes technical, business, and strategic consulting in the field of MicroElectroMechanical Systems.  Examples of completed projects include new product development, device design and layout, liaison with MEMS foundries, process integration, technology and IP evaluation, investigation of specific MEMS market opportunities, and scientific review. 
1991-2001: 	AGILENT LABORATORIES/HEWLETT-PACKARD LABORATORIES      Palo Alto, CA
Principal Project Engineer. Micromechanics Project Leader.  Worked on valves, optical and microwave switches, gimbals, inkjet printing, and biosciences, including invention, mechanical design, layout, process design, and fabrication.  Led installation of LPCVD lab.  A coinventor of Agilent’s fiber optic crosspoint switch.  Helped solve a fluidic problem that threatened the introduction of a billion-dollar product line.  Co-founded and led K-12 grassroots education project for HP that helped launch new products for the education market.
1978-1985:    	CHEVRON RESEARCH COMPANY 			     	               Richmond, CA
Research Engineer in Process Research Department.  Zeolite and acid catalysis, oxygenated compound process development for use in high-octane gasoline, heteroatom removal from petroleum feedstocks.  Work resulted in improved commercial refining methods for various petroleum-based products.
EDUCATION
1985-1991: 	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 			     	                             Berkeley, CA	
PhD: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - 12/91
MS:  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - 12/88
Master and PhD thesis work done at Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. 
Major: Solid-State Physics, IC Processing.  Minors: Materials Science, IC Design.
PhD thesis subject: Fluid actuation of silicon micromachined gears and rotors.
Master thesis subject: Novel boron-glass integrated-sensor packaging technique. 
Brought low-stress silicon nitride process in-house.
1974-1978:    	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	    	             Cambridge, MA
SM: Chemical Engineering Practice - 6/78
SB: Chemical Engineering - 2/78
SM and SB work completed concurrently in 4 years. 
Bachelor thesis subject: Limits of superheat of non-ideal liquid mixtures.  
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
Fourteen technical publications and thirty-seven US patents.  See attached pages.
HONORS AND AWARDS
•	Hewlett-Packard Technical Achievement Award, Regional Women’s Conference. 
•	Nominee - HP Labs’ Birnbaum Prize for Innovation, for leading education project. 
•	UC Berkeley EECS Department Samuel Silver Award for achievement in humanities and engineering. 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
•	Scientific Review Panel for NIH.  Hilton Head, IEDM and SPIE Technical Program Committees.
•	Reviewer for JMEMS.  HP representative to National Academy of Engineering Symposium.
•	Senior Member IEEE.

LESLIE FIELD - LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SHORT COURSE PRESENTATIONS
1.	"Production-Ready Silicon Microvalve", Wang, T. K., Barth, P. W., Alley, R., Baker, J., Field, L. A., Gordon, G., SPIE's 1999 Symposium and Continuing Education Program on Micromachining and Microfabrication, Santa Clara, CA, September 1999. 
2.	"A Silicon Microsuspension for Disk Drive Applications", Narbutovskih, Martha, Field, Leslie, Clifford, George, Henze, Richard, Burriesci, Diane, Williams, Judith, and Beck, Patricia, Transducers '97: Ninth International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Chicago, Illinois, June 1997. 
3.	"Controlled Unit Processes for Silicon Micromachining," Field, Leslie A., Electrochemical Society Fall Meeting (invited paper), Chicago, Illinois, October, 1995.
4.	"Micromachined 1x2 Optical Fiber Switch", Field, Leslie A., Burriesci, Diane L., Robrish, Peter R., and Ruby, Richard C., Transducers '95: 8th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1995.
5.	"A Robust Normally-Closed Silicon Microvalve", Barth, Phillip W., Beatty, Christopher C., Field, Leslie A., Baker, James W., and Gordon, Gary B., Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Technical Digest, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 1994.
6.	Lecturer, "Mechanical Properties and Micromechanical Applications" as part of UC Extension short course, Polycrystalline-Silicon Technology and Applications, run by Theodore I. Kamins, San Francisco Airport, May 1992.
7.	"Fluid Actuation of Microgears", Field, Leslie A., White, Richard M. and Pisano, Albert P., American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1991 Winter Annual Meeting (Session on Fundamentals of Micro Heat and Mass Transfer), Atlanta, Georgia, December 1991.
8.	"Fluid-Powered Rotary Gears and Micro-Flow Channels", Field, Leslie A., White, Richard M. and Pisano, Albert P., Transducers '91: 6th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Digest of Technical Papers, San Francisco, California, June 1991.
9.	"Fusing Silicon Wafers with Low-Melting-Temperature Glass", Field, Leslie A. and Muller, Richard S., Transducers '89: 5th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Montreux, Switzerland, June 1989.  
