Scott Best

About Scott Best

SiberSci, LLC is built upon the professional experience of Dr. Scott Best in both…

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Sibersci, Llc

   Jan 2013 — Present · Owensboro, KY

   Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SiberSci, LLC. • Providing services to clients to solve Electromagnetic Engineering problems in one of our 6 areas of expertise:Antenna Consulting – https://sibersci.com/antenna-engineering/Microwave Consulting – https://sibersci.com/microwave-engineering/Microwave Heating Consulting – https://sibersci.com/microwave_heating/Millimeter-Wave Consulting – https://sibersci.com/microwave-heating-engineering/RF Consulting – https://sibersci.com/rf-engineering/RF Heating Consulting – https://sibersci.com/rf-heating-engineering/•Recent projects include:o MIMO Radar operating over the 76 GHz to 81 GHz bandwidth using microstrip patch element arrays with the Texas Instruments AWR1243P RFIC.o Additive Machined Lunenburg Lens operating at K, Ka, and V-bands. o Designed a TM0,1,0 re-entrant microwave cavity operating at 915 MHz for a commercial product designed to provide single servings of popcorn.o Designed and developed a 24-element octagonal microstrip patch array operating over the 2.2 to 2.5 GHz bandwidth.o Performed a feasibility study for a 2.45 GHz, 10 KW Rectenna Array.o 65 GHz antenna, detector, and SPST switch to be used in an RFID system.o Designed a TEM Conical Horn Antenna for operation at 2.45 GHz, 5-KW for heating weeds, roots, and buried seeds to a sufficiently high temperature to prevent regrowth.o Designed 6:1 bandwidth Additively Manufactured (AM) Dual-Polarization Phased Array Antennas using 3-D printed aluminum-alloy (AlSi10Mg) powder.o Performed remote diagnostics to identify failed hardware in a 34 GHz spectrometer.o Dual-band (24 GHz and 34 GHz) receiver for a commercial system using a combination of microstrip and co-planar waveguide transmission lines to convert the signals to baseband for signal processing.o First Pass Yield improvement study for a Ka-band Helix TWT.o 2.45 GHz, 1 KW, Vortex Stabilized Plasma Thruster.o 2.45 GHz, 10 KW, plasma system for growing synthetic diamonds.

Education

• University of Utah

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), RF, Microwave, Millimeter-Wave circuits and antennas; plasma physics; vacuum electronics

  1990 — 1996

Skills

• Antennas
• Management
• Wireless Technologies
• Rf Engineering
• Radio Frequency (Rf)
• Radar
• Wireless
• Optimization
• Characterization
• R&D
• Microwave
• Testing
• Simulations
• Rf Mems
• Electronics
• Program Management
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Systems Engineering
• Engineering
• Electromagnetics
• Circuit Design
• Rf