Avago Scientist To Receive Prestigious IEEE Fellow Award

In his 34-year career with Avago, beginning with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Agilent Laboratories, Dr. Larson, a Master Scientist, has been part of and has led diverse research and development teams that achieved significant results in acoustics. Today, Avago Technologies' acoustics-based products are embedded in millions of mobile phones, data cards and other wireless devices worldwide.



Among his notable contributions to engineering, the IEEE Fellow award recognizes the breakthrough in Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) devices he and his teammates developed as a commercial product for cell phones. By shrinking one of the three space-consuming components on a cell phone board in 1998, the sand grain-size FBAR filters made flip phones practical. Additionally, the filters contributed to longer talk time by extending battery life through reduced transmit insertion loss.



According to industry analysts, Avago has shipped more than 250 million FBAR filters to most major handset manufacturers worldwide to date. Avago holds the number one position in share of market (SAM) for semiconductor-based filters and infrared transceivers in the wireless communications market segment. The photo is available at http://www.avagotech.com/about/press/Avago_JLarson_iEEE-flip-phone.jpg.



Dr. Larson's IEEE Fellow award caps decades-long service on behalf of the organization, including the medical ultrasound section where he demonstrated the first echocardiogram machine in the 1980s before his peers in the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. He and his team at H-P Laboratories developed the first phased array, echocardiographic scanners, enabling HP to develop and market the first echocardiogram machine, a cost-effective, less invasive method for diagnosing heart disease. The machine became a commercial success for H-P, and its spin-off Agilent Technologies, until the product division was sold to Philips Medical Systems about five years ago.



Dr. Larson was also involved with the Silicon Valley chapter of the Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, serving as its vice president and Technical Program Chairman for a number of years.