James Lehto Miller
PhD Candidate
jmlm :at: mems.stanford.edu440 Escondido Mall, Bldg 530 Rm 224, Stanford CA 94305, USA
Advisor: Thomas W. Kenny
Research
Microscale sensors and oscillators; nonlinear dynamics; parametric oscillators; fluctuations and noise processes; dissipation mechanisms
Education
Stanford University
(May 2016-January 2021) PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering
PhD Minor in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
(2014-2016) M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
(2010-2014) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Minors in Agronomy and Music
(May 2016-January 2021) PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering
PhD Minor in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
(2014-2016) M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
(2010-2014) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Minors in Agronomy and Music
Experience
Dr. Steven Shaw's Nonlinear Dynamics and MEMS Lab
(January 2013-July 2014) Research Assistant
Dr. Alvin Smucker's Soil Biophysics Lab
(September 2013-May 2014) Undergraduate Honors Research Project
Engineer in Training (FE)
(August 2014-Present)
State of Oregon Engineering Licensure Board
Michigan State University Solar Car Team
(May 2011-July 2014) Project Manager
(January 2013-July 2014) Research Assistant
Dr. Alvin Smucker's Soil Biophysics Lab
(September 2013-May 2014) Undergraduate Honors Research Project
Engineer in Training (FE)
(August 2014-Present)
State of Oregon Engineering Licensure Board
Michigan State University Solar Car Team
(May 2011-July 2014) Project Manager
Fellowships / Awards
National Defense in Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
(September 2015-August 2018)
Stanford Graduate Fellowship
(September 2014-August 2015, September 2018-September 2019)
E.K. Potter Fellow
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
(2014)
Walter & Adelheid Hohenstein Fellow
Cole Excellence Award and Scholarship
(2013)
Michigan State University Honors College Scholarship
Michigan State University Honors College
(2010-2014) Member
Pi Tau Sigma
Member
Tau Beta Pi
Member
Phi Kappa Phi
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
Member
(September 2015-August 2018)
Stanford Graduate Fellowship
(September 2014-August 2015, September 2018-September 2019)
E.K. Potter Fellow
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
(2014)
Walter & Adelheid Hohenstein Fellow
Cole Excellence Award and Scholarship
(2013)
Michigan State University Honors College Scholarship
Michigan State University Honors College
(2010-2014) Member
Pi Tau Sigma
Member
Tau Beta Pi
Member
Phi Kappa Phi
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
Member
Publications
Nicholas E. Bousse, Stephen E. Kuenstner, James M.L. Miller, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, John D. Teufel, Thomas W. Kenny, "Dispersive readout of a high-Q encapsulated micromechanical resonator," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 121, pp. 73503, Jul 2022.
10.1063/5.0101402
James M.L. Miller, Jianing Zhao, Chae Hyuck Ahn, Eldwin J. Ng, Vu Hong, Yushi Yang, Nicholas E. Bousse, Thomas W. Kenny, Gaurav Bahl, "Giant non-reciprocity through frequency modulation of a two degree-of-freedom micromechanical resonator," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head 2022, pp. 108-109, Jun 2022.
323_Miller_2022.pdf
James M. L. Miller, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Ze Zhang, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Arun Majumdar, Thomas W. Kenny, and Steven W. Shaw, "Effects of Remote Boundary Conditions on Clamping Loss in Micromechanical Resonators," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 204-216, Apr 2022.
Nicholas E. Bousse, James M.L. Miller, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Steven W. Shaw, Thomas W. Kenny, "Tuning frequency stability in micromechanical resonators with parametric pumping," 2022 IEEE 35th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 987-990, Jan 2022.
James M.L. Miller, Anne L. Alter, Nicholas E. Bousse, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, Thomas W. Kenny, Steven W. Shaw, "Influence of clamping loss and electrical damping on nonlinear dissipation in micromechanical resonators," 2022 IEEE 35th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 507-510, Jan 2022.
James M. L. Miller, Ariosto Gomez-Franco, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Amplitude stabilization of micromechanical oscillators using engineered nonlinearity," Physical Review Research, Vol. 3, pp. 33268, Sep 2021.
James M. L. Miller, Haoshen Zhu, Subramanian Sundaram, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Limits to Thermal-Piezoresistive Cooling in Silicon Micromechanical Resonators," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 677-684, Oct 2020.
Nicholas E. Bousse, James Marion Lehto Miller, Anne Louise Alter, Christopher Patrick Cameron, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle Davis Vukasin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Negative Nonlinear Dissipation in Microelectromechanical Beams," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 954-959, Oct 2020.
Zohreh Mohammadi, Toni L. Heugel, James M. L. Miller, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Thomas W. Kenny, Ramasubramanian Chitra, Oded Zilberberg, and Luis Guillermo Villanueva, "On the effect of linear feedback and parametric pumping on a resonator's frequency stability," New Journal of Physics, Vol. 22, pp. 93049, Sep 2020.
James M. L. Miller, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Steven W. Shaw, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Spectral narrowing of parametrically pumped thermomechanical noise," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 117, pp. 33504, Jul 2020.
James M. L. Miller, Ze Zhang, Nicholas E. Bousse, Dusan Coso, Seid Sadat, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Arun Majumdar, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Temperature hysteresis in piezoresistive microcantilevers," 2020 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 1203-1206, Apr 2020.
Nicholas E. Bousse, James M. L. Miller, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Quality factor tuning of micromechanical resonators via electrical dissipation," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 116, No. 2, pp. 23506, Jan 2020.
James M. L. Miller, Nicholas E. Bousse, David B. Heinz, Hyo Jin K. Kim, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Thermomechanical-Noise-Limited Capacitive Transduction of Encapsulated MEM Resonators," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 965-976, Dec 2019.
James M. L. Miller, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Steven W. Shaw, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Phase control of self-excited parametric resonators," Physical Review Applied, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 44053, Oct 2019.
James M. L. Miller, Nicholas E. Bousse, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, and Thomas W. Kenny, "SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT IN MEM RESONANT SENSORS USING PARAMETRIC SUPPRESSION," Transducers 2019 - EUROSENSORS XXXIII, pp. 881-884, Jun 2019.
James M. Lehto Miller, Azadeh Ansari, David B. Heinz, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, L. Guillermo Villanueva, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Effective Quality Factor Tuning Mechanisms in Micromechanical Resonators," Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 5, pp. 41307, Dec 2018.
James M. Lehto Miller, Haoshen Zhu, David B. Heinz, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, Joshua E.-Y. Lee, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Thermal-Piezoresistive Tuning of the Effective Quality Factor of a Micromechanical Resonator," Physical Review Applied, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1-10, Oct 2018.
James M. Lehto Miller, Azadeh Ansari, David B. Heinz, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, L. Guillermo Villanueva, and Thomas W. Kenny, "WHAT IS EFFECTIVE QUALITY FACTOR?," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head 2018, pp. 240-241, Jun 2018.
James M.L. Miller, David B. Heinz, Ian B. Flader, Yunhan Chen, Dongsuk D. Shin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Effective quality factor and temperature dependence of self-oscillations in a thermal-piezoresistively pumped resonator," 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), pp. 1907-1910, Jun 2017.
Nicholas Eric Bousse, James Marion Lehto Miller, Anne Louise Alter, Christopher Patrick Cameron, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle Davis Vukasin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Negative nonlinear dissipation in microelectromechanical beams," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 954-959, 0000.
AK Guber, AJM Smucker, S Berhanu, and JML Miller. "Subsurface water retention technology improves root zone water storage for corn production on coarse-textured soils". Vadose Zone Journal, 14:1-13. July 2015.