Dr. Peter Brody wins award
2009 Joe Desch Innovation Award Winner announced!
The Engineers Club of Dayton presents this award to innovators working in the fields of information science, digital technology and allied fields who have made a significant advance in the state of their art. This year's recipient is T. Peter Brody of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brody, born in Budapest, educated in England, received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1953 from the University of London. From 1959-79 he worked at the Research Laboratories of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, USA. After theoretical work on tunnel diodes, semiconductor device theory and more, he turned his interest to thin film technology. Over the years 1968-79, he developed many electronic uses for thin film transistors. His work culminated in his invention and full development of active matrix display technology. Read more
His department at Westinghouse built the world's first AMLCDs in 1972, the first AM-EL displays in 1973 and demonstrated real-time video imagery on both types in 1974. He coined the term active matrix and introduced it into the literature in 1975. In 1981 Dr Brody founded Panelvision Corporation, the world's first AMLCD company. which introduced their products in the US in 1983. After a period of consulting, Dr. Brody founded Magnascreen Corporation, oriented towards very large area displays. In 1988. Dr. Brody formed Active Matrix Associates, a consulting group, and over the period 1991-97, worked on a number of classified projects for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
In 1998, in collaboration with two former Westinghouse colleagues, he invented a process for fabricating low cost thin film electronic circuits by purely additive processes. In 2002 he founded Amadeo Corporation (now Advantech US) dedicated to the exploitation of additive technology, now conceptrating on the development of low cost active matrix backplanes for the emerging organic LED industry. Dr. Brody has published over 70 scientific papers and has 60 patents.