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Dr.
John R. Vig
Ph.D.
Vig János
Dr. John R. Vig Ph.D.
Born(1942-05-31)May 31, 1942
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityUSA
EducationB.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Alma materThe City College of New York, B.S.; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Ph.D.
OccupationPhysicist
Known forResonators and Oscillators
RelativesMiklos Vig
Awards 2020 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award, 2006 C.B. Sawyer Memorial Award, 1990 IEEE UFFC Cady Award
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions U.S. Army Research Lab, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA
Thesis (1969)
Doctoral advisorProf. Bernard Serin
The native form of this personal name is Vig János. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

John Vig (born 31 May 1942 in Budapest, Hungary) is a physicist, executive and inventor. His career has been with the U.S. Army Research Lab and he has also been active with the IEEE and is known for his inventions in the fields of high-accuracy clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators.

Background and biography

Early life and Education

He was born Vig János in Budapest, Hungary. His father was a jeweller. At the age of two, most of his relatives were deported to concentration camps. His father survived[1] the camp at Buchenwald, Germany, but 14 other close relatives were murdered in Auschwitz and in other camps. The family escaped Hungary during the revolution of 1956 and immigrated to the USA as refugees in 1957. They settled in New York City where he subsequently received a B.S. degree from City College New York, in 1964. In 1969 he received a Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers - The State University. After graduating he joined the Electronic Components Laboratory at Fort Monmouth.[2]

Career

Throughout his professional career, working as a physicist, electronics engineer, program manager, executive and board member, he performed and led research to develop high-accuracy clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators. He retired in 2006. Since retirement he has continued working as a technical consultant, primarily to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He supported research ranging from micro/nano resonators to low-noise oscillators and chip-scale atomic clocks.

He has also served the IEEE in many capacities in managerial, executive and governance roles including:

  • IEEE President and CEO.[3]
  • Founding President of the Sensors Council[4]
  • President of the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S)[5]
  • Division Director
  • Vice President of Technical Activities
  • Journal associate editor, senior editor and guest editor of special issues
  • Conference general and technical program chair
  • IEEE Investment Committee member
  • Standards coordinating committee chair

In 1988, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing."[6]

Family

John comes from a musical family which includes cabaret and jazz singer Miklos Vig (uncle), saxophone and clarinet player György Vig (uncle) and jazz musician Tommy Vig (cousin). John and his wife are avid ballroom dancers.

Patents and Papers

John Vig has been awarded 56 patents[7][8][9], has published more than 100 papers and nine book chapters, and his publications have been cited more than 5000 times.[10]

