LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE
and
CHEMICAL PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL REPORT
July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Director’s Report ......................................................................................................................... 1
Achievements and Recognition ................................................................................................... 4
Funding and Expenditures Charts................................................................................................ 5
Summary of Accomplishments.................................................................................................... 6
LCI Highlights ............................................................................................................................. 7
Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff .....................................................................................11
Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel..............................................................12
Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty................................................14
Table 4 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Students ..............................................15
Table 5 Graduate Degrees Awarded .......................................................................................17
Table 6 Placement of Personnel..............................................................................................18
Table 7 Visiting Scientists ......................................................................................................19
Table 8 Grants and Contracts..................................................................................................20
Table 9 Proposals for Extramural Support..............................................................................25
Table 10 Patents ........................................................................................................................30
Table 11 Publications................................................................................................................31
Table 12 Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia..............................................38
Table 13 Other Activities..........................................................................................................44
Table 14 Seminar Program .......................................................................................................45
Table 15 Industrial Partnership Program ..................................................................................48
Table 16 Resource Facility Services.........................................................................................49
Table 17 Education and Public Service ....................................................................................50
APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................53
I. Strategic Plan
1. Strategic Plan for Development of LCI & CPIP..............................................................55
2. Memos..............................................................................................................................65
II. Education Outreach
1. 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day .........................................................................................67
2. REU Program...................................................................................................................71
3. Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program...................................................................73
4. Short Course.....................................................................................................................75
5. Industrial Partnership Program ........................................................................................77
6. Technology Transfer........................................................................................................79
III. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals............................................................................81
Director’s Report, 2003-2004
The Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (LCI/CPIP) continues its
three-fold mission focusing on Research, Education and Service. LCI approaches its 40-year anniversary
in 2005 with new achievements during 2003-2004. The annual report details successes and analyzes the
challenges that LCI/CPIP faces in carrying out its mission.
Personnel
The LCI/CPIP senior staff is small and consists of only six faculty (Bos, Chien, Kelly, Lavrentovich,
Palffy-Muhoray, Yang), joint faculty from Physics (Allender, Kumar) and Mathematical Sciences
(Gartland) and two senior research fellows, Quan Li and Antal Jákli. Dr. Antal Jákli, a senior research
fellow since 1999, will join the CPIP faculty beginning Academic Year 2004-2005. With Dr. John West
assuming the position of Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies in 2003, I assumed the
position of Interim Director of LCI and CPIP. In July, 2004, I became the permanent director which
opened a vacancy in the faculty position that I previously held; the plan is to fill it with a physicistexperimentalist who will lead our efforts in new directions, most notably lyotropic liquid crystals and soft
matter of biological significance. During the next fiscal year, we will actively recruit a physicist to fill the
position. We are finalizing our efforts to fill the position of Ohio Eminent Scholar in Theoretical Physics.
This position for an outstanding, world renowned physicist in theoretical condensed matter physics will
play an important role in advancing our research programs and building broad collaborations. We plan to
have the position filled prior to the 2005-2006 academic year.
In February 2004, we hired a new senior research fellow, Dr. Quan Li, to fill the vacancy left by the
retirement of Dr. Mary E. Neubert in 2002. Dr. Li’s areas of expertise are in the chemical synthesis of
new materials for nanotechnology (molecular tips for atomic force microscope), pharmaceuticals, drug
delivery and liquid crystals.
The small number of faculty members and senior research fellows remains a problem. On February
9, 2004, at the meeting with the LCI/CPIP senior personnel, Arts & Sciences Dean Joseph Danks
requested that we prepare the "Strategic Plan for the Development of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal
Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program for 2004-2008” (see Appendix I). In this report
to answer the Dean's inquiry about our research priorities, we specified our needs for future faculty/senior
research fellows as follows:
1. Experimental soft matter and lyotropic liquid crystals of biological significance,
one faculty (proposed date of hire: 2004)
2. Structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance, one Senior
Research Fellow (2005)
3. Photonics, including biophotonics, one faculty (2004)
4. Thin organic films, one Senior Research Fellow (2005)
5. Nanoparticles and nanostructures, one faculty (2005)
6. Computer simulations of soft matter, one faculty (2006)
7. Materials characterization specialist, one faculty (2006)
Similar suggestions were reflected in our Self-Study in the 2004 CPIP Graduate Program Review.
Research
The LCI/CPIP remained strong and successful in 2003-2004. We applied for 42 new grants totaling
$16 Million and were awarded $2,487,550 with more than $10 Million pending at fiscal year-end.
LCI/CPIP faculty received $3,262,350 in continuing and new research funding during the 2003-2004
fiscal year which is impressive when considering that this amount is over 20% of the entire research grant
funds received by Kent State University. LCI/CPIP faculty also generated $1,284,400 in KSU royalty
revenue during the same period. That such a small number of faculty members in LCI/CPIP can generate
this level of funding reflects on the strong research record of LCI scientists.
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We actively collaborated with U.S. industry, securing sponsored research funding from companies
such as Anteon Corp. Viztec, Intel, Displaytech, Science Applications International, Rockwell, Hana
Microdisplay Technologies, AlphaMicron, PolyDisplay, Photon-X, Samsung and Unilever Research.
Funding from state and national governments included the National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Air
Force, U.S. Department of Energy, DARPA, Department of Homeland Security, the State of Ohio and
Ohio Board of Regents.
The State of Ohio provided $1.6 Million in funds to establish the Flexible Optical and Electronic
Device Manufacturing Facility. Cleanroom Engineer Hugh Wonderly, was hired to assist Drs.
Lavrentovich and West with equipment purchases, set-up and operation of the facility.
We continued our sponsored research collaborations with colleagues in other KSU departments
including the departments of Biological Sciences (Woolverton), Chemistry (Gericke, Sampson, Seed,
Twieg), Mathematical Sciences (Gartland) and Physics (Allender, Ellmann, Finotello, Gleeson, Kumar,
Mann, Sprunt). Of the 44 active grants reported during this period, 15 are shared with KSU investigators
from other departments.
The collaborative team of Christopher J. Woolverton, Department of Biological Sciences and O.D.
Lavrentovich, LCI/CPIP, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to prove the
new concept of biological sensors based on the lyotropic liquid crystals. This is the first Federal research
grant received by KSU in the field of biological applications of liquid crystals. It is complemented by a
subcontract to NEOUCOM to assist in the development of biosensing devices for the Department of
Homeland Security. The technology, reviewed recently in New Scientist, 182, issue 2451, pg. 22, June
12, 2004, employs a special type of lyotropic liquid crystal to quickly detect harmful pathogens such as
anthrax.
In January, 2004, we began a large-scale sponsored research project in collaboration with Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea, the global leader in display, semiconductor, telecommunications, and digital
convergence technologies. Research is conducted in five different areas in the laboratories of Philip J.
Bos, Liang-Chy Chien, Satyendra Kumar, John L. West, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich and will address the
newest developments in the liquid crystal based display technologies.
Education and Outreach
The most important part of our education efforts is the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program.
Since 1994, teaching and advising of CPIP graduate students became an additional responsibility of the
LCI senior personnel who attained faculty ranks in CPIP. The CPIP has a solid and successful track
record of preparing doctoral students for careers in the liquid crystal industry as seen from the placement
of our graduates (see Appendix III). During this reporting period, KSU launched a 10-year review of the
Program. Although the official report is not expected until later in 2004, the review has already indicated
not only successes in research and education but also significant problems, such as a small number of
faculty and insufficient funds for students stipends which prevent CPIP from offering important
concentrations. The CPIP budget is clearly insufficient to support the graduate students within their first
two years of studies. The problem was outlined in a May 7, 2004, memo to the Dean of Arts and Sciences
and remains unresolved to date (see Appendix I).
The problem with student stipends is partially and temporarily offset by a congressional appropriation
grant that we secured in collaboration with our colleagues in the Department of Physics (Sprunt and
Gleeson), the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education. This one-time funding ends in September
2005. An Education Outreach Administrator was hired to bring undergraduates to Kent as summer
interns to research with liquid crystal scientists. Through this grant we are also actively recruiting
undergraduates for CPIP and other graduate programs at KSU and continuing our K-12 outreach
activities. We continue to assist our colleagues in the Department of Chemistry (Gericke, Twieg,
Gregory) with undergraduate student research advising, hosting and supervising the NSF Research
Experience for Undergraduates (REU) participants at the LCI laboratories.
In addition to the research agreement finalized with Samsung in Korea to further the development of
flat-panel liquid crystal displays, Samsung is providing funding for two Chemical Physics students each
2
year for the next five years to conduct research on liquid crystal displays. These Samsung Scholarship
recipients will gain the experience of global interactions with the world leader in liquid crystal display
production and the prestige of being selected as a Samsung Scholarship recipient.
With our regular weekly seminars throughout the academic year, we have added a series of liquid
crystal research seminars to provide a forum for Kent State University scientists to present their current
research to colleagues across campus (see Table 14 for titles and speakers of both seminar series).
Together with our colleagues at other KSU departments, we recently joined a Multicampus Research
Program, the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM). ICAM is a distributed "institute without
walls" which networks its experiment-driven program of research collaborations to link individual
scientists across disciplines and institutions.
The LCI hosted the first annual Liquid Crystal Day, a symposium which brought together students,
scientists and industrial professionals from various backgrounds and provided a platform for intellectual
and enlightening interactions on the science of liquid crystals. Liquid Crystal Day showcased the
achievements in science and engineering of liquid crystal research at Kent State and Northeast Ohio; 29
students presented posters to 175 attendees. This proved to be a great opportunity for students, faculty
and staff to interact with the local liquid crystal industry. During the conference, Emeritus Director and
Professor J. William Doane was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the Liquid Crystal
Institute and Kent State University. We are planning the 2nd annual Liquid Crystal Day in 2005 to
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the LCI; Prof. L.C. Chien will continue to chair the organizing
committee.
Service
LCI/CPIP continued to serve the research and industrial community through the Industrial Partnership
Program (Bos), Synthesis Facilities (Chien and Li) and Characterization Facilities (Lavrentovich). We
provide free services (electron and atomic force microscopic analysis, cleanroom time, materials
characterization, etc.) to faculty from other KSU departments such as Physics and Chemistry. Invoices
for services provided to outside researchers (mostly representing industry in the liquid crystal-related
field) and their use of our Resource Facilities totaled over $100,000 for this reporting period.
The field of liquid crystal science continues to expand. LCI/CPIP remained strong and successful in
2003-2004, thanks in large part to the strong foundation laid down by previous LCI directors. We look
forward to enhancing the program by recruiting new faculty and seeking an appropriate level of funding
for our graduate students so we can remain competitive in research at the frontiers of science and
technology.
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director
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Achievements and Recognition
Books
L.C. Chien, co-editor, Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and Applications X and Projection Displays X,
proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2004.
Conference and Symposium Chairs
P.J. Bos
Conference Chair, Liquid Crystal Technology, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland,
OH, June 7-11, 2004.
L.C. Chien
Organizer/Chair, 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 23, 2004
Symposium Chair, “Nanostructured Liquid Crystal Materials and Applications,” 2003 Polymeric
Materials Science and Engineering, ACS Fall Annual Meeting, September, 2003, New York.
