Flexible Displays for the Army (Printed Electronics USA 2006)

Dr Eric Forsythe, Team Leader Display Technologies
Army Research Laboratory, United States
 

Presentation Summary

  • Why Flexible Displays?
  • Flexible Display Technology background
  • Army's Flexible Display Center

Speaker Biography

Eric W. Forsythe is a staff physicist at the Army Research Laboratory. Dr Forsythe is the Team Leader for Display Technologies and is an Associate Program Manager for the Army's Flexible Display Center. Prior to joining the Army Research Laboratory, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, in both the Physics Department and the Chemistry Department, where he worked on electronic interfaces and carrier transport in organic light emitting devices in collaboration with the Eastman Kodak Company. Dr. Forsythe received his Ph.D. in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in 1996, where he studied Si nanocrystalline based light emitting devices. Currently, Dr. Forsythe's research activities include, organic based light emitting device for flexible displays, organic based thin film transistors and organic based photovoltaics. He has authored/coauthored more than 45 papers and has given more than 20 invited talks and seminars. Dr. Forsythe is an active member of the Society for Information Displays. He has served as the Program Chair and General Chair for SIDMAC. He has/will serve as a Conference Chair at SPIE. Dr Forsythe has recently been invited to serve as an Adjunct Faculty at the University Texas, Dallas.

Company Profile

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the Army's corporate basic and applied research laboratory. Our mission is to provide innovative science, technology, and analysis to enable full-spectrum operations. ARL consists of the Army Research Office (ARO) and six Directorates-- Weapons and Materials, Sensors and Electron Devices, Human Research and Engineering, Computational and Information Sciences, Vehicle Technology, and Survivability and Lethality Analysis. The Army relies on this ARL Team for scientific discoveries, technologic advances, and analyses to provide warfighters with capabilities to succeed on the battlefield.