Alex Henzen

HYPHY USA Inc.，CTO

Prof. Alex Henzen is HYPHY’s CTO and Engineering Project Manager. Alex is a multiple award-winning display technology specialist who has accrued over 35 years TFT display panel design and implementation experience. Before his work for HYPHY, Alex was leading the EPDI electrowetting team at South China Normal University. He was VP of technology at Clearink LLC, co-founder and vice president of iRex Technologies, later IRX Innovations, with responsibility for process development and innovation. He was responsible for design and production of iRex’ e-paper displays as well as running multiple innovation projects, internal as well as with partners and suppliers. With iRex he successfully developed 3 e-reader platforms, as well as display controller hardware and architectures. Prior to founding iRex Technologies, Henzen held a program management position at Philips Mobile Display Systems. During his 20 years at Philips, Henzen developed passive segmented and matrix LCD, active matrix LCD as well as alternative LCD technologies and electrophoretic displays. This has resulted in new ways of display addressing (multi-line addressing), novel LCD compensation technologies (cholesteric compensation films) and configurations (ASTN), the first flexible cholesteric displays, the first in-pixel circuitry / memory in LTPS prototype displays and the first commercial active matrix electrophoretic display. He has over 100 patent applications on electronic information displays. Henzen achieved his MSc in Chemistry from Leiden University, The Netherlands, in 1985. He has been a long term member of IEC TC110 standardization committee, and received the IEC 1906 award in 2004. He also received the SID special recognition award in 2007, and the SPIE green photonics award in 2011