Symposium Chair, “Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Applications X,” SPIE/Electronic Imaging
Science and Technology 2004, January 2004, San Jose, CA.
Program Committee, “Great Lakes Photonics Symposium,” Cleveland, Ohio, June 7-11, 2003.
International
E.C. Gartland, Treasurer, International Liquid Crystal Society
S. Kumar, Member, Editorial Boards of Liquid Crystals, International Journal of Material Disordered
Systems, International Journal of Modern Physics B, Modern Physics Letters B.
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Co-editor, Liquid Crystals Today and editorial board of Physical Review E
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Vice President, International Liquid Crystal Society; Regional Editor, Molecular
Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Students and Postdoctoral Fellows - Awards
Ivan Smalyukh, American Physical Society Conference Travel Grant, "Opportunities
in Biology for Physicists", September 2003.
Lanfang Li, Outstanding Academic Achievement (4.0 cumulative GPA) from KSU and Phi Beta Delta
Honor Society, International Awards Ceremony, April 7, 2004.
Otilia Catanescu, recipient of the KSU Provost’s International Scholar Award, 17th Annual International
Awards Ceremony, April 7, 2004. The award is given to recognize outstanding international scholars
who develop and/or share their expertise while at Kent State University and who contribute with their
endeavors to the pursuit of excellence.
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Major Funding Sources and Expenditures
2003-2004
Major Funding Sources, in thousands
(Grant funds distribution for fiscal year)
Industry/Other $688 - 16%
KSU $1,692 - 38%
Other Federal $1,253 - 28%
Ohio $538 - 12%
NSF $254 - 6%
Expenditures, in thousands
1994 - 2004
Extramural
KSU
6000
Amount (in thousands)
5000
4000
$4,582
$4,527
$3,309
$3,889
3000
$3,210
$2,909
$2,763
$2,733
$1,642
$1,692
$2,549
$3,077
2000
1000
$1,393
$1,010
$1,417
$1,484
$1,553
$1,500
$1,512
$1,111
0
94-95
95-96
96-97
97-98
98-99
99-00
Fiscal Year
5
00-01
01-02
02-03
03-04
Summary of LCI Accomplishments, 2002-2003
Ph.D. Degrees awarded
M.S. Degrees awarded
5
0
Grants and Contracts
Current Grants
New Awards
24
19
Students Supported
Graduate
Undergraduate (student workers and summer interns)
33
17
Postdoctoral researchers, technicians, engineers
18
Visitors (Research Program)
23
Publications
Journals and Book Chapters
Juried Proceedings, Technical Reports
55
29
Presentations
Professional Societies
Academic and Other
58
23
Patents Awarded
Patent applications and Invention Disclosures
5
4
Visitors
Companies
Academic and Government
17
10
Industrial Partnership Program Members
33
Outreach Activities
Short course participants, February 24-27, 2004
Summer Intern Program and REU students
10
10
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LCI Highlights
First Annual Liquid Crystal Day
On April 23, 2004, Kent State University hosted the first annual Liquid Crystal Day, a symposium that
brought together students, scientists and industrial professionals from different backgrounds and provided
a platform for many intellectual and enlightening interactions. Liquid Crystal Day, held at the Liquid
Crystal Institute’s Samsung Auditorium, showcased the achievements in science and engineering of liquid
crystal research at Kent State University and Northeast Ohio. Invited speakers included Noel A. Clark,
University of Colorado, "Mysteries of Bananas"; Peter J. Collings, Swarthmore College, "Azimuthally
Disordered Tilted Smectics: It All Started at Kent State"; and John H. Erdmann, Hana Microdisplay
Technologies, Inc., "When Good Scientists Go Bad".
Posters were presented by 29 students. Four outstanding
papers where chosen from three categories:
(1-2 year Graduate Student) Bohdan Senyuk, KSU Chemical
Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Layer Undulations in the
Planar Cholesteric Cells with Weak Anchoring
(3+ year Graduate Student) Tod Schneider, KSU Chemical
Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Oriented Monolayers of
Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal
(3+ year Graduate Student) Xinghua Wang, KSU Chemical
Physics Interdisciplinary Program, On the Fringe Field of
Wide Angle LC OPA
(Post Graduate) Qingbing Wang, KSU Physics, ElectroOptical LC Devices Fabricated by Anisotropic Phase
Separation of Liquid Crystal and Polymer
Students discuss their posters with attendees
during the poster session held in the LCI
Six companies provided industrial exhibitsincluding
AlphaMicron, Avery Dennison, CoAdna Photonics, Hana
Microdisplay Technologies, Kent Displays and LXD. The
exhibits provided an opportunity for attendees to interact with
representatives from local liquid crystal companies.
Liquid Crystal Day was officially dedicated to Emeritus
Director and Professor J. William Doane, who served as the
director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute from 19831996. Doane was recognized for his outstanding contributions
to the Liquid Crystal Institute.
Dr. John Erdmann, President and CEO of Hana
Microdisplay Technologies, Inc. received the Alumni
Achievement Award from the Liquid Crystal Institute. Dr.
Erdmann received his PhD at KSU in 1990.
KSU Provost Paul Gaston presents an award to
Professor and LCI Emeritus, J. William Doane
during Liquid Crystal Day activities.
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LCI Highlights
Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education
The Liquid Crystal Institute was awarded a congressional appropriation to establish the Center for Liquid
Crystal Science and Education. The Center builds on the LCI’s strong foundation in basic and applied
research and utilizes its unique facilities to explore entirely new areas of liquid crystal research and
development. Center scientists educate students about the practical importance of research and how to
transfer their research and discoveries to industry and into products.
As a part of the Center’s goals, an Education Outreach Administrator was hired to actively recruit
students for the Chemical Physics graduate program and to bring undergraduate students to Kent State
University as summer interns to conduct liquid crystal research and encourage them to pursue graduate
studies in liquid crystals. Eight undergraduate students spent two months at KSU interacting with faculty
and research personnel from the departments of Physics and Biological Sciences and the Liquid Crystal
Institute/CPIP. They worked with scientists in the laboratory to gain first-hand experience in liquid
crystal research.
Student interns participated in a 2-day training
session in cleanroom use. In the photo (right),
Manager of Display Engineering, Doug Bryant,
demonstrates the process of cell assembly.
2004 Summer Student Interns (l-r),
John Junkin, Dan Carney, Erin Gustley,
Andrew Geisler, Stephen Nixon, Aaron
Rape, Stephen Daigle and Senior Research
Fellow, Dr. Quan Li (Jessica Gregson not
shown).
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LCI Highlights
Samsung Electronics Collaboration
In January, 2003, Samsung and Kent State University signed an agreement to collaborate on a longterm project to further the development of flat-panel liquid crystal displays. In January, 2004, researchers
at the Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program began five sponsored research
projects in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Company in Korea, the global leader in display,
semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence technologies. Research conducted in the
laboratories of Professors Philip J. Bos, Liang-Chy Chien, Satyendra Kumar, John L. West, and Oleg D.
Lavrentovich will address the newest developments in liquid crystal based display technologies.
Samsung research projects being conducted by LCI scientists are, “Polymer Stabilized Optically
Controlled Birefringence Displays” (Chien), “Electron Beam Alignment of LC” (Kumar), “Removing
Disclinations” and “Acoustic Issues” (Lavrentovich) and “Stressed Liquid Crystals for Display
Applications” (West).
The research collaboration grant is in addition to a five-year, $200,000 Samsung grant to support
Chemical Physics graduate students conducting research in the field of liquid crystal displays. Students
will be selected by Chemical Physics faculty based on research projects which the students propose. For
five years, two students each year will be selected to receive a one-year Samsung Student Scholarship. At
the end of their scholarship year, the students will report their research results to Samsung.
LCI scientist, Philip Bos poses with Jun H. Souk, Samsung Executive Director of
AMLCD R&D Semiconductor Business, during a visit to the Liquid Crystal
Institute in 2003.
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LCI Highlights
K-12 and Undergraduate Outreach
The Liquid Crystal Institute education outreach program promotes science education and creates
interest in liquid crystal science for K-12 students. Information is available to students and teachers
through printed materials and the LCI website for education outreach, http://outreach.lci.kent.edu/.
Included on the website are scientific and historical facts relating to the discovery and use of liquid
crystals and links to other science-related sites suitable for K-12 students. Visitors to the site can use
“Ask a Scientist” to submit their questions and receive a responses from liquid crystal scientists.
Visiting students and teachers tour the LCI facilities and participate in hands-on demonstrations. For
example, in April, students from West Geauga Middle School and Stanton Middle School visited the LCI
and participated in an interactive demonstration (see photo below). In May, 15 high school exchange
students from Rottenberg, Germany, and their 15 Kent Roosevelt High School student hosts visited the
LCI for a presentation and tour of the facilities.
The KSU Society of Physics Students came to the LCI in March to have lunch, a tour and
presentations by three liquid crystal scientists and professors, Phil Bos, Oleg Lavrentovich and Peter
Palffy-Muhoray.
German exchange students
demonstrate the twist of a
nematic liquid crystal.
Stanton Middle School students
watch a liquid crystal
demonstration.
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Table 1
Liquid Crystal Institute Staff
Name
Year
Appointed
Title (beginning year of current title)
Philip J. Bos
1994
Associate Director (1997)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)
Douglas R. Bryant
1993
Manager, Display Engineering (1998)
Brenda Buck
1991
Business Manager (2002)
Liang-Chy Chien
1989
Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)
Lynn Fagan
2001
Secretary
Merrill Groom
1986
Instrumentation Engineer (1993)
Valerie A. Henry
1991
Grants Coordinator (2001)
Betty Hilgert
2003
Receptionist
Antal Jákli
1999
Senior Research Fellow
Jack R. Kelly
1988
Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)
Julie M. Kim
1995
Senior Chemist (1998)
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
1992
Director (2004); Interim Director (2003)
Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)
Quan Li
2004
Senior Research Fellow
Marybeth Lipinski
2000
Grants Assistant (2001)
James Maxwell
2003
Public Relations Coordinator
Michele Orms (11/03)
2002
Temporary Secretary
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
1987
Associate Director (1990)
Professor, Chemical Physics (1994)
Donna Warner (2/04)
1999
John West
1984
Clerical Specialist, Part-time
(transferred to Research & Graduate Studies)
Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies
(2003); Professor of Chemistry (1997)
Deng-Ke Yang
1992
Associate Professor, Chemical Physics (1999)
EMERITI
J. William Doane
1979
Emeritus Director; Emeritus Professor of Physics
(Retired, June 30, 1996)
Mary E. Neubert
1972
Emeritus Senior Research Fellow
(Retired September 30, 2002)
Alfred Saupe
1968
Emeritus Professor of Physics
(Retired August 31, 1992)
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Table 2
Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel
Research Personnel
Support Department; Grants*
Full Members
David W. Allender
Physics
Philip J. Bos
LCI/CPIP; DARPA, Rockwell, NASA
Liang-Chy Chien
LCI/CPIP; CRG-USAF, DARPA, Samsung
Daniele Finotello
Research and Graduate Studies
Antal Jákli
LCI/CPIP
Jack R. Kelly
LCI/CPIP (half-time Leave of Absence)
Satyendra Kumar
Physics; Samsung
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
LCI, DARPA, Rockwell, NASA, NSF
Quan Li
LCI
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
LCI/CPIP; NSF-EC, CLCSE
Samuel N. Sprunt
Physics
Robert J. Twieg
Chemistry
John L. West
Research and Graduate Studies
Philip W. Westerman
NEOUCOM
Deng-Ke Yang
LCI/CPIP
*Grant name indicates that a portion of the investigator’s salary was provided by grant(s), either as a
cost share or direct charge (academic year or summer).