10.	"Low-Temperature Silicon-Silicon Bonding With Oxides", Field, Leslie A. and Muller, Richard S., 171st Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1987.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1.	"A Silicon Microsuspension for Disk Drive Applications", Narbutovskih, M., Field, L., Clifford, G., Henze, R., Burriesci, D., Williams-Brake, J., and Beck, P., Sensors and Actuators A 70/1-2, pp. 128-134, 1998. 
2.	"Micromachined 1x2 Optical Fiber Switch", Field, Leslie A., Burriesci, Diane L., Robrish, Peter R., and Ruby, Richard C., Sensors and Actuators, vol. A, no. 53, pp. 311-315, 1996. Also reprinted in SPIE Milestones series volume, "Selected Papers on Optical MEMS", volume #MS153, Victor M. Bright, ed., 1999.
3.	"Fusing Silicon Wafers with Low-Melting-Temperature Glass", Field, Leslie A. and Muller, Richard S., Sensors and Actuators, vol. A, no. 23, pp. 935-938, 1990. Also reprinted in IEEE volume "Micromechanics and MEMS: Classic and Seminal Papers to 1990", William S. Trimmer, ed., 1996.
4.	"Surface Properties and Reactions of Coal Part 2", Field, L. A., Papadopoulos, A. J., and Wang, R. D., School of Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Report 1978 ORNL/MIT - 270. 

LESLIE FIELD - LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
US PATENTS
1.	“High Print Quality Inkjet Printhead”, Cleland, Todd A, Maze, Robert C.,  Miller, Michael D., Prasad, Rama, Browning, Robert N. K, Oughton, Dale R., Torgerson, Joseph M., Saul, Kenneth D., Hager, Michael B., Collins, Douglas M., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs, Barth, Phillip W., US 7,004,556, February 28, 2006. 
2.	“Bubble-Actuated Valve with Latching”, Field, Leslie Ann, US 6,981,687, January 3, 2006.
3.	“Polymeric Liquid Metal Optical Switch”, Wong, Marvin G. and Field, Leslie A., US 6,888,977, May 3, 2005.
4.	"High Quality Fluid Ejection Device", Cleland, Todd A., Maze, Robert C., Miller, Michael D., Prasad, Rama, Browning, Robert N.K., Oughton, Dale R., Torgerson, Joseph M., Saul, Denneth D., Hager, Michael B., Collins, Douglas M., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs T., and Barth, Phillip W., US 6,799,822, October 5, 2004. 
5.	“Polymeric Liquid Metal Switch”, Wong, Marvin G. and Field, Leslie A., US 6,743,991, June 1, 2004. 
6.	“Method of Manufacturing an Ink Jet Print Head”, Maze, Robert C., Collins, Douglas M., Cleland, Todd A., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs T., Barth, Phillip W., US 6,662,435, December 16, 2003. 
7.	"Fabrication of Suspended Structures Using a Sacrificial Layer", Field, Leslie A., US 6,547,973, April 15, 2003.
8.	"High Print Quality Printhead", Cleland, Todd A., Maze, Robert C., Miller, Michael D., Prasad, Rama, Browning, Robert N.K., Oughton, Dale R., Torgerson, Joseph M., Saul, Denneth D., Hager, Michael B., Collins, Douglas M., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs T., and Barth, Phillip W., US 6,491,377, December 10, 2002.
9.	"Gas Extraction Device for Extracting Gas from a Microfluidics System", Field, Leslie A., Donald, David K., Barth, Phillip W., Servaites, Jonathan D., and Hoen, Storrs, T., US 6,398,850, June 4, 2002.
10.	"Switch with Asymmetric Bubble Chamber", Barth, Phillip W., Field, Leslie A. and Donald, David K., US 6,360,775, March 26, 2002. 
11.	"Gas Extraction Device for Extracting Gas from a Microfluidics System", Field, Leslie A., Donald, David K., Barth, Phillip W., Servaites, Jonathan D., Hoen, Storrs, T., and Harley, Jonah A., US 6,299,673, October 9, 2001.
12.	"Ink Jet Printhead with Flow Control Manifold Shape", Maze, Robert C., Collins, Douglas M., Cleland, Todd A., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs T., and Barth, Phillip W., US 6,231,168, May 15, 2001. 
13.	"High Output Capacitative Gas/Liquid Detector", Donald, David K., Field, Leslie A., Barth, Phillip W., and Hoen, Storrs T., US 6,212,956, April 10, 2001.
