Biographical sketches of authors
Robert L. Melcher
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(rmelcher@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Melcher studied physics and mathematics at Southern Methodist University, Universitaet zu Koeln, and Washington University, where he received a Ph.D. in physics. He was a research associate at Cornell University before joining IBM Research in 1970. At IBM his work has been in the fields of condensed-matter physics, semiconductor laser technology, and display technology. Dr. Melcher has held several senior-level management positions in IBM Research. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of SMPTE and SID.
Paul M. Alt
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(alt@us.ibm.com). Dr. Alt is a Senior Manager in the Subsystems Technologies Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he has been a Research Staff Member since 1970, concentrating on display technologies and display systems. He is a Fellow of the Society for Information Display, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Derek B. Dove
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(dove@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Dove attended the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1956. After working at AERE, Harwell, for several years, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he was involved in studies on the structure and properties of magnetic films. In 1967 he became professor of Materials Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida. In 1977, Dr. Dove joined IBM at Yorktown Heights as a manager in the display and printing area, where he worked on resistive ribbon printing and on electrophotography. More recently, he has worked on phase-shift masks and on optical systems for high-resolution displays.
Thomas M. Cipolla
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(tcipolla@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Cipolla is a Senior Engineer in the Systems, Technology and Science Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his B.A. degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, his B.S.M.E. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, and his M.S.M.E. degree from Cleveland State University in 1973. From 1969 to 1984 he was with the General Electric Co. Lamp Division, Cleveland, Ohio, and Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, New York. He joined IBM Research in 1984. In 1994 he received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on the Scalable POWERparallel System (SP1). Mr. Cipolla holds 23 U.S. patents and has 22 U.S. patents pending. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Evan G. Colgan
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(ecolgan@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Colgan is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the Flat Panel Display Technologies area. He previously managed the Thin-Film Transistor Processing Department. Dr. Colgan joined the Research Division in 1995; he was previously an Advisory Engineer at the Semiconductor Research and Development Center in Hopewell Junction, New York. While at the Development Center, since joining IBM in 1987, he worked on aspects of metal silicide formation, selective chemical vapor deposition of tungsten, diffusion barriers, Al(Cu) microstructure evolution, and integration of both Cu- and Al-based metallizations for integrated circuits. Dr. Colgan received his B.S. degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 1987. His thesis work involved the formation of aluminides from thin-film couples. Dr. Colgan has published more than seventy papers and has been issued eleven patents; he is a member of the MRS, IEEE, APS, Bohmische Physical Society, and Sigma Xi.
Fuad E. Doany
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(doany@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Doany is a Research Staff Member in the Optical Systems group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Haverford College in 1978 and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Dr. Doany was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1984 to 1985, working on ultrafast laser spectroscopy. He subsequently joined IBM at the Watson Research Center, where he worked on laser spectroscopy, laser material processing, and applied optics. His current research activity is in projection display technology. Dr. Doany has written many technical papers, holds more than 15 patents, and has received two Research Division Awards from IBM, in 1994 and 1996. He is a member of the Optical Society of America and the Society for Information Display.
Kunio Enami
IBM Japan Ltd., Display Technology, Display Business Unit, 800, Ichimiyake, Yasu-cho, Yasu-gun, Shiga-ken, 520-2392, Japan
(kenami@jp.ibm.com).
Mr. Enami studied metal physics and metallurgy at Kyoto University. He received a master's degree in 1985, joining IBM Japan as a Semiconductor Engineer, and until 1993 worked primarily on DRAM characteristics analysis, high-voltage CMOS process development, and LCD driver design. Since 1993 he has worked on the silicon-chip-based light-valve technology. Mr. Enami is currently Manager of Projection Display Development in Yasu.
Kenneth C. Ho
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(kcho/yktvmv.kcho@vm).
Mr. Ho is an engineer in the Display Devices and Systems Department. He received a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1981, subsequently joining IBM at the Biomedical System Independent Business Unit, where he has worked on microprocessor and software design. He has received three Group Awards since joining IBM. Mr. Ho is a member of the Society for Information Display. His current work involves image and signal processing for enhancing image quality in displays.
Istvan Lovas
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(palack@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Lovas is a Senior Laboratory Specialist in the Systems Technology and Science Department. He graduated from the MOM Optical School, Budapest, Hungary, in 1956 and worked as a Master Optician for several companies in Europe and the United States. Mr. Lovas joined the Research Division at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1968. His activities have primarily involved the fabrication of optical elements for lithography and test equipment. Mr. Lovas currently works in the Projection Display Technology group on liquid crystal cell assembly and optical measurements.
Chandrasekhar Narayan
IBM Research Division, East Fishkill facility, Hopewell Junction, New York 12533
(narayanc@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Narayan received his B.Tech. degree in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science and engineering from Lehigh University. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1983 and is currently a Research Staff Member working on redundancy activation in DRAMs and high-speed packaging of DRAMs. His research areas include thin-film processing, multilayer thin-film structures, packaging for multichip modules, and flat-panel displays. Dr. Narayan has written many technical papers and holds more than 12 U.S. patents; he has received three IBM Research Division Awards. He is a member of ASM International and the Society for Information Display.
Robert S. Olyha, Jr.
