Brian Piccione, Ph.D., is a technical specialist in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group. Brian’s practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His technical areas of expertise include semiconductor fabrication, photonic devices, material synthesis and characterization, telecommunications, and remote sensors.
Prior to joining Sterne Kessler, Brian worked in the photonics space for over 10 years, including 4 years as a lidar sensor team lead at autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. He most recently spent 2 years as a principal engineer at Luminar Technologies Inc., where he continued his work developing automotive lidar sensors.
During his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Brian’s research initially focused on the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nanostructures. This work paved the way for his engineering of all-optical switching in one-dimensional semiconductor waveguides and the world’s first all-optical nanowire NAND gate.
Brian is an inventor himself, with several patents and patents pending to his name.
Select Technical Publications
- Piccione et al., “Spatial Modeling of Optical Crosstalk in Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiode Focal Plane Arrays,” Optics Express, vol. 24, p. 10635 (2016).
- Piccione et al., “Tunable Thermoelectric Transport Phenomena in Silicon Nanomeshes via Elastic Strain Engineering,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, p. 113101 (2015).
- Piccione et al., “All-Optical Active Switching in Individual Semiconductor Nanowires,” Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 7, p. 640 (2012).
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Purdue University
- B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, with honors