LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE
®
and
CHEMICAL PHYSICS
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL REPORT
July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director
2008-2009 Annual Report
Liquid Crystal Institute and
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Director’s Report..............................................................................................................................1
Achievements and Recognition........................................................................................................3
Summary of Accomplishments and Activities .................................................................................4
Major Funding Sources and Expenditures .......................................................................................5
LCI Highlights ................................................................................................................................7
In Memoriam ..............................................................................................................................12
Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff ......................................................................................14
Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel...............................................................15
Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty .................................................17
Table 4 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Students ...............................................18
Table 5 Scholarships and Fellowships .....................................................................................20
Table 6 Graduate Degrees Awarded ........................................................................................21
Table 7 Placement of Personnel...............................................................................................22
Table 8 Visiting Scientists .......................................................................................................23
Table 9 Grants and Contracts...................................................................................................24
Table 10 Proposals for Extramural Support...............................................................................31
Table 11 Patents.........................................................................................................................36
Table 12 Publications.................................................................................................................38
Table 13 Presentations ...............................................................................................................45
Table 14 Other Scholarly Activities...........................................................................................59
Table 15 Seminar Program ........................................................................................................63
Table 16 Industrial Partnership Program ...................................................................................66
Table 17 Research Facility Report.............................................................................................67
Table 18 Research Facility Services Provided...........................................................................68
Table 19 Education and Public Service .....................................................................................69
APPENDICES
I.
Student Achievements
Lena Lopatina Receives Amelia Earhart Fellow...............................................................75
II. Outreach and Research Activities
Plain Dealer Article on Greenhouse Project......................................................................77
Liquid Crystal Day Brochure ............................................................................................81
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Brochure.....................................................85
Industrial Partnership Program and LCD Research Facility Brochure .............................87
Technology Transfer Brochure..........................................................................................89
III. Extramural Grant Funding, 1982-2009..................................................................................91
IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals ..........................................................................105
2008-2009 Director’s Report
Personnel
During 2008-2009 we successfully recruited world-renowned liquid crystal scientist, Dr. Hiroshi
Yokoyama as the first of two Ohio Research Scholars funded by the Ohio Department of
Development. Dr. Yokoyama has served as director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute
(NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He
joins the Liquid Crystal Institute on July 1, 2009 as a professor in the Chemical Physics
Interdisciplinary Program. Dr. Yokoyama will be a major contributor to the ODOD funded
project, “Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (RC-SAM)". He will also design a
new Chemical Physics course focused on nanotechnology. See “Highlights” on page 7 for more
information on Dr. Yokoyama.
The field of liquid crystal science and technology lost two of its most prominent figures. KSU
Professor Emeritus Alfred Saupe and Dr. James L. Fergason both passed away in 2008. See
pages 12-13 for more information on their scientific impact and legacy.
In December, 2008, Professor Jack Kelly retired from Kent State University to fully focus on his
startup company, CoAdna Photonics, Inc. CoAdna was established in 2000 and has been highly
successful in using liquid crystal technology for the design and manufacture of a wavelength
selective switch module for telecommunication networks. His company is an excellent
example of how liquid crystal technology helps the economy in Northeast Ohio. With the
departure of Dr. Kelly and the addition of Dr. Yokoyama, our senior staff remains at eleven
faculty and one senior research fellow.
Research
The LCI continued to successfully bring extramural funding to Kent State University, applying
for 45 grants totaling $43,582,575. LCI scientists were awarded 19 new grants totaling
$5,242,347 with over $3 million in grant proposals pending at fiscal year end. Two proposals
were for major centers: International Liquid Crystal Materials Institute ($5,372,833) and
Department of Energy Frontiers Research Center ($25,000,000); unfortunately, neither was
awarded. The Liquid Crystal Institute received 65% of its total fiscal year support through
extramural sources.
We extended collaborations with industries, both domestic and international, with funding from
the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), Samsung Electronics in Korea, Johnson
& Johnson-Vistakon Division, Dupont, and Intel; subawards were received from ATK Space
Systems, Kent Displays, General Dynamics, Pixel Optics, Dynamic Eye, and the University of
Akron. Federal sources comprised 29% of our total extramural funding and included the
National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratories, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of
Science Research. The State of Ohio provided 29% (see Pie Graph note on page 5) of our
extramural funding through the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of
Development. Other funding sources include the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM),
NorTech, and the Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust.
We continued research collaborations with colleagues in the KSU departments of Architectural
and Environmental Design (Sharag-Eldin), Biological Sciences (Kooijman, Woolverton),
Chemistry (Gericke, Lee, Twieg), School of Fashion Design and Merchandising (SchofieldTomschin), Geology (Ortiz), Mathematical Sciences (Gartland), Computer Sciences (Maletic)
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and Physics (Finotello, Gleeson, Kumar, Portman, Sprunt). Of the 52 active grants, 14 involved
KSU investigators from other departments and 3 included investigators from other universities.
Education and Outreach
Chemical Physics professor Antal Jákli completed the second year of his 3-year collaborative
research grant to study liquid crystals in Europe. He selected KSU graduate students and one
California undergraduate to travel to Europe with him to conduct research in Hungary, Portugal,
Austria and Germany. See “Highlights”, pages 8-9, for more information on their research
experiences.
Scholarships
Three Chemical Physics students were selected as the first scholarship recipients from the Fred A.
Lennon Charitable Trust. The Lennon Trust will provide scholarships for a 3-year period.
Nicholas Diorio, Jake Fontana and Shin-Ying Lu were selected in 2009 from a competition based
on proposals that demonstrate innovation, entrepreneurship and the potential for product
development (See Table 5).
This was the final year of a 5-year program generously supported by Samsung Electronics
Company, LTD, Korea, to provide scholarships to outstanding Chemical Physics graduate
students. Scholarships were awarded through a competition whereby students submitted research
project proposals. Chemical Physics faculty reviewed the proposals and awarded scholarships for
the most promising research.
Service
LCI/CPIP continued to serve the research and industrial community through the Industrial
Partnership Program (Bos), Synthesis Facilities (Chien, Li) and Characterization Facilities
(Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii). LCI personnel provide services (electron and atomic force
microscopic analysis, cleanroom time, materials characterization, etc.) at no cost to KSU faculty.
Invoices issued for services provided by LCI researchers and for use of our facilities by scientists
from universities and industries in the liquid crystal field totaled $63,000 for this reporting period
(Table 18).
In closing, our research and education continues to be strong and we look forward to new and
innovative directions in liquid crystal research.
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director
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Achievements and Recognition
Books and Conference Proceedings
L.C. Chien and M. Wu, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IV, Proceeding of SPIE, Vol.
7232 (2009).
Conference and Workshop Chairs
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Conference Chair, International Liquid Crystal Elastomers Conference,
September 24-26, 2009 at Kent State University.
Awards
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Robin Selinger, selected as “Philips Visitor,” an endowed speaker program at the Physics
department of Haverford College; she gave a physics colloquium and two additional presentations
for students, October 27-29, 2008.
Students
Lu Lu, Spectral Physics Research Excellence Award, 2009 SPIE Photonics West Conference,
January 23, 2009, San Jose, California.
Lena Lopatina, Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta, an International Women’s Organization.
See Appendix I, page 75, for a feature story on Lena.
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Summary of LCI Accomplishments and Activities
Proposals for Extramural Funding
Submitted
Awarded
Pending
45
19
6
Extramural Grants and Contracts
Current Grants (continuing from previous year)
Renewals and New Awards
39
14
Degrees Awarded
Ph.D.
Masters
5
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Students – Graduate
Stipend and Tuition support
Students – Undergraduate
REU summer students – 2007-2008
REU summer students – 2008-2009
Students employed at LCI
Honors Thesis, LCI/CPIP Advisors
Students – High School
Internships
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4
6
5
2
2
Research Staff
Faculty and Senior Research Staff
Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Research
Scientists, Research Interns, Display Engineers
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24
Visitors
Industrial and academic scientists conducting
collaborative research at the LCI
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Publications
Journals and Book Chapters
Juried Conference Proceedings, Technical Reports
56
24
Presentations
Professional Societies (Invited and oral)
Conference Poster Presentations
Academic and Other (Invited and oral)
91
62
30
Patents
Awarded
Applications
Invention Disclosures
3
9
13
Industrial Partnership Program
IPP Members
LCD Research Facility Services Provided
19
44
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Major Funding Sources and Expenditures
2008-2009
Major Funding Sources (in thousands)
University, Foundations and Grant Funds
State of Ohio
$1,897, 29%
KSU
$2,253, 35%
Other Federal
$1,003, 15%
National Science
Foundation
$923, 14%
Industry and Other
$374, 6%
Foundations
$81, 1%
*State of Ohio Funding includes $1M for Ohio Research Scholars endowment; for reporting purposes,
the $5M endowment is shown as $1M per year for the 5-year RC-SAM grant period, FY 2009 – FY 2013.
Expenditures 2008-2009 (in thousands)
Extramural
KSU
7000
6000
Amount (in thousands)
5000
4278
3616
3149
4000
2381
3000
1929
2000
1000
1812
2136
2307
2275
2253
0
04-05
05-06
06-07
Fiscal Year
5
07-08
08-09
Major Funding Sources and Expenditures
Historical Representation of Funding Sources (in thousands)
KSU, NSF ALCOM, and
Other Extramural Support
4500
NSF ALCOM
Extramural
4000
KSU
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
8384
8485
8586
8687
8788
8889
8990
9091
9192
9293
9394
9495
9596
9697
9798
9899
9900
0001
0102
0203
0304
0405
0506
0607
0708
0809
Amount (in thousands)
3500
Fiscal Year
Calculation of grant funding/expenditures
For each grant, the total amount awarded is divided by the number of months in
the grant project period to obtain an average monthly award amount. That figure
is multiplied by the number of months the grant was active within the fiscal year
reporting period. For grants shared with investigators from other departments,
the fiscal year total is divided equally among the principal investigators and only
the portion for LCI research personnel is counted (see Table 2). For reporting
purposes, it is assumed that all funding is expended within the fiscal year
reporting period. For grants with funding released on a year-to-year basis, only
the current fiscal year funding is counted, rather than averaged over the entire
grant period.
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LCI Highlights
Hiroshi Yokoyama joins the Liquid Crystal Institute
as Ohio Research Scholar
As
part of the Ohio Department of
Development’s Ohio Research Scholars
Program, the Liquid Crystal Institute recently
recruited Professor Hiroshi Yokoyama to be an
Ohio Research Scholar and Professor in the
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at
Kent State University.
Professor Yokoyama is a world expert in the
field of liquid crystal physics with a focus on
surface properties. His primary research
interests are in the areas of liquid crystals,
surface and colloid science, organic thin films
and scanning probe technology.
In addition to his well-known research on
surface anchoring and orientational boundary
transition in liquid crystal systems, he
organized and directed, from 1999-2004, the
"Yokoyama Nanostructured Liquid Crystal
Project" under the ERATO system funded by
Japan Science and Technology. This project
pioneered the now flourishing soft matter
nanotechnology which is one of the major
pillars of the Ohio Third Frontier Program.
His research efforts at the LCI will be associated with the recently funded grant, "Research
Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (RC-SAM)". RC-SAM is a partnership of Kent State
University, Case Western Reserve University, Youngstown State University, Alpha Micron, Inc.,
Cleveland Botanical Garden, CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Kent Displays, Inc., Kent Optronics, Inc.,
and LXD, Inc. He will be leading a partner-wide initiative to explore the new frontier of liquid
crystal applications by combining nanotechnology with liquid crystal science. Professor
Yokoyama's activity will also embrace the establishment of an international research and higher
education network centered on soft matter nanotechnology.
Professor Yokoyama most recently held the position of Director of the Nanotechnology Research
Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), one of
the largest government-funded research organizations in Japan, which is responsible for strategic
planning and implementation of research programs over the whole spectrum of nanotechnology.
Professor Yokoyama joins the Liquid Crystal Institute on July 1, 2009.
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LCI Highlights
Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals
International Research Experience for Students (CRELIC-IRES)
Professor Antal (Tony) Jákli obtained a three-year grant to provide international research
experiences for nine students during the summers of 2008, 2009, and 2010, by involving them in
collaborative work in timely and important specific areas of liquid crystal science. U.S.
undergraduate and graduate students who are engaged in a physical science discipline, were
eligible to participate in the project entitled, “Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid
Crystals”.
The research topics include liquid crystal fibers, liquid crystal gels and elastomers, and liquid
crystals with biological importance. Research has been conducted at the Department of Materials
Sciences, University of New Lisbon, Portugal (host: Professor Helena Godinho), the Institute of
Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany (host: Professor
Ralf Stanarius) and the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary (host: Professor Istvan Jánossy).
The goal of the CRELIC-IRES program is for students to learn how to collaborate at the scientific
level and also learn and appreciate the culture of foreign countries. In this way, students are
educated as global scientists who will be able to compete in the international science market. The
results of each research topic may lead to cutting-edge technologies such as artificial muscles,
artificial nerves, better understanding of electrical transport processes in cell membranes, and
making smart textiles.
Local accommodations were organized by the host partners. Public transportation was used for
local travel to further provide interactions with residents. To learn the cultures of other European
countries, students were encouranged to purchase a EuroRail pass for train or bus travel anywhere
in Europe within a one month period.
Summer 2008 (May – July)
The first year’s subject was the study of liquid
crystal fibers, which are free-standing fluid
objects with remarkable stability and physical
properties that cannot be explained by simple
fluid dynamics.
The project began in May when Nick Diorio
worked in Magdeburg, Germany. In June,
Stefanie Taushanoff traveled to Lisbon and
Jake Fontana arrived in Budapest. Professor
Jákli mainly worked with Jake in Budapest,
but stayed in daily contact with Nick and
CPIP student Jake Fontana, CPIP Prof. Tony Jákli,
Stefanie and visited them during the last half
and Prof. Istvan Jánossy, in Hungary during the
of June to discuss their research progress.
2008 research visit.
Toward the end of the program, Nick and
Stefanie joined Jake and Professor Jákli in Budapest where they visited several universities and
research institutes in Budapest and in neighboring countries such as the Jozef Stefan Institute in
Ljubliana, Slovenia (hosts Martin Copic and Slobodan Zŭmer).
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Summer 2009 (June - July)
The second year’s project involved the study of liquid crystal gels and elastomers. These unique
materials couple mechanical strain and orientational order. They are ‘solid liquid crystals’,
uniting liquid crystals and elastic solids.
Ricky Gibson, an undergraduate student from California State University, conducted research in
Magdeburg, Germany with Professor Ralf Stannarius and Dr. Alexey Eremin on acoustically
excited mechanical vibrations of fluid and elastomer filaments of bent-core LC materials. CPIP
graduate student Christopher Culbreath visited Professor Helena Godinho in Lisbon, Portugal, to
work on dispersed ferroelectric nanoparticles in cellulose-based liquid crystalline polymers and
electrospin them to form novel electromechanical devices. In Budapest, Hungary, KSU Physics
graduate student Tanya Ostapenko worked with Dr. Nandor Eber on dynamic image analysis of
fluctuations in bent-core liquid crystals.
Students and co-hosts traveled to Eger,
Hungary, to participate in a symposium
held July 8-10, 2009. The symposium was
organized with another NSF IRES group
for Undergraduate Research in Optics and
Materials lead by David Statman at
Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and
the Complex Fluid Department of the
Research Institute for Solid State Physics
and Optics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, which was the main host
institution of both NSF programs. The
meeting provided an ideal occasion for all Participants at the 1st NSF-OTKA Symposium for
U.S. students to meet and present their Complex Fluids, held in Eger, Hungary, July 8-10, 2009.
research
results.
The
symposium
motivated the students to work hard and also encouraged them better understand their research.
Most important, they gave impressive talks about their research projects and they made
connections with the participating Hungarian students and young scientists. The detailed
scientific program is available on the web at (http://www.lci.kent.edu/crelic_ires/
symposium.htm).
Research in the frame of the IRES program has resulted in two publications to date:
J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, I. Jánossy and A. Jákli, “Optical waveguiding in bent - core
liquid crystal filaments,” Phys. Rev. E, 80, 032701 (2009).
J. Petzold, A. Nemeş, A. Eremin, C. Bailey, N. Diorio, A. Jákli, R. Stannarius, “Acoustically
driven oscillations of freely suspended liquid crystal filaments,” Soft Matter, 5(16), 3120-3126
(2009).
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LCI Highlights
Kent State University and Cleveland Botanical Garden
Create ‘Smart’ Greenhouse
Cleveland
Botanical Garden and the Liquid Crystal Institute launched a pioneering research
project in 2008 to explore the potential of liquid crystal technology to create a more sustainable,
energy-efficient greenhouse. KSU Vice President of Research John L. West and Cleveland
Botanical Garden Executive Director Natalie Ronayne discussed the possibility of controlling a
greenhouse environment by using liquid crystal technology. Their discussions resulted in a
project which will span several years to collect data and improve the technology and will
hopefully lead to a fully automated ‘smart’ greenhouse that can be easily programmed to provide
the ideal growing environment for a variety of plants.
CBG’s Mark Druckenbrod designed the greenhouse and ordered custom-made windows using the
polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) technology invented at the Liquid Crystal Institute in
1983. LCI Instrumentation Engineer Merrill Groom designed and programmed the
instrumentation for data acquisition and traveled to Cleveland to assist with the installation. LCI
Display Engineer Jon Ruth analyzed the collected data.
Two greenhouses were used in the first phase of the project. One greenhouse contained liquid
crystal glass panels and the second was a control greenhouse with plain glass panels. A variety of
seasonal planting over the course of a year showed promising results.
Further testing is planned using other
liquid crystal technologies currently
under development. The goal is to
create a greenhouse that will produce
a shorter crop turnover, higher crop
yield and energy savings.
See Appendix II, page 73, for a
January 9, 2008, Plain Dealer
newspaper article on this project.
Above: Phase I greenhouses at the
Cleveland Botanical Garden. A
dedication ceremony was held on
April 20, 2008.
Right: At the Dedication Ceremony,
KSU Research VP John West (right)
explains the technology behind the
liquid crystal greenhouse panels to
KSU President Lester Lefton and
Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Executive Director Natalie Ronayne.
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LCI Highlights
Bridging Science and Fashion at KSU
In
2008, the Liquid Crystal
Institute and the School of
Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University
collaborated on a research
project to develop liquid crystal
high-tech fibers with potential
applications
ranging
from
switchable light modulating
fabric sensors to wearable smart
fabric displays.
The high-tech fabric project
brought together unique skills
and capabilities in three areas:
Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes from the
School of Fashion provided
project leadership and fashion Ebru Buyuktanir worked in John West’s laboratory to electrospin
design knowledge; Research liquid crystal fibers for the high-tech fiber project.
Vice President John West
provided expertise in liquid crystal science; Dr. Margaret Frey from Cornell University’s
Department of Fiber Science contributed expertise in fiber science. Dr. Frey traveled to Kent one
week per month for several months to work at the LCI with Postdoctoral Fellow Ebru Buyuktanir.
Dr. Buyuktanir worked under the direction of Dr. West to electrospin liquid crystal fibers for the
research project. Liquid crystal molecules were directly incorporated into fibers to combine
fiber/textile and optoelectronic properties of liquid crystals and to develop optically
functionalized liquid crystal fibers that are responsive to external stimuli such as heat and
electromagnetic fields. As a result, she demonstrated the first electrically switchable, light
modulating ultrafine LC/polymer fibers for use in stimuli responsive optical fibers, textiles, and
optoelectronic devices.
Dr. Buyuktanir gave a presention on the fiber
research at Cornell University in February, 2009, at
the American Chemical Society Central Regional
Meeting in Cleveland in May, 2009, and at the 22nd
Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-optical
Society (LEOS 2009) in October, 2009, in Turkey.
Polarized optical microscopy image of
liquid crystal fibers collected by
electrospinning.
This innovative research project was partially funded
for one year by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation.
Its success has resulted in two patent applications.
Currently, publications and grant proposals are being
prepared along with plans for future collaborations on
the subject.
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IN MEMORIAM
Alfred Saupe (1925-2008)
Alfred
Saupe, a key theorist and
experimentalist in the field of liquid crystals,
died August 3, 2008.
Saupe was born February 25, 1925, in
Badenweiler, Germany. World War II
interrupted his early interests in mathematics
and physical sciences. In 1955, he obtained his
‘Diplome’ in Physics from Albert-Ludwigs
University in Freiburg for his work on UV
spectroscopy of para-azoxy-anisole. His advisor
was Wilhelm Maier. Saupe became interested
in theory, and developed the mean field theory
of nematic liquid crystals, a singular
achievement. Even today, no one has done it
better.
Saupe also worked on methods of determining
the orientational order parameter for liquid
crystals, measured their absorption of
ultrasound, density changes as a function of
temperature, and specific heats at phase transitions. In 1958, he received his Doctor of Science
degree cum laude. After the death of Maier, Saupe worked with H. Cantow at the Institute of
Macromolecular Chemistry on PMR spectra of polymers, and obtained his Habilitation in
Chemical Physics in 1967. In 1968, he joined Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute
and Department of Physics.
In addition to the Maier-Saupe theory, Al Saupe laid the groundwork for most liquid crystal
research in elastic theories, defects, and blue phases. Highlights of his many scientific
contributions include the determination of temperature dependence of Frank elastic constants; the
development of the theory of NMR in the nematic state and the discovery of biaxial nematic
phases in lyotropic liquid crystals. A hallmark of his work is the combination of experiment and
theory; his theoretical predictions were always followed by definitive experiments, while
observations of new phenomena were theoretically modeled.
As noted by Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Saupe was generous in sharing his time, insights and humor
with colleagues, and delighted in solving scientific puzzles. His quiet but incisive questions at
conferences formed the basis of much subsequent research. He was an inspiring teacher both in
the classroom and in the laboratory. During his tenure at KSU, he advised 21 graduate students.
Al Saupe enjoyed scientific discussions a great deal, often more than writing papers.
In 1974, Saupe was awarded the Nernst Prize, and received the Humboldt Award in 1987. He was
awarded the Kent State President's Medal in 1992 and the Freedericksz Medal in 1999. In 1998,
he was recognized as one of the first Honored Members of the International Liquid Crystal
Society.
In the Fall of 1992, Saupe retired from Kent State University and became director of the Max
Planck Research Group on Liquid Crystalline Systems at Martin Luther University in Halle.
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After moving back to Badenweiler in 1996, he continued his scientific collaborations, and held
emeritus and honorary professorships at Kent State and Martin Luther universities.
Although his research was driven by curiosity and the pleasure of solving scientific riddles, his
discoveries made possible the liquid crystal display technology that has changed our world.
Our hearts go out to his wife Brigitte and his loving family. We shall miss him very much.
Patricia E. Cladis and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 493, 1-2, October 2008
James Fergason (1934-2008)
With
sadness, I would like to inform you that Dr. James L.
Fergason died December 9, 2008 at the age of 74. Dr. Fergason
was one of the first employees of the Liquid Crystal Institute,
joining in 1966.
Dr. Fergason's work at Kent associated his name with a number
of seminal achievements in the field of liquid crystal displays,
most notably with the first commercially successful low-power,
field-operated LC display, known as the “twisted nematic cell”.
Fergason discovered the effect in 1969 at the LCI; his technology
was patented in the United States in 1971; Martin Schadt and
Wolfgang Helfrich patented similar technology in Europe.
Dr. Fergason received the 2006 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest
single award for invention in the United States. He donated a
portion of the award to the LCI to establish the Saupe
Scholarship Fund for graduate students.
Fergason saw the importance of transforming scientific
knowledge into business opportunities, creating, in Kent, the
International Liquid Xtal Company (ILIXCO), as early as 1968. ILIXCO produced the first field
operating LCD, originally used in wrist watches. The invention’s impact was enormous as, “the
LCD technology, starting with quartz watches and calculators, has completely redefined many
industries such as computer displays, medical devices, and the vast array of consumer
electronics”, as stated at the website of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, into which Fergason
was inducted in 1998.
Dr. Fergason's lasting impact will forever be associated with the history of liquid crystals, liquid
crystal displays, and the Liquid Crystal Institute.
- Oleg D. Lavrentovich
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Table 1
Liquid Crystal Institute Staff
Name (end date)
Year
Appointed
Title (beginning year of current title)
Philip J. Bos
1994
Associate Director (1997)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)
Manager, Display Engineering (1998)
Grants Coordinator
Business Manager (2002)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)
Senior Secretary (2006)
Research Specialist
Senior Chemist
Research Engineer II (2006)
Clerical Specialist (2004)
Associate Professor, Chemical Physics (2007)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)
Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics (2008)
Douglas R. Bryant
Janet Cash
Brenda L. Decker
Liang-Chy Chien
Lynn A. Fagan
James J. Francl
Lisa Green (10/08)
Merrill M. Groom
Betty J. Hilgert (2/09)
Antal I. Jákli
Jack R. Kelly (12/08)
Chanjoong Kim
1993
2007
1991
1989
2002
1990
2007
1986
2003
1999
1988
2008
Rameshbabu Krishnamurthy
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
2008
1992
Quan Li
James Maxwell
Dawn Miller
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
2004
2003
2007
1987
Liou Qiu
1998
Senior Chemist
Director (2004)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)
Senior Research Fellow
Public Relations Coordinator
Grants Assistant
Associate Director (1990)
Professor, Chemical Physics (1994)
Research Specialist (2001)
Jonathan V. Selinger
2005
Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Chemical Physics
Robin L.B. Selinger
2005
Professor, Chemical Physics
Qi-Huo Wei
2006
Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics
John L. West
1984
Vice President of Research (2003)
Professor of Chemistry (1997)
Deng-Ke Yang
1992
Professor, Chemical Physics (2004)
Liquid Crystal Institute Emeriti
J. William Doane
1979-1996
Emeritus Director; Emeritus Professor of Physics
Mary E. Neubert
1972-2002
Emeritus Senior Research Fellow
Alfred Saupe
1968-1992
Emeritus Professor of Physics
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Table 2
Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel
Faculty/Senior Staff
(end date)
Support Department; Grants
David W. Allender
Physics
Philip J. Bos
LCI/CPIP; Pixel Optics, DARPA
Liang-Chy Chien
LCI/CPIP; NSF, Evans Capacitor
Daniele Finotello
Physics
Antal Jákli
LCI/CPIP; Samsung, NSF, ONR, Comex, Vistakon
Jack R. Kelly (12/08)
LCI/CPIP
Chanjoong Kim
LCI/CPIP
Satyendra Kumar
Physics, Research & Sponsored Prg., NSF, Dept. of Energy
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
LCI/CPIP
Quan Li
LCI
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
LCI/CPIP; LC Materials Facility
Jonathan V. Selinger
Ohio Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair, LCI/CPIP; NSF Modeling
Robin L.B. Selinger
LCI/CPIP; NSF Modeling
Sergij Shiyanovskii
LCI; Department of Energy
Samuel N. Sprunt
Physics
Robert J. Twieg
Chemistry
Qi-Huo Wei
LCI/CPIP; Samsung, OBR
John L. West
Research and Sponsored Programs
Philip W. Westerman
NEOUCOM
Deng-Ke Yang
LCI/CPIP; Dynamic Eye, ODOD
Grant name indicates a portion of investigator’s salary was
provided by grant(s), as cost share or direct charge (academic year
and/or summer).
Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Research Scientists, Research Interns, Display
Engineers and (supervisor)
Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir
Postdoctoral Fellow
ODOD/KDI (West)
Martin Chambers (12/08)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Physics; ICAM, ONR, (Gleeson, Jákli)
Jouliana El Khoury (8/08)
Postdoctoral Fellow
AFRL MURI (Li)
Andrii Golovin
Research Associate
Department of Energy (Lavrentovich)
15
LCI Research Personnel, 2008-2009
Research Personnel
(end date)
Support Department; Grants (PI)
John Harden
Postdoctoral Fellow
I-CAM (Jákli)
Rameshbabu Krishnamurthy
Postdoctoral Fellow (11/08)
AFRL (Li)
Yannian Li
Postdoctoral Fellow
NSF STTR KDI; AFRL MURI (Li)
Paul Luchette
Postdoctoral Fellow
NSF New LC Materials Facility (Palffy-Muhoray)
Ji Ma
Postdoctoral Fellow
OBR, Samsung, AFOSR (Yang, Li)
Li Ma
Research Scientist
NIST (R. Selinger)
Manoj Mathews
Postdoctoral Fellow
NSF STTR KDI; Samsung; (Li)
Michele Moreira-Fontana
Research Associate
AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray)
Yuriy Nastyshyn (5/09)
Research Associate
Dept. of Energy, NSF Fluorescence (Lavrentovich)
Myroslava Omelchenko
Research Intern
NSF Fluorescence, NSF Materials World (Lavrentovich)
Sabrina Relaix
Postdoctoral Fellow
AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray)
Jonathan Ruth
Mgr., Display Engineering
ODOD/KDI Flexible LC Film Manufacturing Alliance (West)
Peter Salamon (3/09)
Research Intern
NSF Materials World Network (Jákli, Sprunt)
Gabor Toros (12/08)
Research Intern
NSF New Materials Facility, Vistakon (Jákli, Palffy-Muhoray)
Luana Tortora
Research Associate
OBR Chromonic, NSF Fluorescence, AFOSR MURI,
ODOD/Univ. Akron (Lavrentovich)
Bentley Wall (part-time)
Research Associate
Pixel Optics (Bos)
Young Cheol Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
ODOD U. Akron subaward (Yang)
Fangfu Ye (2/09)
Postdoctoral Fellow
NSF Modeling Actuation, ICAM (J. Selinger)
Ke Zhang (11/08)
Postdoctoral Fellow
ODOD KDI subaward; FPA Proceeds (West and Bos)
Lu Zou
Postdoctoral Fellow
University Start-up (Kim)
Grant name indicates a portion of investigator’s salary was provided
by grant(s), as a cost share or direct charge
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Table 3
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty
Current Faculty
Rank
Appointed Tenure
Philip J. Bos
Professor (2001)
Associate Professor (1995)
1995
1998
Liang-Chy Chien
Professor (2001)
Associate Professor (1995)
1995
1998
Antal Jákli
Associate Professor (2007)
Assistant Professor (2004)
2004
2007
Jack R. Kelly (12/08)
Professor (2000)
Associate Professor (1994)
1994
1997
Chanjoong Kim
Assistant Professor (2008)
2008
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Professor (2000)
Associate Professor (1994)
1994
1997
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Professor (1994)
1994
1997
Jonathan V. Selinger
Professor (2005)
2005
2005
Robin L.B. Selinger
Professor (2005)
2005
2005
Qi-Huo Wei
Assistant Professor (2006)
2006
Deng-Ke Yang
Professor (2004)
Associate Professor (1999)
Assistant Professor (1995)
1995
Joint Professors
Permanent Position
Term
David W. Allender
Eugene C. Gartland, Jr.
Satyendra Kumar
Physics Department
Mathematical Sciences Department
Physics Department
1996
1996
1995
Kent Displays, Inc.
Kent Displays, Inc.
Liquid Crystal Institute
Dynamic Eye, Inc.
AlphaMicron, Inc.
Emeritus Professor, NEOUCOM
200720072006200819981997-
Adjunct Professors
Albert M. Green
Asad Khan
Quan Li
Christopher Mullin
Bahman Taheri
Philip Westerman
Emeritus Professors
J.W. Doane
1997-
Graduate Coordinators
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Jack R. Kelly
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Liang-Chy Chien
Robin Selinger
1994-1997
1997-2002
2002-2003
2003-2008
2008-
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1999
Table 4
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students
Graduate Students (start-end)
Univ./Grant Support
Advisor
Christopher Bailey (2003-2008)
A. Jákli
Volodymyr Borshch (2007)
Wk. Study, CPIP Samsung,
University fellowships
CPIP, New LC Mat. Facility
Clinton Braganza (2003-2009)
ONR
L. Chien
Yue Cui (2008)
CPIP
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Christopher Culbreath (2008)
CPIP
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Nicholas Diorio (2007)
CPIP, NSF Bent Core
A. Jákli
Enkh-Amgalan Dorjgotov (2004)
Intel, FPA
P. Bos
Jake Fontana (2004)
AFOSR MURI
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Jessica Fuselier (2008-2008)
CPIP
A. Jákli
Jun Geng (2007)
CPIP, OES
Lisa Green (2005-2008)
LCI
P. Palffy-Muhoray
J. Selinger
Q. Li
Vianney Gimenez (2007)
CPIP, New LC Mat. Facility
J. & R. Selinger
Mingxia Gu (2001-2009)
Dept. of Energy
John Harden (2003-2009)
Wk. Study, OBR, NSF
O. Lavrentovich
S. Shiyanovskii
A. Jákli
Sarah Hicks (2006)
Wk. Study, Samsung
D. Yang
Yi Huang (2006)
Pixel Optics
P. Bos
Shawn Hurley (2005)
CPIP, Dynamic Eye
D. Yang
Wilder Iglesias (2007)
CPIP, NSF
R. Selinger, A. Jákli
Israel Lazo Martinez (2006)
CPIP, AFRL MURI
O. Lavrentovich
Liwei Li (2007)
CPIP, Dupont, Pixel Optics
P. Bos
Olena Lopatina (2005)
ONR
J. Selinger
Lu Lu (2007)
CPIP, New LC Mat. Facility
Q. Li, L. Chien
Shin-Ying Lu (2005)
LCI, New LC Mat. Facility
L. Chien
Badel Mbanga (2004)
ACS-PRF, NSF
R. Selinger
Souptik Mukherjee (2009 Spring)
Jeremy Neal (2003)
CPIP
AFOSR MURI, LC Mat. Fac.
C. Kim
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Suxing Pan (2008)
CPIP
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Heung-Shik Park (2004)
Oleg Pishnyak (2000)
Dmytro Reznikov (2003-2008)
AFOSR MURI
Dept. of Energy
Displaytech, FPA
O. Lavrentovich
O. Lavrentovich
P. Bos
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O. Lavrentovich
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students, 2008-2009
Graduate Students (start-end)
Univ./Grant Support
Advisor
Viktorya Savaryn (2008-2009)
CPIP, NSF Materials World
O. Lavrentovich
Bohdan Senyuk (2003)
CPIP, NSF 3D,
Ohio Dept. of Development
AFRL DARPA
O. Lavrentovich
Stephanie Taushanoff (2006)
CPIP, Wk. Study, Comex Pix
Samsung Scholarship
A. Jákli
Nithya Venkataraman (2005) P-T
None
A. Khan, J. West
Feng Wang (2006)
CPIP, LCI
Q. Wei
Hugh Wonderly (2007)
Ohio Dept. of Development
Department of Energy, NSF 3D
O. Lavrentovich
Lei Zhao (2008)
CPIP
J. West
Xiaoli Zhou (2003-2008)
OBR, AFRL MURI
Q. Li
Rafael Zola (2007)
CPIP, OES
P. Palffy-Muhoray
J. Selinger
Lei Shi (2004)
P. Bos
Students Co-Advised by CPIP Faculty
Graduate Students
Department/University
CPIP Co-Advisor
Ayan Chakrabarty
Physics; OBR
Q. Wei
Subas Dhakal
Physics
J. Selinger
Bhuwan Joshi
Physics
Q. Wei
Madhabi Majumba
Physics
A. Jákli
M. Shokouhimehr
Chemistry
Q. Li
Student
Department/University
Committee member
David Benson
Chemistry
R. Selinger
Leela Joshi
Physics
S. Kumar
O. Lavrentovich
Melati Khairuddean
Chemistry
L. Chien
Brindaban Kundu
Raman Research Institute, India
A. Jákli
Renyuan Liao
Physics
J. Selinger
Brian Manor
KSU Honors College
Q. Li
Krishna Prasad Neupane
Physics
A. Jákli
Xianghong Qi
Physics
J. Selinger
Miha Ravnik
University of Ljubljana,
Physics
Mathematical Sciences
O. Lavrentovich
Dissertation Committees
Andriy Shyshkov
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R. Selinger
Table 5
Scholarships and Fellowships
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
Samsung Research Scholarship
Samsung Scholarships are competition based; students submit research project proposals for
review and selection by Chemical Physics faculty.
2008-2009 Scholarship Recipients
Bohdan Senyuk
Optical and Dielectric Properties of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Stephanie Taushanoff
Polymer-Embedded Nanoparticles as a Conductive Layer in Liquid Crystal Cells
Lennon Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust provides three years of funding for scholarships awarded
through a competition among Chemical Physics graduate students. Students submit proposals
that demonstrate innovation, entrepreneurship and the potential for product development.
Scholarship recipients may use funds for stipends, materials, development costs, equipment
and other costs directly associated with the development and commercialization of the
proposed devices. All spending must be approved by the student’s advisor.
2009 Scholarship Recipients
Nick Diorio, “Improving a nanoliter rheometer”
Jake Fontana, “MetaMachine (formerly Enhanced Dip Coating Machine)”
Shin-Ying Lu, “Electrically Switchable Wavelength-Based Liquid Crystal”
Amelia Earhart Fellow
Presented by Zonta International. The Amelia Earhart Fellow is awarded to women
conducting graduate research which has applications in the aerospace field.
2008-2009 Scholarship Recipient
Lena Lopatina
See feature article in Appendix I, page 75.
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Table 6
Graduate Degrees Awarded
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
Student
Dissertation/Thesis Title
Advisor (Dept); Date
Christopher Bailey
Structure and Rheology of Some Bent
Core Liquid Crystals
Jákli (CPIP)
August 2008
Dmitry Reznikov
Effect of Surface Alignment Layer on
Electro-Optical Properties of Ferroelectric
Liquid Crystal Displays
Bos (CPIP)
December 2008
Xiaoli Zhou
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel
Discotic Liquid Crystal Porphyrins for
Organic Photovoltaics
Li (CPIP)
May 2009
Mingxia Gu
Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on
Director Dynamics in Uniaxial Nematic
Liquid Crystals
Lavrentovich (CPIP)
May 2009
John Harden, Jr.
Electromechanical Couplings in Liquid
Crystals
Jákli (CPIP)
May 2009
Doctor of Philosophy
Masters Degree
Lisa Green
Synthesis and Characterization of
Photochemically Tunable Chiral Materials
for Optically Addressed Cholesteric
Displays
21
Li (CPIP)
December 2008
Table 7
Placement of Personnel, LCI/CPIP
Graduates
Employment
Christopher Bailey
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Research Lab,
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
Mingxia Gu
Senior Display Optics Engineer, Apple, San Jose, CA
Lisa Green
Unknown
John Harden
Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute
Dmitry Reznikov
Israel Institute of Technology - Technion
Xiaoli Zhou
Unknown
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
Martin Chambers
Staff Scientist, Nuclear Reactor, Slovenia
Yuriy Nastyshyn
Returned to permanent position at Institute of Physics Optics,
Ukraine
Peter Salamon
PhD student, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Gabor Toros
Masters student, University of Budapest, Hungary
Fangfu Ye
Postdoctoral Fellow, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Table 8
Visiting Scientists
Name (PI)
Visitation Period
Home Institution
Rui Bao
(Yang)
September 6, 2007 – September 2, 2008
Huazhong University of
Science & Tech., China
Chunzhen Fan
(Wei)
October 8, 2008 – October 5, 2009
Fudan University, China
(doctoral student)
Margaret Frye
(John West)
August 2008 – May 2009
(one week per month)
Cornell University
Won Wook Jeong
(Kim)
March 13 – September 9, 2009
LG Household & Healthcare
LTD, Korea
Woo Jeong Kang
October 22, 2007 – October 8, 2008
Samsung Electronics, Korea
Hyun Wuk Kim
February 1, 2008 – January 31, 2009
Samsung Electronics
Khoa Van Le
(Jákli)
August 5 – October 29, 2008
Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Kexuan Li
(Yang)
March 3, 2008 – December 31, 2009
University of Science and
Technology, China
Yuriy Nastyshyn
(Lavrentovich)
March 9 – May 8, 2009
Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Hye Young Ryu
October 19, 2007 – October 8, 2008
Samsung Electronics
Peter Salamon
(Jákli and Sprunt)
September 15, 2008 – January 15, 2009
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary
Gabor Toros
(Jákli and Palffy)
September 10 - December 20, 2008
University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary
Sergio Diez
(Finotello)
January 9 – February 27, 2009
Barcelona University
Vassili Nazarenko
(Lavrentovich)
May 23 – May 29, 2009
Institute of Physics, Ukraine
W. Oates
(Palffy-Muhoray)
April 26-29, 2009
College of Engineering
Florida State University
Arghir Dani Zarnescu
(Palffy-Muhoray)
March 21-28, 2009
Mathematical Institute
Oxford, U.K.
Long-term Visitors
Short-term Visitors
23
Table 9
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
Title
Grant/Contract Number
Agency
Period
Grant Amount
Project Director, Principal Investigators
Research Associates, Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
KSU Account Number
1.
Electric Field Effects in Liquid Crystals with
Dielectric Dispersion
U.S. Department of Energy
8/15/06 – 8/14/10
$493,074 (yrs. 1-3)
Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii
Golovin, Nastyshyn
Lazo-Martinez, Pishnyak,
Wonderly
440606
2.
Giant Flexoelectricity of Bent-Core Nematic Liquid
Crystals: Its Origin and Potential Applications for
Microscale Energy Conversion
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM)
7/1/08 – 6/30/10
$50,000
Sprunt, Gleeson, Jákli
Harden
440609
3.
Chromonic Liquid Crystals as a New System
for Controlled Drug Delivery
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
1/1/07 – 8/15/09
$50,000
Finotello, Lavrentovich,
Tortora, Woolverton
440621
4.
Energy Conversion Based on Giant Flexoelectric
Effect in Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystals
Office of Naval Research
12/18/06 – 12/31/07 – no cost extension to 8/31/09
$265,319
Gleeson, Jákli, Sprunt
Chambers
Iglesias
440623
5.
Collaborative Research: New Liquid
Crystal Materials
National Science Foundation SGER
8/1/2006 – 7/31/2008
$160,000
Finotello, Kumar
Kooijman
Guo, Jeong
442105
6.
Collaborative Research FRG: Ferroelectric
Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems
National Science Foundation
8/15/05 – 7/31/09 (No-cost extension)
$313,978
Jákli, Gartland,
Lavrentovich
Culbreath, Wonderly
442191
24
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
7.
Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy
of Three-Dimensional Director Configurations in
Liquid Crystals
National Science Foundation
11/1/05 – 10/31/09 (No-cost extension)
$375,000
Lavrentovich
Nastyshyn, Tortora,
Omelchenko
Lazo-Martinez, Senyuk,
Wonderly
442198
8.
New Liquid Crystal Materials Facility
National Science Foundation
6/1/06 – 5/31/09
$899,235
Palffy-Muhoray,
Lavrentovich, West, Chien,
Sprunt
Luchette
Toros, Shih
Borshch, Cui, Gimenez,
Huang, Iglesias, L. Lu,
S. Lu, Neal, Pan
442216
9.
Fluid Phases of Bent-Core Molecules – Novel
Physics and Applications
National Science Foundation
7/1/06 – 7/31/09
$536,137
Sprunt, Gleeson, Jákli
Bailey, Diorio, Harden, Hong,
Majumbdar, Neupane
Kovacs, Murphy
442218
10.
Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in
Soft Materials
National Science Foundation
8/15/06 – 7/31/09
$300,000
R. Selinger, J. Selinger
Ye
Gimenez, Iglesias, Mbanga
Konya
442220
11.
Materials World Network on Lyotropic
Chromonic Liquid Crystals
National Science Foundation
9/1/07 – 8/31/10
$336,000
Sprunt, Lavrentovich
Neupane
Savaryn
442249
12.
Collaborative Research: Scaling Laws for
NanoFET Biosensors
National Science Foundation
10/1/08 – 9/30/11
$206,812
Wei
Chakrabarty
Fechter
442255
13.
Materials World Network: Structure, Dynamics
and Critical Phenomena in Biaxial Nematic Liquid
Crystals
National Science Foundation
9/1/08 – 8/31/11
$510,000
Kumar, Sprunt
Agra-Kooijman, Dey,
Majumdar
442257
25
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
14.
Energy-Saving Switchable Liquid Crystal
Architectural Window
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
6/1/07 – 12/31/08
$50,000
Yang, Sharag-Eldin
J. Ma
444203
15.
Flexible Liquid Crystal Film Manufacturing Alliance
Ohio Department of Development;
Kent Displays subaward
2/26/07 – 2/25/10
$450,000
West
Ruth, K. Zhang, Buyuktanir
444205
16.
Dual Mode Eye Shields
Defense Contract Management Agency;
Dynamic Eye subaward
9/1/08 – 3/1/10
$82,825
Yang
Hurley
444207
17.
Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive
Agile Filters
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
3/1/09 – 2/28/14
$625,000
($150,000 – Mar.-Dec. 2009)
Li
Ma
444208
18.
5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer
Conference
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
6/02/09 – 12/31/09
$10,843
Palffy-Muhoray
444209
19.
Novel Organo-Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral
Hybrid Gold Nanorods
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
5/1/09 – 4/30/14
$750,000; ($100,000 for
5/09-12/09)
Li
Shokouhimehr
444211
20.
Establishment of the International Network for
Flexible Electro-Optics Devices
Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)
1/1/09 – 12/31/11
$31,210
West
444212
21.
Electronically Changeable Color Skins for
Consumer Electronics
Ohio Department of Development;
Kent Displays subaward
5/29/09 – 5/28/12
$598,037
West
Diehl
444214
22.
Finite Element Modeling of Projectiles and
Indentation
National Institute of Standards and Technology
9/1/05 – 8/31/08
$415,676
R. Selinger
Ma
444277
26
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
23.
Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate
Mechanisms for Anomalous Thermal
Transport in Nanofluids
Office of Naval Research, Long Range Navy and
Marine Corps Science & Technology Program
10/01/05 – 09/30/08
$344,003
J. Selinger, Sprunt
Turanov
Lopatina
444279
24.
Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate
Mechanisms for Anomalous Thermal Transport
in Nanofluids
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
1/15/06 – 2/8/09 (No cost extension)
$60,000
J. Selinger, Sprunt
Turanov
Lopatina
444282
25.
Extension Proposal (LC Based Optical Phases
Array for Steering Lasers)
Dept. of Air Force/Air Force Research Labs
3/10/06 – 6/30/09 (no-cost extension)
$451,450
Bos
Bryant
Shi
444285 (previously 444226)
26.
Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI)
on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS
Air Force Office of Science Research
5/1/06 – 9/30/11
$3,817,793 (5/06 – 9/10)
(KSU share $1,392,232)
Palffy-Muhoray,
Lavrentovich, Li, Taheri
Y. Li, Moreira, Relaix, Tortora
Shih
Fontana, Lazo Martinez, Park,
X. Zhao
444286
27.
Segmented Flash Blindness Lenses
U.S. Air Force; Dynamic Eye subaward
9/1/06 – 8/31/08
$98,057
Yang
444288
28.
Theory of “Scar” Defects in Soft Materials with
Orientational Order: Building Blocks for SelfAssembly?
Institute for Complex Adaptive Materials (ICAM)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
7/1/07 – 6/30/09
$45,000
J. Selinger
Ye
444290
29.
Commercialization of Functional Polyimide Films
and Nanocomposites
Ohio Department of Development;
University of Akron subaward
2/26/07 – 2/25/10
$300,000
Yang, Kelly, Lavrentovich
Tortora, Y. Yang
Senyuk, Park, Wonderly
444292
30.
Electrically and Optically Tunable Chiral Molecules
for Optical Applications
U.S. Air Force; General Dynamics subaward
6/21/07 – 9/30/08 (no cost extension)
$70,000
Li
Krishnamurthy, Mathews
444293
27
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
31.
Pixel Optics Super Vision Project
U.S. Dept. of Defense; PixelOptics subaward
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$400,000
Bos, West
Bryant, Wall
Atkuri, Huang, L. Li, Shi
444295
32.
Simulation Study of Field Induced Reorientation
of BNLC
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$80,000
Yang
J. Ma
Hicks
444296
33.
Plasmonic Subwavelength Structures for Active
Color Generation and Tuning with Liquid Crystals
for Display Applications
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$80,000
Wei
Wang
444297
34.
Liquid Crystal Display Doped with Ferroelectric
Nanoparticles (Phase II)
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$80,000
West
Atkuri, X. Zhao
444298
35.
Synthesis of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$80,000
Li
Mathews
444299
36.
Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals
for Internal Compensators and Polarizers
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
12/1/07 – 11/30/08
$100,000
Lavrentovich
Nastyshyn
444300
37.
Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for
Nematic Displays, NSF STTR Phase II
National Science Foundation;
Kent Displays subaward
2/15/08 – 2/14/10
$250,000
Li
Krishnamurthy
Y. Li, J. Ma, Mathews
444303
38.
Sponsored Research Agreement
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Vistakon Division
5/15/08 – 12/31/08
$108,870
Jákli
Taushanoff
Murphy, Toros
444305
39.
Development of Electronic Greenhouses
NorTech
6/12/08 – 6/30/09
$50,000
West
444306
28
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
40.
Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial
Deformation of Metals
National Institute of Standards and Technology
9/1/08 – 8/31/11
$469,310
R. Selinger
L. Ma
444307
41.
Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic
Techniques
NASA; ATK Space Systems subaward
1/26/09 – 6/30/009
$15,013
Bos
Bryant
444308
42.
Flexible Cholesteric Displays: Device
Simulation and Fashion Application
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
6/15/09 – 6/14/11
$40,000
R. Selinger, Schofield-Tomschin
Gimenez
444309
43.
Optimization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase
Bimesogens
Ohio Board of Regents Research Incentive
1/15/08 – 1/14/10
$48,618
Twieg, Jákli, Bos
444776
44.
Numerical Simulations and Laboratory
Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics
Ternary Homogeneous Nucleation
Ohio Board of Regents Research Initiative
6/15/09 – 6/14/10
$50,000
S.H. Lee, R. Selinger
444783
45.
Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials
(RC-SAM)
Ohio Department of Development, Ohio Research
Scholars Program
Universities: Kent State, Case Western Reserve and
Youngstown State
8/18/08 – 8/17/13
$15,292,382 (3 universities)
KSU $8,553,921
CWRU$5,838,461
YSU $900,000
Lavrentovich, West, PalffyMuhoray, Yang
446800 (endowment)
446801 (operating)
446802 (capital equipment)
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
46.
S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening Participation
in Sciences
National Science Foundation
9/15/06 – 8/31/11
$499,926
Maletic, Ortiz, R. Selinger,
Portman, S.H. Lee
442222
47.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Site at Kent State University: Liquid Crystals
and Advanced Materials
National Science Foundation
4/1/07 – 3/31/10
$229,743
Gericke, Twieg
442225
48.
Science Education / Outreach Activities
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
5/1/08 – 4/30/09
$2,000
R. Selinger
444304
29
Grants and Contracts, 2008-2009
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
49. Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid
Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)
National Science Foundation
9/15/07 – 8/31/10
$92,000
Jákli
Culbreath, Diorio, Fontana,
Ostepenko, Taushanoff
R. Gibson (Calif. State Univ.)
442107
FOUNDATION RESEARCH GIFTS
50.
Fluorinated Polyimide Alignment Layer Research
Dupont
6/1/06 – 1/31/09
$160,000
Bos
51.
Polarization Independent Etalon Based Liquid
Crystal Devices
Intel
10/1/05 – 9/30/08
$189,000
Bos
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
52.
Challenge Grant (Research and Scholarships)
Fred A Lennon Charitable Trust
10/13/06 – 10/12/09
$90,000
Lavrentovich
Diorio, Fontana, S. Lu (2009)
53.
Samsung Research Scholarships
Samsung Electronics Company
1/1/04 – 12/31/08
$200,000
Senyuk, Taushanoff (2008-09)
30
Table 10
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2008-2009
Title
Agency
Period
Amount Requested
Project director, principal
investigators
Status
1.
ARRA: Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy
of Three-Dimensional Structures in Liquid
Crystals
National Science Foundation
9/1/09 – 8/31/11
$277,903
Lavrentovich
Awarded
Proposal B-9528 (448011)
2.
Collaborative Research: Self-assembly in
Ultrathin Films of Bent-Core Molecules:
Experiment, Simulation and Application
National Science Foundation
7/15/09 – 6/30/12
$462,386
Mann, Jákli
Awarded
Proposal B-9529 (442263)
3.
5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer
Conference
National Science Foundation
9/1/09 – 8/31/10
$8,031
Palffy-Muhoray
Awarded
Proposal B-9879 (442269)
4.
5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer
Conference
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
6/02/09 – 12/31/09
$10,843
Palffy-Muhoray, Chien, Jákli,
R. Selinger
Awarded
Proposal B-9982 (444209)
5.
Novel Organo-Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral
Hybrid Gold Nanorods
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
5/1/09 – 4/30/14
$750,000
Li
Awarded
Proposal B-9650 (444211)
6.
Establishment of the International Network for
Flexible Electro-Optics Devices
Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)
1/1/09 – 12/31/11
$31,210
West
Awarded
Proposal B-9856 (444212)
7.
Electronically Changeable Color Skins for
Consumer Electronics
Ohio Department of Development (subaward Kent
Displays)
5/29/09 – 5/28/12
$598,037
West
Awarded
Proposal B-9524 (444214)
31
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2008-2009
8.
Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic
Techniques
NASA (subaward ATK Space Systems)
1/26/09 – 6/30/009
$30,000
Bos
Awarded
Proposal B-9533 (444308)
9.
Flexible Cholesteric Displays: Device Simulation
& Fashion Application
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
6/15/09 – 6/14/11
$40,000
R. Selinger, Schofield-Tomschin
Awarded
Proposal B-9578 (444309)
10.
Atomic Scale Modeling for Nanomechanics
Experiments
National Institute of Standards and Technology
8/1/09 – 7/31/12
$115,637
R. Selinger
Awarded
Proposal B-9829 (444310)
11.
Numerical Simulations and Laboratory
Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics
Ternary Homogeneous Nucleation
Ohio Board of Regents Research Initiative
6/15/09 – 6/14/10
$50,000
S.H. Lee, R. Selinger
Awarded
Proposal B-9600 (444783)
12.
Atmospheric Chemistry: Numerical Simulations,
Laboratory and Atmospheric Observations of
Sulfuric Acid-Water Organics Ternary
Homogeneous Nucleation
Dreyfus Foundation
1/1/09 – 12/31/10
$120,000
S.H. Lee, R. Selinger
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9409
13.
Molecular and Supermolecular Design of Polar
Achiral and Chiral Polymers and their
Elastomers for Understanding the Stimuli
Responses in Different Mesophases and
Environments
ACS Petroleum Research Fund
$100,000
Chien
Not Awarded
9/1/2009-8/31/2011
14.
Artificial Muscles Based on Bent-Core Liquid
Crystal Elastomers
National Science Foundation
9/1/09 – 8/31/12
$357,422
Chien
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9535
15.
International Liquid Crystal Materials Institute
National Science Foundation
04/01/09-03/31/2014
$5,372,833
Jákli, R. Selinger, Mann, Twieg
Not Awarded
16.
Seeking Melt Processable Negatively Birefringent
Polymers
Nine Sigma
7/1/09 – 6/30/10
$100,000
Chien
Not Awarded
32
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2008-2009
17.
Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals
National Science Foundation
PI: Peter Collins (Swarthmore College, PA)
6/14/09 – 9/13/09
$10,000
Collins, Chien
Awarded
18.
Investigation of Scientific Duo of Nanoparticles
and Blue Phase Liquid Crystals and Their
Electro-optical Applications
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
6/15/09 – 6/14/10
$50,000
Chien
Not Awarded
19.
Stability and Interfacial Viscoelasticities of
Polymerized Phospholipid Membranes
National Science Foundation
1/1/10 – 12/31/12
$261,238
Kim
Pending
Proposal B-9742
20.
Novel Bio-Inspired Stress-Adaptive Artificial
Polymer Networks
DARPA
6/15/09 – 8/31/10
$299,370
Kim
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9713
21.
Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals (BNLC):
KSU-Samsung Project
Samsung Electronics
1/1/09 – 12/31/09
$250,000
Allender, Kumar, Lavrentovich
Pending
Proposal B-9550
22.
Formation of Thin Photoluminescent Films from
Colloidal Quantum Dots (QDs) for Backlights
Samsung Electronics
1/1/09 – 12/31/09
$100,000
Kim
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9561
23.
FRG: Interplay of Biaxiality and Chirality in
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
National Science Foundation
7/1/09 – 6/30/12
$732,874
Yang, Doane, Li, J. Selinger
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9527
24.
Optimization of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for
Active Matrix Display
Samsung Electronics
1/1/09 – 12/31/10
$188,011
Yang
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9562
25.
Development of High-Speed Confocal Rheoscope
for Investigation of Mechanosensing of Cells
Under Stress
National Science Foundation
7/1/09 – 6/30/12
$859,900
Kim
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9431
26.
Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for
Passive Agile Filters
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
3/1/09 – 2/28/14
$625,000
Li
Awarded
Proposal B-9493 (444208)
33
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2008-2009
27.
Biaxiality in Thermotropic Bent-Core and
Tetrapodic Nematic Liquid Crystals
U.S. Department of Energy
91/09 – 2/28/13
$1,381,689
Kumar, Sprunt, Li
Awarded
Proposal B-9439 (440658)
28.
International Symposium on Biaxial Liquid
Crystals
National Science Foundation
9/1/08 – 2/28/09
$15,000
Allender, Kumar, Lavrentovich
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9388
29.
CAREER: Electrically Addressable Plasmonic
Nanocavities as Hotspots for Single Molecule
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
National Science Foundation
3/1/09 – 2/28/14
$404,591
Wei
Not Awarded
Proposal B-9396
30.
Electrically Controlled Optical Metamaterials
Based on Dispersions of Nano-Rods
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
8/1/10 – 7/31/15
$897,684
Lavrentovich
Pending
Proposal B-9916
31.
Electrically Addressable Plasmonic Nanocavities
for Simultaneous Single Molecule SERS and
Molecular Electronics
Army Research Office
10/1/09 – 9/30/12
$361,632
Wei
Pending
Proposal B-9870
32.
Structured Fluids from Reduced Symmetry
Molecules
National Science Foundation
1/1/10 – 12/31/13
$705,250
Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt
Pending
33.
Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in Water for
Biological Sensors
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge
8/15/09 – 8/14/11
$50,000
Jákli, Mann, Stalvey
Not Awarded
34.
CAREER: Investigation of Fragile and Strong
Glass Formers Using Perturbed Dynamics of
Arrested Colloidal Suspensions
National Science Foundation
3/1/10 – 2/28/15
$600,128
Kim
Pending
35.
Novel High Throughput Method to Measure Cell
Mechanics Using a Tapered Capillary
National Institutes of Health
9/30/09 – 9/39/11
$992,766
Kim, Sakai
Not Awarded
36.
Investigation of the Perturbed Dynamics of
Biological Systems
Ohio Board of Regents Research Incentive
6/15/09 – 5/31/11
$50,000
Kim
Not Awarded
34
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2008-2009
37.
Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere
National Science Foundation
9/15/09 – 8/31/11
$135,000
Palffy-Muhoray, Zheng (Math)
Awarded
Proposal B-9544 (442270)
38.
eVision Project
eVision, LLC
8/1/09 – 7/30/11
$178,000
Bos
Awarded
Proposal B-9881 (444311)
39.
Ionic Cholesteric Liquid Crystal and Display
Ohio Board of Regents Research Incentive
12/1/08 – 11/30/09
$50,000
Yang, Twieg
Not Awarded
40.
Prototype of Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric
Texture Switchable Window
Guardian, Inc.
1/1/09 – 12/31/09
$37,413
Yang
Not Awarded
41.
Simulation Study of Electrically Tunable
Polarization Rotator from Liquid Crystal
Avanex, Inc.
7/1/09 – 6/30/10
$45,301
Yang
Awarded
42.
MRI: Acquisition of a Multifunctional Field
Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for
Research on Nano and Soft Materials
National Science Foundation
9/1/09 – 8/31/11
$384,116
Wei
Not Awarded
43.
Development and Fundamental Studies of Biaxial
Colloidal Systems
Farris Family Innovative Award
9/1/09 – 8/31/12
$24,000
Wei
Awarded
44.
Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial
Deformation of Metals
National Institute of Standards and Technology
9/1/08 – 8/31/11
$469,310 (renewal of 444277)
R. Selinger
Awarded
Proposal B-9333 (444307)
45.
Self-Assembling Organic Solar Energy Systems
Department of Energy
Energy Frontiers Research Center with
participation by nine universities
9/1/09 – 8/31/14
$25,000,000
Kumar, Chien, Lavrentovich, et al.
Not Awarded
35
Table 11
Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures
Number & Date
Title and Inventors
Patents
7,463,228
KSU 229
12/9/2008
Fast Switching Dual-Frequency Liquid Crystal Cells and Method for
Driving the Same
Andrii Golovin, Sergij Shiyanovskii, Oleg Lavrentovich
ZL03106745.X, PRChina
KSU 232
3/25/09
Elliptically Polarizing Plate and Liquid Crystal Display
Jack Kelly, Marina Lavrentovich, Tatiana Sergan
7,499,125
KSU 254
3/3/2009
Method of Fabricating Electro-Optical Devices with Polymer-Stabilized
Liquid Crystal Molecules
L. Komitov, L.-C. Chien and S. H. Kim
Patent Applications
US 2009-0040453
KSU 245
9/4/2008
Method of Plasma Beam Bombardment of Aligning Films for Liquid
Crystals
L.-C. Chien, A. Dobrovolskyy; O. Yaroschuk, O. Lavrentovich
Germany (pending)
11 2006 003 604.1
KSU 277
7/2/08
Nanoscale Discotic Liquid Crystalline Porphyrins
Quan Li, Lanfang Li, Antal Jákli, John Harden, Jr.
Germany (pending)
11 2006 003 607.6
KSU 285
7/2/08
Light-Harvesting Discotic Liquid Crystalline Porphyrins and Metal
Complexes
Quan Li, Xiaoli Zhou
US 12/410,156 (pending)
KSU 302
3/24/2009
Bistable Switchable Liquid Crystal Window
Deng-Ke Yang, Lei Shi, Rui Bao
US Utility Patent
12/167,754 (pending)
KSU 314
7/3/08
Liquid Crystal Alignment Using Inkjet Printed Polymers
L.C. Chien, J.Y. Hwang
US 2009-0073331-A1
12/208.727; KSU 319
9/11/2008
Tunable Liquid Crystal Devides, Devices Using Same, and Methods of
Making and Using Same
Lei Shi, Philip Bos, Paul McManamon
US 2009-0231261 A1
12/403,160; KSU 324
3/12/2009
A Liquid Crystal Device and Method Thereof
Sergij Shiyanovskii, Mingxia Gu, Oleg Lavrentovich
36
Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures, 2008-2009
US 12/378,103 (pending)
12/378,103; KSU 325
2/11/2009
Broad Range Nano-liter Rheometer
Antal Jákli, Christopher Bailey
61/107,386
KSU 339
9/8/2008
Homeotropically Aligned Discotic Liquid Crystal Blend for Bulk
Heterojunction Photovoltaic Device (A Liquid Crystalline Blend,
Device Thereof and Method Thereof)
Quan Li
Invention Disclosures
KSU 340
9/8/08
KSU 342
9/10/08
Method and Device to Produce an Aligned Film of Lyotropic
Chromonic Liquid Crystal
Andrii Golovin, Oleg Lavrentovich
Polymer Stabilized Isotropic Liquid Crystal Display and Phase
Modulator
Deng-Ke Yang, Young Cheol Yang and Rui Bao
KSU 344
10/24/08
Electrically Controlled Dispersions of Nanoparticles for Reconfigurable
Optical Lensing and Optical Cloaking Applications
Oleg Lavrentovich, Andrii Golovin
KSU 345
11/12/08
A Method to Monitor/Control Surfactant Concentration in Liquid
Crystal Colloidal Dispersion
Ke Zhang, Hari Atkuri, John West
KSU 346
11/12/08
The Substrate-Free Liquid Crystal/Polymer Composite Film
Preparation Method on the Liquid Surface
Ebru Buyuktanir, John West
KSU 347
11/13/08
High Transmittance Stressed Liquid Crystal in the Visible Spectrum
Hari Atkuri, Ke Zhang, John West, Anatoliy Glushchenko
KSU 350
3/15/2009
Polymer and Blue Phase LC Composites for Field-Induced Color
L.-C. Chien, S.-Y. Lu
KSU 351
2/7/2009
A Blue Phase Liquid Crystal and Device Thereof: High dielectric
Composites as Capacitive Materials
L.-C. Chien, Lu Lu and J. Y. Hwang
KSU 353
3/10/09
Stimuli Rsponsive Liquid Crystal/Polymer Composite Fibers
Ebru Buyuktanir, Margaret Frey, John West
KSU 354/355
3/23/09
Addressing Scheme for a Tunable Lens with Phase Wrapping
Doug Bryant, Le Shi, Bentley Wall, Philip Bos
KSU 356/357
3/23/09
Photo-Patterned Pre-tilt Liquid Crystal Cells, Lenses and Methods
Philip Bos, Tatiana Sergan, Vassili Sergan
KSU 360
5/1/09
Electrically Addressable Plasmonic Nanocavities and Their
Applications
Qi-Huo Wei, Feng Wang, Wu Lu
KSU 361
5/26/09
Optical Compensation Schemes of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal
Displays for Wide Viewing Angle Performance
Young-Choel Yang and Deng-Ke Yang
37
Table 12
Publications
Philip J. Bos
Peer Reviewed Journals
Y. Huang, P.J. Bos, K.H. Kim, J.K. Jang, H.S. Kim, “Factors affecting the dynamics of a pi-cell,”
J. Society Info. Display 16 (9): 939-945 (2008). (Invited Paper)
E. Dorjgotov, A. Bhowmik, P. Bos, “Design of a wide bandwidth switchable mirror based on a
liquid crystal etalon,” J. Appl. Physics 105 (10): Art. No. 104906 (2009).
E.A. Dorjgotov, A.K. Bhowmik, P.J. Bos, “High efficiency liquid crystal etalon modulator for
pico-projection displays,” Jap. J. Appl. Phys. 48 (4): Art. No. 042201 Part 1 (2009).
B. Wang, Y.L. Zhang, Y.K. Jang, P.J. Bos, “Enhancement of the direct symmetric splay to bend
transition in liquid crystal cell, Jap. J. Appl. Phys. 48 (2): Art. No. 022502 (2009).
E.A. Dorjgotov, A.K. Bhowmik, P.J. Bos, “Switchable polarization-independent liquid-crystal
Fabry-Perot filter,” Appl. Optics 48 (1): 74-79 (2009).
K. Zhang, N. Liu, R.J. Twieg, B.C. Auman, P.J.Bos, “Pretilt study of double-layer alignment film
(DLAF),” Liq. Crystals 35 (10): 1191-1197 (2008).
Y.K. Jang, P. Bos, “Conditions and limitations of perfect phase compensation in liquid crystal
devices,” Jap. J. Appl. Phys. 47 (7): 5466-5471 Part 1 (2008).
M. Reznikov, B. Wall, M.A. Handschy, P.J. Bos, “Monodomain alignment of the smectic-A
liquid crystalline phase from the isotropic phase,” J. Appl. Phys. 104 (4): Art. No. 044902 (2008).
L. Shi, P.F. McManamon, P.J. Bos, “Liquid crystal optical phase plate with a variable in-plane
gradient,” J. Appl. Phys. 104 (3): Art. No. 033109 (2008).
S.Y. Jeong, D.W.Kim, K.W. Rhie, M.P. Hong, P. Bos, W.G. Jang, K.H. Kim, S.T. Shin, “Study
of optimized curing conditions for polymer-stabilized pi-cell with compensation film,” Jap. J.
Appl. Phys. 47 (3): 1647-1650 Part 1 (2008).
A.B. Nych, D.Y. Reznikov, O.P. Boiko, V.G. Nazarenko, V.M. Pergamenshchik, P. Bos,
“Alignment memory of a nematic liquid crystal and thermal isotropization of the surface
adsorbed layer,” Euro. Phys. Lett. 81 (1): Art. No. 16001 (2008).
P. McManamon, P.J. Bos, M.J. Escuti, J. Heikenfeld, S. Serati, H.K. Xie, E.A. Watson, “A
review of phased array steering for narrow-band electrooptical systems,” PROC. IEEE, 97 (6):
1078-1096 Sp. Iss. SI, invited paper (2009).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
B.Wang, Y. Zhang, Y-K Jang, P.J.Bos, “Stabilization of the symmetric splay state and warm up
time reduction in Pi-cell devices” Conference Record of the 28th International Display Research
Conference, p. 119 ( 2008).
Liang-Chy Chien
Books and Chapters in Books
L. C. Chien and M. Wu, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IV, Proceeding of SPIE, Vol.
7232 (2009).
38
Publications, 2008-2009
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.Y. Hwang and L.C. Chien, “Liquid crystal alignment on inkjet printed and air-buffed polyimide
with nano-grove surface,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42, 055305 (2009).
S.H. Kim, L. Shi and L.C. Chien, “Fast flexoelectric switching in a cholesteric liquid crystal cell
with surface-localized polymer network,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42, 195102 (2009).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
M.-H. Lee, H.J. Choi, K.-U., Jeong, L.-C. Chien, “Photomechanical deformation of liquid
crystalline polymer based on photochromic reactive mesogen,” IDRC Proceeding, 33-34 (2008).
S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Carbon nanotubes doped liquid crystal OCB cells: Dielectric and electrooptical properties,” IDW 08 Digest, 13-16 (2008).
L. Lu, S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Fast-switching electro-optical films based on polymer
encapsulated liquid crystal, carbon nanotube, and dye,” SPIE 7232, 23204-723204-9 (2009).
L. Lu, J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Effect of IPS cell structure on the electro-optical property
of a room temperature blue phase liquid crystal,” SID 09 Digest, 1608-1610 (2009).
S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Electrically induced color with polymer-stabilized blue phase” SID 09
Digest, 1193-1195 (2009).
Antal Jákli
Peer Reviewed Journals
G.G. Nair, C.A. Bailey, S. Taushanoff, K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, Z. Varga, A. Bóta, A. Jákli,
“Electrically tunable color using mixtures of bent-core and rod-shape molecules”, Adv. Mater., 20
(16), 3138 – 3142 (2008).
A. Jákli, B. Senyuk, G. Liao, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Colloidal micro-motor in smectic A liquid
crystal driven by DC electric field, Soft Matter 4, 2471 - 2474 (2008).
J. Harden, R. Teeling, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Converse flexoelectric effect in a bentcore nematic liquid crystal”, Phys. Rev. E 78, 031702 (2008).
T. Ostapenko, D.B. Wiant, S.N. Sprunt, A. Jákli, and J.T. Gleeson, “Magnetic-field induced
isotropic to nematic liquid crystal phase transition,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 247801 (2008).
J. Harden, N. Diorio, A. G. Petrov, A. Jákli, “Chirality of lipids makes fluid lamellar phases
piezoelectric”, Phys. Rev. E 79, 011701 (2009); also selected for the January 15, 2009 issue of
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, “Calamitic liquid crystalline
elastomers swollen in bent-core liquid crystal solvents,” Adv. Mater. 21, (16), 1622-1626 (2009).
D.Z. Obadovic, A. Vajda, A. Jákli, M. Kohout, M. Stojanovic, N. Éber, K. Fodor-Csorba,
G. Galli, “Studies on binary mixtures of bell-shaped and calamitic compounds,” J.
Research Physics 32 (1) 69-74 (2008).
A. Jákli, I.C. Pinte, J.L. Serrano, M.B. Ros and M.R. de la Fuente, “Electro-optic, dielectric and
piezoelectric properties of a ferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal”, Adv. Mater., DOE:
10.1002/adma.200900131 (2009).
K. Van Le, M. Mathews, M. Chambers, J. Harden, Q. Li, H. Takezoe, Antal Jákli, “Electrooptic
technique to study biaxiality of liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy: The case of a
bent-core material,” Phys. Rev. E., Rapid Comm. 79.030701(R) (2009).
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Publications, 2008-2009
J. Petzold, A. Nemeş, A. Eremin, C. Bailey, N. Diorio, A. Jákli, and R. Stannarius, “Acoustically
driven oscillations of freely suspended liquid crystal filaments,” Soft Matter 5 (16), 3120 – 3126
(2009).
M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, “Flexoelectricity of a calamitic
liquid crystal elastomer swollen with a bent-core liquid crystal,” J. Mater. Chem. 2009, DOI:
10.1039/b911652d.
Chanjoong Kim
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.J. Lietor-Santos, C. Kim, A. Fernandez-Nieves, and D.A. Weitz, “Gravitational compression of
colloidal gels,” European Phys. J. E 28, 159-164 (2009).
C. Kim, M.C. Gurau, P.S. Cremer, and H. Yu, “Study of the molecular orientation of
poly(dimethyl siloxane) at the air/water interface by sum-frequency generation vibrational
spectroscopy,” Langmuir 24, 10155 (2008).
C.O. Osuji, C. Kim, and D.A. Weitz, “Shear thickening and gel elasticity in a colloidal system
with attractive interactions,” Phys. Rev. E, 77, 060402 (2008).
Satyendra Kumar
Peer Reviewed Journals
L. Joshi, S.W. Kang, D.M. Agra-Kooijman, and S. Kumar, “Evolution of the aggregates of Sunset
Yellow with concentration, temperature and pH of the solution: An x-ray investigation,” Phys.
Rev. E 80, 041703 (2009).
D. B. Varshney, J. Elliott, L.A. Gatlin, S. Kumar, R. Suryanarayanan, E.Y. Shalaev,
“Synchrotron X-ray diffraction investigation of the anomalous behavior of ice during freezing of
aqueous systems,” J. Phys. Chem. B Letters 113, 6177–6182 (2009).
X. Zhou, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, and Q. Li, “Self-assembling discotic liquid crystal porphyrin
into more controllable ordered nanostructure mediated by fluorophobic effect,” Liq. Cryst. 36,
269-274 (2009).
D.B. Varshney, S. Kumar, E.Y. Shalaev, S.-W. Kang, P. Sundaramurthi, L.A. Gatlin, and
Suryanarayanan, “Phase transitions in freeze-dried systems - quantification using in situ
synchrotron X-ray diffractometry,” Pharmaceutical Research 26, 1596-1606 (2009).
E.E. Kooijman, D. Vaknin, W. Bu, L. Joshi, S.-W. Kang, A. Gericke, E.K. Mann, and S. Kumar,
“Structure of Ceramide-1-Phosphate at the air-water solution interface in the absence and
presence of Ca2+,” Biophys. Jrnl. 96, 2204-2215 (2009).
B. R. Acharya, S.W. Kang, and S. Kumar, “Role of molecular structure in x-ray diffraction in
thermotropic uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystal phases,” J. Phys. Chem. B, P.G.
deGennes Memorial Edition 113, 3845–3852 (2009).
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Peer Reviewed Journals
M. Gu, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Polar and nonpolar ordering in the
electrically induced isotropic-nematic phase transition,” Phys. Rev. E 78, 040702(R) (2008).
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Publications, 2008-2009
A. Jákli, B. Senyuk, G. Liao, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Colloidal micro-motor in smectic A liquid
crystal driven by DC electric field,” Soft Matter 4, 2471-2474 (2008).
H.S. Park, S.W. Kang, L. Tortora, Y. Nastishin, D. Finotello, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich,
“Self-assembly of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow and effects of ionic
additives,” J. Physical Chem. B 112, 16307-16319 (2008).
H.S. Park, A. Agarwal, N.A. Kotov, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Controllable side-by-side and end-toend assembly of nanorods by lyotropic chromonic materials,” Langmuir 24, 13833-13837 (2008).
Y.H. Kim, D. K. Yoon, M.C. Choi, H. S. Jeong, M. W. Kim, O.D. Lavrentovich, H.T. Jung,
“Confined self-assembly of toric focal conic domains (the effects of confined geometry on the
feature size of toric focal conic domains),” Langmuir 25, 1685-1691 (2009).
Yu.A. Nastishin, O.P. Boiko, R.M. Vasyuta, V.M. Pergamenshchik, V.G. Nazarenko, O.D.
Lavrentovich, “Photoinduced reorientation of light-absorbing lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal,”
Ukrainsk. Fizich. Zhurnal 54, 82-88 (2009).
O.P. Pishnyak, S. Tang, J.R. Kelly, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electrically induced
dynamics of colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystal,” Ukrainsk. Fizich. Zhurnal 54, 101-108
(2009).
B.H. Kim, H.M. Lee, J.H. Lee, S.W. Son, S.J. Jeong, S. Lee, D.I. Lee, S.W. Kwak, H. Jeong, H.
Shin, J.B. Yoon, O.D. Lavrentovich, and S.O. Kim, “Spontaneous lamellar alignment in
thickness-modulated block copolymer films,“ Adv. Functional Materials 19, 2584-2591 (2009).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
O.D. Lavrentovich, H. Wonderly, M. Gu and S.V. Shiyanovskii, “Dielectric relaxation in
electrooptical switching of nematics,” Int. Meeting on Informational Displays, Digest 2008, 36-2,
p. 1283-1285 (2008).
Quan Li
Books and Chapters in Books
Q. Li, L. Li, “Photoconducting discotic liquid crystals,” in, Thermotropic Liquid Crystals, A.
Ramamoorthy, Ed., Ch.11, 297-322, Springer (2008).
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.M. El Khoury, X. Zhou, L. Qu, L. Dai, A. Urbas and Q. Li, “Organo-soluble photoresponsive
azo hybrid gold nanorods,” Chemical Comm. 16, 2109-2111 (2009).
L. Green, Y. Li, T. White, A. Urbas, T. Bunning and Q. Li, “Light-driven chiral molecular
switches with tetrahedral and axial chirality,” Organic & Bimolecular Chemistry
(Communication) 7, 3930-3933 (2009).
T.J. White, R.L. Bricker, L.V. Natarajan, N.V. Tabiryan, L. Green, Q. Li and T.J. Bunning,
“Phototunable azobenzene cholesteric liquid crystals with 2000 nm range,” Adv. Functional Mat.
19, 3484-3488 (2009).
K. Van Le, M. Mathews, M. Chambers, J. Harden, Q. Li, H. Takezoe and A. Jákli, “Electro-optic
technique to study biaxiality of liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy: The case of a
bent-core material,” Phys. Rev. E 79, 030701/1-030701/4 (2009).
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Publications, 2008-2009
X. Zhou, S. Kang, S. Kumar and Q. Li, “Self-assembly of discotic liquid crystal porphyrin into
more controllable ordered nanostructure mediated by fluorophobic effect,” Liq. Cryst. 36, 269274 (2009).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
Q. Li, L. Green, “Novel optically tunable chiral nematic liquid crystal materials,”Abstracts of
Papers, 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, ORGN-567 (2008).
Q. Li, X. Zhou, “Homeotropically aligned light-harvesting liquid crystalline porphyrins for
organic photovoltaics,” Abstracts of Papers, 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
ORGN-214 (2008).
T.J. White, L.V. Natarajan, R.L. Bricker, Q. Li, N.V. Tabiryan, T.J. Bunning, “Impact of helical
structure retention in phototunable polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals,” Abstracts of
Papers, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, POLY-341 (2009).
Q. Li, “Nature-inspired discotic liquid crystal porphyrins for organic photovoltaics,” Abstracts of
2008 Workshop on Photovoltaics, Tuson, AZ, 23 (2008).
Q. Li, “Fluorinated liquid crystals: From displays to self-organizing organic photovoltaics,”
Abstract book of 2009 Conference on Fabulous Future with Fluorine, St. Pete Beach, FL, 30
(2009).
N. Venkataraman, G. Magyar, E. Montbach, A. Khan, T. Schneider, J. W. Doane, L. Green, and
Q. Li, “Thin flexible photosensitive cholesteric displays,” 28th International Display Research
Conference, Orlando, FL, 101-103 (2008).
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Peer Reviewed Journals
X. Zheng, W. Iglesias, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard
ellipsoids,” Phys Rev E 79, 5, May (2009).
S. Li, J. Lowengrub, J. Fontana, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Control of viscous fingering patterns in a
radial Hele-Shaw cell,” Phys Rev Lett. 102 (17), 174501, May 1, (2009).
X. Sun, B. A. Garetz, M. F. Moreira and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Non-photochemical laser-induced
nucleation of nematic phase and alignment of nematic director from a supercooled thermotropic
liquid crystal,” Phys. Rev. E 79 (2), 021701-6, February (2009).
X. Zheng, W. Iglesias, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary
hard ellipsoids”, E-LC online journal, http://www.e-lc.org/docs/2008_10_12_23_11_56, October
(2008).
Jonathan Selinger
Peer Reviewed Journals
R.K. Gupta, K.A. Suresh, S. Kumar, L.M. Lopatina, R.L.B. Selinger, and J.V. Selinger,
“Spatiotemporal patterns in a Langmuir monolayer due to driven molecular precession,” Phys.
Rev. E 78, 041703 (2008).
L.M. Lopatina and J.V. Selinger, “Theory of ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic liquid
crystals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197802 (2009). Also included in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale
Science & Technology.
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Publications, 2008-2009
Robin Selinger
Peer Reviewed Journals
R.K. Gupta, K.A. Suresh, S. Kumar, L.M. Lopatina, R.L.B. Selinger, and J.V. Selinger,
“Spatiotemporal patterns in a Langmuir monolayer due to driven molecular precession,” Phys.
Rev. E 78, 041703 (2008). [A figure from this paper was selected for inclusion in the October,
2008, edition of Physical Review E, “Kaleidoscope Images”.]
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
R.L.B. Selinger, B.L. Mbanga, “Modeling liquid crystal elastomers: Actuators, pumps, and
robots,” SPIE Proceedings 6911 (2008).
Qi-Huo Wei
Peer Reviewed Journals
Q. Wei, X. Zhou, B. Joshi, Y. Chen, K.-D. Li, Q.-H. Wei, K. Sun, L. Wang, “Self-assembly of
ordered semiconductor nanoholes by ion beam sputtering,” Advanced Materials 21, P2865(2009).
X. Zhou, Q. Wei, L. Wang, B. Joshi, Q.-H. Wei, K. Sun, “Enhanced photoluminescence from
gallium arsenide semiconductor coated with Au nanoparticles,” Applied. Physics A-Materials
Science and Processing 96, 637-641 (2009).
Deng-Ke Yang
Peer Reviewed Journals
J. Ma, S. Hurley, Z. Zheng, B. Jin and D.-K. Yang, “Investigation of alignment direction in wide
view film and rubbing angle of twisted nematic liquid crystal display mode,” Liq. Cryst. 36, 487492 (2009).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
S. Hicks, Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Stability and performance of OCB in transflective
display,” Conference Record of International Display Research Conference, 7-10 (2008).
S. Hurley, Y-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, J. Shi and C. Mullin, “Driving dynamics of VA-LCDS
with small pretilt angles,” Conference Record of International Display Research Conference,
164-167 (2008).
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Simulation study and design of biaxial nematic liquid crystal
displays,” Conference Record of International Display Research Conference, 179-182 (2008).
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Achromatic reduction of light leakage in reflective LCDs by selfcompensated phase retardation (SPR) film,” Conference Record of International Display
Research Conference, 249-252 (2008).
Y.-C. Yang, R. Bao, K. Li and D.-K. Yang, “Sub-millisecond liquid crystal mode utilizing
electro-optic Kerr effect comprising polymer-stabilized isotropic liquid crystals,” SID Intl Symp.
Digest Tech. Papers XXXIX, 586-589 (2009).
S. Hurley, J. Ma and D.-K. Yang, “A flexible display using dye-doped PSCT,” SID Intl Symp.
Digest Tech. Papers XXXIX, 1520-1523 (2009).
J. Ma, S. Hicks, S. Hurley and D.-K. Yang, “Effect of pressure on polymer stabilized
cholesteric,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers XXXIX, 1532-1535 (2009).
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Publications, 2008-2009
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Wider viewing angle in in-plane switching mode liquid crystal
displays by self-compensated phase retardation films,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers
XXXIX, 1563-1566 (2009).
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Optical compensation schemes of biaxial nematic liquid crystal
displays for wide viewing angle performance,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers XXXIX,
1567-1570 (2009).
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Table 13
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia
Philip J. Bos
“Stabilization of the symmetric splay state and warm up time reduction in Pi-cell devices,”
B. Wang, Y. Zhang, Y-K Jang, P.J. Bos, International Display Research Conference, Orlando,
FL, November 3-6, 2008.
Poster Presentations
E.A. Dorjgotov, A. Bhowmik, P. Bos, “Polarization independent LC etalon and low power
projection display,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal, New London, NH, June 1419, 2009.
L. Shi, P. McManamon, P. Bos, “A tunable liquid crystal beam steering device based on a
gradient in the Pancharatnam phase,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal, New
London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
M. Reznikov, B. Wall, M. Handschy, P. Bos, “Monodomain alignment of the smectic A phase
from the isotropic phase,” 2008 International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju Korea, June 29July 4, 2008.
K Zhang, N. Liu, R. Twieg, P. Bos, “Pretilt study of novel double layer alignment films,” 2008
International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
Liang-Chy Chien
Invited Presentations
“Cholesteric liquid crystal for photonics and displays,” 2009 Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter
Workshop on Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Dispersions, Lviv, Ukrane, June 22, 2009.
“Controlling the pretilt angle of non-contact liquid crystal alignment using an inkjet printed
polyimide layers,” School of Electric Engineering and Institute of Optoelectronics, National
Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, May 25, 2009.
“Controlling the pretilt angle of non-contact liquid crystal alignment using an inkjet printed
polyimide layers,” Institute of Optoelectronics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, May
22, 2009.
“Controlling the pretilt angle of non-contact liquid crystal alignment using an inkjet printed
polyimide layers,” Graduate Institute of Optomechatronics, National Chung Cheng University,
Chia-Yi, Taiwan, May 21, 2009.
“Carbon nanotube doped liquid crystal OCB cells: Physical and electro-optical properties,” 2008
15th International Display Workshop Conference, Niigata, Japan, December 3-5, 2008.
“The emergence of color reflective flexible liquid crystal displays,” 2008 Flexible Electronics and
Display Technology Workshop, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, October 2324, 2008.
“Flexible liquid crystal displays using combined polymers and liquid crystals,” Polymers in Flat
Panel Display Technologies Symposium, Polymer Division, 236th ACS National Meeting and
Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
“Recent advances in color cholesteric liquid crystal technologies for e-paper displays,” Frontier
Topology and Design Concept for Neo-Mesomorphism Conference, Kumoh National Institute of
Technology, Gumi, Korea, July 4-7, 2008.
Oral Presentations
L. Lu, S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Fast-switching electro-optical films based on polymer
encapsulated liquid crystal and carbon nanotubes,” Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies
Conference VI, SPIE Photonics West 2009, San Jose, CA, January 19-24, 2009.
L. Lu, S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Fast-switching electro-optical films based on polymer
encapsulated liquid crystal and carbon nanotubes,” LC2CAM08, I-CAMP Summer School,
Boulder, Colorado, August 6-10, 2008.
A. Golovin, L.C. Chien, “Energy storage based on liquid crystal complex fluids and composites,”
22st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeiju, Korea, July 2-7, 2008.
Poster Presentations
S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Electrically switched color using a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid
crystal,” 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal, New London, NH, June 14-19,
2009.
L. Lu, J.-Y. Hwang, L.-C. Chien, “Effect of IPS cell structure on the electro-optical property of a
room temperature blue phase liquid crystal,” 2009 Society of Information Display Conference,
San Antonio, TX, May 18-23, 2009.
S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Electrically-induced color with polymer-stabilized blue phase,” 2009
Society of Information Display Conference, San Antonio, TX, May 18-23, 2009.
L.C. Chien, C.M. Hudson, S.N. Lee, M.H. Lee, H.J. Choi and K.U. Jeong, “A biaxial nematic
polymer actuator,” International Symposium on Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, Kent, OH,
October 27-28, 2008.
S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Carbon nanotube doped liquid crystal OCB cells: physical and electrooptical properties,” 22st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeiju, Korea, July 2-7, 2008.
L. Lu, S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Fast-switching electro-optical films based on polymer
encapsulated liquid crystal and carbon nanotubes,” 22st International Liquid Crystal Conference,
Jeiju, Korea, July 2-7, 2008.
S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “A polymer-stabilized single-layer color cholesteric liquid crystal display
with anisotropic reflection,” 22st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeiju, Korea, July 2-7,
2008.
J.-Y. Hwang, L.-C. Chien, “Controlling the pretilt angle of non-contact liquid crystal alignment
using an inkjet printed polyimide films”, 22st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeiju,
Korea, July 2-7, 2008.
Antal Jákli
Invited Presentations
“New methods to study the biaxiality of nematic liquid crystals: The case of Bent-core materials,”
Gordon Research Conferences on Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH,
June 14-19, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
“Bent-core liquid crystals in their isotropic fluid phase,” University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA,
August, 2008.
“Flow properties of bent-core materials in their isotropic fluid phase,” 3rd Korean-Hungarian
International Joint Workshop: Frontier Topology and Design Concept for Neo-Mesomorphism,
Gumi City, South Korea, July 4-7, 2008) (plenary).
Oral Presentations
A. Jákli, “Collaborative research in Europe on liquid crystals (CRELIC-IRES): Goals, subjects,
players…”, 1st NSF-OTKA Symposium for Complex Fluids, July 8-10, 2009, Eger, Hungary.
C.M. Shaw, X. Zheng, L. San Miguel Rivera, G.G. Nair, A. Jákli, A.J. Matzger, D.C. Martin,
“Thermally-induced mesophase transitions in alkyl-substituted thienoascenes,” APS March
Meeting, D18 8, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
J. Harden, N. Diorio, A. Petrov, A. Jákli, “Piezoelectricity of fluid lipid lamellar phases and their
chirality dependences,” APS March Meeting, W15 9, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
J.T. Gleeson, T.B. Ostapenko, D.B. Wiant, S.N. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Magnetic-field induced
isotropic to nematic liquid crystal phase transition” APS March Meeting, Y15 1, March 16-20,
2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
S. Taushanoff, K.Van Le, R. Twieg, A. Jákli, “Room-temperature liquid crystal blue phases,”
APS March Meeting, Y15 8, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
A. Jákli, J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Wiessflog, I. Janossy, P. Palffy- Muhoray, “Optical
waveguiding in bent core liquid crystal filaments,” APS March Meeting, Y15 10, March 16-20,
2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
P. Salamon, N. Eber, S. Sprunt, J. Gleeson, A. Jákli, “Dielectric properties of bent-core nematic
materials,” APS March Meeting, Y15 11, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
S.H. Hong, A.Jákli, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, B. Ellman, “Second harmonic generation in a bent-core
nematic liquid crystal,” APS March Meeting Y15 12, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
M. Majumdar, K. Nuepane, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, “Viscoelastic parameters and
flexoelectric effect in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal studied by dynamic light scattering,”
APS March Meeting, Y15 13, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
C. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, R. Verduzco, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Large flowbirefringence of nematogenic bent-core liquid crystals,” APS March Meeting, Y15 14, March 1620, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, S. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, “Liquid crystal elastomers: Bent
core flexo-electricity,” APS March Meeting, Y16 8, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
N. Diorio, C. Bailey, C. Tschierske, A. Jákli, “Rheological properties of T-shaped liquid
crystals,” APS March Meeting, Y15 4, March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, “Flexoelectricity of a calamitic
liquid crystal elastomer swollen with a bent-core liquid crystal,” 10th European Liquid Crystal
Conference, Colmar, France, April 19 – 24, 2009.
A. Jákli, B. Senyuk, G. Liao, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Colloidal micro-motor in two-dimensional
fluids driven by DC electric Fields,” CS1-4, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju,
Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
Poster Presentations
J. Petzold, A. Nemeş, A. Eremin, C. Bailey, N. Diorio, A. Jákli, and R. Stannarius, “Acoustically
driven oscillations of freely suspended liquid crystal filaments,” 10th European Liquid Crystal
Conference, Colmar, France, April 19-24, 2009 and Gordon Research Conference on Liquid
Crystal, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
K. Van Le, M. Mathews, M. Chambers, J. Harden, Q. Li, H. Takezoe, A.Jákli, ” Electrooptic
technique to study biaxiality of liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy: The case of a
bent-core material,” 10th European Liquid Crystal Conference, Colmar, France, April 19-24,
2009.
S. Taushanoff, C.A. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, G.G. Nair, A.Jákli, “Biaxial smectic and
uniaxial nematic phases of mixtures of bent-core and rod-shape molecules,” International
Symposium on Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, October 27-28, 2008, Kent, OH.
K. Van Le, M. Mathews, M. Chambers, J. Harden, Q. Li, H. Takezoe, A. Jákli, “Study of
biaxiality of a bent-core liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy,” International
Symposium on Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, October 27-28, 2008, Kent, OH.
G.G. Nair, C.A. Bailey, S.Taushanoff, K. Fodor-Csorba A. Vajda, Z.Varga, A. Bo´ta, and A.
Jákli, “Electrically tunable color by using mixtures of bent-core and rod-shaped molecules,”
APP58, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
T. Ostapenko, J.T. Gleeson, S.N. Sprunt, D.B. Wiant, A. Jákli, “Magnetic field induced firstorder nematic isotropic transition thermotropic bent-core liquid crystals,” ORD16, 22nd
International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Jákli, K. Gomola, M. Kaspar, V. Hamplova, V. Novotá, D. Pochiecha,
G. Galli, “Polymerizable and asymmetric banana shaped liquid crystals – synthesis and
characterization,” MA56, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29July 4, 2008.
Y. Reznikov, S. Bravina, O. Buchev, A. Gluschenko, N. Morozovsky, A. Jákli, “Dynamical
electrophysical characterization of colloids of ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic liquid
crystals”, NAN4, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4,
2008.
C.A. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Visco-elasticity and giant flow
birefringence of bent-core isotropic fluids”, PHA29, 22nd International Liquid Crystal
Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
M. Majumdar, K. Neupane, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, “Flexoelectric effect in nematic
bent-core liquid crystals measured by dynamic light scattering”, PHA33, 22nd International
Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
S-H. Hong, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, B.D. Ellman, “Second harmonic generation study of
a bent-core nematic liquid crystal,” PHA34, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju,
Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
M. Chambers, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Liquid crystal elastomers swollen in bent-core
liquid crystals,” ELA5, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July
4, 2008.
J. Harden, R. Teeling, S. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, “Converse flexoelectricity of a bent-core
nematic liquid crystal”, MAC14, 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June
29-July 4, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
Satyendra Kumar
Invited Presentations
“Unusual supramolecular associations of phasmidic type carboxlic acid: formation of bent-core
dimeric mesogen and its mesophasic behaviors,” S.-W. Kang, S.-Y. Jeong, S. Kumar, V. Prasad,
S. K. Varshney, International Symposium on Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, Kent, OH,
October 27-28, 2008.
“Evolution of self-organized aggregates in chromonic liquid crystal phases of aqueous solutions
of Sunset Yellow,” L. Joshi, S.-W. Kang, and S. Kumar, 15th National Liquid Crystal
Conference, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, October 13-15, 2008.
“Liquid crystals: Optical properties and light driven effects,” S. Kumar, Keynote Speech, LightControlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials, LC2CAM, Boulder, Aug. 7-10,
(2008).
“Thermotropic biaxial nematic phase,” S. Kumar, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National
Laboratory, August 8, 2008.
“What is broader impact and how to make it stronger,” S. Kumar, Kent State University, July 10,
2008.
“Thermotropic biaxial nematic phase of bent-core and tetrapodic mesogens,” S. Kumar, S.-W.
Kang, B.R. Acharya, V. Prasad, G. Mehl, and S. Sprunt, 22nd International Liquid Crystal
Conference, Jeju Island, S. Korea, June 24-July 4, 2008.
Oral Presentations
H.-G. Yoon, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, R. Y. Dong, A. Marini, K. A. Suresh, and M. Srinivasarao,
“The biaxial nematic phase of A131,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colby
Sawyer College, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
“NSF overview and proposal writing”, S. Kumar, Grant Proposal Writing Workshop 2009, Kent
State University, May 12, 2009.
L. Joshi, S.W. Kang, and S. Kumar, “Aggregates in chromonic liquid crystal phases of acqeous
solutions of Sunset Yellow,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
M. Crne, S.-W. Kang, J.-O. Park, S. Kumar, and M. Srinivasarao, “Semi-crystalline PMMA
stereocomplex fibers,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
S.-W. Kang, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, V. Prasad, and S. K. Varshney, “Liquid crystalline behaviors
of H-bonded dimer formed from the semi-phasmidic type carboxylic acid,” APS March Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
S.-W. Kang, S.-Y. Jeong, D. M. Agra-Kooijman, S. Kumar, V. Prasad, and S. K. Varshney,
“Unconventional dimerization in mesogenic semi-phasmidic type carboxylic acid,” APS March
Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
H.-G. Yoon, S.W. Kang, G. H. Mehl, and S. Kumar, “The shape and conformation of the
mesogenic group in tetrapodic liquid crystals,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1620, 2009.
N. Shakya, C. Pokhrel, B. Ellman, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, Y. Getmanenko, R. Twieg, “A
crystalline organic semiconductor grown from a mesophase: A test of polaron band theory,” APS
March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
K. Neupane, S.W. Kang, S. Sharma, D.W. Allender, S. Kumar, S. Sprunt, T. Meyer, G.H. Mehl,
and D. Carney, “Light scattering study of biaxiality in nematic liquid crystal tetrapodes,”
International Symposium on Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, Kent, OH, October 27-28, 2008.
Poster Presentations
H.-G. Yoon, S.-W. Kang, G. H. Mehl, and S. Kumar, “The biaxial nematic and smectic-C phases
of tetrapodic mesogens,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colby_Sawyer
College, NH, June 14-19 (2009).
E.E. Kooijman, M. Gangoda, S. Kumar, A. Gericke, “Phosphatidylinositol polyphosphates:
ionization constants in fluid phosphatidylcholine model membranes,” Experimental Biology,
New Orleans, LA, April 18-22, 2009.
E.E. Kooijman, D. Vaknin, W. Bu, L. Joshi, S.-W. Kang, K.N.J. Burger, and S. Kumar,
“Interaction and unfolding of a model exchangeable apolipoprotein, apoLpIII, at lipid model
membranes,” 53rd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Feb. 28- March 4, 2009.
P. Sundramurthy, E. Shalaev, D. Varshney, S. Kumar, S.-W. Kang, L.A. Gatling, and R.
Suryanarayanan, “Effective inhibition of buffer salt crystallization in the frozen solution by
lyoprotectants,” 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists,
Atlanta, GA, Nov. 16-20, 2008.
X. Zhou, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, and Q. Li, “Self-assembly of novel discotic liquid crystal
porphyrins into ordered nanostructure,” Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Sept 19, 2008.
E.Y. Shalaev, D.B. Varshney, S. Kumar, L.A. Gatlin, R. Suryanarayanan, and J.A. Elliott,
“Anomalous behavior of ice in aqueous pharmaceutical solutions at sub-zero temperatures: a
synchrotron x-ray diffraction study,” International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics,
Warsaw, Poland, August, 2008.
V. Pandya, V. Prasad, B. Zalar, S. Kumar, D. Finotello, “DNMR studies of the orientational order
of a banana shaped liquid crystal,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju Island, S.
Korea, June 24-July 4, 2008.
S.-W. Kang, L. Joshi, Y.-J. Bae, J.J. Naidu, K.-U. Jeong, M.-H. Lee, and S. Kumar, “Mesophases
of chiral and achiral aggregates based on chromonic perylene mesogens,” 22nd International
Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju Island, S. Korea, June 24-July 4, 2008
S.-W. Kang, L. Joshi, and S. Kumar, “Structural model of nano-aggregates formed by Sunset
Yellow in its lyotropic mesophases,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju Island,
S. Korea, June 28- July 4, 2008.
D.Jenkins, J.-O. Park, M. Srinivasarao, S.-W. Kang, and S. Kumar, “Chromonic liquid crystals of
a different kind, supramolecular anisotropic phases,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal
Conference, Jeju Island, S. Korea, June 24-July 4, 2008.
Q. Li, X. Zhou, L. Li, J. Harden, A. Jákli, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, Q. Sun, L. Dai, R.R. Kulkarni,
and S.Z.D. Cheng, “Nature inspired liquid crystalline porphyrins for organic photovoltaics,” 22nd
International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, S. Korea, June 28- July 4, 2008.
K. Neupane, S.W. Kang, S. Sharma, D.W. Allender, S. Kumar, S. Sprunt, T. Meyer, G.H. Mehl,
and D. Carney, “Light scattering study of biaxiality in nematic liquid crystal tetrapodes,” 22nd
International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, S. Korea, June 28- July 4, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Invited Presentations
“Electrically controlled dynamics of particles in liquid crystals,” Hougen Symposium: Frontiers
of Liquid Crystals, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23-24, 2009.
“Dynamics of colloidal particles in liquid crystals,” International Workshop on Mesomorphic
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Tokyo, Japan, March 9-10, 2009.
“Dielectric dispersion effects in liquid crystals,” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, January 23,
2009.
“Dielectric relaxation in electrooptical switching of nematics,” International Meeting on
Informational Displays, 2008.
“Dynamics of LC colloids studied by 3D microscopy,” Liquid Crystal Phases and Nanostructures,
International School of Liquid Crystals, 15th course, Erice, Italy, October 27 - November 1, 2008.
“Dynamics of LC colloids,” Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Daejeon,
South Korea, October 14, 2008.
“Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals,” Institute for Fine Organic Chemistry, Center on Molecular
Structure and NMR, Yerevan, Armenia, July 21, 2008.
“Liquid Crystal Institute: review and recent advances,” Yerevan State University, Physics
Department, Yerevan, Armenia, July 18, 2008.
Oral Presentations
O.D. Lavrentovich, B. Senyuk, “Optical, dielectric, and textural studies of thermotropic nematic
liquid crystal,” ODBP-Ph-C7 and OC12, Gordon Research Conference Liquid Crystals, ColbySawyer College, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
O.D. Lavrentovich, H.S. Park, A. Golovin, “Self-assembly of Au nanorods in solutions with
lyotropic chromonic materials,” Joint Electronics Workshop, Arlington, VA, May 27-29, 2009.
O.D. Lavrentovich, O.P. Pishnyak, I. Lazo, S.P. Tang, J. Kelly, S.V. Shiyanovskii, “Electric field
controlled dynamics of small particles in liquid crystals,” Meeting on Soft Active Materials,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, May 18-21, 2009.
T. Ostapenko, Yu. Nastishin, J.T. Gleeson, S.N. Sprunt, O.D. Lavrentovich, P.J. Collings, “High
magnetic field-induced birefringence in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals,” Y15.00002, APS
March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, S. Shiyanovskii, O. Lavrentovich, V. Pergamenshchik, “Dielectric and
optical properties of nematic ODBP-Ph-C7,” V15.00007, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16-20, 2009.
K. Neupane, Y. Nastishin, A. Baldwin, O. Lavrentovich, S. Sprunt, “Elasticities and viscosities of
a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal,” X15.00008, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16-20, 2009.
H.S. Park, O. Lavrentovich, A. Agarwal, N. Kotov, “Self-assembled Au nanorods – polymer
composites,” X26.00010, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
O.D. Lavrentovich, “Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals for polarizing and compensating films,”
Samsung-KSU workshop, Jeju, Korea, July 2, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
Poster Presentations
H.-S. Park, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Gold nanorod assembly using lyotropic chromonic materials,”
Gordon Research Conference Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June
14-19, 2009.
L. Tortora, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Novel gold-core ionic liquid crystal,” Gordon Research
Conference Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
Quan Li
Invited Presentations
“Novel liquid crystals: From photodispay to nanostructured photovoltaics,” Department of
Materials Science & Engineering, Nanjing University, June 23, 2009.
“Liquid crystals: From display to renewable energy,” Department of Chemistry, Liaoling
University, China, June 19, 2009.
“Advanced liquid crystalline materials: from tunable photonics to self-organizing organic
photovoltaics,” Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio,
June 5, 2009.
“Liquid crystalline materials: from displays to self-organizing organic photovoltaics,” City
University of New York, NY, May 19, 2009.
“Fluorinated liquid crystals: from displays to self-organizing organic photovoltaics,” 2009
Conference on Fabulous Future with Fluorine, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, January 12, 2009.
“Nature-inspired discotic liquid crystal porphyrins for organic photovoltaics,” 2008 Workshop on
Photovoltaics, Tuson, AZ, October 31, 2008.
Oral Presentations
Q. Li, L. Green, “Novel optically tunable chiral nematic liquid crystal materials,” 236th ACS
National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 19, 2008.
Q. Li, X. Zhou, “Homeotropically aligned light-harvesting liquid crystalline porphyrins for
organic photovoltaics,” 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 19, 2008.
Poster Presentations
X. Zhou, S. Kang, S. Kumar and Q. Li, “Self-assembly of novel discotic liquid crystal porphyrins
into ordered nanostructure,” Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, September 19, 2008.
X. Zhou, L. Li and Q. Li, “Nature inspired well-defined liquid crystal porphyrins for organic
photovoltaics: new opportunity and new challenge,” DOE workshop on Efficient Conversion of
Solar Energy to Electricity and Fuels, Boulder, Colorado, August 8, 2008.
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Invited Presentations
“Motors based on shape change and liquid crystal elastomers,” Hougen Symposium on Frontiers
of Liquid Crystals, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23-24, 2009.
“Liquid crystals,” Avon Research Center, Suffern, NY, April 7, 2009.
“Orientationally ordered nanocolloids”, International Workshop on Mesomorphic Advanced
Materials and Nanotechnology, National Center for Sciences, Tokyo, March 10, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
“Motors based on shape change: See how they run,” SIAM Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering, Miami, FL, March 6, 2009.
“The diverse world of liquid crystals,” Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany,
September 11, 2008.
“Liquid crystal elastomers,” Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, September 10,
2008.
“The effects of nanoparticles on lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals,” 2nd International Workshop
on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, Cambridge, UK, July 21-23, 2008.
“Swelling dynamics and related phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” 22nd International
Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
“Liquid crystal metamaterials for imaging applications,” (Plenary Lecture), 12th International
Symposium on Advanced Display Materials and Devices, Jeju Korea, June 26-27, 2008.
“Lasers, artificial muscles and negative index materials: New directions in liquid crystal
research,” Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, Kent State University, June 24,
2009.
Oral Presentations
J. Fontana, P. Palffy-Muhoray, A. Agarwal, N. Kotov, “The alignment of gold nanorods in
macroscopic domains,” A11, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16-20, 2009.
J. Neal, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles: The effect of surfactants
and solvents,” A26, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March
16-20, 2009.
M. Shelley, J. Fontana, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Walking on water: Why your feet get wet,” B15,
March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
J. Fontana, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Shelley, “Breaking beer bottles with cavitation,” B15, March
Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
C. Culbreath, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Falling magnets and electromagnetic braking,” J29, March
Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
C. Wickman, C. Haas, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Material and virtual workspaces in physics research,”
L29, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
M. Moreira, N. Venkataraman, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Apparent broken reciprocity in chiral liquid
crystals,” V15, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
A. Akbar, X. Zhang, R. Petschek, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. Glotzer, “Dense packings of hard
tetrahedral,” X9, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
X. Zheng, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “A one order parameter tensor description of biaxial nematic liquid
crystals,” X15, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
S. Relaix, W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Reflection and transmission coefficients of a cholesteric
liquid crystal film with a negative dielectric coefficient,” X15, March Meeting of the APS,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
P. Palffy-Muhoray, X. Zheng, “Maier-Saupe Theory of nematics in 4D,” March Meeting of the
APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
A. Jákli, J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, I. Janossy, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Optical
waveguiding in bent core liquid crystal filaments,” Y15, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh,
PA, March 16-20, 2009.
B. Spott, J. Neal, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Strain induced alignment of particles in an elastomer host,”
Y16, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
W. Iglesias, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Photoinduced distortions of polydomain liquid crystal elastomer
samples,” Y16, March Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
Poster Presentations
S. Relaix, M.F. Moreira, W. Cao, B. Taheri, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Lasing thresholds of
cholesteric liquid crystals lasers,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea,
June 29 – July 4, 2008.
M.F. Moreira, N. Venkataraman, B. Taheri, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Evidence of broken
reciprocity in chiral liquid crystals,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea,
June 29 – July 4, 2008.
I. Lazo Martinez, J. Neal, P. Luchette and P.Palffy-Muhoray, “Determination of the refractive
indices of liquid crystal elastomers,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea,
June 29 – July 4, 2008.
J.Neal, P. Luchette, P.Palffy-Muhoray, “Experimental determination of the dielectric tensor of
nematic liquid crystal elastomers,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea,
June 29 – July 4, 2008.
Jonathan Selinger
Oral Presentations
J. Selinger and S. Dhakal, “Chirality and biaxiality in cholesteric liquid crystals,” Gordon
Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
V. Gimenez, B. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, “Modeling twisted distortions in
nematic elastomers,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20,
2009.
S. Dhakal and J.V. Selinger, “Statistical mechanics of the flexoelectric effect in nematic liquid
crystals,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20, 2009.
B. Mbanga, F. Ye, J.V. Selinger, and R. Selinger, “Polydomain to monodomain transition in
nematic liquid crystal elastomers,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16–20, 2009.
F. Ye and J. Selinger, “A new mechanism for domain size selection in curved lipid membranes,”
American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20, 2009.
R.L.B. Selinger and J.V. Selinger, “Simulating striped phases on curved surfaces,” American
Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20, 2009.
J.V. Selinger, L.M. Lopatina, J. Geng, and R.L.B. Selinger, “Simulating complex modulated
phases through spin models,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March
16–20, 2009.
L. Lopatina and J. Selinger, “Theory of ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals,”
American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
J. Geng and J.V. Selinger, “Theory and simulation of two-dimensional nematic and tetratic
phases,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16–20, 2009.
J. Selinger, S. Sprunt, and Y. Tolmachev, “Tracking nanoparticle motion to elucidate mechanisms
for anomalous thermal transport in nanofluids,” Office of Naval Research Thermal Management
Review, Santa Rosa, CA, October 21-23, 2008.
J. Selinger, R. Selinger, C. Spillmann, J. Naciri, and B. R. Ratna, “Electrically induced twist in
smectic liquid-crystalline elastomers,” International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June
29-July 4, 2008.
Poster Presentations
L. Lopatina and J. Selinger, “Theoretical studies of effects of ferroelectric nanoparticles on
nematic liquid crystals,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, New London, NH,
June 14-19, 2009.
S. Dhakal and J. Selinger, “Statistical mechanics of flexo-electric effect in nematic liquid
crystal,” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
J. Geng and J. Selinger, “Theory and simulation of two-dimensional nematic and tetratic phases,”
Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
B.L. Mbanga, J.V. Selinger, and R.L.B. Selinger, “Finite element studies of liquid crystal
elastomers: Soft elastic response and microstructural evolution,” International Liquid Crystal
Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
Robin Selinger
Invited Presentations
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers,” invited talk, Gordon Research Conference-Liquid Crystals,
June 14-19, 2009.
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers,” invited talk, Hougen Symposium on Frontiers
of Liquid Crystals, University of Wisconsin, April, 2009.
“Physics chicks rock,” a talk about careers for women in science, University of Memphis, Physics
Department, April 2009.
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers: actuators, pumps, and robots,” Physics Seminar, Iowa State
University, December, 2008.
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers: actuators, pumps, and robots,” Physics Colloquium, John
Carroll University, November, 2008.
“Hamiltonian-based concurrent molecular dynamics and finite element simulation,” Society of
Engineering Science Annual Meeting-Urbana, IL, October, 2008.
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers,” Polymer Seminar, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, October, 2008.
“A PhD is STILL not enough,” two student seminars (one for graduate and one for undergraduate
students), Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, 2008.
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers: actuators, pumps, and robots,” Physics Colloquium,
Haverford College, October, 2008. (part of Philips Visitors Program at Haverford College;
involved an extended stay, Oct 27-29, 2008 including two additional presentations for students.)
“Modeling liquid crystal elastomers,” Physics Colloquium, Emory University, October, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
“Finite element simulation of liquid crystal elastomers: modeling actuators, pumps, and robots,”
Seminar, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008.
Oral Presentations
B. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. Selinger, R. Selinger, “Polydomain to monodomain transition in nematic
liquid crystal elastomers,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 20, 2009.
V. Gimenez, B. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. Selinger, R. Selinger, “Modeling twisted distortions in nematic
elastomers,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 19, 2009.
R.L.B. Selinger, J.V. Selinger, “Simulating striped phases on curved surfaces,” APS March
Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17, 2009.
J.V. Selinger, L.M. Lopatina, J. Geng, R.L.B. Selinger, “Simulating complex modulated phases
through spin models,” APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17, 2009.
R.L.B. Selinger, B. Mbanga, and J.V. Selinger, “Mechanical instabilities in liquid crystal
elastomers,” Society of Engineering Science 2008 meeting, Urbana, Illinois, October, 2008.
J. Selinger, R. Selinger, C. Spillmann, J. Naciri, and B.R. Ratna, “Electrically induced twist in
smectic liquid-crystalline elastomers,” International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June
29-July 4, 2008.
Poster Presentations
B.L. Mbanga, F. Ye, R.L.B. Selinger, J.V. Selinger, “Polydomain-Monodomain transition in
nematic liquid crystal elastomers,” Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer
College, New London, NH, June 14-19, 2009.
B.L. Mbanga, F. Ye, R.L.B. Selinger, J.V. Selinger, “Polydomain-monodomain transition in
nematic liquid crystal elastomers,” Hougen Symposium on Frontiers of Liquid Crystals,
University of Wisconsin, April, 2009.
B.L. Mbanga, F. Ye, R.L.B. Selinger, J.V. Selinger, “Simulations of the soft elastic response in
liquid crystal elastomers,” Kent State University Celebration of Scholarship, February, 2009.
B.L. Mbanga, J.V. Selinger, and R.L.B. Selinger, “Finite element studies of liquid crystal
elastomers: Soft elastic response and microstructural evolution,” International Liquid Crystal
Conference, Jeju, South Korea, July 2008.
Qi-Huo Wei
Oral Presentations
A. Chakrabarty, B. Joshi, and Q.-H. Wei “Metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas with plasmon
nanocavity resonances,” NanoDDS, Florida, 2009.
Q.-H. Wei, W. Lu, “Scaling laws for nanoFET biosensors,” NanoDDS, Florida, 2009.
C. Fan, B. Joshi, J.-P. Huang , Q.-H. Wei, “Experimental study of Brownian dynamics of bentcore colloidal particles,” March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16-20, 2009.
B. Joshi, Q.-H. Wei, “Cavity resonances of metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas,” March Meeting
of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
F. Wang, M. Xiao , Q.-H. Wei, "Extraordinary optical transmission through circular
nanotrenches in Ag films,” March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 16-20, 2009.
Poster Presentations
Q.-H. Wei, “Scaling of NanoFET biosensors”, March Meeting of the American Physical Society,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
B. Joshi, G. Fraizer, Q. H. Wei, “Detection of DNA-WT1 protein binding by surface enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS),” Nanomedicine Summit, September 25-26, 2008, Cleveland, OH.
Q.-H. Wei “Plasmonic subwavelength structures for color generation for display applications”
International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
Q.-H. Wei, “Cavity resonances of metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas,” Gordon Research
Conference on Plasmonics, Tilton, NH, 2008.
B. Joshi, Q.-H. Wei, “Cavity resonances of metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas,” Ohio
Nanotechnology Summit, April 9-11, 2008, Cincinnati OH.
John L. West
Oral Presentations
E.A. Buyuktanir, M. Frey, and J.L. West, “Stimuli-responsive optoelectronic liquid crystal/
polymer composite fibers and films,” Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical
Society (CERMACS), Cleveland OH, May 20-23, 2009.
E.A. Buyuktanir, J.L. West, “Liquid crystal/polymer composite optoelectronics: Materials and
flexible devices,” Cornell University, Fiber Science Department, Ithaca, NY, February 26, 2009
(invited).
E.A. Buyuktanir, M.Frey, J.L. West, E. Rhodes, “Liquid crystal/polymer composite film and
fibers for high-tech fabric applications,” Kent State University, School of Fashion Design and
Merchandising, Kent, Ohio, January 21, 2009. (Presented to the B. Morgan Foundation and
Fashion School Faculty).
E.A. Buyuktanir, M. Frey, J.L. West, E. Rhodes, “Liquid crystal/polymer composite materials for
high-tech fabric applications,” Kent State University, School of Fashion Design and
Merchandising, Kent, Ohio, December 17, 2008. (Presented to the B. Morgan Foundation).
Deng-Ke Yang
Invited Presentations
“New liquid displays,” Polytronix Inc, Dallas, TX, August 5, 2008.
Oral Presentations
Y.-C. Yang, R. Bao, K. Li and D.-K. Yang, “Sub-millisecond liquid crystal mode utilizing
electro-optic Kerr effect comprising polymer-stabilized isotropic liquid crystals,” Society of
Information Display International Symposium, San Antonio, TX, June 3, 2009.
S. Hicks, Y.-C. Yang, D.-K. Yang, “Stability and performance of OCB in transflective display,”
International Display Research Conference, Orlando, FL, November 4, 2008.
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Presentations, 2008-2009
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Achromatic reduction of light leakage in reflective LCDs by selfcompensated phase retardation (SPR) film,” International Display Research Conference, Orlando,
FL, November 4, 2008.
Poster Presentations
S. Hurley, J. Ma and D.-K. Yang, “A flexible display using dye-doped PSCT,” Society of
Information Display International Symposium, San Antonio, TX, June 3, 2009.
J. Ma, S. Hicks, S. Hurley and D.-K. Yang, “Effect of pressure on polymer stabilized
cholesteric,” Society of Information Display International Symposium, San Antonio, TX, June 3,
2009.
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Wider viewing angle in in-plane switching mode liquid crystal
displays by self-compensated phase retardation films,” Society of Information Display
International Symposium, San Antonio, TX, June 3, 2009.
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Optical compensation schemes of biaxial nematic liquid crystal
displays for wide viewing angle performance,” Society of Information Display International
Symposium, San Antonio, TX, June 3, 2009.
S. Hurley, Y.-C. Yang, D.-K. Yang, “Driving dynamics of VA-LCDS with small pretilt angles,”
International Display Research Conference, Orlando, FL, November 4, 2008.
Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Simulation study and design of biaxial nematic liquid crystal
displays,” International Display Research Conference, Orlando, FL, November 4, 2008.
S. Hicks and D.-K. Yang, “Chiral propeller liquid crystal droplets: Structure and response to
electric fields,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
S. Hurley and D.-K. Yang, “Effects of pretilt angle and random noise on the switching dynamics
of VA LCDs,” 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 4, 2008.
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Other Scholarly Activities
Philip J. Bos
Department/University
Member, CPIP Scholarship Committee
Director, Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility
Regional/National/International
Member, Program Committee, 2008 International Display Research Conference
Member, International Advisory Board for the International Display Workshop
Member, Program Committee, International Symposium of the Society for Information Display
Chair, Academic Committee, Society for Information Display
Session Chair, International Display Research Conference, Orlando, Nov 4-6, 2008
Associate Editor, Journal of the SID
L.C. Chien
Department/University
Member, College Advisory Committee
Library Representative for Chemical Physics
Committee Member, Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation of College of Business
Administration, 2004-present
Advisor, KSU Student Chapter of the Materials Research Society
Regional/National/International
Associate Editor, IEEE/LEOS Journal of Display Technology
Session Chair, 2008 International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeiju, Korea, July 2-7, 2008
Conference Committee, 2008 Liquid Crystal Day, LCI-KSU, Sept. 19, 2008
Conference Committee Member, 2008 International Meeting on Information Display, Daegu,
Korea, Oct. 14-17, 2008
Conference Executive Committee,2009 SPIE Photonics West, Optoelectronics Conference, Jan.
24-29, 20092009 SPIE Photonics West, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IV, Jan. 2429, 2009, (conference chair)
Conference Committee, 2009 International Display Manufacturing Conference, Taipei, Taiwan,
June 9-12, 2009
Vice-Chair, 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystal, New London, NH, June 14-19,
2009
Reviewer for journals: IEEE/Journal of Display Technology, Optics Express, Macromolecules,
Journal of Materials Chemistry, Soft Matters, Physics Review E, Applied Physics Letters,
Advanced Materials, Journal of Physics - Applied Physics D, Journal of Physical Chemistry
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Other Scholarly Activities, 2008-2009
Antal Jákli
Department/University
Chair, CPIP Curriculum Committee
Member, Cancidacy Exam Committee
Member, University Patent Board
Regional/National/International
Editor, Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (e-lc.org)
Associate Editor, Physical Review E
Member, International Advisory Board, Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Chair, 1st NSF-OTKA Symposium for Complex Fluids, July 8-10, 2009, Eger, Hungary
Recruiter, Society of American Physics Students, November 6, 2008
Chanjoong Kim
Department/University
Chair, LCI Seminars
Member, CPIP Graduate Admissions Committee
Member, CPIP Curriculum Revision Committee
Member, Organizing Committee, KSU Spring 2009 Science Symposium
Regional/National/International
Reviewer for Langmuir
Satyendra Kumar
Regional/National/International
Councilor, Physics Division, Council on Undergraduate Research, 2008-2011
Advisory Board Member, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July,
11-16, 2010
Advisory Board Member, International Symposium on Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic LC, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio, Oct. 27-28, 2008
Advisory Board Member, Conference on Mesogenic and Ferroic Materials (CMFM09), Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi, India, January 9-11, 2009
Advisory Board Member, Conference on Disorder, Complexity and Biology (DISCOMB09),
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, January 5-8, 2009
Workshop Organizer, Grant Proposal Writing Workshop, Kent State University, May 12, 2009
Conference Organizer, National Institutes of Health Day, University of Akron, April 6, 2009
Conference Organizer, National Science Foundation Day, KSU, February 10, 2009
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Department/University
Member, CPIP Scholarship Committee
Member, Chairs and Directors Council, College of Arts & Sciences
Member, Chairs and Directors Council, Office of the Provost
Regional/National/International
Faculty Advisor, SPIE Student Chapter
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Other Scholarly Activities, 2008-2009
Proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and European Union
Reviewer for Nature, Science, Physics Review Letters, Physics Review, Langmuir, JETP Letters,
Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Liquid
Crystals, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Member, Editorial Board of Chemistry Central
Member, Editorial Board of Physical Review E
Quan Li
Department/University
Member, LCI Space Committee
Regional/National/International
Reviewer for National Science Foundation
Review book proposal for Wiley publisher
Reviewer, Journal of American Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, Advanced
Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Langmuir
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Department/University
Chair, CPIP Graduate Admissions Committee
Member, LCI Space Committee
Member, CPIP Scholarship Committee
Regional/National/International
International Advisory Board, Photonics Letters of Poland (2009-present)
Jonathan Selinger
Department/University
Chair, Search Committee for experimental ORSP faculty position
Chair, Search Committee for theoretical ORSP faculty position
Chair, Candidacy Exam Committee
Member, College Curriculum Committee
Provost's Core Group on Liberal Education Requirements
Advisory Committee Member, Library and Media Services
Regional/National/International
Board Member, International Liquid Crystal Society
Associate Editor, liquid crystal section, Physical Review E
Reviewed proposals for National Science Foundation (2), Petroleum Research Fund (1)
Reviewed for Physical Review E, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Reviewed tenure case for another university
Robin Selinger
Department/University
CPIP Graduate Coordinator
Member, Organizing Committee, Liquid Crystal Day 2008
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Other Scholarly Activities, 2008-2009
Member, Faculty Advisory Council; conducted in-depth merit review of CPIP faculty, evaluating
faculty success in research and teaching/outreach (collection/ analysis of job performance).
Member, CPIP Graduate Admissions Committee
Member, CPIP Curriculum Committee
Member, Arts & Sciences Graduate Council
Assisted KSU Development Office with proposal preparation for state initiatives.
Regional/National/International
Reviewer for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B
Reviewed multiple proposals for National Science Foundation
Member, Editorial Board, Computing in Science and Engineering
Consultant to European Commission for the Seventh Framework Program (FP7); participated as
member of panel review team in Brussels to review multiple proposals in the field of
computational materials science (September, 2008.)
Member of NSF review panel for Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials program,
reverse site visit (November, 2008).
Consultant to Educational Testing Service (wrote and reviewed questions for Graduate Record
Exam Physics Subject Test.
Consultant to Educational Testing Service, member of the PRAXIS Examination General Science
Board; wrote and reviewed science questions for PRAXIS exams taken by pre-service
teachers.
Sergij Shiyanovskii
Department/University
Dissertation Co-Advisor for Mingxia Gu
Qi-Huo Wei
Department/University
Faculty Advisory Committee
LCI Seminar Chair, Academic Year 2008-2009
Organizing Committee, Liquid Crystal Day 2008
Developed a new multidisciplinary graduate course, “Nanobiotechnology”, focusing on state-ofthe-art applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in biological analysis such as
molecular diagnostics, therapeutics and biomimetics.
Deng-Ke Yang
Department/University
Member, LCI Space Committee
Secretary, CPIP Faculty Meetings
Member, CPIP Curriculum Committee
Member, CPIP Graduate Student Admissions Committee
Regional/National/International
Reviwer, Physical Review, Journal of Display Technology, Polymer Applied Physics Letters,
Journal of Applied Physics
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Table 15
LCI Seminar Program 2008-2009
Fall Semester 2008 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted)
September 10
Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Nano-Craft of Liquid Crystal Surface Alignment: Theory and
Implementation
September 24
Prof. Igor Sokolov
Physics & Chemical/Biomolecular Science departments, Clarkson
University
Liquid Crystal Template Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Particles: Shape
Control and the Applications
September 26
Friday, Noon
Dr. David Siegel
Givaudan Flavors Corporation
Membrane Fusion: Just a Passing Phase
Joint seminar with Department of Biological Sciences
October 6
Monday, 4:00pm
Dr. Ivan Dozov
Research and Development, Nemoptic, Magny les Hameaux, France
Weak Anchoring and Anchoring Breaking in Liquid Crystals: Basic Physics
and Application
October 15
Prof. Paul Cremer
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Using Supported Bilayers as a Separation Matrix for Proteomics
October 22
Prof. Cheng Sun
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Optical Metamaterials - From Concept to the Experimental Demonstration
Oct. 27
Monday, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Schönle
Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Fluorescence Nanoscopy Through Optical Switching
November 5
Prof. Peixuan Guo
Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Single Molecule Detection of Six pRNAs and Direct Observation of Phi29
DNA-Packaging Motor with Customized Single Molecule Dual-View System
Joint seminar with the Department of Biological Sciences
November 17
Monday, 4:00pm
Prof. Margaret W. Frey
Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, Cornell University
Formation and Functions of High Surface Area Fabrics
November 19
Prof. Nongjian Tao
Dept. Electrical Engineering & School Materials Research
Arizona State University
Molecular Electronics and Sensors
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LCI Seminar Program, 2008-2009
December 3
Prof. Michael Rubinstein
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Physics of a Lung: A Simplified View of Airway Surface Layer of a Lung
December 10
Prof. Nader Engheta
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale: Metananocircuits and Metactronics
Spring Semester 2009
January 26
Monday, 4:00pm
Dr. Charles Reichhardt
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Using Colloids to Explore Complex Matter with Competing Interactions
January 28
Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University
Nano-Patterns in Gels of Charged Chains
February 2
Monday, 4:00pm
Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Local Probes of Melting, Decoupling, and Jamming Transitions
February 4
Prof. Judit E. Puskas
Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Novel Carbon Nanocomposite Biomaterials
February 11
Prof. Matthew Glaser
Department of Physics, University of Colorado
Soft Shoulders and Cluster Phases: Novel Colloidal Paths to Liquid
Crystallinity
February 18
Prof. Sergij Shiyanovskii
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Theoretical Diversity of Liquid Crystals: Problems, Models and Methods
February 23
Monday, 4:00pm
Prof. Victor Reshetnyak
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
Theoretical Modeling of Heterogeneous Liquid Crystal Systems
February 25
Dr. Matt Lynch
Proctor & Gamble
Suspending Particles in Complex Fluids
March 11
Prof. Ophelia Tsui
Department of Physics, Boston University
Liquid Crystal Alignment Control by Frustrated Boundary
March 30
Monday, 4:00pm
Prof. Changhuei Yang
Electric Engineering and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Novel Optical Approaches for Biomedical Applications - From Dime-Size
Microscopes to Time-Reversal Based Suppression of Tissue Turbidity
April 6
Monday, 1:00pm
Prof. Wim H. de Jeu
Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
On the Subtleties of Smectic Layer Ordering
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LCI Seminar Program, 2008-2009
April 13
Monday, 4:00pm
Prof. Rajeswari Kasi
Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science & Chemistry Department,
University of Connecticut
Self-Assembling Polymers: Ordering on Multiple Length Scales
April 15
Prof. Hyuk Yu
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Polymer Surface Functionalization and Endovascular MRI Applications
April 22
Prof. Michael Hu
Department of Marketing, Kent State University
Artificial Neural Networks, Strategic Alliances and Consumer Research
April 29
Prof. Royce Zia
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech University
New Surprises in Driven Systems with Two Species
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Table 16
LCI Industrial Partnership Program and
Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility
Philip J. Bos, Director
ADS Transicoil
Collegeville, PA
Flight Specialities
Highland Heights, OH
Advantech U.S.
Pittsburgh, PA
Guardian Industries Corporation
Carleton MI
Anonymous Company
Kent Displays
Kent, OH
CoAdna Photonics
Stow, OH
Light Resonance Technologies, LLC
Akron OH
Corning
Corning, NY
Liquid Crystal Technologies
Cleveland, OH
Crystal Diagnostics
Akron, OH
LXD
Cleveland, OH
Display Plastique
Aurora OH
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
Dow Corning
Midland, MI
Flight Specialities
Highland Heights, OH
Dynamic Eye
Amherst, NY
Vescent Photonics
Denver, CO
Eastman Chemical
Kingsport, TN
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Table 17
Research Facility Report
The Liquid Crystal Institute Industrial Partnership Program (IPP) had a successful year.
Activities during the year included the following:
•
We added new members:
1. Crystal Diagnostics, Akron, OH
2. Guardian Industries Corporation, Carleton, MI
3. Light Resonance Technologies, LLC, Akron, OH
4. Flight Specialities, Highland Heights, OH
•
Active IPP members totaled 19 (see Table 16 ).
•
$62,916 was invoiced for work done in the Prototyping Facility (see Table 18).
•
$5,700 (10%) of collected membership fees was transferred to a Liquid Crystal
Institute account for support of conferences and research.
•
$15,107 was transferred to the University as overhead collected from services provided
to Industrial Partners.
•
Monthly newsletters were sent to IPP members and LCI faculty to inform them of new
research, visitors to the LCI and general liquid crystal information.
•
Seminars and some graduate student talks were video-taped and made available to
Industrial Partners for viewing via the internet.
I would like to thank Doug Bryant, Brenda Decker, Lynn Fagan, and Jim Maxwell for their help
with these projects.
Philip J. Bos, Director
Industrial Partnership Program
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Table 18
Research Facility Services
Invoice Date
7/7/08
7/7/08
7/7/08
7/7/08
7/7/08
8/13/08
8/15/08
8/15/08
8/15/08
8/15/08
10/11/08
10/11/08
10/11/08
10/11/08
10/31/08
10/31/08
11/17/08
11/18/08
11/18/08
11/18/08
12/19/08
12/22/08
12/22/08
12/22/08
12/22/08
1/28/09
1/29/09
1/29/09
3/2/09
3/2/09
3/5/09
3/5/09
3/5/09
3/5/09
5/6/09
5/26/09
5/26/09
5/26/09
5/26/09
5/26/09
5/28/09
6/10/09
6/25/09
Service
Cleanroom use, office rental
Cleanroom use, technician time
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
SiOx deposition
Cleanroom use, technician time, materials
Cleanroom use
Cell fabrication of LCoS STN Devices
Cleanroom use; technician time
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Cleanroom use, office rent, technician time
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use, technician time
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
SEM, morphology examination of samples
Analysis of two samples
AFM on PET roughness, 8 samples
Cleanroom use, technician time
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Cleanroom use, technician time
Cleanroom use
Sekisui micropearl spacer materials
6.5um micropearl spacers
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Cleanroom use, technician time
Reflectance of cholesteric LCs
Cleanroom use, technician time
Cleanroom use
ACF bonding station machine, technician time, office
rent
14”x14”x0.043” ITO coated soda-lime glass
Custom TN cell fabrication
6.5um Micropearl spacers
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Test cell fabrication and VHR testing
Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent
Cleanroom use, materials
Laminar flow benches (2), rental
PIPS samples, observation of interior structure
Spectra measurement of plastic films
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Client
Dynamic Eye
CoAdna Photonics
Display Plastique
Sarnoff
Vescent Photonics
CoAdna Photonics
Display Plastique
Live Technologies
Sarnoff
Corning
Dynamic Eye
Display Plastique
CoAdna Photonics
Corning
Kent Displays
Dynamic Eye
Kent Displays
CoAdna Photonics
Display Plastique
Dynamic Eye
Dynamic Eye
CoAdna Photonics
Display Plastique
Corning
NuPix
Display Plastique
Dynamic Eye
CoAdna Photonics
EMD Chemical
CoAdna Photonics
Display Plastique
Dynamic Eye
Univ. Colorado
LC Technologies
NuPix
CoAdna Photonics
Dynamic Eye
Guardian
Corning
Fir Hill LLC
Thomas Voigt
Kent Displays
Kent Displays
Table 19
Education and Public Service
Outreach
Date
Group
Participants
Fall 2008
R. Selinger spoke to high school students and parents at Fall ’08
Orientation session for Kent’s Post-Secondary Enrollment
Option Program, to recruit high school students to participate in
on-campus research internships.
High school students
9/11/08
R. Selinger participated in and helped coordinate a day-long
video shoot for a KSU television commercial featuring CPIP
student Badel Mbanga. The commercial also included brief
video clips from her NSF-supported research on LC elastomers.
Photos taken at the same shoot have been used in other KSU
ads including highway billboards.
12/08
R. Selinger composed science questions for, “The Brain Game”
and recorded them on videotape for airing on the show.
2/28/09
R. Selinger presented and supervised a table of hands-on
science activities for kids at the Hudson Science Fair
Hudson school
students
5/1/09
R. Selinger taught five different 8th grade science classes at
Hudson Middle School on fundamentals of liquid crystal
science; included hands-on components.
8th graders
6/16/09
KSU Summer Program, “Healthcare in Progress”, a program
geared toward students interested in pursuing healthcare careers.
CPIP students, John Harden and Jeremy Neal, provided liquid
crystal demonstrations and an LCI tour.
20 8th graders
6/24/09
R. Selinger hosted, “Buckeye Women in Science, Engineering
and Research” campers (female high school students interested
in science) at the LCI.
Female high
school students
Undergraduates conducting research
Department
Advisor
Elizabeth Carlisle
Chemistry
Li, Wei
Brian Dailey (honors thesis)
Physics
R. Selinger
Andrew Konya (honors research)
Physics
R. Selinger
KSU Chemistry
Jákli,
Westerman
Internships
Deirdre Manion-Fischer
“Piezoelectricity of lipid films”
Jia Ning Chen
KSU Physics
“Study of liquid crystal alignment using
an inkjet printer printed polyimide alignment layer”
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Chien
Education and Public Service, 2008-2009
Summer Research Interns at LCI
Advisor
Andrew Konya, July-August 2008 (R. Selinger)
“Modeling defect pair annihilation in smectic C thin films”
R. Selinger
Paul Murphy, Ohio State University, June – August 2008
“Study of Contact Lenses Containing Liquid Crystal Pigments”
A. Jákli
Andrew McBain, Archbishop Hoban High School, Akron OH
“Steering Device for the Synthesis of CDs Nanorods”
A. Jákli
REU Summer 2008-2009 students at LCI
Advisor
2008
Hannah Ainsworth, Salem College, NC
Q. Wei
Saba Hamidi Vadeghani, South Carolina State University
“Liquid Crystal Membranes in Aqueous Solutions”
A. Jákli
Amanda Groendyke
“Novel Organometallic Composites with Gold Nanorod Core”
O. Lavrentovich
Nara Lee, George Washington University
“Novel Organometallic Composites with Gold Nanorod Core”
O. Lavrentovich
2009
Aaron J. Sisek, Kent State University
“Study of IR Shielding Films and Method of Making Same”
L. Chien
Alexandra Petlick, St. Mary’s College
“Organogels: Preparation and Classification”
A. Jákli
P. Westerman
David Keifer, Mt. Union College
Q. Wei
Lindsey Hoerner, Kings College
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Amanda Groendyke, Indiana University
O. Lavrentovich
Joshua Gaffen, Monmouth College, Illinois
R. Selinger
LCI Student Internships (High School students)
Taylor Ellsworth, Junior, Christian Classical Academy
“Drawing Chemical Structures with ChemDraw”
A. Jákli
Kenneth Fechter
“Research using Optical Microscope”
Q. Wei
KSU Undergraduate Student Workers
Kevin Ballard
William Eckert
Elizabeth Carlisle
Patrick Toothaker
Matthew Wayman
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Education and Public Service, 2008-2009
Recruiting
Date
Activity
Participants
Sept. 19, 2008
Provided travel funds for undergraduate students to
attend Liquid Crystal Day, 2008. Part of their day
included a recruiting presentation by Prof. Robin
Selinger on the CPIP graduate program.
Robin Selinger
October 3, 2008
Approximately 140 Hudson High School Advanced
Placement students traveled to KSU. They were
divided into groups and visited three of five
departments (Liquid Crystal Institute, Physics,
Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Computer
Science) where they viewed research laboratories
and learned about current research. Students also
listened to presentations about KSU academic
programs.
Robin Selinger
Jonathan Selinger
Nov. 18, 2008
The Liquid Crystal Institute hosted the KSU student
chapter of the Society of Physics Students to present
recruiting materials for the Chemical Physics
Interdisciplinary Program.
Presentations:
Jonathan Selinger
Robin Selinger
J. Harden
Lab tours:
Antal. Jakli
L.C. Chien
Feb. 10-12, 2009
Attended the Physics Diversity Summit in
Nashville, TN, for the purpose of recruiting
minority students to the Chemical Physics
Interdisciplinary Program.
Peter PalffyMuhoray and
Vianney
Gimenez
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APPENDICES
I. Student Achievements
Lena Lopatina receives Amelia Earhart Fellow
II. Outreach Activities
• Liquid Crystal Day, September 19, 2008
• Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
• Industrial Partnership Program and
Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility
• Technology Transfer
III. Historical List of Grant Funding
1982-2009
IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
1967 – 2009
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CPIP Faculty Focuses and Interests
Discover the
Possibilities
D.W. Allender: Landau theories, lyotropic liquid crystals, biaxial nematics, director modelling, lipid membranes
P.J. Bos: applications of liquid crystals, modeling of
electro-optics of liquid crystals, surface alignment
L.-C. Chien: optical compensation films, liquid crystal alignment, liquid
crystal/polymer composites, elastomers, electro-optical devices
Liquid crystal display research is just
one facet of an ever-expanding field of
liquid crystal science. Faculty members, researchers and students at the
Liquid Crystal Institute are engaging in
research that stretches the boundaries of
various scientific disciplines including
physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology. LCI research
groups are currently conducting research on electro-optics
devices, negative-index materials, liquid crystal beam steering
and biological sensors, nanotechnology, soft-condensed matter theory and simulations, just to name a few. Faculty and
students have numerous opportunities to publish and present
their research and patent new technologies that lead to some
of today’s most exciting discoveries and inventions.
E.C. Gartland: numerical modeling, applied mathematics, liquid crystals theory and computation, orientational structures and stability of phases
of liquid crystals, defects and singularities
Why choose CPIP at LCI?
J.V. Selinger: theory of
Kent State University’s Glenn H. Brown
Liquid Crystal Institute will continue to
lead the way in academic research of
liquid crystals, as it has for the past 40
years.
The Graduate Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
(CPIP) within the Liquid Crystal Institute is consistently
providing some of the brightest doctoral students with the
education and experience they need to be successful in this
new, exciting field. Some CPIP Ph.D. graduates have gone
on to become professors at leading academic institutions, entrepreneurs in new technology businesses and research scientists at some of the most well-known research centers in the world. Due to the
interdisciplinary nature of the program,
CPIP students get one of the most wellrounded education and research experiences around.
If you’re looking for an education and
experience that will position you as
a leader in the exciting field of liquid
crystals and materials sciences consider
applying for the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at Kent State
University.
A. Jakli:
ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, electro-optics, dielectric properties, structured fluids, soft materials, thermotropic and lyotropic liquid
crystals
C. Kim: colloids, emulsions, foams, rheology, microrheology, cell and bio
mechanics, cell rheology, complex fluid, dynamics of polymer, lipids, membranes, and monolayer
S. Kumar: biaxial LCs, bent-core, lyotropic, and elastomer LCs, LC
alignment, high-resolution x-ray and neutron scattering, electro-optical applications of LCs, LC biomaterials, and nanoscale structures
O.D. Lavrentovich: Electrooptical effects, topological defects, three
dimensional imaging, lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, colloids, biosensors, negative index materials
P. Palffy-Muhoray: Lasing and photonics in liquid crystals, negative
index materials, liquid crystal elastomers, pattern formation and materials
failure
Discover the Graduate
Chemical
Physics
Interdisciplinary Program
at the
Liquid
Crystal
Institute®
thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals,
polymers, elastomers, nanoparticle suspensions, self-assembled lipid microstructures, and related biological materials
R.L.B. Selinger: Soft condensed matter theory and simulation; simulation studies of fracture and plasticity of solids
Q.-H. Wei: Nanobioscience, nanophotonics, micro/nanofluidics, nanophononics, biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, materials with novel
structures/properties and micro/nanofabrication
D.-K. Yang: Electro-optics of liquid crystal, liquid crystal/polymer
composites,cholesteric and blue phases, liquid crystal displays
H. Yokoyama: Nanotechnology, liquid crystals, surface and colloid science, organic thin films and scanning probe technology
CPIP faculty and associate members have active research programs
supported by the NSF, AFOSR, NASA, DARPA, State of Ohio,
U.S. and international industrial partners providing research opportunities for students to carry out both basic and applied research.
Application and Financial Assistance
Students who’ve received undergraduate degrees in physics,
chemistry, engineering and mathematics are eligible for admission.
Students admitted to the CPIP program receive twelve-month
stipends of $20,350 and a full tuition waiver. Additional merit
scholarships of up to $10,000 per year are available for qualified
students. Application information is available at:
http://www.lci.kent.edu/apply.htm or email: cpip@lci.kent.edu
CPIP Graduate Coordinator:
Robin Selinger: (330) 672-1582
robin@lci.kent.edu
The Glenn H. Brown
Liquid Crystal Institute
WWW.LCI.KENT.EDU
Meet a few Kent State University
CPIP Students
Shin-Ying Lu is a fourth-year doctoral student in CPIP and a
graduate research assistant in Professor L.-C. Chien’s group.
Her current research is focused on Electrically Tunable Chiral
Materials for Spatial Modulators. She and Dr. Chien own
two patents for this research. Shin earned her undergraduate
and masters degrees from National Chiao Tung University in
Taiwan. She also worked for one year at a display company
in Taiwan. She decided to enroll in CPIP to further her education and gain experience in the display field. She feels that
the LCI is a great place to study and work on liquid crystals
because there are many different research groups within the
department. She enjoys the weekly research meetings because of the great interaction between the professor, students
and other group members.
Badel
Mbanga
Badel is a fifth-year doctoral student in CPIP and a graduate
research assistant in Professor Robin Selinger’s group. Joining
CPIP was a natural continuation of Badel’s academic career
after earning a masters degree in display technology from
Dalarna University in Sweden. He plans to stay in academics
and will seek a postdoctoral position after completing CPIP.
He said he would like to start his career in the U.S. and would
eventually like to work in his native Cameroon, a developing
country in need of well-trained academics. Badel feels that
CPIP is a unique opportunity to work in a relatively new,
multidisciplinary field with the best scientists in the world.
He enjoyed his first two years of CPIP because it gave him the
opportunity to do a lab rotation, giving him a well-rounded
experience in the program.
Doctoral and Masters Degree
students choose from a variety of
concentrations within the program,
including: Optoelectronics (liquid
crystal displays and applications),
Physical properties of liquid
crystals, Synthesis and molecular
design, Lyotropic liquid crystals
and membranes, and General
Chemical Physics. Students participate in basic and applied research
conducted by program faculty at
the Liquid Crystal Institute.
Shin-Ying
Lu
“The only world-class center - in my opinion, at least
- is Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute.”
-- Ken Werner, editor,
Information Display magazine,
April/May 1999
Thomas
Palermo
Thomas is a recent Masters graduate of CPIP and was a
graduate research assistant in both Professor Antal Jakli and
Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray’s groups. He chose CPIP
because he was looking for a graduate program in applied
physics and chemistry. Thomas earned his B.S. degree in
Physics from Adelphi University. He feels that one of the
major assets to the CPIP is that its faculty members come
from a wide variety of backgrounds. “There is a lot of other
research besides just liquid crystals, including mathematics,
advanced physics and chemistry.” Thomas said. “So the program gives you a broad education for such a specific topic
(liquid crystals).”
The great thing about being a
CPIP student is that you have the
opportunity to gain experience in
not only theoretical and experimental physics, but also chemical
synthesis and device applications
- all in the relatively short time
it takes to earn your doctoral
degree.”
-- Dr. Chris Bailey, recent CPIP
doctoral graduate
IPP Contacts
Philip J. Bos, IPP Director
Ph.D., Liquid Crystal Physics
Kent State University (1978)
Tel: (330) 672-2511
pbos@lci.kent.edu
Industrial
Partnership
Program
LCI Industrial Partnership Program
Liquid Crystal Institute
The Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI) is a science and
technology center devoted to liquid crystal research and
development of liquid crystal technology.
The LCI advances basic research by providing stateof-the-art facilities and research programs focused on
liquid crystal science and display development. The
LCI benefits industry through cooperative research
efforts and by preparing graduate and undergraduate
students with the knowledge and experience necessary
for successful careers in the expanding liquid crystal
display field.
Douglas R. Bryant, Display Engineer
Research Facility Manager
M.S., Electrical Engineering
Univ. of Southern California (1992)
Tel: (330) 672-1583
dbryant@lci.kent.edu
The LCI plays an important role in applied liquid
crystal research. Past cooperative industrial projects
include the following achievements:
Liquid Crystal
Institute
LCI Industrial Partnership Program
Liquid Crystal Institute
Kent State University
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Tel: (330) 672-2654
Fax: (330) 672-2796
E-mail: ipp@lci.kent.edu
Web: www.lci.kent.edu
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TN and STN modeling and optimization
Cholesteric bistable reflective displays
Page-size zero power displays
Optical compensators
Optimization for wide viewing angle LCDs
3-D model of director orientation in micro displays
Diffractive devices
PDLC windows
Electronic shutters
Patterned alignment layers
Rub-free alignment layers
Plastic substrate LCDs
IR devices for telecommunications
SmC* devices
Polymer stabilized bistable display devices
Custom liquid crystalline materials
The significance of LCI’s contributions to liquid crystal
applications is evident at the Society for Information
Display International Conferences where LCI researchers typically contribute a significant number of the
academic LCD papers presented.
Industrial partners are instructed on liquid
crystal techniques by Phil Bos (right) at the
liquid crystal short course.
Member Benefits
Companies can participate in LCI’s research and
technology development through the Industrial Partnership Program. The program provides the following services to assist companies working on liquid
crystal applications:
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A window to current advances in liquid crystal
science and technology
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A cost effective means to leverage research
budgets
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Assistance in solving specific problems
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Trained personnel for short-term projects
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Specialized resources for prototype development
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High volume LCD manufacturing equipment for
process evaluations
•
Custom Seminars
Resources
Industrial Participation
More than 45 companies have joined the LCI Industrial Partnership Program since its inception in 1991.
IPP member companies participate in symposia, short
courses and workshops. They are updated regularly
on current research, meetings and LCI publications.
Members also receive a written synopsis of relevant
presentations from SID conferences.
Membership
Companies can join the LCI Industrial Partnership
Program for a $10,000 annual fee. The fee includes
$4,000 in credits which may be used to purchase
services.
The following services are available to IPP members
at reduced rates:
LCD Research and Training
• Short course on liquid crystal applications
• Half-day company visit with targeted seminar
• Access to graduate students for short research or
modeling project
• Modeling software
• Custom technology reports
• Scientist consultations
Device Prototyping and Characterization
• Direct access to prototyping facility and LCD
manufacturing equipment
• Characterization software
• Contract prototype development
• Device characterization
• Liquid crystalline material synthesis
• Technical and engineering assistance
“The only world-class center - in my opinion, at least - is Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute.”
Ken Werner, Editor, Information Display, April-May 1999
Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility
The Liquid Crystal Display Research
Facility, a 2,500 sq. ft. clean room space,
contains a prototyping line, the Lucent
Technologies LCD Pilot Line and the
W.M. Keck Clean Room which is used for
thin film deposition. The facility has the
capability to produce page size passive
LCDs with full-scale production equipment.
Members of the IPP have access to this
facility to prototype new devices and to
test processes.
Characterization Facility
Synthesis Facility
The Characterization Facility consists of 2,000 sq. ft.
of laboratories for characterizing liquid crystalline
materials, surface anchoring properties and electrooptical properties of liquid crystal devices. Analysis
capabilities include NMR, AFM and SEM.
The Synthesis Facility consists of 2,000 sq. ft. of
chemistry laboratories and has full capabilities for the
synthesis of liquid crystals, polymers, phase compensation films, dichroic dyes and alignment materials.
LCD
Research
Facility
Equipment
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Nissha Printer
VPI Scriber
Nikon Stepper
Fujioka Rubbing Machine
Hornell Rubbing/Dry Cleaning Machine
Asymtek XY Dispenser
Fukioka Spacer Sprayer
Brewer Spincoater
Fukioka Plate Aligner
JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope
Digital Instruments Atomic Force Microscope
Olympus Confocal Microscope
UV-IR Spectrometers
Photo Research Spectrophotometer
Ultra T Megasonic Cleaner
Samco UV-Ozone Cleaner
ORC UV Exposure System
Kawajiri Thermal Press
TNP Laser Repair Station
General Vacuum ITO Deposition System
AZLCD Rub Machine, Fill Chamber, Spacer Box
LCD Characterization Equipment
- Electro-optical
- Viewing Angle
- Surface Alignment
Historical Data - Grants Awarded to LCI Scientists
1982-2009
Inception
Year
1982
Grant #
Category
NSF
1983
1983
1983
NSF DMR83-09739
NSF DMR82-44461
1984
DAAKp20-84-0224
1984
NIH 1R01 GM27127-05Other Fed
1984
1984
1984
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ind/Other
1985
1985
NSF DMR85-03219
NSF
NSF
Ind/Other
Other Fed
NSF
Other Fed
Agency
Total
award
NSF Div. International
Prgrm.
Grant Period
1/82-12/84
233,700
142,500
10,000
6/83-10/85
6/83-5/85
6/83-5/84
200,000
9/84-8/86
NIH
40,516
1/84-12/85
Hughes Research Labs
US Army/Battelle Research
Exxon Educational
Foundation
33,500
27,000
20,000
11/84-6/86
5/84-11/84
6/84-6/86
313,000
17,000
6/85-11/88
6/85-7/85
488,000
6/86-5/89
81,000
13,500
10,000
350,000
10/86-04/88
10/86-10/88
6/86-12/86
10/87-6/92
80,000
30,200
1987
1987
Exxon Educational
Foundation
US Army, Electronic R&D
US Army, Metallurgy and
Materials
1986
1986
1986
1986
1987
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
1987
1987
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ohio Board of Regents
Natural Sciences &
Engineering Research
Council of Canada
1987
1988
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Tektronix Corporation
US Army Communications
Ford Glass Division
Soho Research Center
DARPA/URI/Navy/ U. Penn
15,000
1,050,000
91
10/87-10/88
8/88-8/92
Project Title
Chiral Liquid Crystals (distribution in foreign
currency)
Liquid Crystal Synthesis
NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals
Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
Nonlinear Optical Processing in LC Materials:
Combined Theoretical and Synthesis Program
DMR Studies of Protein-Phosopholipid Bilayer
Membranes
Research Support
Study of Nonlinear Optical Data
Liquid Crystal Research
NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystal Dispersion Mechanical Stress
Monitor
Electrically Controlled Light Scattering from
microdroplets of Nematic LC Dispersed in Solid
Matrix
Industrial Research Support Agreement
Liquid Crystal Research
Deuterium NMR of LC/Polymer Composites
Science and Application of Polymer LCs and
Related Materials
Display Prototyping Unit (equipment grant)
Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals
Microdroplet Technology Research
Optical Power Limiting LC Composites
Inception
Year
Grant #
1988
Category
Ohio
NSF DMR88-17647
NSF DMR88-18561
1990
1991
444239/444207
442129
Ohio
NSF
ODOD
1991
1991
1991
1991
MDA972-91-J-1020
N00014-90-J-1559
Other Fed
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
DARPA HDDT Program
DARPA, U Penn subaward
Hughes Aircraft
Edison Polymer Innovation
Corp (EPIC)
Vari-Lite
Magnascreen
Ajinomoto Corporation
1992
1992
1992
1992
1992
1993
1993
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Total
award
ODOD/ Edison Program
1989
1989
1989
1989
1989
1989
1990
1991
1991
1991
NSF
NSF
NSF
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Agency
OBR Res. Chall.
Tektronix Corporation
Honeywell
DARPA
Grant Period
50,000
7/88-10/89
285,740
273,200
174,240
100,000
47,740
20,000
1,197,240
1/89-1/91
1/89-12/92
1/89-12/91
1989
3/89-3/90
6/89-5/90
3/90-6/93
9,500,000
22,000,000
1990-2002
02/91-01/02
1,147,000
227,000
147,000
180,000
9/91-8/94
1/91-6/92
1991
1991
1991
1991
1991
370,000
256,500
199,507
17,671
16,992
500,000
77,918
1992
4/92-6/95
2/92-2/94
3/92-3/93
1992
1993
6/93-5/94
Ind/Other
NSF
NSF
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Univ. So. California
Tektronix Corporation
GAR Foundation
NASA
1993
Ind/Other
Hewlett-Packard
30,374
4/93-3/94
1993
Ind/Other
Korea Institute Sci. & Tech.
15,000
5/93-5/94
NSF DMR92-20130
NSF ECS90-20420
Keck Foundation
75,000
69,675
50,000
92
Project Title
Development of PDLCs for Aircraft Window
Shades
Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs
Liquid Crystal Synthesis
Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs
Polymer Liquid Crystal Synthesis Program
Active Substrate Projection Microdroplet Materials
Modeling of Optical Fibers with LC Cores
National Center for Integrated Photonic
Technology (NCIPT); (consortium USC, UCLA,
KSU, MIT, Columbia U.)
ALCOM Support
ALCOM Center for Advanced LC Optical Materials
(KSU 54%; CWRU 34%; U Akron 12%)
PDLCs for High Definition Display Technologies
High Definition Displays
Hughes Aircraft Company Research Project
ALCOM Administrative Support (total award
$180,000; 54% KSU)
Liquid Crystal Research
Magnascreen Research
Feasibility Study for Ferroelectric Smectic C LCs
and Polymer Dispersions
XPS Analysis of LC Alignment Layers
Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs
Electric Field Response of PDLCs
Optically Controlled Phased Array Radar
Tektronix Fellowship
Display Prototyping Unit (equipment grant)
Experimental Testing of Twisted Nematic and
Super Twisted Nematic LC Displays
Materials Synthesis and Fabrication of Thin Film
Polarizers
Visiting Scientist (Young Chul Kim)
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
1993
Other Fed
National Research Council
1993
NSF
NSF-NATO
Other Fed
Ohio
Other Fed
NSF
Ind/Other
Ohio
Ind/Other
NSF
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
DARPA
Ohio Board of Regents
ARPA
ARPA/ Fla Atlantic Univ
3M Company
Portage County Schools
Office of Naval Research
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1994
1995
440131
440648
440213
440264
440232
444306
Total
award
11,100
Grant Period
6/93-3/94
3/93-9/93
1,150,264
1,000,000
952,212
112,640
81,342
47,985
25,273
20,117
20,000
18,000
7,700
125,000
6/94-6/98
7/94-6/97
6/94-6/97
9/94-9/95
8/94-5/96
9/94-12/95
8/94-12/94
1/94-3/95
5/94-11/94
1994-1997
Oct-94
8/95-7/97
Image Quest Technologies
Vari-Lite
Samsung
69,797
68,721
67,086
1/95-12/95
3/95-4/96
8/95-11/96
Imax Corporation
OBR Eisenhower Program
Image Quest Technologies
1995
1995
1995
444404
1995
1995
1995
1995
444434
444430
440222
Ind/Other
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
nChip
OBR Eisenhower Prgm.
Hughes Research Labs
U.S.-Slovene Sci & Tech
58,214
47,254
40,000
33,000
10/95-9/96
9/95-12/96
3/95-3/97
1995-1997
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1996
1996
1996
444435
444424
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
NSF
NSF
Ohio
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Planar
Meadowlark Optics
NASA
NSF; Gordon and Breach
NSF; Gordon and Breach
OBR
DARPA/KDI sub
W.M. Keck Fndn.
28,218
12,800
12,000
6,000
5,000
2,578,000
615,074
500,000
7/95-7/96
8/95-8/96
2/95-2/96
1/95-4/96
1/95-4/96
19967/96-6/99
1996-
444423
442161
442600
444327
Fndn
93
Project Title
Structures in Large Surface-to-Volume Ratio
Nematic Systems
NATO Advanced Research Workshop: SpatioTemporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex
Systems
Reflective Polymer Stabilized LCD
ALCOM Equipment
Reflective polymer Stabilized LC Displays
Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)
Liquid Crystal Light Valve
Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)
Optical modeling of Active Matrix Displays
Surface Anchoring and Alignment in PDLCs
Optically Active Device
3M Fellowship
Portage County SAM-Net (computer equipment)
LCD Devices from Conducting Polymer
Substrates
Development of Wide Viewing Angle LCD
Passive Projection Display
Comparison of Four Domain Alignment
Techniques
Liquid Crystals on Silicon
Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)
LC Materials and Devices
LC Polymer Dispersions and Related
Microconfined Systems
Active Compensation Cell Research
Switchable Cholesteric Polarizer
Evaluation of NASA Polymers
Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs
Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs
LC Display Research Center
Power Efficient Reflective Cholesteric Displays
Cleanroom construction
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
Total
award
Grant Period
1996
444328
Other Fed
AFOSR MURI/CalTech
423,756
11/96-10/01
1996
444321
Other Fed
DARPA
137,700
6/96-5/00
1996
1996
1996
1996
444615
444456
444641
444329
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
IMAX Corp.
Rockwell Science Center
S-VISION
Office of Naval Research
134,000
118,399
60,000
50,000
9/96-12/99
6/96-6/97
10/96-9/97
12/96-5/98
1996
1996
444451
Other Fed
NSF
Wright Patterson AFB
NSF & Shlodowska Fndn.
47,592
23,000
5/96-9/96
1996-1999
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996
Foundation
Foundation
Foundation
440217
444621
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ind/Other
250,000
250,000
100,000
15,867
13,751
1996
8/96-7/98
1996
1996
1996
444109
444608
442221
Other Fed
Ind/Other
NSF
Dai Nippon
Wintek
Nitto Denko
DARPA/Fla. Atlantic Univ.
Ministry of Education,
Taiwan
NASA
Gov't. of Korea
10,000
10,000
5,000
10/96-3/97
8/96-7/97
5/96-9/96
1996
444310
Other Fed
Office of Naval Research
5,000
5/96-9/96
1996
1997
1997
1997
Fndn
444664
444636
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Other Fed
M. Holden Jennings Fndn.
NIST/Colorlink sub
Dai Nippon
NIST
3,450
200,000
110,176
100,000
2/96-2/97
5/97-6/00
4/97-8/98
7/97-7/99
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
444112/444120
444618
444650
444652
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
NSF
NASA Goddard Ctr.
Vari-Lite
OBR
OBR
OBR Res. Chall.
NSF/Moxtek sub
99,100
71,416
64,000
64,000
64,000
34,804
3/97-5/99
9/97-9/98
7/97-6/00
7/97-6/99
7/97-6/99
10/97-10/98
442102
94
Project Title
Alignment and Packing Behavior of LC and
LCP….
Reflective Cholesteric Displays: Dynamic Drive
and Surface Topography Issues
LC Glasses Improvements
Synthesis of Chiral LC Diacrylates
Liquid Crystals on Silicon
Optical Study of Structure and Dynamics in
Advanced Polymer Stabilized LC
Systran Visiting Scientist (Wiff)
Investigation of the Influence of Structure Factors
on Stability of Smectic C* and CA Phases in
Compounds and Mixtures
Teaching Lab Equipment
LCI/Materials Science Building
LCI Support
Diffractive Device Investigation
PDLC for Holographic Recording Applications
Alignment Properties
Polyimide Alignment Films
16th International Liquid Crystal Conference
Support
16th International Liquid Crystal Conference
Support
Project LCs for Elementary Teachers
Color Sequential Imaging
Optimization of Smectic A PDLC Films
Information Dynamics in ALCOM/NIST Phase
Separation Project
Development of LC Devices for Astronomy
PSCT Materials for Projection Displays
Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Facility at APS
Viewing Angle Improving Films for LC Displays
Biological Lyotropic LCs
Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD
Inception
Year
Grant #
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
444644
444331
220232
444115
1997
1997
1997
Category
Agency
Optical Imaging Systems
Office of Naval Research
Japan Synthetic Rubber
NASA
NASA
442231
444648
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Other Fed
NSF
Ind/Other
444647
444635
444114
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
Total
award
Grant Period
Civilian R&D Foundation
27,975
20,900
20,000
20,000
20,000
18,867
15,212
7/97-12/97
6/97-11/97
4/97-10/98
5/97-5/98
5/97-5/98
2/97-1/98
7/97-12/99
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Civilian R&D Foundation
George Mason Univ.
NASA
11,000
10,000
1,500
7/97-12/99
1/97-1/98
1/97-12/97
444324
444694
442117
444332
445269
444325
444673
444699
Ohio
Other Fed
Other Fed
NSF
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
OBR Res. Chall.
AFOSR
DARPA/Sarnoff Sub
NSF EHR
U.S. DOD/ BNL sub
Kent Displays
Wright Patterson AFB
3M Co.
Motorola
750,000
362,000
226,712
160,000
150,000
137,338
125,000
89,000
51,225
02/98-01/00
3/98-9/99
8/98-9/01
10/98-9/00
6/98-5/00
10/98-4/00
5/98-9/99
2/98-2/99
9/98-5/01
1998
1998
1998
444210
444122
444672
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
NATO - Slovenia Collab.
