Jeremy Grace Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New Yorm Area

Develop refinements to deposition processes used in manufacturing optical filters. As a designer, I enjoy finding techniques to produce manufacturable designs for high-performance filters. As a deposition process engineer, I enjoy improving manufacturing process capabilities.

Rochester, New York Area

Design high-performance thin-film optical filters made from dielectric stacks.

Rochester, New York

• Lead bench-top research, coach group members on their project work, make project proposals, identify R&D opportunities for group members, and carry out project R&D. Recognized for expertise in plasma surface.
• Led team on exploratory work in the area of printing functional materials. Work focuses on delivery and transfer of high-viscosity and/or heavily particle-loaded materials.
• Led a variety of experiments to probe fundamental aspects of drop velocity variation in thermally modulated continuous inkjet printing and related fundamental behavior to practical performance. Developed the.
• Performed technology evaluation for various plasma processes, including micro-scale plasma struck with micro-positioned electrodes for cleaning printer components, ionized physical vapor deposition for depositing.
• Designed sources and deposition schemes for organic vapor deposition to deliver high-uniformity, large-area coating processes for production-scale manufacture of Organic Light Emitting Diode displays.

Rochester, New York

Supervised two PhD’s, a senior technologist, and four technicians. Presided over group meetings, setting agendas to have an appropriate mix of technical discussion, laboratory upkeep, and group administrative items. Acted as liaison between the Surface Modification Group and other groups (and manufacturing areas that use plasma processing and thin-film.

Rochester, New York

• As President of the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Vacuum Society (UNY-VAC) (1998-2000):
• Responsible for successful operation of the chapter, which had assets of roughly $50,000 and an annual cash flow of roughly $40,000.
• Responsible for new initiatives in symposium formats and intersociety collaborations.
• Responsible for rebuilding chapter infrastructure and for succession planning. As Technical Program Chair of UNY-VAC (1996-1998)
• Organized successful symposia on flat-panel display technology, polymer surfaces, and thin-film process technology.
• Led phone campaign to assess needs and interests of local chapter membership.

Rochester, New York

Developed high-efficiency plasma web treatment technology and led experiments to improve process control and identify mechanisms of surface modification. Invented robust priming processes based on grafting of organic molecules to plasma-treated polymer surfaces. Supervised several technicians, college co-ops and high-school co-ops.

Rochester, New York

Developed scalable adhesion technology that enabled launch of a major product. Developed and implemented quantitative practical adhesion tests to enable proper assessment of process performance/cost tradeoffs, to reduce the cost of poor quality and to reduce hidden costs by developing the ability to discern short-term remedies from significant long-term.

Chicago, IL

Chamber ensemble. Performed a variety of chamber music in concert programs and an appearance in the Dame Myra Hess series.

Phd, Physics

Activities and Societies: Chamber music (cello) Sigma Xi

Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: MIT Chamber Players (cello) Society of Physics Students (SPS - honors society)