Bart H. McGuyer
Hi! I’m an experimental physicist and systems engineer. Most recently, I worked for Amazon in the greater Los Angeles area on Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), an upcoming satellite constellation capable of providing affordable Internet access around the world. Previously, I worked at Facebook’s Connectivity Lab. Before that, I researched atoms and molecules in vapor cells or at ultracold temperatures to make better atomic clocks and more precise measurements. I’m incurably curious, and love finding and solving mysteries.
Free access to all my publications is available here, including those from time at Amazon, Facebook/Meta, a postdoc at Columbia's ZLab, and graduate school at Princeton. Some technical notes for people with similar interests are available here.
Fun Things- Qi Tang gave a talk about our moiré antenna work at the 2025 IEEE AP-S/URSI Meeting! You can watch it here.
- Whoa — I'm cited in a popular Electricity & Magnetism textbook! (Link)
- I got to consult for Ghostbusters III! (Link 1, Link 2)
- Here's a solution to a circuit theory mystery from 1904 that's lost to time; here's a summary of it. 😀
- Here's a video of a solid-state Tesla coil (DRSSTC) I built for the Princeton Physics Department.
In the past, I've built several electronics projects for fun, mainly high voltage devices,
Tesla coils, and vacuum tube amplifiers.
Photos of some of these projects are
here.
If you're looking for an esoteric project,
there are a couple of online resources I recommend:
Loneoceans Laboratories,
the Tesla Coil Mailing List (TCML) & its archives,
highvoltageforum.net,
4hv.org (RIP…),
Wauwatosa Tube Factory,
Elliot Sound Products,
and diyAudio.
Nothing beats hands-on experience, except when getting shocked.
Questions or comments? Feel free to contact-me (at) reyugcmtrab (dot) com.
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