In 2007, I had the opportunity to join a brilliant team at Arizona State University designing flexible displays and electronics for the U.S. Army. As a recent war veteran as well as a display-technology veteran, I jumped at the chance.
I was empowered to unleash my creativity in the development of novel electronic and mechanical designs. I created display driver circuits, fixtures, trade show demos, as well as apparatus for mechanically testing and automatically bending displays. I also collaborated with the electronic testing and characterization team to design dozens of custom circuits for making precision measurements of transistor and pixel performance, display lifetime, and many other parameters.
Making electronics on flexible plastic substrates is hard, and ASU pioneered many of the techniques a decade ago that helped pave the way for bendable devices and phones that are just now hitting the market. I'm proud to have played a small part in that development.
Here's a link to an article I contributed to.
Custom driver board using embedded processor
Concept of flexible arm band display
Early demo of flexible OLED display
Photo for Gizmodo article. That's me bending an OLED screen
High precision measurement PCB design
Automatic display bender apparatus for stress-testing flexible OLED's
