Alex Mezheritsky received the M.Sc. degree in Physical and Quantum Electronics and

Ph.D. in Solid-State Electronics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow, Russia, in 1979 and 1985, respectively.

His professional career started with the Institute of Applied Physics (DOD, 1978-1980) in Moscow where he developed far-infrared semiconductor photo-detectors for the Aerospace industry.
He was an Engineer with PHONON Corp. - ELPA Co. (1980-1985)  in Moscow, Russia.

From 1985 to 1997 he was Senior Scientist and led scientific-production laboratory at the Piezoelectrics Division of PHONON Corp., Moscow. 
Then for several years he was a Specialist-Consultant with the Dong IL Technology Company (Piezoceramics Department), R.Korea

and currently is a US Citizen.

Alex Mezheritsky has been involved with research in PiezoElectronics and Acoustics since 1980, working in the areas of  low and high frequencies piezoceramic resonators and filters, 
sensitive and powerful ultrasonic transducers, piezosensors and transformers, development of piezoceramic materials and technology for different applications.

He wrote Russian standards (OCT 11 0444-87) for piezoceramic material characterization / production.
In 2007 Alex was a consultant for COMSOL in their development of new 3.5a version of the renowned simulation product.

Present research interests are in the area of Physics and include both theoretical and experimental study of dissipative piezoelectrics,
development methods of their description and measurement.

His last position as Senior Transducer Design Engineer is with PiezoTechnologies, Indiana, for more than 3 years.
He was involved into multiple R&D projects in broad areas of piezoceramics applications, including:
Oil and Natural Gas industries for down-hole tool calibration and mud velocity measurements, formation analysis, ultrasonic mud-oil mixer;
Medical industries (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound – HIFU) for cancer imaging and ablation;
Non-Destructive Evaluation&Testing - NDE/NDT, for fluid flaw detection, rock and wood characterization;
Atomic industry for ultrasonic under-liquid sodium-viewing and gas components separation;
US Military (ultrasonic identification system), etc.

He has authored and co-authored 70 papers and 12 patents in the area of piezoceramic materials, resonators and transducers.
and is a member of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society since 1999.

Specialties

Basic areas of expertise: Acoustics * Piezoelectrics / Piezoceramics * Ultrasonic Transducers & Devices * Electro-Mechanical (Piezoelectric) Resonators & Filters*

R&D *Design * Manufacturing * COMSOL / SolidWorks simulation and modeling

*** Additional areas: Physical Electronics * Semiconductors * Dielectrics * Education