Dr. Arlen Barksdale has over 28 years of industry experience in solid state materials, hardware and software technology including such companies as Texas Instruments, Ling-Temco-Vought, Bell Helicopter-Textron, and Hytec Engineering. He has worked extensively in avionics integration, radar absorbing materials and software modeling. At TI he was instrumental in developing swirl-free, high purity silicon for the first 4K RAM chip that launched the PC industry. An early developer of LED and LCD displays, he developed the technique and government permits to mass-produce tritium (radioactive H3) backlights for the LCD watch. Dr. Barksdale has taught (Dean-Emiritus, National University) and directed research in software engineering, telecommunications, photonic crystals, computer generated holography, femtosec laser nanomachining, and optical computing logic. His inventions consist primarily of high frequency and photonic related developments. A veteran of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, he was a member of the Intelligence Corps (Russian language translator, cryptographic and electronics). Dr. Barksdale has a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Rice University in 1973. He has been recognized as a AEC Special Fellow, a Welch Foundation Fellow and a National Science Foundation Fellow.