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LCI Research Personnel, 2003-2004
Research Personnel
(termination date)
Supporting
Department
Grant(s) and
Principal Investigator(s)
Visiting Professor
Sergij Shiyanovskii
LCI, CPIP
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
Otilia Catanescu (5/04)
Michael R. Fisch (12/03)
Nadina Gheorghiu
Anatoliy Glushchenko
Andrii Golovin
Liubov Kreminska
Marina Lavrentovich (6/04)
Michele Moreira
Yuriy Nastyshyn (4/04)
Ivan Smalyukh
Tibor Toth-Katona
Bin Wang
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
LCI
GRC-USAF; Samsung, DARPA - Chien
Chem.-Phys., Rockwell - Lavrentovich
PolyDisplay - West
Chem.-Phys., DARPA - West
DARPA, Photon-X - Lavrentovich
Samsung, NASA - Lavrentovich
LCI Resource Facility - Kelly
NSF-EC – Palffy-Muhoray
OBR Res. Challenge - Lavrentovich
AlphaMicron/ODOD - Lavrentovich
NSF-EC - Palffy-Muhoray
DARPA, LCDRF, THOR - Bos
Technicians and Engineers
James Francl
Karen Hullihen (11/03)
Liou Qiu
Bentley Wall
Hugh Wonderly
Education Outreach Program Administrator (CLCSE)
Sean Hyatt
Student Employees
Nadine Abraham
Matthew Akamatsu
Kathleen Lipinski
Christopher Pyle
Ryan Reichert (11/03)
Kristen Tenzer (5/04)
Jarrod Williams
Student Summer Interns
Dan Carney
Stephen Daigle
Andrew Geisler
Jessica Gregson
Erin Gustley
John Junkin
Stephen Nixon
Aaron Rape
REU Summer Students conducting research at the LCI
Jessica Hagarty (Jákli)
Kelly Zewe (Jákli)
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Table 3
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty
Current Faculty
Rank
Philip J. Bos
Professor (2001)
Associate (1995)
1995
1998
Liang-Chy Chien
Professor (2001)
Associate (1995)
1995
1998
Jack R. Kelly
Professor (2000)
Associate (1994)
Professor (2000)
Associate (1994)
1994
1997
1994
1997
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Professor (1994)
1994
1997
Deng-Ke Yang
Associate Professor (1999)
1995
1999
Joint Professors
Permanent Department
Term
David W. Allender
Eugene C. Gartland, Jr.
Satyendra Kumar
Physics Department
Math Department
Physics Department
1996
1996
1995
University of New Mexico
Liquid Crystal Institute
Liquid Crystal Institute
Science University of Tokyo
AlphaMicron, Inc.
Liquid Crystal Institute
AlphaMicron, Inc.
Research & Graduate Studies
NEOUCOM
2003200320001998
19981998199819961997-
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Appointed
Adjunct Professors
Julia Fulghum
Anatoliy Glushchenko
Antal Jákli
Shunsuke Kobayashi
Tamas Kosa
Sergij Shiyanovskii
Bahman Taheri
John L. West
Philip Westerman
Emeritus Professors
J.W. Doane
1997-
Graduate Coordinators
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Jack R. Kelly
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Liang-Chy Chien
1994-1997
1997-2002
2002-2003
2003-
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Tenure
Table 4
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students
Graduate Students (start-end)
Dept.
Univ./Grant
Support
Christopher Bailey (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Palffy-Muhoray
Volodymyr Bodnar (1994)
Chem.-Phys.
None
West
Clinton Braganza (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Yang, Jákli
Erica Bramley-Montbach
(1999-2003)
Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir (2001)
Chem.-Phys.
DuPont
Bos
Chem.-Phys.
EPIC; KSU ALCOM
West
Wenyi Cao (1998)
Chem.-Phys.
CLCSE
Palffy-Muhoray
Cheng Chen (2001)
Chem.-Phys.
Hana
Bos
Roland Ennis (1995-2004)
Chem.-Phys.
Anteon; NSF-EC
Palffy-Muhoray
Mingxia Gu (2001)
Chem.-Phys.
NASA; Rockwell
Lavrentovich
John Harden (2003)
Chem-Phys.
CPIP
Yang
Yuanming Huang (1999-2004)
Chem.-Phys.
CLCSE
Jákli
Yong-Kyu Jang (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
Samsung
Bos
Sang Hwa Kim (1999 )
Chem.-Phys.
DAGSI
Chien
Fenhua Li (2002)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
West
Lanfang Li (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Guangxun Liao (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Chien,
Lavrentovich
Kelly/Jákli
Hui Liu (2001)
Chem.-Phys.
Rockwell; NSF
Lavrentovich
Jeremy Neal (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Oleg Pishnyak (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
NASA; workstudy
Kelly,
Palffy-Muhoray
Lavrentovich
Dmytro Reznikov (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Jákli, Bos
Tod Schneider (1996)
Chem.-Phys.
OBR; workstudy
Lavrentovich
Bohdan Senyuk (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Lavrentovich
Alexander Semyonov (1998)
Chem.-Phys.
Twieg
Jianru Shi (1999)
Chem.-Phys.
Dreyfus Fndn.;
Chemistry Dept.
DARPA; Rockwell
Bos
Ivan Smalyukh (1999-2003)
Chem.-Phys.
AlphaMicron
Lavrentovich
15
Advisor
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students, 2003-2004
Graduate Students (start-end)
Dept.
Univ./Grant
Support
Advisor
Shouping Tang (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Jákli; Kelly
Chenhui Wang (1998-2003)
Chem.-Phys.
None
Bos
Dong Wang (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Yang
Xinghua Wang (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
NASA
Bos
Yin Ye (2001)
Chem.-Phys.
Rockwell
Lavrentovich
Guoqiang Zhang (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
DARPA
West
Hailiang Zhang (1996)
Chem.-Phys.
None
Kelly, Gartland
Yanli Zhang (2000)
Chem.-Phys.
Intel
Bos
Ke Zhang (2000)
Chemistry
KSU ALCOM
West
Fushan Zhou (1999)
Chem.-Phys.
Varilite; CPIP
Yang
Xiaoli Zhou (2003)
Chem.-Phys.
CPIP
Gleeson, Chien
16
Table 5
Graduate Degrees Awarded
Student
Dissertation/Thesis Title
Advisor/Dept./Date
Doctor of Philosophy
Roland Ennis
Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The
Dynamics of Phase Separation and the
Saffan-Taylor Instability
Palffy-Muhoray/CPIP
May 2004
Yuanming Huang
Electro-optical and Dielectric Properties of
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed by
Banana-shaped Molecules
Jákli/CPIP
May 2004
Erica Bramley
Montbach
Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid
Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements
Bos/CPIP
August 2003
Ivan Smalyukh
Three-Dimensional Director Field Studies by
Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy
Lavrentovich/CPIP
August 2003
Chenhui Wang
Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C*
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices
Bos/CPIP
December 2003
17
Table 6
Placement of Personnel
Graduates
Employment
Roland Ennis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU
Yuanming Huang
Belgium
Erica Bramley Montbach
Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY
Ivan Smalyukh
Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU
Chenhui Wang
Company in Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
Otilia Catanescu (5/04)
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Michael R. Fisch (12/03)
NEOBEAM Facility, KSU Geauga Campus
Marina Lavrentovich (6/04)
CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Stow, OH
Yuriy Nastyshyn (4/04)
Institute for Physical Optics, Ukraine
Staff/Technicians
Karen Hullihen
Kent State University NEO Beam Facility
Michelle Orms
Kent Parks and Recreation
Ryan Stayshich
Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh PA
18
Table 7
Visiting Scientists
Long-term Visitors
Name
Sugat Abeygunarantne
Visitation Period
Dec. 2003-Feb. 2004
Home Institution
Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Denys Andryenko
March-June 2004
Toshihiro Aoki
Luigi Filippelli
Myong-Hoon Lee
Luis Malcarne
April 2003-March 2004
March-September 2004
Feb. 2004 – Jan. 2005
July 2003-June 2004
Antigone Marino
Minoru Miyatake
Thomas Ogier
Viktor Pergamenshchyk
Jose Rodriguez Cheda
Luana Tortora
September- December 2003
May-September 2003
April-September 2004
April-July 2004
May-August 2003
March-June 2004
National Academy of Sciences,
Ukraine
Nihon University, Japan
University of Calabria, Italy
Chonbuk National University, Korea
University Estadual de Maringa,
Brazil
University of Naples, Italy
Nitto Denko, Japan
Montpellier University, France
Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Universidad Complutense, Spain
University of Calabria, Italy
Short-term Visitors
Name
Dirk Broer
Visitation Period
June 2004
Home Institution
Philips Research, The Netherlands
Nandor Eber
April-May 2004
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Antonio Figueiredo Neto
February 2004
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rauzah Hashim
Uma Hiremath
June 2004
April-May 2004
Istvan Janossy
Maurice Kleman
April 2004
November 2003
University of Malaysia
Center for Liquid Crystal Research,
India
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Cristallographi University, France
Vassili Nazarenko
May 2004
Yuriy Reznikov
March-April 2004
Juergen Schmidtke
April 2004
C. Yelamaggad
April-May 2004
19
National Academy of Sciences,
Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences,
Ukraine
Albert Ludwig Unviersity, Germany
Center for Liquid Crystal Research,
India
Table 8
Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004
Title
Grant/Contract Number
Agency
Period
Amount
Project Director; Principal Investigators
Faculty Associates or Visiting Scientists
Research Associates; Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students
KSU Account Number
1.
Numerical and Experimental Studies on IsotropicLiquid Crystalline Binary Mixtures
Anteon Corporation (AFRL Subcontract)
05/02 – 06/30/04
$52,592
Palffy-Muhoray
Ennis
440636
2.
Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
NSF
6/1/02 – 5/31/05
$480,000
Palffy-Muhoray
Cao, Ennis, Moreira, Toth-Katona
442232
3.
Acquisition and Development of Fast Confocal
Polarizing Microscope for Liquid Crystal Materials
Research and Education
NSF 0315523
8/15/03 – 7/31/05
$190,000
Lavrentovich
Shiyanovskii, Smalyukh
442235
4.
ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor
Development
NSF (DMR-0346348)
9/15/03 – 8/31/04
$100,000
Lavrentovich, Woolverton
442236
5.
Liquid Crystal Based Beam Steering Device and
Optical Telescopes
NRA 99-OSS-05
NASA
03/2001 – 10/15/04
$654,066
Bos, Lavrentovich
Groom, Kreminska, Panasyuk,
B. Wang, X. Wang, Gu, Pishynak
444102
6.
Liquid Crystal Based Optical Phased Arrays for
Steering Lasers
DARPA
9/00 – 8/03; 9/03 – 12/04; extended to 5/30/05
$2,423,208 (Yrs. 1-3);
$341,000 (yr. 4)
Bos, Lavrentovich, West
Fisch, Catanescu Glushchenko,
Golovin, Groom, Shi, B. Wang,
K. Zhang, M. Zhang
444226 (yrs. 1-3); 444263 (yr. 4)
7.
