Chris Curtin

Chris Curtin

Christopher J. Curtin (? – ?) worked at Tektronix for 26 years, focusing on display technology.

Career

• Two summers working for Tek while attending Lewis and Clark College
• Graduated in June 1963 with a BS degree in Physics
• June 1963 to June 1989 at Tek in various CRT Design and Manufacturing roles
• Retired in 2001 after Flat CRT development at Candescent Technologies in San Jose, CA

Publications

• Chris Curtin, Recent Advances in Direct-View Storage Tubes. Presented at the 1977 Society for Information Display conference.

Tek Products

• Assisted with the 321A, 422, 647, 453 and 549 CRT designs.
• Project Manager for the CRTs in the 601, 7514, 7613, and 7623.
• Supervised development of various storage CRTs as a Group and Department manager.
• After a stint in CRT Manufacturing, named Display Device Operations General Manager.

Components by Chris Curtin

Model	Class	Description	Designers	Used in
154-0521-00	CRT	CRT	Chris Curtin	601
T3210	CRT	3" CRT	Chris Curtin	321
T3211	CRT	3" CRT	Chris Curtin	321
T4220	CRT	rectangular 3⅜ × 3⅞ flat-faced CRT	Chris Curtin	422
T4533	CRT	CRT	Chris Curtin	453A
T5490	CRT	direct-view storage CRT	Chris Curtin	549
T6470	CRT	CRT	Chris Curtin	647 • 647A
T7410	CRT	transfer storage CRT	Chris Curtin • Gary Siewell • Wes Hayward	7623 • R7623
T7411	CRT	transfer storage CRT	Chris Curtin • Gary Siewell • Wes Hayward	7623A • R7623A

Patents by Chris Curtin

Page	Office	Number	Title	Inventors	Company	Filing date	Grant date
Patent US 3742286A	US	3742286A	Fast writing bistable storage tube and method of operation	Roger Frankland • Chris Curtin	Tektronix Inc	1970-05-04	1973-06-26
Patent US 3798494A	US	3798494A	Non-storage electron multiplier operation of transmission storage tube	Chris Curtin	Tektronix Inc	1971-12-08	1974-03-19

Field Emission Display Patents

• 6,853,135 Apparatus for Removing Contaminants from a Display Device
• 6,731,061 Dual Layer Electroplated Structure for a Flat Panel Display Device
• 6,541,912 Auxiliary Chamber and Display Device With Improved Contaminant Removal
• 6,448,949 System and Method for Improving Emitter Life in Flat Panel Field Emission Displays
• 6,369,784 System and Method for Improving Emitter Life in Flat Panel Field Emission Displays
• 6,356,013 Flat Panel Display with Wall Segments
• 6,323,590 Wall Assembly and Method for Attaching Walls for Flat Panel Display
• 6,225,737 Wall Assembly and Method for Attaching Walls for Flat Panel Display
• 6,194,830 Multi-Compartment Getter-Containing Flat-Panel Device
• 6,176,753 Wall Assembly and Method for Attaching Walls for Flat Panel Display
• 6,140,762 Wall Assembly and Method for Attaching Walls for Flat Panel Displays
• 6,133,893 System and Method for Improving Emitter Life in Flat Panel FEDs
• 6,111,351 Wall Assembly and Method for Attaching Walls for Flat Panel Display
• 5,977,706 Multi-Compartment Getter-Containing Flat-Panel Device
• 5,964,630 Method of Increasing Resistance of Flat-Panel Device to Bending, and Associated Getter-Containing Flat-Panel Device
• 5,900,301 Structure and Fabrication of Electron-Emitting Devices Utilizing Electron-Emissive Particles which Typically Contain Carbon
• 5,897,414 Technique for Increasing Yield of Matrix Addressable Device
• 5,725,787 Fabrication of Light-Emitting Device with Raised Black Matrix for use in Optical Devices Such as Flat-Panel Cathode-Ray Tubes
• 5,686,790 Flat Panel Device with Ceramic Backplate
• 5,672,083 Fabrication of Flat Panel Device Having Backplate that includes Ceramic Layer
• 5,608,283 Electron-Emitting Devices Utilizing Electron-Emissive Particles which Typically Contain Carbon
• 5,576,596 Optical Devices Such as Flat-Panel Cathode-Ray Tubes, having Raised Black Matrix
• 5,532,548 Field Forming Electrodes on High Voltage Spacers
• 5,477,105 Structure of Light-Emitting Device with Raised Black Matrix for use in Optical Devices Such as Flat-Panel Cathode-Ray Tubes
• 5,216,324 Matrix-addressed flat panel having a transparent base plate

Tutorials and Short Courses Presented

• Vacuum Microelectronics Engineering; UC Davis; June 1-3. 1995; “Flat-panel Displays”.
• SID Symposium 1995; Short Course on “Fundamentals of Emissive Displays”; co-authored with Peter Seats
• SID Symposium 1997; Short Course on “Fundamentals of Emissive Displays”; co-authored with Carlo Infante

Tektronix Publications

• Curtin C.J., Hutcheon, J.R., Mason, Wm., McTeague, J., “A Large Screen Display for Bistable Storage of up to 17,000 Characters”. 1973 SID Digest of Technical Papers, p. 98.
• Curtin, C.J., “Recent Advances in DVST’s”, SID Digest, 1977.

Field Emission Display Publications

• G. Hopple and C. Curtin; FED Life and Reliability; Information Display, April/May 2000; p. 34-37
• C. Curtin and Y. Iguchi; Scaling of FED Display Technology to Large-Area Displays; SID 2000 Digest, p. 1263-1265.
• G. Hopple, C. Curtin and Y. Hatano; Thin CRT Display Technology Operating Life and Reliability Issues; SID 2000 Digest, p. 1257-1259.
• C. J. Spindt, T. Fahlen, J. M. Macaulay, C. Curtin, and R. M. Duboc; ThinCRT Flat-Panel-Display Construction and Operating Characteristics; SID 1998 Digest, p. 95-98.