T. Peter Brody

Tamas Peter Brody called Peter, ( born April 18, 1920 in Budapest, † 18 September 2011 in Pittsburgh ) was a British- Hungarian physicist. He is co-inventor of active matrix displays with thin film transistors.

Brody left Hungary in 1938 at the London College of Printing to study. During World War II he worked for the SOE ( where he brought it up to the captain ) and in 1948 a British citizen. He was musically talented and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. At the same time he studied physics at the University of London and in 1953 received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Until 1959 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University and then went into the research laboratories of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh.

At Westinghouse, he worked both theoretically and experimentally, for example by tunnel diodes, field emission, pattern recognition, semiconductor circuits, injection-luminescence/fluorescence before thin film transistors ( TFT) and turned to on flexible substrates made ​​in 1968 pioneered TFT. In 1972 he developed here active matrix displays ( AMLCD ), a key technology for liquid crystal displays. In a paper published in 1975, he also introduced the term Active Matrix.

As Westinghouse in 1979 abandoned its research program, he left the company and founded Panel Vision, in 1983 introduced the first AMLCD in the U.S. market. In 1985, the company was acquired by Litton Systems. In 1988 he founded Magna screen for the production of large flat screens, but left the company in 1990 and founded the consulting firm Active Matrix Associates, who conducted a series of secret projects for DARPA. In 1998, he invented a way to produce cheap electronic circuits in thin films with 3D printing and in 2002 founded the company with colleagues Amedeo (today Advantech U.S.) with funding from Compaq. The company developed and produced by AM technology for flat panel displays such as AM - OLEDs. He was in the company chief scientist until his death.

He has published over 70 articles and received over 60 patents.

In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID ), the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize he received in 1987. In 1988 he was awarded the Rank Price in Optoelectronics and the Eduard Rhein Award, 2011 IEEE Jun- ichi Nishizawa Medal and the Charles Stark Draper Prize for 2012.