Courses

Free during development — limited-time access. Preview the course without enrollment while it is being developed. Sign in and enroll to track progress. The end date is to be determined. Retained lessons 00–04 remain free public chapters after the wider course moves to paid access.

Seven current chapters, 19 supporting reading pages and a 156-slide deck explore environmental qualification for LCD and other aircraft display systems. Chapters 1 and 2 include Diggy’s recorded narration: Introduction (12:26) and Temperature and Pressure (23:01). Later chapters include animated slides, reading and worked practice while narration is developed. Allow about 12 hours for the presentation, reading, exercises and capstone as a provisional study budget.

Download the current chapter slide PDFs and glossary. Explore stiffness, temperature, loading rate, bond shear, laminate mismatch, resonance and harmonics in seven analytical animations. Existing topic reference pages and the knowledge check remain available below the current chapter sequence.

This course is a living document, as are the standards. Enrolled learners typically receive updates when chapters are revised. Use the adopted edition, agreed categories and approved qualification baseline for your project.

Use the course forum to ask questions, discuss display qualification and suggest corrections. Development edition A-P15. Educational material does not establish product qualification or aircraft approval.

Open the interactive course · Download all 156 slides · Course forum

Cover photograph: Airbus A350 cockpit by Joao Carlos Medau, CC BY 2.0. Displayed at reduced size; the course card may crop the view.

Optical Bonding of LCD Displays

Optical Bonding Displays with Platinum Cured Silicones

A detailed engineering course connecting LCD operation and polarizers to functional front covers, compliant silicone bonds, controlled manufacturing and verified display performance. Learn how platinum catalyst, crosslinkers, adhesion promoters, primers and retarders affect the bonding system.

Watch the 2:42 introduction with Diggy Breiling, then preview Chapters 1 and 2 free. Invitation enrollment provides access to Chapters 3–17 and the engineering resources. No prior silicone chemistry is required.

Six course sections

1. Foundations — Introduction and Chapters 1–2: why silicone; LCD image formation, color filtering, PVA/TAC polarizers, optical films and emissive-display comparisons.
2. Core Engineering — Chapters 3–7: silicone chemistry; front covers, touch, ITO heaters, shields, mesh, masks and NVIS optical paths; optical performance; bond mechanics; material selection.
3. Manufacturing — Chapters 8–10: surface adhesion and preparation lifetime; cure timing; humidity and temperature control; level, untwisted, thickness-controlled assembly.
4. System Integration — Chapters 11–12: extended-temperature operation, installation loads, adhesive/cohesive failure analysis and complete-assembly verification.
5. Silicone Enhancements — Chapters 13–17: catalyst, crosslinkers, adhesion promoters and primers, retarders and the design capstone. Includes product-specific primer windows and perimeter adhesion.
6. Engineering Resources: calculations, exercises, references and glossary.

Chapter 2 provides the LCD foundation. Chapter 4 · front covers, touch panels, heaters and shields develops the functional cover; detailed chapters provide linked explanations of optics, forces, surface preparation and qualification.

Designed for display, optical, mechanical, process and quality engineers. Estimated study time: approximately 12 hours including exercises and reference reading, pending learner-pilot validation. Includes worked calculations, self-checks and a design capstone.

Related FPD.DEV courses

• Display Optical Testing: Contrast, Reflection & Ambient Performance — Measurement geometry, contrast, reflection, uncertainty and laboratory reporting.
• Optical Oracle™: Optical Enhancements & Sunlight Viewability — Optical enhancement comparisons and sunlight-viewability modeling.
• DO-160 Display Qualification: Components, Systems and Installation — Environmental qualification planning for the complete installed display.

These are separate learning paths; follow each course’s current access and development-edition notices. They do not establish product qualification.

Suggested future specialist courses

Display Polarization and Backlight Engineering; Functional Cover Design: Touch, Heaters and EMI; and Silicone Adhesion Process Qualification. These are proposed topics, not available course offerings.

Explore NVIS display engineering through 24 chapters on spectra, standards, optical stacks, reflection control, dimming and measurement.

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On each chapter page, use Back and Forward beneath the video to browse the reading pages. Follow along with the Chapter PDF, Glossary and references.

Discussion

General NVIS questions and feedback · Learner discussion

Chapters

1. Welcome & Introduction
2. The display and the two viewing tasks
3. From MIL-L-85762A to MIL-STD-3009
4. Types classes colors and the requirement boundary
5. Night-Vision Technologies: What Each System Sees
6. How image-intensifier goggles work
7. The display in the shared lighting environment
8. Reading spectra and keeping units consistent
9. Measuring NVIS weighted radiance
10. LEDs and the origin of their spectra
11. RGB versus white backlights
12. The LCD stack and the spectral budget
13. Follow the light from backlight to viewer
14. Absorbing interference and hybrid filters
15. Filters in front of and behind the display
16. Filters over LEDs and backlight rails
17. Leakage and equal-output comparisons
18. Dimming ratio and low-level control
19. Daylight contrast and the brightness budget
20. Modes transitions and fault behavior
21. A practical measurement and verification program
22. Product cases and architecture selection
23. Workbook and facilitated laboratories
24. Assessment and answer key

Development edition. Videos are available for Chapters 1–3; later chapters currently provide reading pages and follow-along PDFs.

