Stephen Keith Remillard
remillard@hope.edu
616-395-7507

Scholarly Interests
 
Superconductivity       Other interests: Science and Entrepreneurship
Photonic Crystals                              Sustainable and Renewable Energy
Plasma Physics

Education

PhD (1993)      Experimental Solid State Physics
MS (1990)       The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
                        Prof. Harlan E. Schone, thesis advisor

BS (1988)        With Honors in Physics, Minor in Mathematics
                        Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
                        Prof. David Van Baak, thesis advisor
                        Thesis: γ-γ Coincidence in Nuclear Decays

Professional Experience
 
            Hope College, Holland, MI (2007-present)
          Assistant Professor of Physics

            Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (2005-2007)
          Visiting Professor of Physics

            Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI (2004-2005)
          Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

            Agile Devices, Inc., Holland, MI (2002-present)
          President and Founder
Organized the corporation to develop microwave metrology of dielectrics, provided seed capital, and acquired capital equipment.

ISCO International, Inc.   (1994-2003)
Director of Engineering (1998-2003) Senior Engineer (1994-2003)

• Built a multi-disciplinary team of about 20 scientists, engineers, and technicians.
• Provided project and technical leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Contributed to the formation of the company's innovative technology.

            The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC (1992-94) 
Graduate student Contractor working on microwave/millimeter wave resonators.

            Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany (1991)
Visiting scientist working on thin film physical vapor deposition.

Teaching Experience
 
          Hope College (2007-present)
          Grand Valley State University (2005-2007)
          Calvin College (2004-2005)

• Electrodynamics
• Electromagnetics for physics and engineering track.  Lecture and lab.
• Introductory mechanics for physics and engineering track.  Lecture and lab.
• General physics for the health sciences.  Lecture and lab.
• Renewable and Sustainable Energy
• Intermediate Lab
• Advanced Lab
• Undergraduate Research

          The College of William and Mary (1988-1993)

• Supervised undergraduate students in senior research and REU projects.  Developed the research plans with these students, collaborated with them, and supported them through their thesis defense.  Several of these students finished with high honors.
• Teaching Assistant for: Modern physics lab, general physics lab, analog electronics, digital electronics, physics for non-science majors.

Service, Memberships and Synergistic Activities
 

• Hope College Natural and Applied Science Division Scholarship Committee
• Grand Awards Judge, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
• Referee for IEEE journals.
• Session chair at Applied Superconductivity, IEEE and SPIE Conferences.
• Reviewer for National Science Foundation proposals.
• Member of American Association of Physics Teachers; American Physical Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; American Scientific Affiliation.

Other Experiences
 

• NATO Advanced Studies Institutes:  Microwave Superconductivity, France, Sept. 1999; Superconducting Electronics, New Hampshire, Aug. 1992; Superconducting Materials, Scotland, July 1991.        
• Los Alamos National Laboratory:  Researched ceramic thick film fabrication, 1990.      
• Enjoy traveling and have considerable foreign travel experience.

Continuing Education Courses Attended:
 
    ASME/Northwestern University  Nanotech Training Bootcamp, 2004.
    Georgia Tech  RF and Wireless Engineering, 1998.
    UCLA  Advanced Long-Life Cryocoolers, 1997.
    UCLA  Electromagnetic Field Simulators, 1996.

Pending Publications (* denotes student co-author)

Refereed Publications (* denotes student co-author)

Click here to download some of these.

S. K. Remillard, A. Hardaway*, B. Mork, J. Gilliland*, and J. Gibbs*, Using a re-entrant microwave resonator to measure and model the dielectric breakdown electric field of gases, Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 15, pp. 175-195, (2009).

C. Isaac Angert* and S.K. Remillard, Dispersion in One-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Periodic Transmission Lines, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 51, no. 4, pp. 1010-1013, (2009).

Alexander P. Zhuravel, Steven M. Anlage, Stephen Remillard, and Alexey V. Ustinov, "Spatial correlation of linear and nonlinear electron transport in superconducting microwave resonator: laser scanning microscopy analysis", MSMW-07 Symposium Proceedings, July 2007.