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(rolyha@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Olyha received his master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1984. Following graduation, he joined IBM in the Central Scientific Services Department of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is currently a Senior Engineer and team leader. In 1992 and 1994 he received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and an IBM Corporate Award for his development of the TrackPoint family of pointing devices; he holds numerous patents in this area. Mr. Olyha was also named a finalist for the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of 1994 by Eta Kappa Nu. His current activities involve high-performance microcontroller and FPGA designs targeting computer input devices and display systems.
Carl G. Powell
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(powellc@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Powell is a Staff Engineer in the Flat Panel Display Technologies Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He joined the Research Division at Yorktown Heights in 1966 and has worked on laser optical systems, surface acoustic wave devices, and analog and digital circuit design. Mr. Powell is currently working on digital display controllers.
Alan E. Rosenbluth
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(aerosen@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Rosenbluth received the Ph.D. degree in optics from the University of Rochester in 1982 as a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He has been a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center since 1982. His principal research activities have been in photolithographic instrumentation and processing, display technology, and thin-film optics.
James L. Sanford
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(sanfordj@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Sanford is a Senior Engineer in the Flat Panel Display Technologies Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from the Ohio State University in 1972, joining IBM that same year at the Office Products Division, Lexington, Kentucky. His work has involved various aspects of electronic circuits, printers, and displays. His present interests are in circuits for active-matrix displays, projection displays, and related applications. IBM honors received by him include an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, a Research Division Group Award, and two Invention Achievement Awards. He is a member of the Society for Information Display.
Eugene S. Schlig
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(schlig@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Schlig is a Research Staff Member in the Flat Panel Display Technologies Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a B.E.E. degree from the City College of New York in 1956 and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1961. He joined IBM in 1956 at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. His work has involved various aspects of electronic circuits, devices, image scanners, and displays. His present interests are in circuits for active-matrix displays, projection displays, and related applications. IBM honors received by him include a Corporate Outstanding Invention Award, three Research Division Outstanding Innovation and Outstanding Invention Awards, two Research Division Awards, a Research Division Group Award, and eight Invention Achievement Awards. Mr. Schlig is a senior life member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits societies and the Society for Information Display.
Rama N. Singh
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(rnsingh@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Singh received an M.S. degree in physics from Lucknow University, India, in 1964, a Diploma of the IIT, Delhi, in applied optics in 1966, a Diploma of the Imperial College, London, in applied optics in 1968, a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Reading in the U.K. in 1977, and an M.S. in computer science from Polytechnic University in 1995. Dr. Singh was a member of the faculty of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, until 1980, a principal scientist in the Microlithography Division at Perkin-Elmer from 1980 to 1988, and a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center since 1988. His principal interests have been in optical design in the fields of photolithographic instrumentation and display technology.
Takatoshi Tomooka
IBM Japan Ltd., Display Technology, Display Business Unit, 800, Ichimiyake, Yasu-cho, Yasu-gun, Shiga-ken, 520-2392, Japan
(tomooka@jp.ibm.com).
Mr. Tomooka studied computer science at Kyushu Institute of Technology, graduating in 1983. He joined IBM Japan as a Semiconductor Test Engineer. Until 1993, he worked primarily on logic LSI testing, LSI design system development, ASIC library design, and LCD driver chip design. Since 1993 he has worked on the silicon-chip-based light-valve technology, currently focusing on the design of light-valve chips.
Mitsuru Uda
IBM Microelectronics Division, Yasu facility, 800, Ichimiyake, Yasu-cho, Yasu-gun, Shiga-ken, 520-2392, Japan
(udaman@jp.ibm.com).
Mr. Uda is a Staff Engineer at the IBM Yasu facility. Since joining IBM in 1989 as a photolithography engineer, he has worked on the integration of process modules and defect reduction for a variety of CMOS products. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Doushisya University in Kyoto, Japan, in 1983. Prior to joining IBM, he worked at Toppan Printing on the development of LCD color filters. Mr. Uda has been issued six patents.
Kei-Hsiung Yang (K. H. Yang)
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
(kyang@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Yang received his B.S. in physics from the National Taiwan University, his M.S. from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974. He joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1979 as a Research Staff Member; his work in LCD research has included wide-viewing-angle technologies for TFT/LCD, Si-wafer-based LCLVs for reflective projection displays and holographic optical storage, ferroelectric LC devices, TN electro-optics, LC-to-surface anchoring properties, and the transport properties of LC cells. In 1987, he worked at Toshiba Development Laboratories at Shin-Sugita, Japan, for three months as a member of the IBM-Toshiba TFT/LCD joint development team. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Yang worked at the General Electric R&D Center (1973-1979) in Schenectady, New York; at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (1969) in Murray Hill, New Jersey; and at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories (1969-1973) in Berkeley, California. Dr. Yang has received a GE Centennial Patent Award, four IBM Invention Achievement Awards, and an IBM Research Division Group Award. He has 16 U.S. patents and nine patents pending, and more than 50 publications in the fields of liquid crystal devices, electrophoretic displays, VUV-fluorescent solids, X-ray imagers for breast cancer diagnosis, and nonlinear optics. Dr. Yang is a member of SID and SPIE.
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