Touch Panel Technology for LCD and Other Displays

From sensing principles to an integrated touch display

Learn how touch systems work, compare the benefits and compromises of the major sensing technologies, and connect the physics to displays, controllers, drivers, HID interfaces and demanding applications.

Start with the introduction with Diggy Breiling, then preview Chapters 1–11. Sign in and enroll to continue through display integration, application requirements and custom-product development. Basic voltage, current and wavelength concepts help; no touch-controller design experience is assumed.

Five course sections

1. Foundations — Chapters 1–2: the display and touch system, the input chain, benefits, compromises and technology selection.
2. Sensing technologies — Chapters 3–11: resistive, surface capacitive, projected capacitive, infrared beam grids, optical sensing and ShadowSense™, surface acoustic wave, acoustic pulse and bending-wave sensing, pen digitizers, force sensing, haptics and touchless extensions.
3. Integration — Chapters 12–15: LCD, OLED, microLED and other display architectures; optical and mechanical integration; controllers, drivers, USB HID and embedded interfaces; tuning, diagnostics and verification.
4. Applications — Chapters 16–20: commercial and public-facing displays, industrial systems, aerospace and avionics including NVIS, military environments, and road, rail and working vehicles.
5. Custom development — Chapters 21–22: working with FPD.DEV and Diggy Breiling, developing a product brief, comparing options and defending a verification plan.

Chapter 2 builds the selection vocabulary. Chapter 7 · Optical sensing and ShadowSense™ uses animated teaching graphics to explain emitters, sensors, moving shadows and multitouch. ShadowSense™ is a trademark of Baanto International Ltd.; the technology and related intellectual property belong to Baanto.

Designed for display, electrical, mechanical, embedded-software, systems and application engineers, as well as technical decision-makers. The course includes chapter reading, animated slide decks, collapsible narration scripts, chapter PDF downloads, glossary entries and supporting links.

Your instructor

Diggy Breiling, founder of FPD.DEV, began repairing LCDs in 1992, optically bonding them in 1994, and making resistive touch panels by 1995. He has firsthand experience integrating almost every touch-panel type and has worked directly with more than a dozen touch-panel manufacturers, past and present.

Current edition and updates

Chapters 1, 2 and 7 include narrated videos. The other 19 chapters include animated slide decks marked Narration pending, with scripts and reading available now. This is a living course: content and referenced standards evolve. Enrolled learners will typically receive notification when chapter content is updated, so please sign in and enroll.

Related FPD.DEV courses

• Platinum Cure Optical Bonding Silicone for LCD Displays — Front covers, bonding materials, optical performance and assembly.
• Display Optical Testing: Contrast, Reflection & Ambient Performance — Measurement geometry, contrast, reflection and reporting.
• Optical Oracle™: Optical Enhancements & Sunlight Viewability — Optical enhancement comparisons and sunlight-viewability modeling.
• DO-160 Display Qualification: Components, Systems and Installation — Environmental qualification planning for the complete installed display.

Follow each course’s current access and development-edition notices. Course completion does not establish product qualification.

Have a display or embedded-platform design question? Contact FPD.DEV. If you need a subject matter expert, Colabmo may be able to connect you with one.

FPD.DEV — The Future of Display and Systems Development.

Under development — free early access. This course is open for learning and feedback while content is being developed. Enrollment is currently free and may remain free until formal release. A release date and future price have not yet been set.

• Register and join the course: learners enrolled before paid pricing starts retain access without an additional course fee for at least three months from that effective date.
• Complete the course and keep access: completed learners will not lose access because paid pricing is introduced, including early enrollees who complete during their protected access period.

Use the same account to record enrollment and completion. Future pricing and its effective date will be announced here before they take effect. There is no scheduled access cutoff at present. Discuss questions, corrections and suggestions in the course forum.

For display engineers and test technicians: contrast, luminance/color uniformity, viewing-angle tests in 15° increments, BRDF, specular and diffuse reflection, and combined ambient measurements. Includes manual setups, Pixel Perfect patterns, measurement lights, integrating spheres, goniometers, equipment images and links, specification comparisons, laboratory exercises and a 12-question knowledge check.

Estimated learning and laboratory time: 9 hours 30 minutes. A-P06 — Public development edition; final release pending.