S.K. Remillard and Sean Cordone, A Review of HTS Thick Film Microwave Filter Technology,Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 19, no. 7-8, 523-530 (2006).

S.K. Remillard, P.O. Radzikowski, S. Cordone, D. S. Applegate, A. Mehrotra, J.D. Kokales and A. Abdelmonem, A Closed Slot-Line Resonator Filter, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 14, 234 (2004).

H.R. Yi, S.K. Remillard, and A. Abdelmonem, A Novel Ultra-Compact Resonator for Superconducting Thin-Film Filters, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Tech., 51, no. 12, 2290-2296, (2003).

S. K. Remillard, H.R. Yi and Amr Abdelmonem, Three-Tone Intermodulation Distortion Generated by Superconducting Bandpass Filters, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 13, 3797 (2003).

H.R. Yi, S.K. Remillard, and A. Abdelmonem, A Superconducting Thin Film Filter of Very High Wide-Band Rejection, Proceedings of the International Microwave Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, June 9-13, 2003, pp.1893-1896.

S.K. Remillard, A. Abdelmonem, D.S. Applegate, P.R. Radzikowski, and N.Lazzaro, Field Deployable Microwave Filters Made from YBa2Cu3O7-δ Thick Films, Journal of Superconductivity, 14, 47 (2001).

P.A. Smith, T.W. Button, J. Holmes, G. Dolman, C. Meggs, S.K. Remillard and J.D. Hodge, YBCO Thick Films for High Q Resonators, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 7, 1763 (1997).

T.W. Button, P.A. Smith, G. Dolman, C. Meggs, S.K. Remillard, J.D. Hodge, S.J. Penn, and N.McN. Alford,  Properties and Applications of Thick Film High Temperature Superconductors, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 44, 1356 (1996).

M. Feng, F. Gao, Z. Zhou, J. Kruse, M. Heins, J. Wang, S. Remillard, R. Lithgow, M. Scharen, A. Cardona and R. Forse, HTS Resonators and Switches: Design, Fabrication and Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 44, 1347 (1996).

S.K. Remillard, L.J. Klemptner, J.D. Hodge, T.A. Freeman, P.A. Smith, and T.W. Button, Generation of Intermodulation Products by Granular YBa2Cu3O7-x Thick Films, Proceedings of the SPIE Conf. High-Temp. Microwave Superconductors and Applications, 2559, San Diego, CA, USA, July 9-14, (1995).

G. Lenters, S. Platt, S. Remillard, J. Kooistra, and J.B. Van Zytveld, The Thermoelectric Power of Solid and Liquid Gadolinium, J. Physics: Condensed Matter, 6, 3653 (1994)

S.K. Remillard, M.E. Reeves, F.J. Rachford, and S.A. Wolf, The Surface Impedance of Granular High Temperature Superconductors in DC Magnetic Fields: Relationship to Frequency Dependence, Journal of Applied Physics, 75, 4103 (1994).

D.B. Opie, M.E. Read, S.K. Remillard, M.J. Brown, W.J. Kossler, H.E. Schone, T.W. Button, and N. McAlford, Magnetic Shielding by YBa2Cu3O7--δ Thick Films, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 3, 189 (1993).

S.K. Remillard, P.N. Arendt, and N.E. Elliott, Electrophoretic Deposition of TlBaCaCuO and Bi2 Sr2CaCu2Ox Thick Films, Physica C, 177, no. 4-6, 345-350 (1991).

Other Publications

Stephen K. Remillard, Superconducting Filters Tackle Digital, Electronic Engineering Times, March 30, 1998, p. 122.

S.K. Remillard, The Effects of Granularity on the Microwave Surface Impedance of High κ Superconductors, Doctoral Dissertation, The College of William and Mary (1993).

Conference Presentations (* denotes student co-author)


K.R. McLellan*, C.I. Angert*, and S.K. Remillard (presenting author), "Experimental Observation and Control of Wave Dispersion", AAPT Advanced Labs Topical Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, July 23-25, 2009.

