Alumni Chuang & Kelly played important roles in inventing and building the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microshutter array that controls how light enters NIRSpec

The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) were released and livestreamed on NASA Live, Tuesday July 12th, 2022. The telescope images delivered by Webb's Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) are the deepest and sharpest infrared images of the distant universe so far. Both MSAL alumni Wen-Hsien Chuang (ECE Ph.D. 2005) and Daniel Kelly (ECE M.S. 2005; ECE B.S. 2002) have contributed in inventing and building the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microshutter array that controls how light enters NIRSpec. (11 - July / 2022)