C1 SSFLC Bistable Device Optimization Project
DisplayTech
9/00 – 8/03
$82,500
Bos
C. Wang
444228
20
Liu, Helfsinstine
Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004
8.
Digital Beam Deflector
BOU 431588
Rockwell (DARPA subcontract)
09/2000 – 10/2004
$637,057
Bos, Lavrentovich
Fisch, Kreminska, Shiyanovskii
Gu, Liu, Pishnyak, Shi, Yin
444230
9.
Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Liquid Crystal
Structural Composites by Electron Beam Curing
ML-UD-01-13, DAGSI (AFRL subcontract)
07/2001 – 12/2003
$46,951 (reduced from $99,999)
Chien
S. Kim
444238
10.
Research Project for Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
6/1/01 – 5/30/04
$142,151
Bos
Zhang, Y.
444242
11.
Development of High Birefringence Liquid Crystals
for Optical Beam Steering
Univ. Central Florida/Raytheon Systems
(US Air Force subcontract)
01/2002 – 12/2003
$90,000 ($70,000 Chien)
Chien, Seed
444247
12.
Prism Rotator Beam-steering Component and
Two-Dimensional Optical Phased Array Wavefront
Corrector (THOR)
US Air Force
7/17/02 – 9/17/03
$379,998
Bos
Fisch, B. Wang, X. Wang
444253
13.
Commercialization of Plastic Liquid Crystal
Displays
Viztec, Inc.
1/1/03 – 12/31/03
$29,159
Bos
444254
14.
Liquid Crystal Eyewear
AlphaMicron, Inc./ODOD TAF (subcontract)
1/1/03 – 9/30/04
$196,253
Lavrentovich, Gartland
Shiyanovskii, Smalyukh, H. Huang
444255
15.
Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color Liquid
Crystal Displays
PolyDisplay, Inc.
01/01/04 – 12/31/04
$153,355
West
Buyuktanir, Gheorghiu, F. Li
444256
16.
Inorganic Alignment Layer Project
Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc.
6/1/03 – 5/31/06
$100,000
Bos
C. Cheng
444257
17.
Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays
Science Applications. Intnl. Corp. (SAIC)
7/24/03 – 6/30/04
$50,000
Bos, Yang, Doane
Qiu, Harden
444258
21
Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004
18.
Conductive Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for
Aircraft Wing Structures
AFOSR/STTR, Cornerstone Research Group
9/1/03 – 5/30/06
$240,000
Chien
Catanescu
444259
19.
Samsung Research Collaborative Agreement
“Polymer Stabilized Optically Controlled Birefringence
Displays” (Chien); “Electron Beam Alignment of LC”
(Kumar); “Removing Disclinations” (Lavrentovich);
“Acoustic Issues” (Lavrentovich); “Stressed LCs for
Display Applications” (West)
Samsung
8/1/03 – 7/31/04
$340,000
West, Chien, Kumar, Lavrentovich
Kreminska, Nastyshyn, Q. Wang,
M. Gu, R. Guo
444260
20.
Liquid Crystal Tag Development
Photon-X
12/1/03 – 11/30/04
$82,000
Lavrentovich
Golovin, Schneider
444262
21.
Hana Characterization Project
Hana Microdisplay Technologies
3/04 – 3/05
$2,000
Bos
444264
22.
Foveated, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for
Missle Warning/Tracking Using Adaptive Optics
DARPA, Univ. of Central Florida subcontract
5/04 – 5/05
$50,000
Chien
444265
23.
Flexible Optical and Electronic Device
Manufacturing Facility
State of Ohio Wright Center Grant
7/1/03 – 6/30/06
$1,640,000 (equipment)
West, Lavrentovich, et al.
771203
24.
Small Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering and
Heat Capacity Study of Soap Solutions
Unilever Research USA
11/02 – 11/03
$40,000
Kumar
440640 (Physics Dept. Acct.)
25.
Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes
OBR Research Challenge
1/1/04 – 12/31/05
$64,167
Allender, Mann, Woolverton,
Lavrentovich
440644 (Physics Dept. Acct.)
26.
High Performance Carbon Nanotube Polymer
Composites for Space Applications
OBR Research Challenge
1/2004 – 12/2005
$60,000
Kumar, Fisch
Kang
440646 (Physics Dept.)
22
Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004
27.
X-ray Characterization of High Performance
Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites for Space
Applications
NASA Langley
5/19/04 – 5/18/06
$194,186
Kumar
Qi, Joshi
444131 (Physics Dept.)
28.
Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Commensurate
and Incommensurate Structure in Ferrielectric and
Twist Grain Boundary LCs
NSF
8/99 – 7/03
$284,685
Sprunt
442132 Chemistry
29.
Acquisition of Organic Semiconductor Processing
and Characterization Facility for Research and
Student Training
NSF
8/01 – 7/04
$200,000
Twieg, Ellman, Huang
442172 Chemistry
30.
E-BEAM Sensitive Polyimides
NASA
6/99 – 9/03
$348,263
Twieg, Uribe, Vargas-Aburto
444125 Chemistry
31.
Pathogen Detection by Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
Ohio Board of Regents
Research Challenge
02/2002 – 12/2003
$80,000 ($53,160 LCI)
Woolverton, Lavrentovich
Nastyshyn, Schneider
444521 (Biological Sciences Dept.)
32.
Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens Using
Liquid Crystals
U.S. Dept. Homeland Security (NEOUCOM
subcontract)
2/16/04 – 2/15/05
$30,000
Woolverton, Lavrentovich
444539 (Biological Sciences Dept.)
33.
Fluorothiophenes – A New Class of Chevron-Free
Ferroelectric Materials
Ohio Board of Regents
1/1/04 – 6/15/05
$58,941 ($5,000 Jákli)
Seed, Sampson, Ellmann, Jákli
444755 (Chemistry Dept.)
34.
Acquisition of Imaging Fourier Transform Infrared
(FTIR) Spectrometer
NSF
8/15/02 – 7/31/05
Effect of nanoscale Interfacial Structural Transitions
on Liquid Crystal Anchoring
NSF
11/15/03 – 11/14/06
$258,199
Gericke, West, Fulghum, Cabaniss
Construction of an Undulator Based, Combined
SAXS/GISAXS/GID Beamline at the National
Synchrontron Light Source
Department of Energy
1/2004 – 1/2006
$1,842,911
Kumar, Pindak, Cheng, Hsiao,
Ocko, Huang, Russell
(Brookhaven Lab grant)
35.
36.
23
$650,000
Kumar, Srinivasarao
Joshi
442314 (Physics Dept.)
Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004
37.
Ohio Eminent Scholars Program (endowment)
OBR
2002 (endowment)
$750,000
LCI Endowment
Foundation Acct.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
38.
Center for Liquid Crystal Science & Education
Congressional Appropriation
9/30/03 – 9/29/05
$471,913
West, Lavrentovich, Jákli,
Palffy-Muhoray, Sprunt, Gleeson,
Woolverton
Hyatt, Huang, Liao, Waint, Cao,
Yin, Adorjan, Brezina
441149
39.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates in
Chemistry at KSU
NSF
4/01 – 3/04
Liquid Crystals – Synthetic and Natural Systems
NSF CHE-Special Projects: REU Undergraduate
Programs
04/04/04 – 03/31/07
$180,000
Twieg, Gericke
442155 (Chemistry Dept.)
Real World Research Experience in Undergraduate
Materials Chemistry Education
Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
2/02 –1/04
$46,000
Twieg
Semyonov
444735 (Chemistry Dept.)
40.
41.
$63,433 (Yr. 1)
Gericke, Lavrentovich
442244 (Chemistry Dept.)
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
42.
Nano and Micro-scale Templating of Liquid
Crystalline Materials
NSF-INT USA-Slovenia
8/1/03 – 7/31/06
$45,528 (KSU share)
Finotello, Crawford, Zumer
442100
43.
US-Hungary Materials Research: Investigation
of Liquid Crystalline Mesophases of Bent Core
Molecules
NSF
9/1/02 – 8/31/05
$29,840
Palffy-Muhoray, Gleeson, Jákli
442234
24
Table 9
Proposals for Extramural Support
Title
a. Agency
b. Period
c. Initial/Renewal (Duration)
d. Amount Requested
e. Project Director; Principal
Investigators
f. Status
1. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals
a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust
b. 9/03 – 8/06
c. Initial
d. $510,000
e. Lavrentovich, Finotello,
Woolverton
f. Pending
2. Characterization Facilities at Liquid Crystal Institute
a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust
b. 9/03 – 8/08
c. Initial
d. $800,000
e. Lavrentovich
f. Pending
3. Faculty Position at Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical
Physics Interdisciplinary Program
a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust
b. 9/03 – 8/08
c. Initial
d. $900,000
e. Lavrentovich, Yang
f. Pending
4. Fred A. Lennon Characterization Facilities at Liquid
Crystal Institute
a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust
b. 9/03 – 8/08
c. Initial
d. $1,500,000
e. Lavrentovich, Chien
f. Pending
5. Liquid Crystals – Synthetic and Natural Systems
a. NSF 03-577 – CHE- Special Projects:
REU Undergraduate Programs
b. 4/4/04 – 4/3/07
c. Initial
d. $208,556
e. Gericke, Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
6. Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes
a. OBR Research Challenge
b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05
c. Initial
d. 64,167
e. Allender, Mann, Woolverton,
Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
7. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: A New Material
for Advanced Biosensing and Optical Applications
a. CRDF
b. 10/29/04 – 10/28/06
c. Initial
d. $100,000 ($68,000 funded)
e. Lavrentovich, Pergamenshchyk
f. Awarded
25
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2003-2004
8. Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Device - subcontract to
Phase II Air Force SBIR project "Agile, Detecting and
Discriminating, Infrared Electro-Optical System
(ADDIOS)"
a. Air Force / Applied Science Innovations Inc.
b. 1/04 – 5/05
c. Initial
d. $150,000
e. Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
9. Liquid Crystal Tag Development
a. Photon-X, Inc.
b. 12/1/03 – 5/31/04
c. Initial
d. $50,000
e. Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
10. Liquid Crystal Agile Beam Steering: OPA
Demonstration
a. Rockwell Science Center
b. 5/1/04 – 10/30/04
c. Additional
d. $50,000
e. Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
11. Pilot Student Exchange Program
a. OBR Research Challenge
b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05
c. Initial
d. 60,000
e. Bartolo, Jákli, Khan, Warren,
Lavrentovich
f. Not Awarded
12. Research at the Biology-Liquid Crystals Frontier
a. W.M. Keck Foundation
b. 5/04 – 4/07
c. Initial
d. $1,330,419
e. Lavrentovich, Woolverton
f. Pending
13. Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens Using Liquid
Crystals
a. U.S. Dept. Homeland Security (NEOUCOM sub)
b. 2/16/04 – 2/15/05
c. Initial
d. $30,000
e. Woolverton, Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
14. ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor
Development
a. NSF/ITIC, Approaches to Combat Terrorism Prog.
