bored...

trying to finish up a ton of work that i've been puttin off for the whole week..the report for the tech comm class sld be pretty easy bull shit as usual..the thing tat worries me is the write-up for my research on OLED...recently my experiments have been met with a host of problems.. substrate roughness, calcium srouce depletion (which is supposed to be pretty rare..which means i'm damn sui..) and of course the Aluminium problem...i guess it's about time that our lab's evaporator goes up for some maintenance...it's quite frustrating to have to wait the whole day to pump down the vacuum chamber and then deposit just 400 A of Al...when i actually need 2000! anyhow..i hope professor kanicki would let me pass with the data i've collected so far...which to be honest is not much..thing is..this is something i relly can't bullshit about..unlike my tech comm report...
anyhow..i was really excited to read about the OLED development back home..i've known for a while that EDB is interested in pumping up OLED manufacturing sector in singapore..but i didn't kno that they have actually set up a oled network (ON-Singpaore) ..i wonder if it's a gd news for me..on one hand the govt is generating alot of buzz within the OLED circle so i suppose it'd be easier for me to ask for fundin from temasek to so my start-up...on the other hand i'd be swimmin in a much bigger pool of major players like Sony and Samsung...i guess i'd have to find a niche spot within the value chain if i wanna convince them...it's really quite fascinating to think tat i'd be using flexible elctronic display within 10 yrs or so...and i definitely wanna be part of the first wave to commercialize this tech...
there're other competing technologies of course...ppl are tryin to make flexible LCD...but backlight is a big issue...E Ink is also makin headway makin monochrome electronic display but tat require high voltage...i guess oled will be the main leadin contender for the next generation of flexible display...thou i think that most of the big companies are aimin for conventional TV displays or durable displays...i personally think tat a disposable model (keepin in mind the lifetime problem of oled) would be a more ploausible option...thou i've also heard tat samsun and sony are beefin up oled manufacturin capability this yr...i wonder wat else do these big players have tat they're not reportin in the public domain....
well...i'd also have to think abt what to do for my research in Berkeley...of course gettin into berkeley is great...and the fellowship certainly sweeten the deal...plus i'd get to spend the whole tiem with my lo po...:)..but i'm kind of disappointed that no one in Berkeley is doin oled research...i found out that this woman professor named King has been workin on poly silicon TFTs...tat's possibly the closest i'd get to OLED in eecs...this other prof Vivek works on organic stuff...but only on transistors and material characterization...wat a waste man..i'm also considerin of workin with Prof Chenming Hu...apparently this dude was the CTO of Taiwan Semiconductor, the world's biggest foundry..with 40 patents under his belt..haha..makes me feel insufficient...but he certainly seems like a nice dude...even do paintings with his son in his spare time (at least from wat i gather from his website)...this guy sort of invented the FinFET too...read his paper on tat one...i guess this would be my second option...
i'm also plannin to learn japanese and possibly do the MOT (Management of Technology) program wile i'm there...i guess i'd need some marketing skills if i wanna come back to signapore and start the start-up straight away...