MCG Personnel
Dr. David Armitage
darmit7644@aol.com
Dr. Armitage is a consultant and engineering physicist, specializing in display technology and electro-optics. He has an extensive background in modeling display devices and systems. Recent publications include two SPIE articles on liquid crystal projection displays and silicon chip based imaging devices.
He began his specialization in projection devices and systems while working at IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, CA and continued the work at Lockheed RDD in Palo Alto, CA. While at Lockheed he also focused on the related fields of spatial light modulators and optical signal processing.
Dr. Armitage has also done research in the fields of liquid crystals, semiconductors, and superconductors. He is credited as an inventor on eight patents and has published more than 40 articles and reports.
He was educated in England, receiving a BS degree in electrical engineering from Durham University, a MS in physics at University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a PhD in physics at Bath University.
Projects
Type of Company |
Product/Techology |
Project |
Small Company |
Liquid Crystal Display |
Nematic response in confined geometry (PDLC) |
Small Company |
Liquid Crystal Display |
Fringe electric field effects |
Large Company |
Projection Display |
Survey of technology |
Large Company |
Liquid Crystal Projection Display |
Light valve reliability and test |
Several Companies |
Liquid Crystal Projection Display |
Design Consultant |
Publications
Title |
Publication |
Page No. (date) |
Diffractive Projection Displays |
SID Digest |
(1997) |
Nematic Liquid Crystal Viscosity and Response Time |
SID Digest |
27, 584 (1996) |
Design Issues in Liquid-Crystal Projection Displays |
SPIE |
2650, 41 (1996) |
Silicon-Chip Liquid-Crystal Display |
SPIE |
2407, 280 (1995) |
Liquid-Crystal Display Device Fundamentals |
Chapter 2 of the book: Electro-Optical Displays, (edited by M.A. Karim) Publisher, Marcel Dekker |
(1992) |
Liquid-Crystal Integrated Silicon Spatial Light Modulator |
Appl. Opt |
31, 3945 (1992) |
Thermo-Optical Analysis of Liquid-Cooled Infrared Window |
LMSC Report |
(1992) |
Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of Fiber-Optic Strain Sensor |
LMSC Report |
(1992) |
Polymer Processing and Liquid Crystals |
LMSC Report |
(1992) |
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Alignment |
Ferroelectrics |
122, 239 (1991) |
Liquid-Crystal Devices in Planar Optics |
SPIE |
1455, 206 (1991) |
Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Gray-Scale Response |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
99, 97 (1991) |
Effects of Filter Pixelation on Optical Correlation |
Tech. Dig. (IEEE Lasers and EO Soc.) |
14, 161 (1990) |
Miniature Hybrid Optical Correlators: Device and System Issues |
SPIE |
1297, 64 (1990) |
Alignment of Liq. Crystal on polarizing Metal Film |
Appl. Phys. Lett. |
56, 1723 (1990) |
Adaptive Resonance Theory of Optical Pattern Recognition |
Appl. Opt. |
28, 4060 (1989) |
Photoaddressed Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators |
Appl. Opt. |
28, 4763 (1989) |
Photoaddressed Liquid Crystal Device Liquid Crystals Photoaddressed SLMs and Optical Pattern Recognition |
GACIAC Proc. (Redstone Arsenal 1988) |
5, 1389 (1989) |
Gallium Arsenide Photoaddressed Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator |
SPIE |
936, 56 (1988) |
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices and Optical Processing |
Ferroelectrics |
85, 291 (1988) |
Liquid Crystal Edge Enhancing SLM |
Appl. Opt. |
28, 219 (1988) |
Fast Nematic Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator |
SPIE |
824, 34 (1988) |
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices |
SPIE |
825, 32 (1987) |
Optical Preprocessing and the Differentiating SLM |
Technical Digest (OSA) |
12, 58 (1987) |
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
144, 309 (1987) |
FLC and Fast Nematic Spatial Light Modulators |
SPIE |
684, 60 (1986) |
Nonlinear Optical Response in Nematic Liquid Crystals |
Appl. Opt. |
23, 2979 (1985) |
Nonlinear Optical Effects in the Nematic Phase |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
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Electrooptic Crystals for Spatial Light Modulators |
LMSC Report (1985) |
122, 59 (1985) |
High-Speed Spatial Light Modulator |
IEEE J.Q.E. |
QE-21, 1241 (1985) |
Holographic Phase Conjugation and Strehl Ratio |
Appl. Opt. |
21, 3197 (1982) |
Suppression of Convective mixing ... Regenerative, Magnetic Refrigerators |
LMSC Report |
(1982) |
Bend and Splay Elastic Const ... Ammonium Chloride Water Mixture |
J. Chem. Phys. |
75, 352 (1981) |
Numerical Solution of Heat Flow in the Laser Addressed LC Display |
J. Appl. Phys. |
52, 4843 (1981) |
Thermal Properties ... in the Laser Addressed Liquid-Crystal Display |
J. Appl. Phys. |
52, 1294 (1981) |
Surface Alignment and the Smectic Liquid-Crystal Display |
IBM Confidential Report |
(1980) |
Liquid Crystal Blue Phase ... Electric Field Response |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
64 (letters), 41 (1980) |
Liquid-Crystal Voltage Controlled Retardation Display |
Appl. Opt. |
19, 2235 (1980) |
Alignment of Liquid Crystal on Obliquely Evaporated SiO2 Film |
J. Appl. Phys. |
51, 2552 (1980) |
The Differential Scanning Dilatometer ... |
J. Polymer Sci. |
63, 95 (1978) |
Supercooling and Nucleation in Liquid Crystals |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
44, 33 (1978) |
Size and Surface Effects ... Human Low-Density Lipoproteins |
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. |
42, 203 (1977) |
Volumetric Study of Nematic-Isotropic Pretransition |
Phys. Rev. |
A15, 2496 (1977) |
Size and Surface Effects on Phase Transitions |
Chem. Phys. Lett. |
44, 305 (1976) |
Precision Recording Dilatometer and Results... |
Appl. Phys. |
47, 2735 (1976) |
Calorimetry of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions |
J. de Phys. |
36, C1-139 (1975) |
Memory Switching and Crystallization in Selenium |
Can. J. Phys. |
49, 2718 (1971) |
Breakdown and Sustaining Mech. in Amorphous Threshold Switches |
Can. J. Phys. |
49, 1662 (1971) |
Switching in Amorphous Semiconductors |
Can. J. Phys. |
48, 2780 (1970) |
Magneto-Seebeck and Nernst Effects in Cadmium Arsenid |
J. Phys. |
C2, 2389 (1969) |
The Thermal Conductivity of Cadmium Arsenide |
J. Phys. |
C2, 2138 (1969) |
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