DMR-0346348
b 9/1/03 – 8/31/04
c. Initial
d. $100,000
e. Lavrentovich, Woolverton
f. Awarded
15. Development of Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystal
Light Shutters
a. AlphaMicron subcontract on ODOD
b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/06
c. Initial
d. $198,051
e. Yang, Jákli
f. Not Awarded
16. Pressure Sensitive Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Film
for Orthopedic Application
a. Acor Orthopedic
b. 11/1/03 – 10/31/04
c. Initial
d. $37,487
e. Yang, West
f. Not Awarded
26
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2003-2004
17. Liquid Crystal on Silicon Optical Phased Arrays
a. Hana Microdisplay Tech., sub Ohio 3rd Frontier
b. 4/1/04 – 12/31/05
c. Initial
d. $139,000
e. Bos
f. Not Awarded
18. Stimuli Responsive Liquid Crystal-Polymer
Nanocomposites
a. NSF
b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07
c. Initial
d. $279,820
e. Chien
f. Not Awarded
19. Fast Switching Liquid Crystal Displays Based on
Pi-Cell Having an Asymmetric Mirror Plane
a. Samsung
b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/05
c. Initial
d. $104,088
e. Chien
f. Pending
20. Electromechanical Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid
Crystals from Bent-shape Molecules
a. NSF
b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07
c. Initial
d. $285,450
e. Jákli
f. Not Awarded
21. FRG Collaborative Research: The Interaction of Fluids
with Driven Soft Materials
a. NSF
b. 4/1/04 – 3/31/07
c. Initial
d. $839,240 ($208,427-KSU PPM)
e. Shelley, Childress, Zhang, Zorin,
(NY Univ.), Palffy-Muhoray
f. Not Awarded
22. Bent-Core Nematics – Physics of a New Class of Liquid
Crystals
a. NSF
b. 1/1/05 – 12/31/07
c. Initial
d. $520,062
e. Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt
f. Pending
23. CPIP Student Scholarships
a. Samsung
b. 2005 – 2010 (2 scholarships per year)
c. Initial
d. $200,000 ($40,000 /yr.)
e. Lavrentovich, et al.
f. Awarded
24. Samsung Collaborative Research
Samsung
8/1/03 – 7/31/04
c. Initial
d. $340,000
e. West, Chien, Kumar, Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
25. Foveat, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for Missle
Warning and Tracking System
a. DARPA, Univ. of Central Fla. subcontract
b. 7/04 – 6/07
c. Initital
d. $150,000
e. Chien
f. Awarded
26. Laboratory for Magnetic Levitation of Soft Materials
a. NASA
b. 11/1/04 – 10/31/07
c. Initial
d. $643,197
e. Fisch, Chien, Kumar
f. Not Awarded
27
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2003-2004
27. Liquid Crystal Lens
a. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology
Program
b. 9/1/04 – 8/31/06
c. Initital
d. $300,000
e. Chien
f. Not Awarded
28. Nanostructured Organic Field Transistors
a. Ohio Board of Regents
b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05
c. Initial
d. $60,000
e. Chien
f. Not Awarded
29. Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education
a. Congressional appropriation
b. 9/30/03 – 9/30/04
c. Initital
d. $471,913
e. West, Palffy-Muhoray, Jákli,
Gleeson, Lavrentovich
f. Awarded
30. Fluorothiophenes – A New Class of Chevron-free
Ferroelectric Materials
a. Ohio Board of Regents
b. 1/1/04 – 6/15/05
c. Initital
d. $58,941
e. Seed, Sampson, Ellmann, Jákli
f. Awarded
31. Low Power Liquid Crystal Shutter Devices for
Deep-fade Projection
a. DARPA
b. 6/1/04 – 12/31/05
c. Initial
d. $616,869
e. Jákli, Bos
f. Not Awarded
32. A New Class of Nematic Liquid Crystals Based on
Bent-core Molecules
a. NSF
b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07
c. Initial
d. $434,232
e. Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt
f. Not Awarded
33. Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color Liquid Crystal Displays
a. PolyDisplay, Inc.
b. 01/01/04 – 12/31/04
c. Initial
d. $153,355
e. West
f. Awarded
34. Soft Nanocrystal Optical NIMs
a. DARPA
b. 2/1/05 – 7/31/06; Phase II 8/1/06 – 7/31/08
c. Initial
d. $2,133,727; $2,784,682
e. Palffy-Muhoray, Li, Taheri, Busch,
Glotzer, Greengard, Van Stryland
f. Pending
35. Functional Self-Reinforced Composites Using
Stereocomplex Fiber
a. NSF-DMI: Materials Processing and Manufacturing
b. 7/1/04 – 6/30/07
c. Initial
d. $164,000
e. Kumar
f. Awarded
36. Structure of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composite
a. OBR Research Challenge
b. 1/04 – 12/05
c. Initital
d. $60,000
e. Kumar
f. Awarded
28
Proposals for Extramural Support, 2003-2004
37. Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays
a. Science Applications. Intnl. Corp. (SAIC)
b. 7/24/03 – 6/30/04
c. Initial
d. $50,000
e. Bos, Yang, Doane
f. Awarded
38. Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter
a. STTR with Creolight
b. 7/1/04 – 6/30/05
c. Initial
d. $33,697
e. Yang
f. Not Awarded
39. Instruction in Data Acquisition, Data Presentation
and Instrument Control
a. Ohio Board of Regents House Bill 675
b. 2003-2004
c. Initial
d. $18,618
e. Palffy-Muhoray
f. Awarded
40. SGER: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in
Liquid Crystal Elastomer Systems
a. NSF
b. 9/15/04 – 9/14/06
c. Initial
d. $100,000
e. Shelley (NY Univ), Palffy-Muhoray
f. Awarded
41. Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Films Studied by
Ultrafast Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
a. NSF
b. 8/04 – 8/07
c. Initial
d. $371,892
e. Sprunt
f. Pending
42. Novel Self-assembled Organic Nanostructures
NSF/NIRT
5/1/04 to 4/30/08
c. Initial
d. $1,769,090
e. Sprunt, Kumar
f. Not Awarded
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Table 10
Patents
Patent #
Title
Date Inventors
Patents
6,690,495
Device Exhibiting Photo-Induced Dichroism for
Adaptive Anti-glare Vision Protection
2/10/2004
Kosa
Palffy-Muhoray
Taheri
6,673,398
Alignment of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals
at Surfaces as Monolayers and Multilayered Stacks
1/6/2004
Schneider
Lavrentovich
6,614,572
Apparatus and Method for Controlling Optical Gain
Profiles in a Temperature Independent Manner
9/2/03
6,747,774
Apparatus and Method for Controlling Optical Gain
Profiles
6/8/2004
6,656,384
Production of Filaments via Phase Separation and
Polymerization
12/2/2003
Kelly
Yuan
Washburn
Kelly
Yuan
Washburn
Palffy-Muhoray
Chien
Hu
Patent Applications
10/472,677
Fast Switching Dual-frequency Liquid Crystal Cells
and Methods Driving the Same
9/18/2003
Golovin,
Shiyanovskii
Lavrentovich
60/592,316
KSU 256
Polymer Stabilized Electrically Controlled
Birefringence Transreflective LCD
11/03/03
Zhou
Yang
10/766,273
KSU 254
Electro-Optical Devices from Polymer-Stabilized
Liquid Crystal Molecules
1/28/04
Komitov
Chien
Kim
Invention Disclosures
Electric Power Generation Using Liquid Crystals
30
4/04
Palffy-Muhoray
Jákli
Taheri
Table 11
Publications
David Allender
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
G.Y. Panasyuk, J.R. Kelly, P.J. Bos, E.C. Gartland, Jr., D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach
in liquid crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” Proc. SPIE 5289(1) 119-31
(2004).
Philip J. Bos
Peer Reviewed Journals
V. Sergan, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, G.D. Sharp, “Fast switching polymer stabilized splay cell (PSSC),” Mol.
Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 410, 1015-1021 (2004).
C.H. Wang, M. Wand, M. Handschy, P.J. Bos, “Defect-free bistable C1 surface stabilized ferroelectric
liquid crystal display,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 3479-3483 June (2004).
J.N. Hilfiker, B. Johs, C.M. Herzinger, J.F. Elman, E. Montbach, D. Bryant, P.J. Bos, “Generalized
spectroscopic ellipsometry and Mueller-matrix study of twisted nematic and super twisted nematic liquid
crystals,” Thin Solid Films 455, 596-600 May 1, (2004).
B. Wang, X.H. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Finite-difference time-domain calculations of a liquid-crystal-based
switchable Bragg grating,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21, 1066-1072 June (2004).
E.N. Montbach, P.J. Bos, W.J. Gambogi, “Compensating a twisted nematic liquid crystal display with
matched wavelength dispersion retarders,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 1376-1383 April (2004).
G.F. Barrick, P.J. Bos, C.E. Titus, “Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays,”
Opt. Eng. 43 924-932 April (2004).
B. Wang, D.B. Chung, P.J. Bos, “Finite-difference time-domain optical calculations of polymer-liquid
crystal composite electrodiffractive device,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 176-181, January (2004).
B. Wang, P.J. Bos, C.D. Hoke, “Light propagation in variable-refractive-index materials with liquidcrystal-infiltrated microcavities,” J. Opt. Soc, Am. A 20, 2123-2130, November (2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
B. Wang, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Study of switchable liquid crystal polymer grating by finite-different timedomain calculation,” Proc. SPIE 5213,104-110 (2004).
G.Y. Panasyuk, J.R. Kelly, P.J. Bos, E.C. Gartland, Jr., D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach
in liquid crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” Proc. SPIE 5289(1) 119-31
(2004).
B. Wang, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Study of switchable liquid crystal polymer grating by
finite-difference time-domain calculation,” Proc. SPIE 5213, 104-110 (2004).
X. Wang, B. Wang, P.J. Bos, J. Anderson, M.P. Kujawinska, F. Miranda, “Limitation of liquid crystal on
silicon spatial light modulator for holographic three-dimensional displays,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech.
Papers, XXXV, Book II, 1522-1525, May (2004).
E. Montbach, P.J. Bos, “Control of wavelength dispersion in form birefringent retarders for liquid crystal
displays,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXV, Book II, 1312-1315, May (2004).
31
Publications, 2003-2004
Y. Zhang, P.J. Bos, D.B. Chung, A. Grunnet-Jepsen, “Poincare sphere analysis of LCOS E-O effects,”
SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers XXXV, Book II, 994-997, May (2004).
G.D. Lee, P.J. Bos, S-H Ahn, K.J. Lee, “‘Warm up’ of a pi-cell liquid crystal device,” Proc. IMID, 3rd
Intnl. Mtg. Info. Display, 1096 (200 ). Invited
X. Wang, B. Wang, J. Pouch, F. Miranda, M. Fisch, J.E. Anderson, V. Sergan, P.J. Bos, “Liquid crystal
on silicon (LCOS) wavefront corrector and beam sSteerer,” Proc. SPIE 5162, 139-146 (2003).
Liang-Chy Chien
Books and Chapters in Books
Conference Proceedings: L. C. Chien and M.H. Wu, editors, Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and
Applications X and Projection Displays X, SPIE 5289 (2004).
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.B. Baek, L.-C. Chien, “Synthesis and photoluminescence of linear and hyperbranched polyethers
containing phenylquinoxaline units and flexible aliphatic spacers,” J. Polym. Sci. A, Polym. Chem. 42,
3587 (2004).
