Application Tailoring of Display Performance in Microcup Electrophoretic Displays

Dr. Sprague is the Senior VP of Research Development, and Engineering at Sipix Imaging, Inc., where he is responsible for development and specification of microcup electrophoretic display media. Prior to that he was an independent consultant in the field of optics and displays and is well known as the CTO and founder of Gyricon LLC, one of the first companies to commercialize electronic paper displays. Dr. Sprague spent 25 years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), were he was Associate Research Center Manager and Lab Manager. He played a broad role in the management of PARC, and was pivotal in bringing programs in electronic paper displays, ink jet printing, active matrix displays, and optical disk to product readiness. Dr. Sprague holds over 60 patents, has published over two dozen papers, and has given numerous invited talks in the field of paper-like displays. He is the recipient of the Xerox "President's Award". Dr. Sprague is also a fellow of OSA and SPIE, a past president of SPIE, a recipient of the SPIE "President's Award" and the Kingslake medal of SPIE. Dr. Sprague has a Ph.D. and B.S. in optics from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester.