LAPPD™ is a photon-detector technology based upon amplification of photoelectrons in large-area microchannel plates and fast waveform-sampling electronics. In the next-generation design, the signals will be coupled capacitively through the vacuum package, from a thin-film metal anode inside the vacuum enclosure to flexible readout configurations on an external printed-circuit card, improving signal bandwidth, and eliminating all but one electric feedthrough. We report here on tests of this concept [1].