They are, from left, Paul McWhorter, Sam Miller, Jeff Sniegowski, and Steve Rogers.
MEMS are complex machines with micron-size features.
The new company will initially focus on producing optical switches for the telecommunications industry using SUMMiT V, an advanced five-level polysilicon surface micromachining MEMS technology that produces more reliable and complex devices than previously possible with less advanced techniques. We believe commercialization of our MEMS technology is critical for us to achieve our national security mission. National security decision makers are conservative. They want to see the technology widely used in applications like cars or television before they consider it for weapons. Getting the technology out of the labs and into commercial applications will give us the confidence needed to deploy it in critical defense applications.