Cal Tech-Jet Propulsion
Hitachi
29,300
20,000
20,000
12/98-12/01
9/98-8/99
3/98-3/99
1998
1998
442106
Ind/Other
NSF
Hughes Research Labs
NSF/CNRS (France)
20,000
19,500
3/98-3/99
5/98-4/01
1998
444629
Other Fed
NATO Intnl. Sci. Exch.
9,607
9/98-9/00
1998
444676
Ind/Other
Philippines DOST
8,200
3/98-3/99
1999
440602
Other Fed
ONR
265,000
7/99-6/01
1999
444209
Other Fed
AFOSR/DAGSI
126,340
8/99-12/01
95
Project Title
Photo-curable LC Monomers
Conductive Polymer Displays
Visiting Scientist, Japan Synthetic Rubber
Evaluation of NASA Polymers
Evaluation of NASA Polymers
Real Physics On-line
Photo-alignment of Nematic LCs on Polyimide
Polymer Layers
Surface Properties and Effects in LCs
Surface Alignment of Nematic LC
Studies on Dynamics and Optics of 0-360 Twist
Bistable LCD
ALCOM Support (equipment)
LC Blazed Gratings for Laser Beam Steering
Fabrication of PDLC Test Displays
School Based Remote Experiments on Web
Broadband Beam Steering
Conductive Polymer Displays
WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff)
Alignment and Defects of 3M Lyotropic LCs
Optimization and Modeling of Full-Color Displays
for Portable Applications
LCD Optical Shutter for Eye Protection Devices
High Performance LCs for Laser Communications
Dynamics of Twisted Nematic Devices (Hitachi
Visiting Scientist)
High Performance LCs for Laser Communications
Structure and Defects in Lamellar Thermotropic
and Lyotropic Soft Matter Systems
Computational, Experimental and Theoretical
Studies of 1D Confined LCs
Synthesis/Characterization of Anti-FE LCs and
Polymers
Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric LC Diffraction
Gratings
Active/Passive Optical Sensor Research
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
1999
1999
444211
444222
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Dimensional Media
Nitto Denko
1999
444215
Ohio
OBR Eisenhower Prgm.
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
444223
444208
442150
444216
444412
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
NSF
NSF
NSF
Ind/Other
Santec Systems
Kent Displays
NSF EHR
NSF/KDI subaward
NSF/Moxtex sub
Vari-Lite
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
442125
444213
442124
442126
444224
444212
NSF
Ind/Other
NSF
NSF
Other Fed
Other Fed
1999
442135
NSF
1999
444710
Ind/Other
Garland Floor Co.
1999
1999
444217
444214
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Horn Labs
AFOSR
2000
2000
2000
444226
444230
444263
Other Fed
Other Fed
Other Fed
DARPA
DARPA (Rockwell sub)
DARPA
2000
2000
2000
440810
444715
444220
Ohio
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ohio Board of Regents
OBR Res. Chall.
Dupont
2000
2000
444231
444221
Ind/Other
Ohio
Boulder Nonlinear
OBR Res. Chall.
Tutco
NSF International
AFOSR
Wright Patterson AFB
Total
award
80,315
74,000
Grant Period
PSCT for Multiplanar Displays
Viewing Angle Enhancements with Compensating
Films
61,293
9/99-12/00
Integrating School Based Experiments into
Science Curriculum
60,000
12/99-11/01
LC Ultrasonic Transducer
59,140
7/99-3/00
High Twisting Power Chiral Materials
51,228
10/99-1/02
Remote Experiments in Science Curriculum
36,140
1/99-6/99
Chiral Materials Chemistry
34,804
8/99-7/01
Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD
30,000
3/99-8/99
PSCT Materials for Projection Displays
(continuation of #444618)
28,600
02/99-01/02
Nonlinear Optics of Lyotropic LCs
28,500
5/99-5/00
PDLC for Oventop Applications
28,440
02/99-01/02
Photoalignment of LCs
28,440
2/99-1/00
Photoalignment of LCs
23,000
6/99-6/00
Polymeric E-O Modulators
21,850
9/99-11/99
WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff) (previously
#444325)
14,600
10/99-01/02
Photoalignment of Low-Weight Photo-Crosslinking
Materials
13,032
2/99-6/00
Feasibility Study of Transparent Conductive
Coatings
10,000
11/99-11/00
Adaptive Eye Protection
5/99-11/01
Visiting Scientist (Don Wiff) (previously # 444212;
444325)
2,423,208 06/01/00 - 06/01/03LC Based Optical Phase Array for Steering Lasers
637,057 9/6/00-8/31/04 LC Agile Beam Steering
341,000 6/30/00-8/31/04 LC Based Optical Phased Arrays for Steering
Lasers
197,600
7/00-9/02
Basic Clean Room Techniques
143,810
1/00-6/01
Equipment - Microcalorimetry System
120,000
1/00-1/03
Optical Properties of Holographic Elements in
Display Applications
112,500
8/00-1/02
Steered Agile Beams
100,000
1/00-6/01
Chromonic LCs
96
7/99-6/00
12/99-6/01
Project Title
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
2000
2000
2000
444228
444218
444225
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Displaytech
ACS Petroleum Res. Fund
Boulder Nonlinear
2000
2000
2001
442147
444227
444102
NSF
Other Fed
Other Fed
DARPA
NASA
2001
444235
Ind/Other
Boulder Nonlinear
2001
444241
Ind/Other
Samsung
2001
2001
444242
444245
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Intel
CoAdna
2001
444240
Ind/Other
Samsung
2001
2001
444233
444244
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ohio Board of Regents
Nitto Denko
2001
2001
2001
444232
444234
444238
NSF
Ind/Other
Other Fed
NSF/KDI sub
Matsushita Electric
AFRL/DAGSI
2001
2001
2001
444236
444237
444243
Other Fed
Other Fed
Ind/Other
DARPA/Hughes Sub
DARPA/Hughes Sub
Chromalux
2002
2002
Fndn
442232
Ind/Other
NSF
Ohio Eminent Scholar
2002
444253
Other Fed
USAF
2002
444249
Ohio
ODOD
Total
award
99,000
60,000
33,000
Grant Period
C1 SSFLC Bistable Device Optimization Project
Coalescence of LC Lens
Development of LC Materials for Direct Energy
Contact
28,200
09/00-01/02
Cholesteric LC Laser Sensors in Optical Fibers
3,501
Aug-00
Rockwell Grant Travel
654,066 1/16/01-7/15/05 LC Based Beam Steering Device and Optical
Telescopes
156,370
3/01-2/03
Development of Polymer and Chiral Materials for
FE-LCD
143,641
3/01-5/03
Modeling and Improvements to Pi-Cell type
Devices for AMLCD applications
142,151 6/1/01-5/30/04 Research Project for Intel Corporation
96,189
10/01-10/02
Tunable Filters for Telecommunications
Applications
89,940
04/01-01/02
Novel LC Materials with High Birefringence and
Low Rotational Viscosity for Field Sequential
Color Reflective LCDs
70,000
3/01-12/02
Electro-optical Devices from Banana-Shaped LCs
62,054
9/01-8/02
Polymer Walls for Ruggedized LCDs using Plastic
Substrates
60,000
01/01-06/02
High Twisting Power Chiral Materials
50,000
4/01-3/03
Trans-reflective LCD
46,951 7/1/01 - 12/31/03 Carbon nanotube-Reinforced LC Structural
Composites by Electron Beam Curing
35,000
2/01-6/01
High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering
15,000
2/01-6/01
Custom Synthesis LC Compounds
6,248
07/01-09/01
Resolution of Electron Beam Addressed LC
Displays
750,000
2002
Ohio Eminent Scholars Program (endowment)
480,000 6/1/02-5/31/06 Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric LC
Elastomers
379,998 7/1/02-9/17/03 Prism Rotator Beam-steering Component and 2D
Optical Phased Array Wavefront Corrector
(THOR)
282,000 5/1/02-7/31/03 ALCOM Support
97
9/00 - 8/03
1/1/00-8/31/02
3/00-12/00
Project Title
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
2002
444247
Other Fed
USAF/UCF/Ratheon
2002
2002
444521
Ohio
Other Fed
OBR Res. Chall.
AFOSR/BNL
2002
440636
Other Fed
AFRL/Anteon
2002
2002
2002
442234
444251
444248
NSF
Other Fed
Other Fed
ONR/KDI
USAF/U C Florida sub
2002
2003
444252
771203
Ind/Other
Ohio
Cubic Defense Systems
2003
2003
441149
440218
Other Fed
Ohio
Congress Approp.
ODOD/Wright Ctr.
2003
2003
444260
444259
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Samsung
AFOSR/Cornerstone
2003
2003
444255
442235
Ohio
NSF
ODOD/AlphaMicron sub
2003
442236
NSF
2003
2003
2003
2003
2004
2004
444257
444262
444258
444254
444256
444265
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Hana
Photon-X
SAIC-Army/KDI sub
Viztec
Polydisplay (sub?)
US Army/UCF sub
2004
2004
444268
444270
Ind/Other
NSF
Samsung
NYU/Courant sub
Total
award
Grant Period
Project Title
90,000 1/1/02-12/31/03 Development of High Birefringence LCs for
Optical Beam Steering
80,000
2/02 - 12/03
Pathogen Detection by Lyotropic LCs
78,185
7/02-2/03
Polymer-Stabilized Ferroelectric LC for Analog
Switching
52,592 5/1/02-6/30/04 Numerical and Experimental Studies on Isotropic
LC Binary Mixtures
29,840 9/1/02-8/31/05
28,500
6/02-5/03
Black & White Cholesteric Displays
20,000 1/28/02-6/30/02 Development of High Birefringence LCs for
Optical Beam Steering
13,467 7/23/02-11/30/02 Polymer Dispersed LC Shutters Research Project
1,640,000 7/10/03-7/09/06 Flexible Optical and Electronic Device
Manufacturing Facility
471,913 9/30/03-9/29/05 Center for LC Science and Education
400,000 11/1/03-6/30/08 Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data
Management and Analysis
340,000 8/1/03-7/31/10 Sponsored Research Agreement
240,000 9/1/03-5/30/06 Conductive LC Elastomers for Aircraft Wing
Structures
196,253 1/1/03-9/30/04 LC Eyewear
190,000 8/15/03 - 7/31/05 Acquisition and Development of Fast Confocal
Polarizing Microscopy for Liquid Crystal Materials
Research and Education
100,000 9/15/03 - 8/31/04 ACT/SGER: LC Materials for Biosensor
Development
100,000 6/1/03-5/31/06 Inorganic Alignment Layer Project
82,000 12/5/03-11/30/04 Sponsored Research Agreement
50,000 7/24/03-6/30/04 Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays
29,159 1/1/03-12/31/03 Commercialization of Plastic LC Displays
153,355 1/1/04-12/31/04 Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color LC Displays
150,000 5/24/04-5/23/07 Foveated, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for
Missile Warning/Tracking Using Adaptive Optics
120,000 1/1/04-12/31/05 Sponsored Research Agreement
100,000 9/1/04-8/31/06 SGER: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change
in LC Elastomer Systems
98
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
2004
2004
2004
440644
442244
444755
Ohio
NSF
Ohio
OBR Res. Chall.
2004
2004
2004
444269
444267
444539
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Other Fed
Steridian Corp.
SAIC-Army/KDI sub
Homeland Sec/NEOUCOM
2004
444272
Ind/Other
US CRDF
2004
444266
Ind/Other
US CRDF
2004
2005
2005
444264
444547
444280
Ind/Other
Foundation
Ohio
Hanna
W.M. Keck Fndn.
ODOD/Wright Ctr.
2005
442198
NSF
2005
442191
NSF
2005
444277
Other Fed
2005
442242
NSF
2005
444276
Other Fed
AFRL/Cornerstone
2005
Fndn
Ind/Other
Intel
2005
444279
Other Fed
ONR
2005
440650
Ohio
OBR Res. Chall.
2005
440442
Ohio
Ohio Bd Regents
Total
award
Ohio Bd Regents
Grant Period
Project Title
64,167 1/1/04-12/31/05 Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes
63,433 4/1/04-3/31/07
58,941 1/1/04-12/31/05 Fluorothiophenes - A New Class of Chevron-free
Ferroelectric Materials with Promising Electrooptic
Device and Semiconductor Applications
47,000 10/15/04-6/15/05 Sponsored Research Agreement
44,000 5/16/04-12/31/04 Sponsored Research Agreement
30,000 2/16/04-2/15/05 Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens using
LCs
16,000 6/25/04-6/24/06 Insight in the Physical Phenomena Behind Light
Absorption Induced Surface Anchoring
12,400 11/1/04-10/31/06 Lyotropic Chromonic LCs: A New Material for
Advanced Biosensing and Optical Applications
2,000 3/18/04-3/17/05 Hana Characterization Project
385,934 6/30/05-6/30/06 Laboratory Equipment Proposal
365,235 6/6/05-6/5/08 Wright Center for Multifunctional Polymer
Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND)
360,000 11/1/05-12/31/06 Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of
3D Director Configurations in LCs
313,978 8/15/05-7/31/08 Collaborative Research FRG: Ferroelectric
Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems
270,305 9/1/05-8/31/07 Finite Element Modeling of Projectiles and
Indentation
258,199 4/15/05 - 7/31/05 Acquisition of an Imaging Fourier Transform
Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer
225,000 5/15/05-5/14/07 STTR Phase II: Conductive LC Elastomer for
Aircraft Gap Treatment
189,000 10/1/05-9/30/08 Polarization Independent Etalon Based LC
Devices
110,556 10/1/05-9/30/08 Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate
Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in
Nanofluids
60,000 1/10/05-12/31/06 Biaxial Nematic and Smectic Phases and Critical
Phenomena in Bent-Core and Tetrapodic
Mesogens
59,948 1/15/05 - 12/31/06 Nanotechnology, LCs and Drug Delivery
NIST
99
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
Total
award
Grant Period
Project Title
9/1/05-8/31/07
Simulation Studies of Shape Selection in Chiral
Molecular Self-Assembly
Sponsored Research Agreement
Sponsored Research Agreement
Stressed LC Materials: Electro-optics and Use in
Displays
Development of High Birefringence LCs for
Infrared Applications
3D Structures and Defects in LC Biopolymers
Support Expertise for Sensor Directorate
New LC Materials Facility
S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening
Participation Sciences
Extension Proposal (LC Based Optical Phases
Array for Steering Lasers)
Electric Field Effects in LCs with Dielectric
Dispersion
MURI on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS
Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in Soft
Materials
Fluid Phases of Bent-Core Molecules-Novel
Physics and Applications
Fluorinated Polyimide Alignment Layer Research
STTR Phase II: Photochemically Switched Chiral
Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays
Conducting Polymer Substrates
Energy Conversion Based on Giant Flexoelectric
Effect in Bent-Core Nematic LCs
Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic LCs for Internal
Compensators and Polarizers
Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic LCs for Internal
Compensators and Polarizers
Bent Core LCs for Fast Switching Electric Field
Induced Biaxial (EFIB) Displays
LC Displays doped with Ferroelectric
Nanoparticles
2005
444284
Ind/Other
ACS Petroleum Fund
56,603
2005
2005
2005
444274
444273
440447
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
AFRL/Displaytech
Samsung
Samsung
55,000 4/1/05-7/31/06
45,932 3/1/05-6/30/05
40,000 4/30/05-4/30/06
2005
444278
Other Fed
AFOSR/Cornerstone
40,000
2005
2005
2006
2006
444271
444275
442216
442222
Ind/Other
Other Fed
NSF
NSF
IICAM
USAF/Anteon sub
20,000 7/1/05-6/30/06
7,497 1/3/05-3/31/05
899,235 6/1/06-5/31/09
499,926 9/15/06-8/31/11
2006
444285
Other Fed
AFRL
451,450 3/10/06-6/30/08
2006
440606
Other Fed
US Dept Energy
322,526 8/15/06-8/14/10
2006
2006
444286
442220
Other Fed
NSF
AFOSR
253,532 5/1/06-9/30/07
200,000 8/15/06-7/31/09
2006
442218
NSF
2006
2006
Fndn
444201
Ind/Other
NSF
Dupont
NSF/KDI sub
160,000 6/1/06-1/31/09
150,000 7/1/06-12/31/07
2006
2006
440623
Other Fed
Other Fed
ONR/KDI subaward
ONR
140,000
8/06-7/98
122,262 12/18/06-12/31/07
2006
440462
Ind/Other
Samsung
100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07
2006
440464
Ind/Other
Samsung
100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07
2006
440465
Ind/Other
Samsung
100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07
2006
440466
Ind/Other
Samsung
100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07
172,998
100
8/1/05-4/30/06
7/1/06-6/30/09
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
Total
award
Grant Period
2006
2006
2006
2006
444287
444288
440467
444282
Ohio
Other Fed
Ind/Other
Ohio
ODOD
USAF/Dynamic Eye sub
Samsung
OBR Res. Chall.
2006
444283
Ohio
OBR Res. Chall.
2006
2006
2006
2006
2007
2007
2007
444289
440468
444281
444204
444205
444295
444292
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Other Fed
Ohio
Ind/Other
Ohio
Displaytech
Samsung
Comex-Pic
AFOSR
ODOD/KDI sub
PixelOptics
ODOD/U Akron sub
59,998
50,000
46,000
10,430
930,000
400,000
300,000
11/1/06-12/31/07
11/1/06-10/31/07
1/12/06-11/11/06
4/1/06-11/30/06
2/26/07-2/25/10
12/1/07-11/30/08
2/26/07-2/25/10
2007
440624
Other Fed
ONR
138,000
3/6/07-3/31/08
2007
442249
NSF
122,000
9/1/07-8/31/08
2007
442107
NSF
2007
444293
Ind/Other
Gen Dynamics
70,000 6/21/07-6/30/08
2007
440621
Ohio
OBR Res. Chall.
50,000 1/1/07-12/31/08
2007
444202
Ohio
OBR
50,000 1/15/07-1/14/08
2007
444203
Ohio
OBR Res. Chall.
50,000 6/1/07-12/31/08
2007
444771
Ohio
OBR
50,000 1/15/07-1/14/08
2007
444294
NSF
NSF/KDI subaward
25,000 7/1/07-12/31/07
Project Title
100,000 7/1/06-6/30/07 New LC Materials Facility
98,057 9/1/06-8/31/08 Segmented Flash Blindness Lenses
67,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 Advanced OCB2
60,000 1/15/06-1/14/08 Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate
Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in
Nanofluids
60,000 1/15/06-1/14/07 Light-harvesting Semiconducting Discotic LCs for
Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics: New
Opportunity and New Challenge
92,000 9/15/07-8/31/10
101
Sponsored Research Agreement
OCB Transreflective Mobile LCD
LC Elastomers as Smart Pigments in Paints
Workshop on Negative Index Materials
Flexible LC Film Manufacturing Alliance
PixelOptics Super Vision Project
Commercialization of Functional Polyimide Films
and Nanocomposites
Integrated Instrumentation Suite for Exploring
Enhanced Thermal Conductivity in Nanofluids
(equipment)
Materials World Network on Lyotropic Chromonic
LCs
Collaborative Research in Europe on LCs
(CRELIC-IRES)
Electrically and Optically Turnable Chiral
Molecules for Optical Applications
Chromonic LCs as New System for Controlled
Drug Delivery
Nanofluidic Lab on Chip for Low Abundance
Protein Isolation
Energy-Saving Switchable LC Architectural
Window
Creating Nanophotonic Meta-atoms by
Programmable Bottom-up DNA Self-Assembly
and Metallization
Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for
Chiral Nematic Displays
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
2007
444290
NSF
IICAM
2007
442107
NSF
NSF
2007
444295
Other Fed
Dept. of Defense; Pixel
Optics subaward
2007
444296
Ind/Other
Samsung
2007
444297
Ind/Other
Samsung
2007
444298
Ind/Other
Samsung
2007
2007
444299
444300
Ind/Other
Ind/Other
Samsung
Samsung
2008
2008
444302
444303
Ind/Other
NSF
Evans Capacitor Co.
NSF/KDI subaward
2008
444305
Ind/Other
2008
2008
444306
444776
Ind/Other
Ohio
Johnson & Johnson Vision
Care, Vistakon Division
NorTech
Ohio Board of Regents
2008
444304
Ind/Other
2008
446800, 446801,
446000
Ohio
Institute for Complex
Adaptive Matter
ODOD
2009
446308
Ind/Other
ATK Space Systems/NASA
2009
444211
Other Fed
AFOSR
2009
444208
Other Fed
AFOSR
Total
award
20,000
Grant Period
Project Title
7/1/07-6/30/08
Theory of "Scar" Defects in Soft Materials with
Orientational Order: Building Blocks for SelfAssembly
92,000 9/165/07-8/31/10 Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid
Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)
400,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Pixel Optics Super Vision Project
80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Simulation Study of Field Induced Reorientation of
BNLC
80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Plasmonic Subwavelength Structures for Active
Color Generation and Tuning with Liquid Crystals
for Display Applications
80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Liquid Crystal Display Doped with Ferroelectric
Nanoparticles (Phase II)
80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Synthesis of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
100,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic LCs for Internal
Compensators and Polarizers
1,460 4/1/08-5/31/08 Prototype Capacitor Development
250,000 1/1/08-12/31/09 Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for
Chiral Nematic Displays, Phase II
108,870 5/15/08-12/31/08 Sponsored Research Agreement
50,000 6/12/08-6/30/09 Development of Electronic Greenhouses
48,618 1/15/08-1/14/10 Organization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase
Bimesogens
2,000 5/1/08-4/30/09 Science Education / Outreach Activities
15,292,382 8/18/08-8/17/13 Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced
Materials (KSU-CWRU-YSU; KSU share
$8,553,921)
15,013 1/26/09-6/30/09 Development of Particle Based Flow Diagnostic
Techniques
100,000 5/1/09-11/30/09 Novel Organo Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral
Hybrid Gold Nanorods
150,000 3/1/09-11/30/09 Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive
Agile Filters
102
Inception
Year
Grant #
Category
Agency
2009
444783
Ohio
OBR
2009
444309
Ohio
OBR
2009
444212
Other-Private KIMM
2009
444214
Ohio
ODOD/KDI
Total Awards
Total
award
Grant Period
Project Title
50,000 6/15/09-6/14/10 Numerical Simulations & Lab Observations of
Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics Ternary
26,192 6/15/09-6/14/10 Flex Chlorestic Displays: Device Simulation &
Fashion Application
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103
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
1967
Advisor/Department
GULRICH, LESLIE
Brown
Chemistry
X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic Structure of p-methoxybenzylidene
p'-cyanoaniline
* DuPont
1970
WILLEY, DAVID
Brown
Chemistry
The Thermodynamics of Dilute Solutions using Selected Liquid Crystalline Solvents
* Industry, Akron
1972
LEE, Y.S.
Brown
Chemistry
An Ultrasonic Shear Wave Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Nematic
Liquid Crystal
* Industry, Taiwan
1972
LESSER, DAVID
Brown
Chemistry
Crystal Structure Analysis of X-Ray of 2,2'-Dibromo-4,4'-bis-(pmethoxybenzylideneamino) Biphenyl
*
August
1972
HSU, Y.Y.
Fishel
Chemistry
Studies of Liquid Crystals: Part I - Synthesis and Characterization of Selectively
Deuterated Compounds with Mesomorphic Properties; Part II - Synthesis of
Novel Schiffs Bore Compounds and the Investigation of Binary Systems with
Nemorphic Properties
* Consultant, California
December 1972
WILSON, JACK
Uhrich
Mossbauer Effect in a Smectic Liquid Crystal
* Retired
Physics
March
1973
VISINTAINER, JAMES
Doane
Physics
Spin-Lattice Relaxation in the Nematic Liquid Crystalline Phase
* Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio
March
1973
WISE, RAYMOND
Doane
Physics
A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Smectic C Liquid Crystals
* Retired
June
1973
FELLNER, HANS G.
Franklin/Christensen
Light Scattering from Liquid Crystals
* Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA
August
1973
DETJEN, ROBERT E.
Uhrich
Physics
A Mossbauer Investigation of the Lattice Dynamics of the Smectic Liquid
Crystalline State
August
1973
KESS, SHARON
Franklin
The Photostatistics of Brillouin Scattering by a Liquid Crystal
* IBM Corp., R&D, Vermont
Physics
*
105
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1973
December 1973
MURPHY, JOHN A.
Doane
NMR Pulsed Gradient Studies of Diffusion in Liquid Crystals
* Keithley Instruments, Solon, Ohio
Advisor/Department
Physics
NANDY, PAPIYA
Saupe
Physics
Theoretical Studies of the Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid
Crystals
* Instructor of Physics, Jadavpur University
March
1974
SCHENZ, ANNE FILLER
Neff
Optical and Faraday Studies of Liquid Crystals
* General Foods, White Plains, NY
Chemistry
June
1974
CHU, KWO-SUN
Moroi
Physics
Theories of Intermolecular Potential and Molecular Diffusion in the Mesophases
of Liquid Crystalline Systems
* Retired (NY)
June
1974
CHUNG, DAVID BUU-VINH
Brown
Chemistry
An X-Ray Study of the Crystal Structure and the Smectic E Structure of a
Smectogenic Liquid Crystal -- Di-n-Propyl-p-terphenyl-4,4"-carboxylate
* Research Scientist, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
December 1974
CHIN, JOHN S.H.
Neff
Chemistry
The Effect of Compressibility on the Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Crystals
*
June
1975
PHOTINOS, PANAGIOTIS J.
Saupe
Physics
Mean Field Study of the Formation of Uniaxial Smectic Liquid Crystals with
Polarized Layers
* Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics, Southern Oregon State University,
Ashland, OR
December 1975
BERMAN, ARTHUR L.
Gelerinter
Physics
Optical Studies of Electric Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals That Have
Some Smectic Ordering
* Optical Shields Corp., Menlo Park CA
June
1976
AIMIUWU, VICTOR Q.
Uhrich
Physics
Fe-57 Mossbauer Study of Four Ferrocene Derivatives in a Smectic B Liquid
Crystalline Glass
August
1976
MORITZ, ELAN
Franklin
Physics
A Class of Nonlinear Electrohydrodynamic Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
* Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL
*
December 1976
FLICK, CATHERINE M.
Gelerinter
Physics
An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Action of Selected Polyene
Antibiotics on Lipid Planar Multibilayers (Model Membranes)
* John Wollman Enterprises, Indiana
December 1976
UKLEJA, PAUL
Doane
Physics
Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Director Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals
* Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
106
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor/Department
June
1978
BOS, PHILIP J.
Doane
Physics
NMR Studies of Orientational Order in the Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Phase
* Professor, Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University
June
1978
DSIDOCKY, RICHARD
Fishel
Chemistry
Investigations of Liquid Crystals: Part I. The Effect of Terminal Substitutent
Branching on Mesogenic Behavior of Phenyl Benzoates. Part II. Synthesis of
Novel Organotin Compounds Exhibiting Liquid Crystalline Behavior
* Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio
August
1978
LAPRICE, WALTER J.
Uhrich
Physics
Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Nematic, Smectic B and Smectic H
Liquid Crystalline Glasses
* Materials Engineer, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA
December 1978
BRISBIN, DOUGLAS J.
Johnson
Physics
Divergence of the Bend Curvature Coefficient above the Nematic-Smectic A
Phase Transition: Freedericksz Transition
* Research Scientist, General Dynamics Corp., Los Angeles, CA
December 1978
MAJOROS, STEPHEN J.
