PAUL M. EVERETT, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise:

• Electro-optic sensor design

  • infrared as well as visible and ultraviolet spectral ranges

  • industrial, commercial and military applications

  • single element detectors and detector arrays

  • room temperature and cooled operation

• Electro-optic sensor manufacture

  • prototypes

  • production quantities

• Sensor technology

  • analysis of requirements

  • evaluation of applicable sensor technologies

  • determination of sensor type that best meets customer's performance and cost requirements

• Electronic circuit design

  • analog

    • low noise

    • high gain

  • digital

    • all types of components and operations

    • microprocessor programming and algorithm implementation

• New product development

Company and Contact Information:

Paul M. Everett, President

Infrared and Electro-optic Technology

Everett Companies LLC

3825 E. Mountain Vista Drive

Phoenix, Arizona  85048-7374

• fax:  480-706-4753

• telephone:  480-706-4753

• email:  peverett@everettinfrared.com

• web page:  www.everettinfrared.com

Education:

• Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, B.S.(phy), 1962

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, Ph.D., 1968

Membership in Professional Organizations (past and current):

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

  • Senior Member

  • IEEE Phoenix Area Consultants Network (PACN)

    • President of Executive Board

  • Lasers and Electro-optics Society (LEOS)

    • Phoenix Section Representative

  • Electron Devices Society (EDS)

• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

• American Physical Society

Academic Honors:

• University Fellow (Case Western Reserve University)

• NASA Fellow

• Research Corporation Fellow

Description of Technical Expertise:

Dr. Everett has well over twenty years of experience in the electro-optics industry designing and fabricating a wide variety of sensors. He designs electro-optic sensors for industrial and commercial applications as well as some military applications. He will also work with a company's staff on a consulting basis to analyze the requirements of a particular application and suggest the best approach or solution to meet those requirements. Sensor design and fabrication work is usually (but not always) done on a job or fixed-price basis.  

While most of the need is for sensors that detect radiation in the infrared spectral range, Dr. Everett has also designed sensors for ultraviolet and visible detection. 

These sensors are usually integrated into the customer's product or used in a manufacturing process.  Typical applications for these sensors include: 

• breathalyzer

• oil cut sensor

• road icing sensor 

• aircraft icing sensor 

• explosive gas sensor 

• hot glue control sensor

• moisture content sensor 

• low cost thermal imager  

• high sensitivity gas sensor

• fluid contaminant monitor 

• space heater safety sensor 

• real time medical x-ray imager 

• smart munition guidance sensor

• high performance thermal imager 

• infrared motion sensor with defined field-of-view  

• non-invasive blood glucose monitor for diabetics 

• readout integrated circuit (multiplexer) for thermal imager

• combined infrared and ultraviolet sensor for flame detection  

• remote (non-contact) temperature sensors for many applications

Dr. Everett's background in physics allows him to approach each project from a fundamental point of view calculating the expected signal at each point along the design path and optimizing sensor performance before anything is built rather than trying to "fix it up" afterward.  

A large part of any sensor is the electronics. Dr. Everett and his associates have a great deal of experience designing very high performance analog electronics with high signal to noise ratios for capturing the signals from electro-optic detectors and digital electronics for processing those signals and converting them to useful information.  

Dr. Everett also has a strong academic background where he taught extensively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. For those companies developing in-house capability, he will provide training in the fundamentals of electro-magnetic radiation and the design of electro-optic sensors. 

Prior Work Experience:

• Central Research Laboratories, Texas Instruments, Dallas TX; Member Technical Staff

• McDonnell Douglas Microelectronics Center, St. Louis MO; Unit Manager, Section Manager and Branch Manager

• McDonnell Douglas Electronics Company, St. Louis MO; Branch Manager

• Magnavox New England Research Center, Sudbury MA; Chief Scientist and FPA Product Manager

• Litton Electron Devices, Tempe AZ; Business Development Manager

Prior to entering the electro-optics industry Dr. Everett was a research staff and faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Louisiana State University and University of Kentucky.