E.J. Choi, J.C. Ahn, L.C. Chien, C.-K. Lee, W.-C. Zin, D.-C. Kim, S.-T. Kim, “Main chain polymers
containing banana-shaped mesogens: Synthesis and mesomorphic properties,” Macromol. 37, 71-78
(2004).
T. Sergan, J. Kelly, O. Yaroschuk, L. C. Chien, “Negative birefringence films from non-traditional
materials,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 409, 153-162 (2004).
C. O. Catanescu, L. C. Chien, “High birefringence nematic liquid crystals for display and telecom
applications,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 411, 93-102 (2004).
S. N. Lee, L.-C. Chien, “The effect of polymer networks on ferroelectric liquid crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq.
Cryst. 411, 183-190 (2004).
S. H. Kim, L. C. Chien, “Liquid crystal blazed gratings formed in a single-step through photo-induced
localization of polymer into a prismatic structure,” Opt. Express 12, 1238-1242 (2004).
C. O Catanescu, S. T. Wu, L. C. Chien, “Tailoring the physical properties of some high birefringence
isothiocyanato-based liquid crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 31, 541-555 (2004).
O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, S. Kumar, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three-dimensional
orientational order in the bulk and on the surface of polymer films and its effect on liquid-crystal
alignment,” Phys. Rev. E 69(1-1), 011702/1-011702/7 (2004).
S.W. Kang, S.H. Jin, L.C. Chien and S. Sprunt, “Spatial and Orientational Templating of Semiconducting
Polymers in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal,” Adv. Funct. Matter. 14, 329-334 (2004).
C.-K. Lee, S.-S. Kwon, T.-S. Kim, E.-J. Choi, S.-T. Shin, W.-C. Zin, D.-C. Kim, J.-H. Kim, L.-C. Chien,
“Synthesis and properties of new materials with banana-shaped achiral cores and chiral end groups,” Liq.
Cryst., 30(12), 1401-1406 (2003).
S. Suresh, L. C. Chien, “Electro-optical properties of polymer-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal,”
Ferroelectrics 287, 1-6 (2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
S. Kim, L.C. Chien, “Polymer stabilized liquid crystal light modulators,” SPIE 5289, 86-93 (2004).
C. O. Catanescu, S. N. Lee, L. C. Chien, “Conjugation effects on high birefringence liquid crystals,”
IMID ‘03 Digest 3, 260-262 (2003).
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Publications, 2003-2004
C. K. Lee, L. C. Chien, “Synthesis and characterization of banana-shaped achiral molecules,” IMID ‘03
Digest 3, 505-508 (2003).
S. W. Kang, D. W. Rafferty, J. L. Koenig, L. C. Chien, “Liquid crystal-controlled polymer architectures,”
Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 89, 92-93 (2003).
P. Chu, L. C. Chien, “Light induced contraction in freely-suspended smectic films,” Polym. Mat. Sci.
Eng. 89, 44-45(2003).
S. H. Kim, L. C. Chien, “Polymer-Enhanced LCDs,” Proc. IEEE (2003).
Q. Wang, S. Kumar, H. Wonderly, L. Qiu and L.C. Chien, “Twist nematic LCDs with internal polymer
columns formed by phase separation,” IDRC (2003).
Daniele Finotello
Peer Reviewed Journals
D. Finotello, T. Jin, “Changing the surface-liquid crystal interaction through the adsorption of silica
nanoparticles,” IMID 2004 Digest 26.5, 846-847 (2004).
T. Jin, D. Finotello, “Controlling disorder in liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 041704
(2004).
F. Mercuri, M. Marinelli, U. Zammit, C.C. Huang, D. Finotello, “Critical behavior of thermal parameters
at the smectic-A – hexatic-B and smectic-A – Smectic-C phase transitions in liquid crystals,” Phys. Rev.
E 68, 051705 (2003).
D. Finotello, T. Jin, “Chain length dependence of confined liquid crystals configurations,” J. Info.
Display, KIDS 4, 14 (2003).
Antal Jákli
Peer Reviewed Journals
S. Rauch, C. Selbmann, P. Bault, H. Sawade, G. Heppke, O. Morales-Saavedra, M.Y.M. Huang, A. Jákli,
“Glass forming banana-shaped compounds: vitrified liquid crystal states,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 021707
(2004).
S. Abeygunaratne, A. Jákli, G. Milkereit, H. Sawade, V. Vill, “Antiferroelectric ordering of amphiphilic
glycolipids in bent-core liquid crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 021703 (2004); also Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci.
Tech. 9 (9), (2004); also Virtual J. Biol. Phys. Res. (3/1/2004).
V. Prasad, A. Jákli, “Achiral bent – core azo compounds: observation of photo-induced effects in an
antiferroelectric tilted smectic mesophase” Liq. Cryst. 31 (4), 473-479 (2004).
L. Zou, J. Wang, V.J. Beleva, E.E. Kooijman, S.V. Primak, J. Risse, W. Weissflog, A. Jákli, E.K. Mann
“Langmuir monolayers of bent-core molecules,” Langmuir 20 (7), 2772-2780 (2004).
K. Fodor-Csorba, A.Vajda, A. Jákli, Ch. Slugovc, G. Trimmel, D. Demus, E. Gács-Baitz, S. Holly,
G. Galli, “Ester type banana-shaped liquid crystalline monomers: Synthesis and physical properties,”
J. Mater. Chem. 14, 2499-2506 (2004).
G. Liao, S. Stojadinovic, G. Pelzl, W. Weissflog, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “An optically isotropic ferroelectric
liquid crystal phase,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Comm., www.e-lc.org/docs/2004_05_11_15_51_54.
C. Huang, Q. Zhang, A. Jákli , “Nematic anisotropic liquid crystal gels-self-assembled nanocomposites
with high electromechanical response,” Adv. Functional Mat. 13(7), 525-529 (2003).
33
Publications, 2003-2004
A. Jákli, Y.M. Huang, K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, G. Galli, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, “Reversible switching
between optically isotropic and birefringent states in a bent-core liquid crystal,” Adv. Mat. 15(19), 16061610 (2003).
J.A. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, T. Dingemans, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Optical studies of the nematic phase of
an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” Phys. Rev. E. 68, 041704 (2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
A. Jákli, K. Fodor-Csorba, “Electro-optics of liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules,” IMID’03 Digest,
1108-1111 (2003).
S. Choi, Y.M. Huang, A. Jákli, T.K. Lim, C.K. Lee, S.T. Shin, “The study of molecular structures for new
banana-shaped liquid crystals,” IMID’03 Digest, 595-599 (2003).
C. Binet, S. Rauch, Ch. Selbmann, Ph. Bault, G. Heppke, H. Sawade, A. Jákli, “Evidence for molecular
chirality induced polarisation in banana liquid crystal phases,” Proc. German Liq. Cryst. Workshop,
(2003).
Jack R. Kelly
Peer Reviewed Journals
O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, S. Kumar, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three-dimensional
orientational order in the bulk and on the surface of polymer films and its effect on liquid-crystal
alignment,” Phys. Rev. E, 69(1), 011702 (2004).
M.D. Lavrentovich, T.A. Sergan, J.R. Kelly, “Switchable broadband achromatic half-wave plate with
nematic liquid crystals,” Opt. Lett. 29(12), 1411(2004).
T. Sergan, J. Kelly, O. Yaroschuk, L. C. Chien, “Negative birefringence films from non-traditional
materials,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 409, 153-162 (2004).
O.V. Yaroshchuk, A.D. Kiselev, Yu.A. Zakrevskyy, T.V. Bidna, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau,
“Photoinduced three-dimentional orientational order in side chain liquid crystal azopolymers,” Phys.Rev.
E 68(1), 011803(2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
G. Panasyuk, J. Kelly, P. Bos, E.C. Gartland, D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach in liquid
crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” SPIE-IS&T 5289, 119(2004).
Satyendra Kumar
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.-H. Kim, S. Kumar, “Single glass substrate LCDs with phase separated composite organic film
method,” J. Displays (Korea) (2004).
V. Prasad, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, “Photo-responsive and electrically switchable mesophases in a novel
class of achiral bent-core azo compounds,” J. Mat. Chem. 14, 1495 (2004).
B. R. Acharya, A. Primak, S. Kumar, “The bent-core biaxial nematic phase,” Liq. Cryst. Today, 13, 1
(2004). Invited
B.R. Acharya, A. Primak, S. Kumar, “A biaxial nematic phase exhibited by bent-core molecules,” Phys.
Rev. Lett 92, 145506 (2004).
34
Publications, 2003-2004
P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, J. J. Cebe, I. K. Nedeltchev, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, “Synthesis and
characterization of poly(pyridinium) salts with organic counterions exhibiting both thermotropic liquidcrystalline and light-emitting properties,” Macromol. 37, 2688 (2004).
O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, J. Kelly, S. Kumar, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three dimensional
orientational ordering in the bulk and on the surface of the polymer substrate and their effect on LC
alignment,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 011702 (2004).
P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, J. J. Cebe, R. A. Burchett, B. Acharya, S. Kumar, “Ambient-temperature
thermotropic liquid-crystalline viologens bis(triflimide),” Liq. Cryst. 30, 1433 (2003).
B. R. Acharya, A. Primak, T. J. Dingemans, E. T. Samulski, S. Kumar, “The elusive thermotropic biaxial
nematic phase in rigid bent-core molecules,” Pramana 61, 231 (2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
C. Wang, P. J. Bos, S. Kumar, M. Wand, M. Handschy, “Eliminating layer undulation textures in SSFLC
devices,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers 34, 608 (2003).
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Books and Chapters in Books
O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy: Three-dimensional imaging of the
director,” in Liquid Crystals and Other Soft Materials, B.K. Sadashiva, ed., Indian Acad. Sci., Tholasi
Prints India, Bangalore, India (reprinted from, Pramana – J. Phys. 61, No.2, 373-384 August, 2003).
O.D. Lavrentovich, “Defects in liquid crystals: Surface and interfacial anchoring effects,” in Patterns of
Symmetry Breaking, H. Arodz, J. Dziarmaga, and W.H. Zurek, eds., NATO Science Series, II.
Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, 127, 161-195, Kluwer Academic Publishers: The Netherlands
(2003).
Peer Reviewed Journals
O. Yaroshchuk, R. Kravchuk, A. Dobrovolskyy, L. Qiu, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Planar and tilted uniform
alignment of liquid crystals by plasma treated substrates,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Comm.,
www.e-lc.org/docs/2004_01_30_09_07_21/ (2004).
O. Yaroshchuk, R. Kravchuk, A. Dobrovolskyy, L. Qiu, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Planar and tilted uniform
alignment of liquid crystals by plasma treated substrates, Liquid Crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 31, 859-869
(2004).
A.B. Golovin, Y. Yin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast switching dual frequency liquid
crystal optical retarder for beam steering applications,” in Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and
Applications X and Projections Displays X, L.-C. Chien and M.H. Wu, eds., SPIE 5289, 53-62 (2004).
I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.V. Madhusudana, “Free-standing films of twist grain
boundary TGB(A) and UTGB(C*) liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing
microscopy,” Liq. Cryst. 30(8), 877-888 (2003).
