Senior Research Engineer
Responsible for inventing and patenting new ideas, designing and demonstrating prototypes, and bringing the resultant products into a marketable form. Extremely knowledgeable about the display market and associated suppliers of optical components and materials.  

• Invented optical coating designs and processes for a new projection-screen technology that won the Bose President’s Award.
• Created novel front and rear projector designs based on LCD, LCOS, and DLP technologies.
• Performed optical design and analysis of LED illumination systems using Zemax software.  
• Program managed a group of 13 people that developed fully immersive 3D audio and 3D video incorporating innovative optical coatings and processes.
• Led the Bose optics laboratory which handles all Bose optical measurements for a variety of products.  Extremely familiar with hands-on spectrophotometer measurements, radiometer measurements, and laser measurements.  
• Wrote patent applications and prosecuted the cases in the US patent office.

Optical Coatings Laboratory Inc., Asia, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                  1997 – 1999
Engineering Manager      
General responsibility for all technical aspects of OCLI business in Asia.  

• Built Japanese customer base, developed new products to fit the OEM Japanese market, and planned the introduction of manufacturing in Japan.  
• Headed the start-up of production in Japan by transferring vacuum coating processes from Santa Rosa, CA, to Isehara, Japan.  
• Led the customer support group to effectively resolve quality problems in the US factories.

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                                                        1994 – 1997
Research Engineer     
Worldwide involvement in all optical coating designs and coating processes with an emphasis on optical sputtering.  

• Spear-headed a major initiative to switch from outside suppliers to low-cost internal manufacturing and worked closely with production line in Mizunami, Japan, to implement the new processes.  
• Performed optical measurements and material analysis including ellipsometry and spectrophotometry.  
• Optimized optical coating designs important to company businesses which received the highest possible evaluation rating at Sony ("extraordinary achievement recognized at the corporate level") for 1995, 1996, and 1997.

Hughes Aircraft, El Segundo, CA                                                                                                                       1984 – 1994
Senior Scientist
Researched a wide variety of microelectronics, optics, and plasma physics technologies and supervised spectrophotometer laboratory

• Developed optical products included holographic elements, true diamond coatings, the first laser fiber-optic transmitter for use in space, and the first fiber draw tower to produce aluminum-coated optical fiber.
• Developed the first plasma cleaning technology for use on space-based optics.
• Designed bandpass, antireflection, and other types of optical coatings for classified programs.  
• Developed wirebonding, die attach, and package sealing processes for microelectronics assembly.

MS, Materials Science (optical and electronic materials), University of California, Los Angeles    
MBA, Pepperdine University
BS, Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
USPTO Registered Patent Agent #59,266
Languages: Native English, fluent in Japanese
Company awards: 4 at Hughes, 3 at Sony, 2 at Bose
Software: TFCalc, Zemax
Affiliations: OSA, SID, SPIE
Security clearance: Top-Secret/SCI/Poly (inactive)


8,081,368 Selective absorbing
7,995,092 Two-dimensional and three-dimensional projecting
7,710,645 Selective reflecting for laser projector
7,554,060 Displaying cooking-related information
7,535,636 Selective reflecting
7,520,624 Light enhancing
7,517,091 Color gamut improvement in presence of ambient light7,515,336 Selective reflecting
7,515,336 Selective reflecting
7,241,014 Microdisplay projection
7,110,175 Display screens
6,847,483 Selective reflecting
6,409,891 Low energy plasma cleaning method for cryofilms
6,284,382 Antireflection film and manufacturing method thereof
6,248,448 Anti-reflection film
5,696,429 Method for charge neutralization of surface in space with space-charge neutral     plasma
5,628,831 Method for cleaning contaminants from a body in space using a space charge neutral plasma
5,514,936 RF plasma source and method for plasma cleaning of surface in space
5,418,431 RF plasma source and antenna therefore
5,089,439 Process for attaching large area silicon-backed chips to gold-coated surfaces
5,020,887 Conformally doped optical elements
4,863,090 Room temperature attachment method employing a mercury-gold amalgam



20120002278 Anti-moire optical system and method
20110134510 Despeckling apparatus and method
20100039352 Forming spectral filters
20090109366 Liquid crystal display without bezel




“Reactive Dual Magnetron Sputtering for Antireflection Multilayer Coating on Webs,” J. Strumpfel, G. Beister, M. Kammer, St. Rehn, H. Ishikawa, and B. Lippey, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Sputtering & Plasma Processes, 1997

“Two Layer Broad Band AR Coating,” H. Ishikawa and B. Lippey, 10th International Vacuum Web Conference, 1996

Advanced Removal Techniques by Ion Cleaning (ARTIC), B. Lippey, et al., Air Force Contract F30602-89-C-0163, 1993

“On-Orbit Ion Cleaning of Cryogenic Optical Surfaces,” B. Lippey, et al., SPIE Vol 1754, 1992

“Cryo-Scatter Measurements of Beryllium,” B. Lippey, et al., SPIE Vol 1530, 1991