US Patents

  1. U.S. patent 3,818,390 - Superconductive Tunable Filter with Narrow Band and Broad Tuning Range - 1974 June 18 - with E. Gikow.
  2. U.S. patent 3,914,836 - Method of Processing Quartz Crystal Resonators - 1975 October 28 - with E. Hafner.
  3. U.S. patent 3,931,388 - Crystal Resonator Housing Configurations - 1976 January 6 - with E. Hafner.
  4. U.S. patent 3,981,687 - Method of Treating Quartz Crystal Resonators - 1976 September 21
  5. U.S. patent 3,989,964 - Piezoelectric Switch Activating Means - 1976 November 2 - with E. Gikow
  6. U.S. patent 4,028,080 - Method of Treating Optical Waveguide Fibers - 1977 June 7 - with S. DiVita
  7. U.S. patent 4,028,135 - Method of Cleaning Surfaces by Irradiation with Ultraviolet Light - 1977 June 7 - with J. W. LeBus
  8. U.S. patent 4,065,211 - Precision X-ray Diffraction System Incorporating a Laser Aligner - 1977 December 27
  9. U.S. patent 4,070,502 - Method of Treating Piezoelectric Resonators - 1978 January 24 - with R. L. Filler
  10. U.S. patent 4,107,349 - Method of Adjusting the Frequency of Piezoelectric Resonators - 1978 August 15
  11. U.S. patent 4,125,086 - Nozzle Beam Type Metal Vapor Source - 1978 November 14 - with E. Hafner. and R. P. Andres
  12. U.S. patent 4,255,228 - Method of Growing Quartz - 1981 March 10
  13. U.S. patent 4,259,606 - Fast Warm-up Oven Controlled Piezoelectric Oscillator - 1981 March 31
  14. U.S. patent 4,263,702 - Method of Making a Quartz Resonator - 1981 April 28 - with R. L. Filler, R. D. Peters and J. M. Frank
  15. U.S. patent 4,274,907 - Method of Chemically Polishing a Doubly Rotated Quartz Plate - 1981 June 23 - with R. Brandmayr
  16. U.S. patent 4,311,938 - Method of Sweeping Quartz - 1982 January 19 - with A. Ballato
  17. U.S. patent 4,344,010 - Acceleration Resistant Combination of Opposite-Handed Piezoelectric Crystals - 1982 August 10 - with A. Ballato
  18. U.S. patent 4,354,133 - Hermetically Sealed Container and Method for Forming Such a Container - 1982 October 12
  19. U.S. patent 4,365,182 - Methods of Fabricating Acceleration Resistant Crystal Resonators and Acceleration Resistant Crystal Resonators So Formed - 1982 December 21 - with A. Ballato
  20. U.S. patent 4,375,604 - Method of Angle Correcting Doubly Rotated Crystal Resonators - 1983 March 1
  21. U.S. patent 4,381,471 - SC-cut Quartz Resonators with Suppressed b-Mode - 1983 April 26 - with R. L. Filler
  22. U.S. patent 4,409,711 - Method of Fabricating Acceleration Resistant Crystal Resonators, and Acceleration Resistant Crystal Resonators So Formed - 1983 October 18 - with A. Ballato
  23. U.S. patent 4,412,172 - Method of Measuring the Thermal Properties of a Resonator - 1983 October 25
  24. U.S. patent 4,416,726 - Method and Apparatus for Correcting the Angles of Cut of Quartz Plates - 1983 November 22
  25. U.S. patent 4,451,755 - Acceleration Sensitivity Reduction Method - 1984 May 29 - with R. L. Filler
  26. U.S. patent 4,493,991 - Techniques for Locating Beams Within Large Area Detectors - 1985 January 15 - with J. Gualtieri
  27. U.S. patent 4,539,532 - Method of Minimizing the Aging Rate of an Oscillator - 1985 September 3
  28. U.S. patent 4,554,717 - Method of Making Miniature High Frequency SC-Cut Quartz Crystal Resonators - 1985 November 26 - with A. Ballato
  29. U.S. patent 4,575,690 - Acceleration Insensitive Oscillator - 1986 March 11 - with F. Walls
  30. U.S. patent 4,638,536 - Method of Making a Resonator Having a Desired Frequency from a Quartz Crystal Resonator Plate - 1987 January 27
  31. U.S. patent 4,741,076 - Method of Making a High Stability Quartz Crystal Oscillator - 1988 May 3
  32. U.S. patent 4,761,298 - Method of Precisely Adjusting the Frequency of a Piezoelectric Resonator - 1988 August 2
  33. U.S. patent 5,512,863 - Method of Minimizing the Aging and Radiation Induced Frequency Shifts of Quartz Oscillators - 1996 April 30 - with Vincent J. Rosati. Patent application SN 764,448, 12 August 1988; was classified; "Notice of Allowability" had been received; patent was issued upon declassification without any further examination.
  34. U.S. patent 5,512,864 - Method and Apparatus for Compensating for Neutron Induced Frequency Shifts in Quartz Resonators - 1996 April 30 - Patent application SN 211,510, 31 May 1988, was classified; "Notice of Allowability" had been received; patent was issued upon declassification without any further examination
  35. U.S. patent 4,899,117 - High Accuracy Frequency Standard and Clock System - 1990 February 6
  36. U.S. patent 5,042,288 - Method of Sensing Contamination in the Atmosphere - 1991 August 27
  37. U.S. patent 5,428,315 - Method of Making Radiation Hardened Quartz Crystal Oscillators - 1995 June 27 - with A. Ballato
  38. U.S. patent 5,451,425 - Process for Setting the Frequency of a Silicon Microresonator - 1995 September 19
  39. U.S. patent 5,488,333 - Wireless Thermally Insulated Crystal Oscillator Having Power and Signals Coupled Through Transceivers - 1996 January 30
  40. U.S. patent 5,530,408 - Method of Making an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator the Frequency of Which Remains Ultrastable Under Temperature Variations - 1996 June 25 - with R. L. Filler
  41. U.S. patent 5,578,890 - Crystal Resonator Package - 1996 November 26
  42. U.S. patent 5,604,392 - Levitated Crystal Resonator - 1997 February 18
  43. U.S. patent 5,605,490 - Method of Polishing Langasite - 1997 February 25 with M. Hendrickson and S. Laffey
  44. U.S. patent 5,652,550 - Method and Apparatus for Isolating an Oscillator from external Mechanical and Thermal Effects Using Aerogels - 1997 July 29
  45. U.S. patent 5,686,779 - High Sensitivity Temperature Sensor and Sensor Array - 1997 November 11
  46. U.S. patent 5,744,902 - Chemical and Biological Sensor based on Microresonators - 1998 April 28
  47. U.S. patent 5,775,636 - Guided Artillery Projectile and Method - 1998 July 7 - with S. Waugh
  48. U.S. patent 5,869,763 - Method for Measuring Mass Change Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance - 1999 February 9 - with R. Filler
  49. U.S. patent 5,925,502 - Method of Metallizing a Quartz Resonator - 1999 July 20 - with S. Laffey and M. Hendrickson
  50. U.S. patent 6,247,354 - Techniques for Sensing the Properties of Fluids with Resonators - 2001 June 19 - with A. Ballato
  51. U.S. patent 6,260,408 - Techniques for Sensing the Properties of Fluids with a Resonator Assembly - 2001 July 17 - with A. Ballato
  52. U.S. patent 6,518,778 - Method of Determining Angle-of-Cut - 2003 February 11 - with A. Ballato
  53. U.S. patent 6,903,629 - Electrode-free resonator structures for frequency control, filters and sensors - 2005 June 7 - with A. Ballato and Yook-Kong Yong
  54. U.S. patent 9,257,958 - Methods for Noise Reduction and Quality Factor Improvements in Resonators - 2016 February 9 - with Yook-Kong Yong

Canadian Patents

  1. CA 1128842  "Method of Treating a Quartz Plate" - 1982 August 3 - with J. W. LeBus
  2. CA 1168134  "Method of Chemically Polishing Both Sides of an SC-cut Quartz Crystal Plate" - 1984 May 29 - with R. J. Brandmayr

References

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  2. ^ "Oral-History:John Vig". ETHW. 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. ^ "List of Presidents of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)". ETHW. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  4. ^ "IEEE Sensors Council History". ETHW. 2022-01-12. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  5. ^ "IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society History". ETHW. 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  6. ^ "IEEE Fellow Grade History". ETHW. 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  7. ^ "Patent Database Search Results: in/(John-Vig$ or Vig-John$) in US Patent Collection". patft.uspto.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  8. ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "Canadian Patent Database / Base de données sur les brevets canadiens". brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  9. ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "Canadian Patent Database / Base de données sur les brevets canadiens". brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
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