Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lakin, Kenneth Meade November 24, 2012
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Ionia Sentinel-Standard - Nov. 28, 2012

Kenneth Meade Lakin died at his home near Redmond, Ore., Nov. 24, 2012, after 
an extended battle with prostate cancer. He was born Jan. 14, 1941, in Grand 
Rapids, Mich., to Mabel (Meade) and Harold Lakin. Ken grew up in Portland, 
Mich., and graduated from the Univ. of Michigan with B.S. and M.S. degrees in 
Physics, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and received his PhD in Applied 
Physics from Stanford Univ. in 1969.

Dr. Lakin was a faculty member at the Univ. of Southern California from 1969 to 
1989, where he conducted research on surface acoustic wave devices, thin film 
resonators, and piezoelectric film growth and characterization. From 1980 to 
1989, he was affiliated with Iowa State Univ.'s Ames Laboratory and founded the 
Microelectronics Research Center.

He formed TFR Technologies in 1989 and acted as President and CDO while 
conducting research on thin film resonators, piezoelectric  materials, filters, 
planar dielectric resonators, and numerical analysis of electromechanical 
resonators for microwave frequencies/ Ken retired from TFR Technologies in 2005.

He published more than 100 technical papers and has 21 U.S. patents in the 
areas of acoustic signal processing devices and materials research.

Ken was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and received the W.G. Cady award in 2003. In 
2010 he was the recipient of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and 
Frequency Control Society Achievement Award for "his pioneering work on 
aluminum nitride (AIN), AIN for Bulk Acoustic Wave devices (BAW) and being 
first to develop Solidly Mounted Resonators (SMR-BAW) and coupled resonator 
filters for BAW". 

Ken was an avid outdoorsman enjoying backpacking, camping and wilderness 
exploration. He collected and restored vintage radios and was an amateur radio 
enthusiast (KD6B) since childhood. His friends and family will miss his sense 
of humor, his generosity and his "Google-like" encyclopedia of knowledge.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Janet (Grieshaber); son Kurt of Des 
Moines, Iowa; daughter, Kristy of Portland, Ore.; brothers Jim (Janet) of 
Portland, Mich., Roger  (Carol) of Belding, Mich.; brother-in-law Robert 
(Patti) of Elkhart, Kansas; numerous nieces and nephews; and a loving group of 
supportive friends. 

A gathering of friends and family will be Jan. 12 in Portland, Mich., time and 
place to be determined. www.redmondmemorial.com.

Contributions may be made to the Save the Redwoods League or Deschutes Land 
Trust. 


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