Johnson
Physics
A Test of Curvature Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition
* Lorrain Co. Community College, Elyria OH
June
GRADDICK, WILLIAM
Spielberg
Physics
The Effect of Calcium on the Thermotropic Phase Behavior of Dipalmitol
Phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) Multilayers
1979
*
June
1980
NAIKSATAM, PRAKASH
Fishel
Chemistry
Structure-Property Relationships of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
* Brookhaven National Lab
August
1980
BAGINSKI, GERARD H.
Saupe Physics
Proton Magnetic Resonance Study on Iron bis(cyclopentadienyl) in Nematic
Solutions
*
August
1980
EKACHAI, ARUN
Spielbertg/deVries
X-Ray and Optical Studies of Several Smectic Phases
* Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Physics
August
1980
SETHNA, VIJAY N.
Spielberg/deVries
Physics
X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phases
* Industrial Scientist, Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA
August
1980
VAZ, NUNO A.
Doane
Physics
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Orientational Order in Lyotropic Liquid
Crystals
* Research Scientist, General Motors, Warren, Michigan
December 1980
DEHOFF, RICHARD J.
Johnson
Physics
Specific Heat in the Vicinity of a Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C Multicritical
* Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR
107
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
December 1980
Advisor/Department
HAVEN, THOMAS J.
Saupe
Physics
Elastic and Viscous Properties of Nematic Systems in Aqueous Decylammonium
Chloride Solutions
* Research Scientist, Sarif, Vancouver, Washington
December 1980
RICHARDS, BERNARD L.
Moroi
Physics
Rotational Diffusion in Nematic Liquid Crystals
* Assistant Professor, Stark Campus, Kent State University
May
1981
LOCKHART, THOMAS E.
Gelerinter
Physics
Indices of Refraction at Smectic A-Smectic C Phase Transitions
* Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
August
1981
KTORIDES, PETROS
Uhrich
Physics
Mossbauer Study of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline Glass Phase Using Sn-bearing
Molecules
* Teaching, Cyprus
December 1981
KUZMA, MICHAEL R.
Allender/Johnson
Physics
Mean Field Study of Molecular Tilt in Uniaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases
* Real Estate, Philadelphia
December 1981
VAZ, MARIA J.
Doane
Physics
Orientational Order in Phospholipid, Cholesterol-Phospholipid, and ProteinPhospholipid Bilayer Membranes: A DMR Study
* Professor, Lawrence Technical University, Detroit MI
June
1982
SHARMA, BRIJ B.
Saupe
Physics
Proton Magnetic Resonance in Nematic Solvents: Orientation and Structure of
Anthaquinone Derivatives and a Linewidth Analysis of Benzene Spectrum
* Research Scientist, Bell Communications, Piscataway, NJ
June
1982
SHETTY, ANIL N.
Doane
Physics
Molecular and Segmental Orientational Order in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals:
An NMR Study
* Scientist, Imaging Center, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
June
1982
December 1982
SHIH, LIH-BIN
Brown
Chemistry
Laser Light Scattering of Surface Fluctuations of Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, S.C. Johnson, Racine, WI
YANIV, ZVI
Doane
Physics
A Deuterium Magnetic Resonance Study of Biaxial Ordering and Self-Diffusion
in Chiral Nematic and Smectic Phases
* President, SI Diamond Technology, Austin TX
May
1983
TODOROFF, DOUGLAS G.
Uhrich
Physics
Sn-119 Mossbauer Investigation of Different Sn-Bearing Molecules in Nematic
and Smectic Glasses
* Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL
August
1983
December 1983
BENIGNI, SAMUEL P.
Spielberg
Physics
An X-Ray Study on the Thermal Behavior of Potassium-Palmitate-Water Mixtures
* Staff Scientist, RCA, Inc., Lancaster PA
BIGGERS, RAND R.
Johnson
Physics
Thermal Properties Near the Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point
* Research Scientist, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
108
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
December 1983
Advisor/Department
BOONBRAHM, POONPONG
Saupe
Physics
Optical Studies on Micellar Nematics and on Phase Transitions Between Nematic
States
* Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
December 1983
GOODEN, CLARENCE E.
Johnson
Physics
Light Scattering and Magnetic Deformation Study of the Nematic-Smectic A
Transition
* Research Scientist, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, FL
December 1983
MAHMOOD, RIZWAN
Johnson
Director Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Transition
* Associate Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA
December 1983
ROTH, ROBERT A.
Saupe
Physics
Theoretical Studies on the Dielectric Permittivity of Liquid Crystals with
Application to Alkylazoxybenzene Derivatives
Physics
* Research Scientist, US Air Force, Dayton, OH
December 1983
STEFANOV, MICHAEL E.
Saupe
Physics
Physical Properties of Nematic Decylammonium Chloride/Ammonium
Chloride/Water Systems
*
May
1984
STRENK, LAWRENCE M.
Doane
Physics
A Deuterium NMR Study of Orientational Order and Spatial Modulation in
Phosphatidyl Choline Bilayers Including Those Containing Cholesterol and Protein
* President and CEO, Strenk Scientific Consultants, Inc.,
Middleburg Heights OH
August
1984
MARANDE, ROBERT P.
Uhrich
Physics
Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Smectic A., Smectic B and Smectic C
Liquid Crystalline Glasses
* Assistant Professor, Behrend College, Erie, PA
December 1984
HAFIZ, NAJMA
Allender/Doane
Physics
Nematic Phases in Liquid Crystals: Theory of Uniaxiality and Biaxiality and an
NMR Study of Reetrants
*
May
1985
RAHMAN, JOLLY A.
deVries/Spielberg
Physics
The Development of Some Molecular Models for Smectic A Phases
* Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
May
1985
SPIELBERG, JOHANAN
Gelerinter
An EPR Study of Glass-Forming Liquids and Liquid Crystals
Physics
*
August
1985
HENDERSON, GIRARDEAU
Allender
Physics
Phenomena at the Isotropic - Nematic Transition Induced by Surface Order
* Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City, FL
August
1985
LIU, HSING-CHUNG
deVries/Spielberg
Physics
Analysis of the X-Ray Diffraction Pattern of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic
Phase of p-n-Octyloxybenzoic Acid
*
109
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1985
Advisor/Department
VLACHOPOULOS, PETROS
Lee
Physics
Theoretical Studies of Local Orientational Order in Cholesterics and Cholesteric
Liquid Crystal Mixtures
*
December 1985
MOTTAKABBIR, KAZI A.
Lee
Physics
Quantum Simulations of the Ground State of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model
* Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin
May
WU, BAO-GANG
Doane
Physics
Deuterium NMR of Asymmetric Motion and Molecular Ordering in Liquid
Crystals and Microdroplet Controlled Scattering in Display Applications
1986
* R&D Scientist, Advanced Display Systems, Amarillo, TX
August
1986
LEE, YOUNG-HEE
Lee
Physics
Classical and Quantum Computer Simulation Studies: Molecular Dynamics of the
Kerr Effect in Carbon di-sulfide in Green's Function Monte Carlo Calculations of
the Electronic Correlation Energy in Atoms
* Assistant Professor, Physics, Jeonbug National University, Korea
December 1986
CUNNINGHAM, BETH A.
Lis/Doane
Physics
The Influence of Monovalent Ions on Dipalmitoylphosphatidyl-choline Bilayer
Structure and Packing
* Assistant Professor of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
May
1987
KHAN, IQBAL
Johnson
Director Dynamics Above Nematic-Smectic (A,C) Transitions
* Scientist, Textile Institute of Pakistan
Physics
August
1987
FIGUEIRINHAS, JOAO
Doane
Physics
A Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the SF Phase
* Scientist, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal
August
1987
LEWIS, MICHAEL E.
Johnson
Physics
A Mode 1 Light Scattering Study of the Smectic-A Phase Near the NA
Transition: Critical Behavior of the Layer Dilation Elastic Coefficient
* Lewis Consulting, Akron, Ohio
August
1987
ZHOU, E
Saupe
Curvature Elasticity of the Micellar Nematics
* Lecturer, Beijing University, China
Physics
December 1987
GOLEMME, ATTILIO
Doane
Chemical Physics
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calabria, Rende,
December 1987
KLEMM, STEFAN
Lee
Physics
Quantum Simulation of Polyene Ground States
* Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
December 1987
MELNIK, GEORGE
Saupe
Physics
Critical Properties of Phase Transitions in Micellar Nematics in Microscopic
Textures of Micellar Cholesterics
* North American Phillips Corp., Briarcliff Manor, NY
110
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1988
Advisor/Department
PHONPHOK, NASON
Westerman/Doane
Physics
Effects of Anesthetic Membrane Solutes on Orientational Order in Lecithin
Bilayer Membranes: An NMR Study
* Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
May
1989
FRISKEN, BARBARA J.
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics/UBC
Nematic Liquid Crystals in Electric and Nematic Fields
* Professor & Chair of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC,
Canada
May
1989
RISSER, STEVEN
Lee
Physics
Model Hamiltonian Calculations of the Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated
Molecules
* Texas A&M, Commerce, TX
August
1989
WHITEHEAD JR., JOE B.
Doane
Physics
Light Scattering from Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Associate Professor of Physics, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, MS
December 1989
VITHANA, HEMASIRI
Johnson
Physics
Light Scattering and Magnetic Field Deformation Study Near the NematicSmectic A Phase Transition: Critical Behavior of Twist and Bend Elastic
* Research Scientist, Reveo, Hawthorne, NY
May
1990
ERDMANN, JOHN H.
Doane
Physics
Electro-Optic Response of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc., Twinsburg, OH
May
1990
LEE, JONG-CHEON
Allender/Neff
Physics
Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Homeotropic Surface Effect on the
Cholesteric-Nematic Phase Transition of a Compensated Mixture
* Research Scientist, Samsung Corporation, Seoul, Korea
May
1990
PLUMLEY, SULAKSHANA
Saupe
Elasticity and Dynamic Properties of Ionic Micellar Mixtures
Physics
*
December 1990
SUBRAMANIAM, RAVI
Lee
Physics
Quantum Simulations of the Ground State Electronic Structure of Diatomic
Molecules
* Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
December 1990
SUBRAMANYAM, SUNDAR
Fishel
Chemistry
Liquid Crystals Containing the Dibenzopyran Nucleus: Synthesis and
Mesomorphic Properties of 3-(4-n-Alkoxybenzylidene-amino) Dibenzo[b,d]Pyran
* Research Fellow, University of Lowell
May
1991
BOYD, DARWIN
Uhrich
Physics
Mossbauer Studies of Some 1. Iron(III) Spin Crossover Systems and 2. A Cold
Cholesteric Liquid Crystal
* Assistant Professor of Technology, Kent State University, Kent, OH
May
1991
GLEESON, JAMES L.
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics
Instabilities During Directional Solidification of a Transparent Material
* Professor & Asst. Chair, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
111
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor/Department
August
1991
SARKAR, MOINUDDIN
Spielberg
Physics
X-Ray Study of Some Columnar Thermotropic Mesophases
* Assistant Professor of Physics, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
August
1991
SU, WEN-CHEN
Fishel
Chemistry
Part 1. Novel Syntheses of Substituted 6H-D(b,d) Pyrans by Pschorr Cyclization;
Part 2. Synthesis and Studies of Mesomorphic Compounds Derived from 3Amino and 3-Hydroxy-6H-D(b,d) Pyrans
* Avery Dennison, Pasadena, CA
December 1991
CHEN, LI
Kumar
Physics
High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic to Smectic-A Phase
Transition and the Frustrated Smectic A Phase
*
December 1991
CRAWFORD, GREGORY P.
Doane
Chemical Physics
Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined to Cylindrical Cavities: A 2H-NMR Study
* Dean, College of Science, University of Notre Dame
December 1991
LIU, JIMING
Saupe
Physics
Line Defects in Biaxial Nematics and Critical Properties of Nematic-Isotropic
Transitions Near the Landau Point
* Computer Scientist, Pittsburgh, PA
December 1991
May
1992
August
1992
YUAN, HAIJI (JIM)
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals
* CoAdna Photonics, Inc., San Jose, CA
KIM, JAE YON
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics
Phase Separation Kinetics of Binary Liquid Crystal Polymer Mixtures
* Research Scientist, Samsung Corp., Seoul, Korea
SEEKOLA, DESMOND
Kelly
Physics
Dielectric Response of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystalline Films
* SpectraSwitch, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
December 1992
LIN, HEFEN
Palffy-Muhoray
Optical Fibers with Liquid Crystalline Cores
* Philips Flat Displays, San Jose, CA
December 1992
NAGVEKHAR, DEVDATT
Fishel
Chemistry
Novel Mesomorphic Systems Based on Heteromethylene Bridged Biphenyls
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
May
KIM, DU RIM
Saupe
Physics
Effects of Polymers in the Rotational Viscosity of Nematic Liquid Crystals and
Dynamics of Field Alignment
1993
Physics
* Instructor, Kangwon National University, Korea
May
1993
PATEL, PREM L.
Kumar
Physics
High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Study of Frustrated Smectics
* Private Enterprise, Philadelphia, PA
August
1993
AMARASINGHE, NANDANA
Moroi
Physics
Iterative Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equation in a X(2) Medium and Permittivity
Gradient Induced Polarization and Second Harmonic Generation in Inhomogeneous
Media
* Staff Scientist, SpectraSwitch, Santa Rosa CA
112
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1993
Advisor/Department
ONDRIS-CRAWFORD, RENATE Doane
Physics
The Effect of Molecular Anchoring and Curvature on Confined Nematic Liquid
Crystals
*
December 1993
FREDLEY, DAVID S.
West
Chemical-Physics
Phase Behavior and Electro-Optics of Dispersions of Polymers and Low
Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, Motorola, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
December 1993
IANNACCHIONE,
Finotello
Physics
AC Calorimetric Study of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and Restrictive
Geometries
* Assoc. Prof. & Interim Dept. Head., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
May
1994
SHIN, SUNG-TAE
Kumar
Physics
Calorimetric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions in Lyotropic
Liquid Crystals
* Faculty, Korea University
December 1994
ABEGUNARATHNA, SUGATH
Saupe
Physics
Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals: Polymer Dispersions and Chiral Smectic
Phases
* Dept. of Chemistry, University of Akron
December 1994
CULL, BRIAN C.
Kumar
Physics
High Resolution X-Ray Reflectivity Studies of Ordering in Liquid Crystal and
Polymer Thin Films
* Research Scientist, 3M Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
December 1994
FUNG, YEUK K.
Doane
Physics
Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Textures for Scattering Mode Projection Light
Valves
* Applications Engineer, Varitronics Corp., Hong Kong
December 1994
LEE, SEUNGHEE
Gelerinter
Physics
Paramagnetic Resonance (epr) Studies of Glass-Forming Polymers and Liquid
Crystal Polymers
* Chonbuk National University, Korea
December 1994
LEE, SUNG HEE
Gelerinter
Physics
Molecular Dynamics of Glass-Forming Polymer, Plasticized Polymers and Liquid
Crystal Polymers: An Electron Paramagnetic Study
* Applications Engineer, Hyundai Corp., Korea
December 1994
LI, JIANLIN
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics
Determination of Surface Anchoring of Nematic Liquid Crystals from Optical
Response Measurements
* Polytronix, Inc., Richardson, TX
December 1994
PAK, SUNGSIK
Saupe
Physics
The Effects of Polyethylene Oxide on Curvature, Elasticity and Viscosity of
Micellar Nematic Cesium Perfluoro-Octanotate Water Mixtures
*
113
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
May
Name, Title of Dissertation
1995
Advisor/Department
KOTHEKAR, NATASHA
Allender
Physics
Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Surface Effects and Critical Phenomena in
Nematic Liquid Crystals
*
May
1995
MANG, JOSEPH T.
Kumar
Physics
High Resolution X-Ray and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Liquid
Crystal Structure
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, NM
August
1995
DAI, SONG
Spielberg
Physics
X-ray Studies of Phase Transitions and Structures of Some Columnar Liquid
* Research Specialist, Alltristar Corp., Mogadore OH
August
1995
FRITZ, WILLIAM
Doane
Physics
Reflection from Imperfect Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Basic Properties and
Applications
* Gelcore, Cleveland OH
August
1995
HUANG, JING
Johnson
Physics
Critical Behavior of Heat Capacity Near a Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point
* Computer Specialist, Cray Computer, NJ
August
1995
JI, YIMIN
Kelly
Physics
Surface Anchoring at a Polymer/Liquid Crystal Interface in the Neighborhood of
the Glass Transition
* Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY
December 1995
CHEN, JIANMIN
Johnson
Physics
Nonrubbing Techniques for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Fundamentals
and Applications
* Colorlink, Inc., Boulder, CO
December 1995
FOLKS, RAYMOND
Lavrentovich
Light Induced Instabilities in Smectics
* Research Scientist, CREOL, Univ. Central Florida
Physics
December 1995
LU, ZHIJIAN
Doane
Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays
* Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ
Physics
May
HUANG, XIAO-YANG
Doane
Physics
Field-Induced Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and
Applications in Displays
1996
* Senior Scientist, Kent Displays, Inc.
May
1996
JAMAL, SYED H.
Kelly
Physics
Characterization and Optimization of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals:
Dynamics and Applications in Displays
* Senior Project Engineer, Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ
August
1996
DING, HONG
Kelly
Physics
The Study of Dielectric and Electro-Optic Response of Liquid Crystals in
Confined Systems
* Staff Scientist, Meadowlark Optics, Longmont, CO
114
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor/Department
December 1996
QIAN, SIHAI
Finotello
Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Porous Media
* Digilens, Sunnyvale, CA
Physics
May
1997
BRETT, MARTIN
* Five Star Technologies
Chemical Physics
May
1997
HU, GONGJIAN
Palffy-Muhoray
Laser Induced Configurational Transition in Liquid Crystals
* Staff Scientist, dpiX, A Xerox Co., Palo Alto, CA
May
1998
GALABOVA, HRISTINA
Allender
Physics
A Theoretical Study of Surface Induced Phenomena in nematic Liquid Crystals
* Staff Scientist, Reveo Corp., Hawthorne, NY
May
1998
WANG, XIAO-DING
West/Allender
Physics
Polarized Ultraviolet Light Induced Alignment for Liquid Crystal Displays on wellDefined Polyimide Films
West
Physics
* Staff Scientist, Micro Display Corp., San Pablo, CA
August
1998
LIU, HONG
Allender
Physics
Theory of Liquid Crystal Static Distortions in Uniaxial and Biaxial Nematics
* Lecturer, Nanjing University, China
May
1999
HOKE, CHARLES D.
Bos
Chemical Physics
Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable
Twist Cell
* Staff Scientist, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA
August
1999
LI, KUO-YUIN
Kelly
* Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
Chemical Physics
August
1999
LI, SHUXIN
Bos
* Densitron, Santa Fe Springs, CA
Chemical Physics
1999
MORI, HIROYUKI
Bos
Chemical Physics
Fabrication and Optical Effects of a Discotic Negative Birefringence Film for
Liquid Crystal Displays
August
* Staff Scientist, Fuji Photo Film Company, Japan
August
1999
WU, WEI
Kelly
Physics
Single and Multiple Light Scattering Studies of PDLC Films in the presence of
Electric Field
* Research Scientist, Monsanto Corp., St. Louis, MO
December 1999
ZENG, HUAIREN
Finotello
Physics
Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Confined Geometries: An NMR
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
May
2000
ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO
Lavrentovich
Chemical Physics
Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute
May
2000
MA, RUI-QING
Yang
Chemical Physics
Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications
* Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY
115
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor/Department
May
2000
PARK, EUI-YEUL
* AlphaMicron, Inc.
May
2000
WATSON, PHILIP E.
Bos
Chemical Physics
The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, 3M Company, Minneapolis MN
May
2000
XU, MING
Yang
Chemical Physics
Electro-Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices and Applications
of Dual Frequency Cholesterics
West
Chemical Physics
* Research Scientist, Chorum Technologies, Richardson TX
August
2000
COLEGROVE, JENNIFER
Kelly
Chemical Physics
Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device
* Kaiser Electronics, San Jose CA
August
2000
CUI, MINGJI
Kelly
Physics
Temperature Dependency of Viscoelastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
* CoAdna Photonics
2000
DUNN, PATRICK
Yang
* Sr. Technical Program Manager, Samsung America
August
Chemical Physics
December 2000
ANDERSON, JAMES E.
Bos
Chemical Physics
Transitions from the Homeotropic in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Hana Microdisplay Technologies
December 2000
KONOVALOV, DMITRI A.
Sprunt
Physics
A Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Ferrielectric Phases of Chiral Smectic
Liquid Crystals
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University
December 2000
MI, XIANG-DONG
Yang
Chemical Physics
Dynamics of the Transitions Among Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Textures
* Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak
December 2000
TANG, ANLUN
Sprunt
Physics
Dynamics of Chiral Smectic-A and Twist Grain Boundary Phases of Liquid
* KLA-Tencor, California
December 2000
TITUS, CHARLES M.
Bos
Chemical Physics
Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute
December 2000
YUAN, HAIJUN
Palffy-Muhoray
Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure
* Mgr., LC Technologies, LambdaFlex, Inc.
May
2001
LIU, WEIMIN
Yang
Chemical Physics
Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays
* Kaiser
August
2001
ACHARYA, BHARAT RAJ
Kumar
Physics
Correlation Between the Surface Properties and Liquid Crystal Anchoring on
Polymer Films
* Bell Lab/Lucent Technologies, Inc.
116
Chemical Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
December
Name, Title of Dissertation
2001
ASFAW, LETEMESKEL
Sprunt
Coherent Backscattering from Complex Liquids
* Alcorn State University, Mississippi
Advisor/Department
Physics
2001 HEINEMAN, DAVID
West
Chemical Physics
Kinetics of Patterned Electric Field Induced Polymer Segregation in Liquid
Crystal Solutions
* CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
December 2001
VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY
Lavrentovich
Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Motorola, Inc.
Chemical Physics
December 2001
ZHANG, FANG
Yang
Physical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays
* Dimensional Media, Inc.
Chemical Physics
May
2002
WANG, BIN
Bos
Chemical Physics
Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations
* Agilent Technologies, Inc.
August
2002
SAEED, SALMAN
Bos
Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters
* Three Five Systems, Inc.
Chemical Physics
SU, LINLI
West
Studies on Non-Contact Alignment of Liquid Crystals
Chemistry
December 2002
*
May
2003
KANG, SHIN-WOONG
Chien
Chemical Physics
Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on SelfAssembled Pattern-Forming States of Liquid Crystals: Morphology, Phase
Separation and Potential Applications
* Sr. Research Scientist, Physics, Kent State University
May
2003
KHAN, ASAD
Doane
Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display
Technology
Chemical Physics
* Kent Displays, Inc.
August
2003
MONTBACH, ERICA
Bos
Chemical Physics
Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical
Elements
*
August
2003
SMALYUKH, IVAN
Lavrentovich
Chemical Physics
Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing
Microscopy
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University
December 2003
WANG, CHENHUI
Bos
Chemical Physics
Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices
* LXD, Inc.
May
ENNIS, ROLAND
Palffy-Muhoray
Chemical Physics
Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The Dynamics of Phase Separation and the
Saffman-Taylor Instability
2004
* Pressco Technology, Inc., Solon OH
117
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
May
Name, Title of Dissertation
2004
Advisor/Department
HUANG, YUANMING
Jákli
Chemical Physics
Electro-optical and Dielectric properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed
by Banana-shaped Molecules
* Unknown
December 2004
KIM, SANG-HWA
Chien
Chemical Physics
Fast Switching Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Devices Morphology and
Electro-Optical Properties
* Samsung Electromechanics Ltd
December 2004
STOJADINOVIC,
Sprunt, Jákli
Physics
Light Scattering Studies of Dynamics of Bent-core Liquid Crystals
*
May
2005
CAO, WENYI
Palffy-Muhoray
Chemical Physics
Fluorescence and Lasing in Liquid Crystalline Band Gap Materials
* Central Academy of Research of SVA, Taiwan
August
2005
SCHNEIDER, TOD
Lavrentovich
Nanostructuring Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals
* Kent Displays, Inc.
Chemical Physics
August
2005
SHI, JIANRU
Bos
Liquid Crystal Based Beam Steering
* Dynamic Eye, Inc.
Chemical Physics
August
2005
WANG, XINGHUA
Bos
Chemical Physics
Liquid Crystal Diffractive Optical Elements: Applications and Limitations
* Optical and Materials Research Scientist, ChemImage, Inc.
December 2005
BODNAR, VOLODYMYR
West
Chemical Physics
Optical Properties and Polymer Wall Formation in Cholesteric Displays
* AlphaMicron, Inc.
LIAO, GUANGXUN
Jákli
Chemical Physics
Mechanic and Electro-Optical Properties of Non-conventional Liquid Crystal
Systems
December 2005
* CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
December 2005
ZHANG, YANLI
Bos
Chemical Physics
Control of Disclinations and Walls in New Types of Display Devices
* Intel, Inc.
December 2005
ZHOU, FUSHAN
Yang
Chemical Physics
Reflective and Transreflective Displays
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
May
2006
ZHANG, KE
West
Chemistry
Microparticles as a New Analytical Method to Study Liquid Crystal Colloids
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
May
2006
SEMYONOV, ALEXANDER
Twieg
Chemical Physics
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Dyes
and Liquid Crystal Semiconductors
* Sales Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham MA
August
2006
TANG, SHOUPING
Kelly
Multidimensional Optics and Dynamics of Liquid Crystals
*
118
Chemical Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
2006
ZHANG, GUOQIANG
West
Stressed Liquid Crystals: Properties and Applications
*
Advisor/Department
Chemical Physics
December 2006
CHEN, CHENG
Bos
Chemical Physics
Anchoring Transitions on Large-Angle-Deposited SiOx Thin Films
*Apple, Cupertino CA
May
2007
JANG, YONG-KYU
Bos
Optical Properties of Compensated Liquid Crystal Displays
*Samsung Electronics company, Korea
Chemical Physics
August
2007
YE, YIN
Lavrentovich
Dielectric Relaxation and Electrooptical Effects in Nematic
Liquid Crystals
*CoAdna Photonics, Stow OH
Chemical Physics
May
2008
BUYUKTANIR, EBRU
West
Electro-optical Characterization of Bistable Smectic A
Liquid Crystal Displays
*Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute
Chemical Physics
May
2008
LI, FENGHUA
West
The Physics and Application of Liquid Crystal/Ferroelectric
Particle Colloids
*CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Stow OH
Chemical Physics
May
2008
ZHANG, HAILIANG
Kelly
Wavelength Tunable Devices Based on Holographic Polymer
Dispersed Liquid Crystals
*Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Chemical Physics
August 2008
BAILEY, CHRISTOPHER
Jákli
Chemical Physics
Structure and Rheology of Some Bent Core Liquid Crystals
*NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Research Labs, Dayton OH
December 2008
REZNIKOV, DMITRY
Bos
Effect of Surface Alignment Layer on Electro-optical
Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays
* Israel Institute of Technology - Technion
Chemical Physics
December 2008
ZHOU, XIAOLI
Li
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Discotic Liquid
Crystal Porphyrins for Organic Photovoltaics
*
Chemical Physics
May
2009
GU, MINGXIA
Lavrentovich
Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on Director Dynamics
in Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
*Sr. Display Optics Engineer, Apple, Inc., San Jose CA
Chemical Physics
May
2009
HARDEN, JR., JOHN
Jákli
Electromechanical Couplings in Liquid Crystals
*Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute
Chemical Physics
119