The Path to Microcup Electrophoretic e-Readers

Dr. Sprague is the Senior VP of R&D, and Engineering at Sipix Imaging, Inc., where he is responsible for development and specification of microcup electrophoretic display media and has played a lead role in making SiPix a major player in the field of electronic book displays. 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 has over 90 patents and applications, 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". 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.

SiPix Imaging, Inc. is a world leader in e-paper display innovation. The company offers custom display module manufacturing to enable system designers to rapidly get to the market and achieve a strong return on investment. The firm manufactures low-power electrophoretic display material, cuttable to custom sizes. Based on the patented Microcup® structure, the flexible material is impact and moisture resistant. With SiPix e-Paper, designers may now choose from multiple saturated color combinations.