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.
Products by Chris Curtin
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.
Documents Authored by Chris Curtin
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.