Bernhard Knigge

Personal

Email:

Internet:

 bknigge@talkelab.ucsd.edu

http://www-talkelab.ucsd.edu/
Phone: home: (858) 270 8801

work: (858) 534 7578
FAX:  (858) 534 2720
Objective: To utilize my broad skills in physics and mechanics and to heighten my experience in a challenging and forward looking organisation. To branch into engineering management.

Education

7/96 - present Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical Engineering) at the University of California, San Diego, Center for Magnetic Recording Research 
  • Modal analysis, vibrations, dynamics and contact mechanics, tribology 
  • Signal processing / time frequency analysis and wavelet analysis using Matlab and LabView 
  • Finite element analysis with Pro E / Mechanica and Hypermesh / LS-Dyna 
  • Title of Ph.D. thesis: "Tribology, Contact Dynamics and Contact Forces of Near Contact Recording Sliders"
7/96 - 5/98 M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical Engineering) at the University of California, San Diego, Center for Magnetic Recording Research (GPA 3.6)
 
  • Graduate courses in solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, optical recording, signal processing
  • Design and optimization of laser textured disks
1992 - 1995 M.Sc. in Technical Physics at the Technical University Munich (Dipl. Phys. Univ.)
  Department of Physics, Garching (Graduated with an equivalent "A")
 
  • Specialized in laserphysics, thermodynamics, magnetic materials, superconductivity, nuclear methods in solid state physics
  • Courses in "Management for Technical Enterprises" and "Business for Engineers"
  • Projects in material characterizations, interferometry, thin films
1989 - 1992 B. Sc. Technical Physics at the Technical University Munich (Vordiplom)
 
  • Lectures in Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Math, Chemistry, Optics, ACAD, FORTRAN 77.

Relevant Experience

Summer 1999 IBM, San Jose, California 
  • Vibration analysis of contact recording sliders 
  • Investigation of track mis-registration using laser Doppler vibrometry
Summer 1997 Phase Metrics Corporation, San Diego, California
  • Design and optimization of laser textured disks 
  • Optical alignment and optical measurements 
3/95 - 5/96 Master Thesis work at UCSD, San Diego, California, Dept of Physics
  • Sputtering of "Phase Spread Alloy Thin Films" 
  • Material characterization using X-ray, ESR, SQUID, Auger, EDX, Hall measurements
Winter 1993 Siemens Munich, Germany
  • Translated on business meetings 
  • Negotiated bilingual with customers and distributors

Computer literacy
Other Skills
Awards and Affiliations
Publications
 
            1. "Search for new Superconductors in the Y-Ni-B-C system"; B. Knigge, I. Schuller et. al.; Journal of Applied Physics, 1 March 1997, vol.81, (no.5):2291-5
            2. Tribology of laser textured and mechanically textured media"; A. Khurshudov, B. Knigge and F. Talke; IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Sept. 1997, vol.33, (no.5, pt.1):3190-2.
            3. "Tribological Properties and Environmental Effects of Nano and Pico sliders on Laser textured Media"; B. Knigge, Q. Zhao and F.E. Talke; IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol.34, No.4, July 1998
            4. "Acoustic Emission and Stiction Analysis of Patterned Laser Textured Media"; B. Knigge and F. E. Talke, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, March 1999, vol.35, (no.2):921-6
            5. "Stiction of Advanced Pico Sliders"; L. Fu, B. Knigge, and F. E. Talke, accepted for publication with the ISPS
            6. "Slider Disk Contact Dynamics of Glide Heads and Proximity Recording Sliders using Joint Time Frequency Analysis and Wavelet Tranform"; B. Knigge and F. E. Talke, published in the Proceedings of the ASME Trans. of Tribology October 1999.
            7. "Contact Force Measurements using Acoustic Emission Analysis and System Identification Methods"; B. Knigge and F. E. Talke, to be published in Tribology International (presented at the TISD conference in Santa Clara December 1999)
            8. "Slider Vibration Analysis at contact using Time-frequency Analysis and Wavelet Transforms", B. Knigge and F.E. Talke, accepted for publication with ASME Journal of Tribology
    References
    Prof. Ivan Schuller Prof. Frank Talke Dr. R.C. Swain 
    University of California, San Diego / Dept. of Physics  University of California, San Diego / CMRR 

    9500 Gilman Drive

    		 NewPort Corporation

    Newport Beach, CA
    La Jolla, CA 92093-0319 La Jolla, CA 92093-0401 RSwain@Newport.com
    Phone: (858) 5342540 Phone: (858) 5343646 Phone: (949) 745 5974