PROFILE:
Steve Ready
Since joining PARC over two decades ago, Steve has: designed and developed several high-accuracy inkjet printers for printed organic electronics and documents; studied the role of hydrogen in amorphous, polycrystalline, and crystalline silicon and associated applications; and contributed to the development of large-area amorphous and polycrystalline silicon arrays for optical and x-ray imaging, displays, and organic semiconductor materials and devices.
Steve has also made significant contributions to developing laser crystallization of silicon thin films; a fragile book scanner; control software for MOCVD reactors; and a scanning tunneling microscope. He is a member of the SPIE, MRS, and IS&T professional societies. He obtained his degree in Physics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
PARC publications
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2010
Study of inkjet printing parameters to fabricate LCD color filter
Journal of Imaging Science and Technology
2010 September/October
2009
Ink jet printing devices and circuits
MRS 2009 Fall Meeting
2009 November
For several years there have been many efforts to employ ink jet technologies in the fabrication of consumer electronics. The potential of displacing large and expensive pieces of electronic fabrication equipment and processes with seemingly appropriately scaled inexpensive alternatives is attractive. However, of course, the devil is in the details. Feature size, accuracy, registration, and materials all have several impacts on design rules, processing, performance, and the types of devices appropriate to the technology. Here we present a look at some of the materials and deposition challenges along with solutions developed at PARC.
Defect identification in large area electronic backplanes
IEEE Journal of Display Technology
January 2009
2008
Flexible and printed electronics for displays and image sensors
The Future Prospects and Obstacles of Organic Electronics
25 February 2008
Flexible and printed electronics for displays and image sensors
The Future Prospect and Obstacles of Organic Electronics
25 February 2008
2007
Digital lithographic processing for large-area electronics
Journal of the Society for Information Display
31 July 2007
All-additive ink-jet-printed display backplanes: materials development and integration
SID Journal
July 2007
Dielectrics for all-additive jet-printed organic electronics (Invited paper)
2007 MRS Spring Meeting
9 April 2007
Jet-printed active-matrix backplanes and electrophoretic displays
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1
March 2007
2006
Toolset for printed electronics
International Conference on Digital Fabrication Technologies (DF 2006)
17 September 2006
Thin-film transistor fabrication by digital lithography
Organic Electronics: Materials, Manufacturing and Applications
30 August 2006
Vertically integrated amorphous silicon color sensor arrays
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
1 July 2006
Printed polymer-based TFTs for flexible display backplanes
USDC Flexible Display & Microelectronics Conference
7 February 2006
2005
Jet-printing of active-matrix TFT backplanes for displays and sensors (Invited paper)
Digital Fabrication 2005 Conference
18 September 2005
2004
All jet-printed polymer thin-film transistor active-matrix backplanes
Third Annual Printable Electronics and Displays Conference and Exhibition
9 November 2004
All jet-printed polymer thin-film transistor active-matrix backplanes
Applied Physics Letters
11 October 2004
All jet-printed polymer thin film transistor active-matrix backplanes (Invited talk)
American Chemical Society National Meeting
22 August 2004
Amorphous silicon backplane with polymer MEMS structures for electrophoretic displays
Materials Research Society 2004 Spring Meeting
4 April 2004
Print-patterned polymer-semiconductor and amorphous silicon active-matrix display
USDC Third Annual Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference
10 February 2004
2003
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin-film transistor arrays fabricated by digital lithography
IEEE Electron Device Letters
9 September 2003
Effective jet printing of organic semiconducting polymers
2003 MRS Spring Meeting Proceedings
12 June 2003
2002
Jet-printed processing for thin-film transitor fabrication. (Invited talk)
Advanced Heterostructure Workshop
2 December 2002
Jet-printed processing for semiconductor device fabrication
International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP 18)
29 September 2002
Jet printing for large area electronics
International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP 18)
29 September 2002
Flat panel detectors for high sensitivity x-ray imaging (Invited talk)
6th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD6)
9 September 2002
Jet printing for the fabrication of organic-based thin film transistors (TFTs)
MRS Spring Meeting 2002
3 April 2002
Jet-printed fabrication of a-Si:H thin film transistors and arrays
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
1 April 2002
High-resolution jet printing for fabrication of a Si:H thin film transistors and arrays
IMAPS Advanced Technology Workshop on Printing an Intelligent Future
8 March 2002
Comparative study of Pbl2 and Hgl2 for direct detection active matrix x-ray image sensors
Journal of Applied Physics
1 March 2002
Amorphous silicon thin-film transistors and arrays fabricated by jet-printing
Applied Physics Letters
28 January 2002
2001
Jet-printed fabrication of a-Si:H thin films transistors and arrays
International Conference on Amorphous and Microcrystalline Semiconductors (ICAMS19)
27 August 2001
Cross-talk and lateral conduction effects in continuous-sensor amorphous silicon imagers
Journal of Applied Physics
15 June 2001
Mechanisms of cross-talk in large area a-Si:H continuous image sensors
Spring 2001 Meeting of the Materials Research Society
19 April 2001
Jet-printed fabrication of a-Si:H thin film transistors and arrays
Symposium on Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon-Based Films, Spring 2001 Meeting of the Materials Research Society
19 April 2001
Medical Imaging 2001: Physics of Medical Imaging
18 February 2001
2000
Matrix-addressed x-ray detector arrays (Invited paper)
Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detector Physics II
31 July 2000
Materials Research Society, 2000 Spring Meeting
24 April 2000
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1995
Page sized a-Si: H 2-dimensional arrays as imaging devices
Fourth International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology
24 October 1995
Large area amorphous silicon x-ray imagers
9th International Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X-ray Detectors
18 September 1995
1992
Physical Review B
15 August 1992
Local bonding structure of hydrogen in crystalline silicon: NMR and TEM studies
Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Growth, Processing, and Device Technology, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series, vol. 262
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news releases
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Samsung Fine Chemicals Chooses PARC to Validate Use of New Materials for Printed Displays
12 November 2012
PARC Named Runner-Up for The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award
16 October 2012
events
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TechConnect Innovation Showcase
23 June 2010 - 24 June 2010 | Anaheim, CA
Inkjet Printing Electronics and Optical Devices
21 June 2010 - 24 June 2010 | Anaheim, CA
Ink jet printing devices and circuits
30 November 2009 - 3 December 2009 | Boston, MA