O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy: Three-dimensional imaging of the
director,” Pramana – J. Phys. 61(2), 373-384 August (2003).
A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast-switching dual-frequency liquid crystal
optical retarder driven by an amplitude and frequency modulated voltage,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 38643866 (2003).
35
Publications, 2003-2004
S. Garg, K.Purdy, E. Bramley, I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electric-field induced nucleation and
growth of focal conic and stripe domains in a smectic A liquid crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 30(12) 1377-1390
(2003).
Mary E. Neubert (Emeritus)
Peer Reviewed Journals
M.K. Ramazanoglu, P.S. Clegg, R.J. Biregneau, C.W. Garland, M.E. Neubert, J.M. Kim, “First-order
isotropic-Smectic-A transition in liquid-crystal-aerosil gels,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 061706-1 – 061706-8
(2004).
M.H. Zhu, C. Rosenblatt, J.M. Kim, M.E. Neubert, “Bent-core dopant in a liquid crystal having a
reentrant synclinic phase,” Phys. Rev E 70, 031702-1 – 031702-5 (2004).
G. Mertens, T. Roder, H. Matthias, H. Marsmann, H.-S.R. Kitzerow, S.L. Schweizer, C. Jamois, R.B.
Wehrspohn, M.E. Neubert, “Two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals made of macroporous silicon
and liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3036-3038 (2003).
Quan Li
Peer Reviewed Journals
Q. Li, C. Jin, P.A. Petukhov, A.V. Rukavishnikov, T. Zaikova, A. Phadke, D.H. LaMunyon, M.D. Lee,
J.F.W. Keana, “Synthesis of well-defined tower-shaped 1,3,5-trisubstituted adamantanes incorporating a
macrocyclic trilactam ring system,” J. Org. Chem. 69 1010-1019 (2004).
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Peer Reviewed Journals
N. Abraham, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “A dunking bird of the second kind,” Am. J. Phys. 72, 782-785 (2004).
M. Camacho-Lopez, H. Finkelmann, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Shelley, “Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims
into the dark”, Nature Mat. 3, 307-310, May (2004).
P. Palffy-Muhoray, R. Meyer, “Bridging the experiment-theory gap,” Nature Mat. 3, 139-140 (2004).
P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Camacho-Lopez., H. Finkelmann, M. Shelley, “Fast liquid crystal elastomer swims
into the dark,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Commun., www.e-lc.org/docs/ 2003_11_25_00_32_43/, (2003).
W. Cao, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, “Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline photonic band gap
materials,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 776, Q9.7.1, 159-167 (2003).
Samuel Sprunt
Peer Reviewed Journals
S. W. Kang, L. C. Chien, S. H. Jin, S. Sprunt, “Spatial and orientational templating of semiconducting
polymer networks in a cholesteric liquid crystal,” Adv. Func. Mat. 14, 329 (2004).
J. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, E. Samulski, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Optical studies of the nematic phase of an
oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” Phys. Rev. E 68, 041704 (2003).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
S. Sharma, A. Adorjan, K. Neupane, A. Baldwin, S. Sprunt, “One nanosecond photon correlation
spectroscopy on smectic liquid crystal films,” BAPS 51, 2246 (2004).
36
Publications, 2003-2004
John L. West
Peer Reviewed Journals
J.West, K. Zhang, G. Liao, Y. Reznikov, D. Andrienko, M.P. Allen, A. Glushchenko, “Mechanisms of
formation of three dimensional structure of particles in a liquid crystal,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 410,
83-93 (2004).
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
K. Zhang, A. Glushchenko, J.L. West, “Ordered micro-particle structures in a liquid crystal: formation
and physical properties,” Proc. Mat. Res. Soc. (New Materials for Microphotonics) 817 (2004).
O. Buchnev, A. Glushchenko, Y. Reznikov, V. Reshetnyak, O. Tereshchenko, J.L. West, “Diluted
ferroelectric suspension of Sn2P2S6 nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal,” Proc. SPIE (Nonlinear
Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals) 5257, 7-12 (2003).
Deng-Ke Yang
Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports
F. Zhou, D.-K. Yang, “Polymer stabilized electrically controlled birefringence transreflective liquid
crystal display,” SID Intl. Digest Tech. Papers XXXV, 38-41 (2004).
D.-K. Yang, “Effects of cell structure on a liquid crystal optical switch based on internal reflection,”
Proc. SPIE 5289, 161-169 (2004).
D.-K. Yang, A. Khan, J. W. Doane, “Cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective displays,” Proc. Intnl. MiniConf.e Info. Electronics System, 161-163 (2003).
Adjunct/Temporary Faculty
Michael R. Fisch
X. Wan, B.Wang, J. Pouch, F. Miranda, M. Fisch, J.E. Anderson, V. Sergan, P.J. Bos, “Liquid crystal on
silicon (LCOS) wavefront corrector and beam steerer,” Proc. SPIE 5162 139-146 (2003).
A. Primak, M. Fisch, S. Kumar, “New features of critical behavior at the nematic to smectic-A transition
revealed by measurements in strong magnetic field,” Liq. Cryst. Today 12, 10 (2003). Invited.
Sergij Shiyanovskii
A.B. Golovin, Y. Yin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast switching dual frequency liquid
crystal optical retarder for beam steering applications,” in Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and
Applications X and Projections Displays X, L.-C. Chien and M.H. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 5289, 53-62
(2004).
A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast-Switching Dual-Frequency Liquid Crystal
Optical Retarder, Driven by an Amplitude and Frequency Modulated Voltage,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83,
3864-3866 (2003).
Bahman Taheri
W. Cao, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray B. Taheri, “Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline photonic band gap
materials,” Proc. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. 776, Q9.7.1, 159-167 (2003).
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Table 12
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia
Philip J. Bos
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Temperature dependence of the smectic-A layer spacing and its effect on layer defects in the SmC*
phase,” C.Wang, P.J.Bos, S. Kumar, M.Wand, M. Handschy, Tohoku University 21st Century COE
Program, Jan 28-30, 2004 Sendai, Japan.
“‘Warm-up’ transition in a pi-cell,” G-D Lee, P.J. Bos, S-H Ahn, K-J Lee; Pusan National University,
July 8, 2003.
Liang-Chy Chien
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Optical diffraction from polymer-stabilized liquid crystal phase gratings,” Great Lakes Photonics
Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.
“High birefringence liquid crystals,” IMID 2003, Dague, South Korea, July 9-11, 2003.
“Liquid crystal templated ordered polymers and applications,” Kongku University, July 12, 2003, Seoul,
South Korea.
“Liquid crystal controlled polymer morphlogy,” Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering
Symposium on “Nanostructured Liquid Crystal/Polymer Materials and Applications,” ACS Fall 2003,
New York City, New York.
“Polymer-enhanced LCDs,” 2004 LEOS/IEEE Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, October 26-30, 2003.
Oral Presentations
“Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal light modulators,” S.H. Kim and L.C. Chien, Electronic Imaging 2004,
San Jose, CA, Jan. 19-21, 2004.
“Twist nematic LCDs with internal polymer columns formed by phase separation,” Q. Wang, S. Kumar,
H. Wonderly, L. Qiu, L.C. Chien, IDRC 2003, Phoenix, Az, Oct. 18, 2003.
Poster Presentations
“Synthesis and characterization of banana-shaped achiral molecules,” C. K. Lee, L. C. Chien, IMID 2003,
Dague, Korea, July 9-11,2003.
Daniele Finotello
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Structural transitions in confined liquid crystals,” Information Display Symposium, Korea University,
Jochewon, Korea, August 2004.
“Changing the surface liquid crystal interaction through the adsorption of silica nanoparticles,” IMID
2004, selected for contributed oral, Daegu, Korea, August 2004.
“Order and disorder effects on the orientational order of liquid crystal dispersions,” 11th Workshop: Phase
Transitions in Liquid Crystals, www-th.bo.infn.it/islc/erice2004/index.html, Erice, Italy, July 2004.
“Liquid crystal chain length induced anchoring transitions under confinement,” 11th Workshop: Phase
Transitions in Liquid Crystals, http://www-th.bo.infn.it/islc/erice2004/index.html, Erice, Italy, July 2004.
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Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004
“DNMR study of confined liquid crystal hydrophobic aerosil dispersions,” 20th ILCC, selected for
contributed oral, Ljubljana, Slovenia, BOA, SURF-O9, July 2004.
Oral Presentations
“Dispersing nanoparticles in liquid crystals: Everything you always wanted to know about aerosil
dispersions,” Department of Chemistry, Universita Delle Calabrie, Cosenza, Italy, November 2004.
“Confining liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
November 2003.
“Orientational order in liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Liquid Crystal Display Joint Workshop, Pusan
National University, South Korea, July 2003.
Antal Jákli
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Antiferroelectric and ferroelectric liquid crystal fibers of bent-core molecules,” 4th SIAM conference on
Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.
“Photoresponses of an antiferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal containing an azo-group,” 9th International
conference on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Modane, France, 2003.
“Electro-optics of liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules,” 3rd International Meeting on Information
Display (IMID’03), Daegu, Korea, 2003.
Oral Presentations
“Pure pre-wavy instability in bent core nematic liquid crystals,” J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, K. Fodor-Csorba,
APS March meeting, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
“Photoresponses of an antiferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal containing an azo group,” A. Jákli,
V. Prasad, G.Liao, I,. Janossy, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11, 2004 Cleveland, OH.
“Surprising new observations in bent-core liquid crystals, photosensitive, dark, sweet, gooey but not yet
rotten bananas,” A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conf. Ferroelectric Liq. Cryst., Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).
Poster Presentations
“The study of molecular structures for new banana-shaped liquid crystals,” S. Choi, Y.M. Huang,
A. Jákli, T.K. Lim, C.K. Lee, S.T. Shin, IMID’03, Taegu, Korea (2003).
“Achiral bent-core azo compounds: Observation of photo – induced effect in the chiral antiferroelectric
SmCP mesophase,” V. Prasad, A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Dublin,
August 24-29 (2003).
“Quasi-isotropic antiferroelectric materials from bent-shape molecules,” A. Jákli, Y.M. Y. Huang,
A. Vajda, K. Fodor-Csorba, G. Galli, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid
Crystals, Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).
“New ester type banana liquid crystals: synthesis and properties,” K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, A. Jákli,
G. Galli, D. Demus, E. Gacs-Baitz, S. Holly, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals,
Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).
“Optical studies of the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” A. Olivares,
S. Stojadinovic, T. Dingemans, E.T. Samulski, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conference on Optics of
Liquid Crystals, Modane, France, September 13-19 (2003).
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Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004
Satyendra Kumar
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Phase-separated composite films for flexible liquid crystal displays,” S. Kumar, Great Lakes Photonics
Symposium, June, 7-11 (2004).
“Self-assembled structures in pharmaceutically-relevant systems,” S. Kumar, Workshop on
Pharmaceutical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation, Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 17-19
(2004).
“Temperature dependence of the smectic-A layer spacing and its effect on layer defects in the SmC*
phase,” C.Wang, P.J.Bos, S. Kumar, M.Wand, M. Handschy, Tohoku University 21st Century COE
Program, Jan 28-30, Sendai, Japan, (2004).