Publication List:

• MiniMapper: A Low cost Imaging IR Line Scanner, T. R. Beystrum, P. M. Everett, M. K. Pries, P. C. Roberts, M. L. Sutton, M. H. Beaulieu, P. J. Jarmuz, R. L. Zeilinski, M. R. Hess, SPIE -  Airborne Reconnaissance XVII 2023, 40 (1993)

• 64x64 Element Photocurrent Multimplexer fo Infrared Staring Array Application, C. N. Robinson, C. F. Walmsley, P. M. Everett, D. Bicket, and H. Morris: 

  • Proceedings of European Solid State Circuits Conference, Delft, 1986 (best paper award)

  • IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits SC22, 453 (1987)  

• 64x64 staring MWIR Focal Plane Array, H. B. Morris, P. M. Everett, R. L. Rawe, Jr., D. J. Bicket, R. L. Martineau, R. E. Longshore, and W. M. Scott, Proceedings of IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Detectors, 1986

• Diffused LWIR HgCdTe Photodiodes and MOSFET/CCD Multiplexers for TDI Focal Plane Arrays, P. M. Everett, H. B. Morris, J. H. Hollister, R. L. Rawe, Jr., E. M. Haavig, W. M. Scott, and R. J. Martineau, Proceedings of IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Detectors, 1985

• Advanced Second Generation FPA for Scanning Imaging IR Sensors, P. M. Everett, H. B. Morris, and P. D. Mau, Proceedings of the IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Imaging, 1985

• GaAs JFET Technology for Radiation Hard and Cryogenic Operation, Rainer Zuelegg, J. K. Notthoff, and P. M. Everett, Proceedings of Tenth DARPA Strategic Space Symposium, 1984

• Dark Current Sources in Charge Injection Device Imaging Arrays, A. J. Lewis, H. F. Schaake, and P. M. Everett, Proceedings of IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Detectors, 1983

• Staring Arrays for the Tankbreaker System, A. J. Lewis, J. P. Omaggio, and P. M. Everett, Proceedings of IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Detectors, 1983

• Lattice Defects in (Hg,Cd)Te, Investigations of Their Nature and Evolution, H. F. Schaake, J. H. Tregilgas, A. J. Lewis, and P. M. Everett: 

  • Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of Mercury Cadmium Telluride (1983) (invited paper, best paper award)  

  • Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology 1, 1625 (1983)

• Virtual Phase Charge Coupled Device Imager Operated in Frontside Electron-bombarded Mode, Paul Everett, Jaroslav Hynecek, Paul Zucchino, and John Lowrance, Optical Engineering 24, 360 (1985)

• Texas Instruments' Virtual Phase Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Imager Operated in the Frontside Electron Bombarded Mode, Paul Everett, Jaroslav Hynecek, Paul Zucchino, and John Lowrance, SPIE - Instrumentation in Astronomy IV 331, 151 (1982) (best paper award)

• de Haas van Alphen Studies in Zirconium to 92 kG, P. M. Everett, Phys Rev B 20, 1419 (1979)

• Phase Smearing and Magnetic Interaction in Lead, P. M. Everett, C. G. Grenier, Phys Rev B 18, 4477 (1978)

• Partially Correlated Phase Smearing, C. G. Grenier and P. M. Everett, Physics Letters 63, A371 (1977)

• Current Regulated Sweep Unit for Superconducting Solenoids, P. M. Everett, Rev Sci Instr 48, 1143 (1977)

• Magnetic Interaction in the de Haas van Alphen Effect in Lead, P. M. Everett and C. G. Grenier, Phys Rev B 8, 3826 (1977)

• A 1/H Drive for Use with Superconducting Solenoids, P. M. Everett, Rev Sci Instr 43, 753 (1972)

• de Haas van Alphen Studies in Zirconium, P. M. Everett, Phys Rev B 6, 3359 (1972)

• Galvanomagnetic Studies of the Fermi Surface of Zirconium, P. M. Everett, Phys Rev B 16, 3553 (1972)

• Effect of Alloying on the Fermi Surface of Beryllium, J. H. Tripp, P. M. Everett, J. M. Fiske, and W. L. Gordon, Phys Rev B 2, 1556 (1970)

• Extracting Cyclotron Masses From Weak de Haas van Alphen Beat Patterns, P. M. Everett, Cryogenics 10, 314 (1970)

• Fermi Surface of Beryllium and Its Pressure Dependence, J. H. Tripp, P. M. Everett, W. L. Gordon, and R. W. Stark, Phys Rev 180, 669 (1969)

• A Non-local Pseudopotential Model for the Fermi Surface of Beryllium, J. H. Tripp, W. L. Gordon, P. M. Everett, and R. W. Stark, Physics Letters 26, A98 (1967)

Dr. Everett has made many presentations at general meetings of the American Physical Society (APS), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE),  and the Infrared Information Symposium (IRIS)