Nathan Siwak completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in July 2013

Nathan Siwak completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in July 2013. His dissertation is titled "Fabrication and Process Development for an Integrated Optical MEMS Microsystem in Indium Phosphide." This dissertation presents the design, fabrication, and evaluation of the first monolithically integrated MEMS resonant sensor system realized in the InP-InGaAs material family. Nathan will be a Faculty Research Assistant in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy group at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, Maryland.