Eric Jones Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Served as a key member in the Advanced Engineering Group (one of nine) responsible for developing the world’s first under display fingerprint sensor in mobile: Clear ID.▪Led opportunity effort for a cost-down approach to the optics layer of Clear ID; including semiconductor grade material optimization and vendor site process development on wafer level packaging (WLP) laser tool – Micro Through Vias ▪Led material selection and assembly for early stage and mature optical fingerprint sensors into critical mobile demos.–Characterized OLED displays and display panel materials (transmittance, luminance, scattering angles, CIE, optical microscopy and analysis of TFT and emitters). –Built customer prototype phones integrating sensor module yielding high quality demos used in customer meetings and shows: MWC and CES. Expert in display lamination and module bonding.▪Cross-functionally worked with Package Engineering Team on CMOS packaging and module integration on OLED displays.–Experience with rapid material testing for down selection, planning DOE’s and testing material properties. –Traveled overseas to support CM and IHV; including, process evaluation, identifying gaps in objective and making corrective measures. ▪Managed relations and expectations for back-end wafer processing and device packaging for engineering modules.–Leveraged multiple vendors and provided statement of work documentation to meet expectations and scheduling requirements. –Managed packaging of 1000+ engineering DOE modules: wafer grinding, dicing, die attach, SMT, wirebonding, tight die2die attach and encapsulation.

San Jose

▪Led material development in IR transparent colorization inks for optical fingerprint sensors under glass bezels.–Coordinated with ink suppliers to optimize pigment types and concentrations for spectral response and established working ink sets (both solvent and UV types); including internal development of IR transparent white (near white). –Coating knowhow: screen printing, spin coating, spray coating, gravure, Mayer bar, UV imprinting, pad printing, lamination, evaporation, and compression molding. ▪Directed development of integrating a capacitive fingerprint sensor under the front cover glass in mobile phones.–Managed JDA with the top US glass manufacture and process development for thin glass (<.3mm) shaping, chemical strengthening, and lamination with major cover glass processor in China. –Established durability lab for phone cover glass and lamination development, test procedures and methods for analysis: phone drop, ball drop, 3 point bending, tap testing, static loading and optical inspection.–Completed work led to deployment of glass laminates and other brittle materials used on home buttons capable of passing durability requirements.

San Jose

▪Built the materials lab which focused on new product development in mobile phones (Validity was only in PC market).–Responsible for all mobile hardware prototyping, integrating Validity’s chip on flex fingerprint sensors into customer supplied and commercial phones. This work was the feasibility efforts enabling Validity Sensors into the mobile market. –Researched material properties for glass, crystal, ceramics, plastics, adhesives and inks for use in mobile phones. Work included: system level fingerprint testing using various materials, vendor sourcing, adhesive development in boosting dielectric constant and minimizing bond line, coating development, lamination, integration, reliability and durability. ▪Key player in the development of the capacitive fingerprint sensor inside a home button – early inventor–Leading efforts in home button design and integration of chip on flex fingerprint sensor. Keeping the customer’s industrial design and including features to accommodate sensor, while maintaining a durable button module. –Supported customer and IHV’s in Asia with the home button module assembly. Transferring lab process to assembly line. –Leading efforts for fingerprint home button durability. Established durability lab and procedures for home button project: adhesion test, scratch test, ball drop, hardness test, hot liquids, static load, tap testing, abrasion test, accelerated aging, and thermal cycling.–Validity was successfully acquired by Synaptics and branded the Biometric Products Division. 100M+ fingerprint home buttons sold in 2014 and more in the following years.

▪Designed, built, and integrated R&D equipment and managed facility: custom glove boxes, evaporation chambers, high vacuum curing chambers, cleanrooms, electronics, ovens, printers (gravure and screen), chemicals and process gasses.▪Developed materials for air stable optoelectronic inks and doped cathodes as well as processes for patterning ink to create a low-cost OLED. –Led process of record and DOE print runs; including, device testing (I-V, photometry, luminance, lifetime), thin film characterization, analysis and creating reports in a timely manner.–Co-developed air stable doped cathode materials (via 3 roll mill and raw materials). ▪Led development effort on a low-cost encapsulation process, yielding a fully flexible OLED display.–Managed relations with suppliers and selection of materials: barrier films, metal foils and specialized adhesive films and liquids. Co-developed a printable desiccant paste with material supplier.–Developed an encapsulation process utilizing modified low-tech laminators in glovebox.–Developed methodology for accelerated aging on flexible barrier poly films using reactivity of evaporated calcium.▪Key role in transferring technology overseas due to acquisition by Sumitomo and responsible for laboratory closure: shipping and liquidating all equipment and supplies, including waste removal and certified clean.

Worked on increasing the external quantum efficiencies of PPV and PF based OLED's using blended and multi-layered techniques.Thesis: Electrical and Optical Properties of Multilayered and Blended PPV and PF Based Polymer LEDs.

Constructed a wiring harness for cryogenic particle detectors (10mK) used for the detection of WIMP’s (weak interacting massive particle) Designed and fabricated components used to integrate cryogenic particle detectors Lab Facilites: general maintenance, equipment maintenance, chemical waste

Ba, Physics

Ms, Physics