Technical Staff Member, Photonic Microsystem Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories

Matthew Blain, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Photonic Microsystems Technologies group at the MESA Microsystems Engineering and Sciences center at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, NM.  He received a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Purdue University in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1990 focussing on ion-surface interactions. He has 30 years’ experience at SNL working and publishing in the areas of low temperature plasma discharges and integration engineering of micro-devices.  His research focuses on device physics and engineering, photonics integration, and packaging for micro- and nano-fabricated devices used in experimental atomic physics and micro-mass spectrometry, including seminal work on monolithically fabricated chip-scale devices for trapped ion quantum information science.