14.	"Ink Jet Print Head With Flow Control Manifold and Columnar Structures", Browning, Robert N. K., Maze, Robert C., Hager, Michael B., Collins, Douglas M., Cleland, Todd A., Field, Leslie A., Hoen, Storrs T., and Barth, Phillip W., US 6,132,033, October 17, 2000.
15.	“Bubble Valve and Bubble Valve-Based Pressure Regulator”, Field, Leslie A., Schiaffino, Stefano, Barth, Phillip W., Hoen, Storrs T., Kawamura, Naoto A., Donald, David K., Robertson, Channing R., Servaites, Jonathan D., US 6,062,681 May 16, 2000. 
16.	"Passive Pressure Regulator for Setting the Pressure of a Liquid to a Predetermined Pressure Differential Below a Reference Pressure", Field, Leslie A., Barth, Phillip W., Waller, David J., Zuras, George D., Merchant, Paul P., Hoen, Storrs T., Robertson, Channing R., US 5,969,736 October 19, 1999. 
17.	"Fabrication of Single-Crystal Silicon Structures Using Sacrificial-Layer Wafer Bonding", Field, Leslie A. and Merchant, Paul P., US 5,882,532 March 16, 1999. 
18.	"Silicon Microstructures and Process for Their Fabrication", Field, Leslie A. and Barth, Phillip W., US 5,804,314 September 8, 1998.
19.	"Silicon Microstructures and Process for Their Fabrication", Field, Leslie A. and Barth, Phillip W., US 5,709,773 January 20, 1998.
20.	"Total Internal Reflection Optical Switches Employing Thermal Activation", Fouquet, Julie E., Barth, Phillip W., Chang, Kok-Wai, Field, Leslie A., Hanson, Eric G., Yang, Long, and Donald, David, US 5,699,462 December 16, 1997.
21.	"Sulfur Removal Systems for Protection of Reforming Catalysts", Field, Leslie A., Hall, Anne Marie K., Robinson, Richard C., Jacobson, Robert L., Brown, Warren E., and Holtermann, Dennis L., US 5,518,607 May 21, 1996.
22.	"Micromachined Bi-Material Signal Switch", Field, Leslie A. and Ruby, Richard C., US 5,467,068 November 14, 1995.
23.	"Thermally Actuated Micromachined Microwave Switch", Field, Leslie A. and Ruby, Richard C., US 5,467,067 November 14, 1995.
24.	"Thermally Actuated Optical Fiber Switch", Field, Leslie A. and Ruby, Richard C., US 5,446,811 August 29, 1995. 
25.	"Sulfur Removal Systems for Protection of Reforming Crystals", Robinson, Richard C., Jacobson, Robert L., Kluksdahl, Harris E., Blanton, William A., Holtermann, Dennis L., and Field, Leslie A., US 5,439,583 August 8, 1995.
26.	"Sulfur Removal System for Protection of Reforming Catalysts", Robinson, Richard C., Jacobson, Robert L., and Field, Leslie A., US 5,259,946 November 9, 1993.
27.	"Process for Removing Sulfur from a Hydrocarbon Feedstream Using a Sulfur Sorbent with Alkali Metal Components or Alkaline Earth Metal Components", Field, Leslie A., US 5,059,304 October 22, 1991.
28.	"Sulfur Removal System for Protection of Reforming Catalyst", Robinson, Richard C., Jacobson, Robert L., and Field, Leslie A., US 4,925,549 May 15, 1990.
29.	"Sulfur Removal System for Protection of Reforming Catalyst", Robinson, Richard C., Jacobson, Robert L., and Field, Leslie A., US 4,741,819 May 3, 1988.
30.	"Reforming Process Having a High Selectivity and Activity for Dehydrocyclization, Isomerization, and Dehydroisomerization", Field, Leslie A., US 4,627,912 December 9, 1986.
31.	"Method of Zeolitic Catalyst Manufacture", Field, Leslie A., US 4,579,831 April 1, 1986.
32.	"Alkylaromatic Dealkylation", Field, Leslie A., US 4,560,820 December 24, 1985.
33.	"Pretreatment for Enhancing the Selectivity and Increasing the Stability of a Reforming Catalyst", Wilson, Charles R., Buss, Waldeen C., and Field, Leslie A., US 4,539,305 September 3, 1985.  
34.	"Pretreatment Method for Increasing Conversion of Reforming Catalyst", Field, Leslie A., US 4,539,304 September 3, 1985.
35.	"Hydrocarbon Conversion Process", Buss, Waldeen C., Field, Leslie A., and Robinson, Richard C., US 4,456,527 June 26, 1984.
36.	"Two Step Reforming Process", Field, Leslie A., US 4,443,326 April 17, 1984.
37.	"Benzene Synthesis", Detz, Clifford M. and Field, Leslie A., US 4,347,394 August 31, 1982.