Alexander P. Zhuravel (presenting author), Steven M. Anlage, Stephen K. Remillard, Alexander V. Lukashenko and Alexey V. Ustinov, "Effect of LaAlO3 Twin-Domain Topology on Local DC and Microwave Properties of HTS Film", IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium and International Workshop, Kharkov, Ukraine, June 11-12, 2009.

Bradley Dober* (presenting author) and S.K. Remillard, Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortion in a Superconducting Microwave Resonator, American Physical Society, March Meeting, March 17, 2009.

S.K. Remillard (presenting author), Alejandro Hardaway*, Brian Mork, and Jake Gilliland*, Dielectric Breakdown in Air Components Under Stratospheric Conditions, Michigan Space Grant Consortium Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, Oct. 18, 2008.

Alexander P. Zhuravel (presenting author), Stephen Remillard, Steven M. Anlage, Alexey V. Ustinov, Spatially Resolved Analysis of Microwave and Intermodulation Current Flow Across a HTS Resonator Using Low Temperature Laser Scanning Microscopy, Kharkov Symposium on Physics and Engineering of Microwaves, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Waves (MSMW’04), Kharkov, Ukraine, 2004.

Stephen Remillard (presenting author) and S. Cordone, Superconducting Thick Film Filters Revealed, Invited Talk, High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields 2004 (HTS-HFF2004), Begur, Spain, May, 2004.

A. P. Zhuravel, A. V. Ustinov, K. S. Harshavardhan, S. K. Remillard, and Steven M. Anlage (presenting author), Microscopic Imaging of RF Current Distribution and Intermodulation Sources in Superconducting Microwave Devices, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Dec. 2003.

H.R. Yi, A. Abdelmonem, and S.K. Remillard (presenting author), A Superconducting Thin Film Filter of Very High Wide-Band Rejection, Proceedings of the International Microwave Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, June 9-13, 2003.

S.K. Remillard (presenting author), Sean Cordone, Piotr Radzikowski and Amr Abdelmonem,
3-Tone Intermodulation Distortion in HTS Filters, Poster presentation, HTS-HFF-2002, Woods Hole, MA, June 9-12, 2002.

S.K. Remillard (presenting author) and A. Abdelmonem, Cryogenic Front-Ends for Wireless Base Stations, Invited Talk, International Conference on Applications of Superconductors in Electronics, Communications and Computing, Boston, November, 2001.

S.K. Remillard, Field Deployable Microwave Filters Made from YBa2Cu3O7-δ Thick Films, Invited Talk, High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields 2000 (HTS-HFF2000), Capri, Italy, June, 2000.

Nan Chen (presenting author), L.J. Klemptner, Qiang Huang, Steve Remillard, C.L. Tremper, P.M. Winandy and J.D. Hodge, Reactive Sintering of YBa2Cu3OX Thick Films on Silver-Plated Stainless Steel Substrates, The American Ceramic Society Conference, 1996.

S.K. Remillard (presenting author) and P.M. Winandy, Granular YBCO Thick Films in High RF Fields, Oral Presentation, American Physical Society, St. Louis, March, 1996.

S.K. Remillard (presenting author), M.E. Reeves, F.J. Rachford, S.A. Wolf, and M. Lavaur, Measurement of the Frequency Dependence of Microwave Surface Resistance with a Fabry-Perot Resonator, Oral Presentation, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, March, 1994.

Patents

Co-inventer on seven U.S. patents:

Dual-Duplexed, Tower-Top Front-End for a Radio Transceiver System; U.S. Patent# 6,959,206, October 25, 2005.

Duplexed Front-End for a Radio Transceiver System; U.S. Patent# 6,501,353; December 31, 2002.

Electromagnetic resonator; U.S. Patent# 6,208,227; March 27, 2001.

Aperture having First and Second Slots for Coupling Split-Ring Resonators; U.S. Patent# 6,137,381; October 24, 2000.

Stripline Resonator using High-Temperature Superconductor Components; U.S. Patent# 6,021,337; December, 1999.

High-Purity Polycrystalline Alumina Cryogenic Dielectric; U.S. Patent# 5,987,341; Nov. 1999.

Aperture for Coupling in an Electromagnetic Filter; U.S. patent# 5,909,159; June 1, 1999.