# Richard M. White

### Research Areas

- Power and Energy (ENE)
- Solid-State Devices

## Biography

Richard M. White was a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Co-Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. His research interests included wireless microsensors, energy scavenging devices for use in electric power systems, and portable particulate matter monitors for measuring concentrations of airborne aerosols and diesel exhaust particulates.

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1963, Professor White conducted microwave device research at General Electric. Professor White also holds numerous U.S. patents and has co-authored texts and reference books on Solar Cells (1983), Acoustic Wave Sensors (1997), and Electronics (2001). In addition to the 2003 Rayleigh Award of the IEEE for seminal contributions to surface acoustic wave technology, Professor White was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the recipient of many academic awards including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1986), U.C. Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship, and the 2003 U.C. Berkeley Community Service citation award. In 2013, Professor White was a co-recipient of the IEEE/RSE/Wolfson, James Clerk Maxwell Award with Professor Richard Muller.

Professor White earned his A.B. and A.M. degrees in Engineering Science and Applied Physics from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics in 1956, also from Harvard.

Professor White passed away in August 2020.

## Education

- 1956, Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University
- 1952, A.M., Engineering Science and Applied Physics, Harvard University
- 1951, A.B., Engineering Science and Applied Physics, Harvard University

## Selected Publications

- A. H. Meng, N. Nguyen, and R. M. White, "Focused flow micropump using ultrasonic flexural plate waves," Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 169-174, June 2000.
- S. E. Cowan, J. Black, J. D. Keasling, and R. M. White, "Ultrasonic flexural-plate-wave sensor for detecting the concentration of settling E. coli W3110 cells," Analtyical Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 16, pp. 3622-3625, Aug. 1999.
- J. W. Grate, S. J. Martin, and R. M. White, "Acoustic wave microsensors: Part II," Analytical Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 22, pp. 987A-996A, Nov. 1993.
- J. W. Grate, S. J. Martin, and R. M. White, "Acoustic wave microsensors: Part I," Analytical Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 21, pp. 940A-948A, Nov. 1993.
- J. W. Grate, S. W. Wenzel, and R. M. White, "Flexural plate wave devices for chemical analysis," Analtyical Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 15, pp. 1552-1561, Aug. 1991.
- R. M. Moroney, R. M. White, and R. T. Howe, "Microtransport induced by ultrasonic Lamb waves," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 774-776, Aug. 1991.
- S. W. Wenzel and R. M. White, "Analytic comparison of the sensitivities of bulk-wave, surface-wave, and flexural plate-wave ultrasonic gravimetric sensors," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 54, no. 20, pp. 1976-1978, May 1989.
- E. T. Zellers, R. M. White, and S. W. Wenzel, "Computer modelling of polymer-coated ZnO/Si surface-acoustic-wave and Lamb-wave chemical sensors," Sensors and Actuators, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 35-45, May 1988.
- R. M. White, P. J. Wicher, S. W. Wenzel, and E. T. Zellers, "Plate-mode ultrasonic oscillator sensors," IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 162-171, March 1987.
- J. J. Bernstein and R. M. White, "Piezo-electrocapillary effect: A new effect observed in porous anodic oxide films," J. Electrochemical Society, vol. 131, no. 5, pp. 1050-1053, May 1984.
- K. Uozumi, K. Ohsone, and R. M. White, "Generation and detection of ultrasonic Lamb waves in a thin deposited film by using interdigital transducers," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 917-919, Nov. 1983.
- C. T. Chuang, R. M. White, and J. J. Bernstein, "A thin-membrane surface-acoustic-wave vapor-sensing device," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 145-148, June 1982.
- A. R. Neureuther, R. M. White, and C. Wright, "Introduction to Electronics: Sophomore Self-Study Course," IEEE Trans. Education, vol. E-22, no. 1, pp. 17-20, Feb. 1979.
- T. I. Chappell and R. M. White, "Characteristics of a water absorber in front of a silicon solar cell," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 422-423, April 1976.
- G. Y. Robinson and R. M. White, "A laboratory experiment on semiconductor bulk-effect oscillators," IEEE Trans. Education, vol. E-15, no. 3, pp. 187-188, Aug. 1972.
- R. M. White, "Surface elastic waves," Proc. IEEE, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 1238-1276, Aug. 1970.
- N. C. MacDonald, G. Y. Robinson, R. M. White, N. C. MacDonald, G. Y. Robinson, and R. M. White, "Time-resolved scanning electron microscopy and its application to bulk-effect oscillators," J. Applied Physics, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 4516-4528, Oct. 1969.
- S. G. Joshi and R. M. White, "Excitation and detection of surface elastic waves in piezoelectric crystals," J. Acoustical Society of America, vol. 46, no. 1A, pp. 17-27, July 1969.
- G. Y. Robinson and R. M. White, "Scanning electron microscopy of ferroelectric domains in barium titanate," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 320-323, June 1967.
- R. M. White and F. W. Voltmer, "Ultrasonic surface-wave amplification in cadmium sulfide," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 40-42, Jan. 1966.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, 2013
- UFFC Rayleigh Ultrasonics Award, 2003
- Chancellor's Award for Community Service, 2003
- UFFC W. G. Cady Frequency Control Award, 2000
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 1994
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 1994
- UFFC Achievement Award, 1988
- UFFC W. G. Cady Frequency Control Award, 1987
- IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 1986
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1972
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1968
- IEEE Life Member, 1961