December 11, 2018

Making of the First Foldable Smartphone FlexPai

Dr. Ze Yuan, R&D Director, Royole Corporation

Presentation Abstract

This talk includes an introduction to Royole Corporation, an innovator and manufacturer of next-generation human-machine interface technologies and products including advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices. Recently Royole has introduced the first commercial foldable smartphone, a combination of mobile phone and tablet with a flexible screen, the Royole FlexPai. Disrupting consumers’ traditional concept of a smartphone, the unit can be used either folded or unfolded, giving it the portability of a smartphone plus the screen size of a high-definition tablet. The FlexPai foldable smartphone is based on Royole’s Flexible+ platform, which can be easily integrated into a variety of products and applications across numerous industries.

Jacky Qiu, Co-founder and Vice President, OTI Lumionics Inc.

Ze Yuan is now with Royole Corporation, a startup company focusing on flexible electronics technologies and consumer products. He is the R&D director of Advanced Technology Development group at Royole where he is responsible for the company’s efforts on display panel design and technology development of flexible displays and sensors in support of consumer product innovations. He also manages the Frontier Research Center, responsible for delivering the next-node technology development and new technology sourcing.

Ze has published more than thirty peer-reviewed papers/conference presentations in the field of semiconductor devices and display technologies covering process, device, modeling, and materials, etc. He also holds a portfolio of patents on flexible display technologies and is an active reviewer for several academic societies.

Ze Yuan received B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, with minor in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.

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Next Generation Multi-Depth, Wide Field of View AR Glasses

Kelly Peng, Founder, CEO, CTO, Kura AR

Presentation Abstract

This talk will cover the ways to do multi-depth (multi-focal plane) AR display modules using adaptive optics and spatial light modulation to solve the accommodation-vergence conflict.

Kelly Peng, Founder, CEO, CTO, Kura AR

Kelly Peng is the founder, CEO & CTO of Kura AR, a startup based in San Francisco, which they are working on a > 135-degree field of view, compact AR glasses optical/display module that is outdoor viewable.
Kelly is an electrical, optical and software engineer, studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley for electrical engineering and computer science.

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