Oral Presentations
“Electro-optical LC devices fabricated by anisotropic phase separation of liquid crystal and polymer,”
Q. Wang, R. Guo, S. Kumar, Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 22-23 (2004).
Poster Presentations
“Polymer columns enhanced supertwist nematic liquid crystal devices,” Q. Wang, R. Guo, S. Kumar,
Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 8-11 (2004).
“Novel bent-core azo compounds exhibiting photosensitive and electrically switchable mesophases,”
S.-W. Kang, V. Prasad, X. Qi, and S. Kumar, Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 22-23
(2004).
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Fast switching of electrically driven dual frequency liquid crystals,” O. Lavrentovich, A. Golovin,
S. Shiyanovskii, SIAM Conf. Math. Aspects of Mat. Sci., Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004.
“Fast switching dual frequency nematic cells,” O.Lavrentovich, Y. Yin, A. Golovin, S. Shiyanovskii,
Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11 (2004), Cleveland, OH.
“Fast-switching dual-frequency nematic cells,” O. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Display Joint Workshop,
Pusan National University, July 8th, 2003, Pusan, Korea
“Three-dimensional non-destructive imaging of the director field,” O.D. Lavrentovich, Plenary lecture,
3rd Intnl. Mtg. Info. Display, Daegu, Korea, (2003).
“Emerging topics in optics of liquid crystals,” 4th International Young Scientists Conference,” Problems
of Optics and High Technology Materials Science SPO 2003, Oct. 23-26, Kiev, Ukraine.
Oral Presentations
“Elastic capillary coupling and ordered droplet structures at the liquid crystal interface,” O.D.
Lavrentovich, I. Smalyukh, S. Chernushuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, APS meeting
(2004).
“Cross-coupling cut through complexity: two-dimensional structures and eleasto-capillary coupling in
nematic liquid crystals,” O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Smalyukh, S. Chernushuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta,
V. Nazarenko, SIAM Conf. Math. Aspects of Mat. Sci., Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004.
“Liquid crystal biosensor detects anthrax simulant in real time,” C. J. Woolverton, S. Miller-Helfinstine,
H. Liu, Y. Nastishin, O.D. Lavrentovich, Am. Soc. Microbiology General Meeting, May 25, 2004.
40
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004
“Digital beam steering device based on decoupled birefringent deflector and polarization rotator:
solutions, designs and features,” O. Pishnyak, L. Kreminska, P. Bos, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes
Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11 (2004).
“Gradient beam steering device based on a nematic cell with a continuous ramp of phase retardation,”
A. Golovin, S. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH,
June 7-11, 2004.
“Conoscopic magnetic null technique to measure the pretilt angle,” O.P. Pishnyak, Yu.A. Nastishin, S.V.
Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.
“Simulations of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals in confined geometries,” S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D.
Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.
“Layer undulations in the cholesteric liquid crystals confined in planar cells with finite anchoring and
their applications for two-dimensional diffraction gratings,” B. Senyuk, I.Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich,
Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.
“Fast three-dimensional imaging of orientation order using fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy,”
I. Smalyukh, B. Senyuk, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June
7-11, 2004.
“Overview of modern trends in liquid crystal research,” Insitute of Physics, National Academy of
Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, Oct.22, 2003.
“Emerging topics in optics of liquid crystals,” Department of Physics, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
November 13, 2003.
“Emerging topics in liquid crystal research,” Department of Computer Science, Kent State University,
Kent, OH, November 21, 2003.
“Dual frequency nematic optical retarders,” O.D. Lavrentovich, A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii,
10th Intnl. Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, OLC’03, Aussois, France, September 13-19,
2003.
Poster Presentations
“Liquid crystalline materials for biological sensors,” O.D. Lavrentovich, C. Woolverton, Yu. A.
Nastishin, L. Hiu, S.V. Shiyanovskii, S. Miller-Helfinstine, Project review, NSF, June 8, 2004.
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Invited Talks and Seminars
“Swimming into the dark: unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 12, 2004.
“Unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” Brooklyn Polytechnic University,
February 27, 2004.
“Unusual optomechanical pheonomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” Dept. of Physics, University of Maine,
April 9, 2004.
“The optomechanical response of nematic elastomers,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of
Materials Science, Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004.
“Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline bandgap materials,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of
Materials Science, Los Angeles, May 23-26, 2004.
“Liquid crystalline photonic bandgap materials,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, Ohio,
June 7-11, 2004.
41
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004
“Optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” ACS National Meeting, NY, Sept. 7, 2003.
“The optomechanical response of liquid crystal elastomers,” 6th Ibero-American Workshop Complex
Fluids and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, September 16, 2003.
“Fluorescence and lasing in the helical and blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals,” 10th Intnl. Meeting
on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Aussois, France, Sept. 19, 2003.
“Swimming towards the dark: Unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” 10th
Intnl. Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Aussois, France, Sept. 19, 2003.
“Liquid crystalline photonic band gap materials,” Radtech Asia ‘03, Yokohama, Dec. 2003.
Oral Presentations
“Temperature dependence of cholesteric liquid crystal laser emission,” M. Moreira, I. Carvalho, C.
Bailey, W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March
22-26, 2004.
“Phase separation of binary mixtures of liquid crystals,” R. Ennis, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Annual APS March
Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“Opto-mechanical response of nematic elastomers: shape changes and dynamics,” T. Toth-Katona,
P. Palffy-Muhoray, H. Finkelmann, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“A dunking bird of the second kind,” N. Abraham, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Annual APS March Meeting,
Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“Modeling the opto-mechanical response of liquid crystal elastomers,” L. Malacarne, P. Palffy-Muhoray,
M. Shelley, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“Dynamics of wavelength hopping in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers,” C. Bailey, W. Cao, P. PalffyMuhoray, M. Moreira, I. Carvalho, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“Fluorescence and lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals: Density of states,” W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray,
B. Taheri, A. Marino, G. Abbate, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
“Mirrorless lasing threshold in dye doped cholesteric liquid crystals,” A. Marino, G. Abbate, W. Cao,
P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
Deng-Ke Yang
Invited Talks and Seminars
A simulation study of a liquid crystal optical switch based on total internal reflection,” Electronic Imaging
‘04, January 20, 2004.
“Wavelength divided trans-reflective displays,” Intnl. Mtg. Info. Displays, Dague, Korea, July 10, 2003.
“Capillary filling of nematic liquid crystals,” Liquid Cystal Display Technology for Next Generation,
Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, July 12, 2003.
“Cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective displays,” Intnl. Mini-Conference on Info. Electronics System,
Tohoku University, Sendi, Japan, November 5, 2003.
“Cholesteric liquid crystal: symmetry and transitions,” Institute of Theoretical Physics of Science
Academy of China, Beijing, China, November 10, 2003.
42
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004
Oral Presentations
“Polymer stabilized electrically controlled birefringence transreflective liquid crystal display,” D.K.
Yang, F. Zhou, SID May 24, 2004, SID, Seattle, WA.
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Table 13
Other Activities
David Allender
Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, February 24-27, 2004.
Philip J. Bos
Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, February 24-27, 2004.
Conference Chair, Liquid Crystal Technology, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11, 2004,
Cleveland OH.
L.C. Chien
Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, February 24-27, 2004.
Chair, 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day, held at the Liquid Crystal Institute, April 23, 2004
Antal Jákli
Reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E., JACS, Journal of Materials Chemistry,
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, and Biomacromolecules
Editor (with P. Palffy-Muhoray), Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (http://e-lc.org) online
document server.
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
OIDA, Washington DC, December 2003, participant.
Reviewer for Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Nature, Liquid Crystals, Europhysics Letters,
European Physical Journal; NSF panel; CRDF reviewer
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Editor (with Antal Jákli), Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (http://e-lc.org) online document
server; Editorial Board, Liquid Crystals Today, (1997-present)
Journal referee for American Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, Europhysics Journals,
Journal de Physique, Journal of Applied Physics, Jounral of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic
Energy, Jounral of Physics: Condensed Matter, Jounral of Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystals, Nature,
Nature Materials, Macromolecules, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Optics Letters, Physica D,
Physical Review A, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Physikalische Chemie, Physics Letters.
Samuel R. Sprunt
Journal referee for Physical Review, Liquid Crystals and Applied Physics Letters
John L. West
Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, February 24-27, 2004.
Deng-Ke Yang
Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University, February 24-27, 2004.
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Table 14
LCI Seminar Program 2003-2004
Sept. 11
Dr. Hirotsugu Kikuchi, Kyushu University, Japan
Phase Behavior and Optical Properties of Polymer-stabilized Cholesteric Blue Phase
October 8
Dr. Paul F. McManamon, Wright- Patterson AFB, OH
Optical Phased Arrays Moving Toward Phased Arrays of Phased Arrays
October 22
Dr. Mohammad Islam, University of Pennsylvania
Nematic Nanotube Gels
October 29
Dr. Malgorzata Kujawinska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Novel 3D objects. Measurements and Imaging Methods: Why We Need SLM
November 5
Dr. Sarah Keller, University of Washington, Seattle
Spheres that Break Out in Spots: Immiscible Phases in Membranes of Lipids and
Cholesterol
November 19
Dr. Yashodhan Hatwalne, Raman Research Institute, India
The Cone Phase of Liquid Crystals: Triangular Lattice of Double-tilt Cylinders
December 3
Prof. Carme Calderer, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Mathematical Modeling of Ferroelectric Phase Transitions
(joint seminar with KSU Department of Mathematical Sciences
December 10
Prof. Peter Halevi, Instituto Nacional De Astrofisica, Mexico
Theory on Liquid Crystals and Photonic Band-Gap
December 17
S.T. Wu, University of Central Florida
Tunable Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices
2004
January 21
Prof. Jun Liu, Sandia National Laboratories, NM
Multiscale Self-assembly Approaches for Functional Nanomaterials
January 28
Prof. Maria H. Figueiredo Godinho, University of New Lisbon, Portugal
Shear-Induced Order Effects in Urethane/Urea Elastomers
February 4
Dr. Zohar Nussinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Glassy Behavior in Geometrically Frustrated Liquids and the Inverse Glass Problem
February 6
Prof. Andy Y.-G. Fuh, National Cheng Kung University, China
Laser-Induced Reorientation Effect and Ripple Structure in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal
Films
Dr. Jonathan V. Selinger, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Chirality and Molecular Order in Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Lipid
Microstructures
Prof. Michael Shelley, Courant Institute, New York University
Bending and Moving: Bodies interacting with fluids
February 18
February 20
February 25
Prof. Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto, Universidade de Săo Paulo, Brazil
Determination of the Soret Coefficient in Magnetic Fluids: Thermophobic and
Tthermophilic Materials
45
Seminars, 2003-2004
March 3
Prof. Efim I. Kats, Institute of Laeu-Langevin, France
Excitations in DNA-like Molecules
March 10
Dr. Ingrid A. Rousseau, University of Connecticut
Shape Memory of New Siloxane-based Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
March 31
Prof. Myong-Hoon Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea
A New Photoalignable Polyimide with High Photosensitivity
April 7
Prof. Istvan Janossy, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary
Reorientation of Liquid Crystals on Soft Polymer Layers
April 14
Prof. Roland Netz, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
Current Topics in Soft Matter Theory
April 21
Dr. Jürgen Schmidtke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany
Photonic Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
May 5
Dr. Nándor Éber, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary
Electro-convection in Homeotropic Nematics
May12
Dr. Channabasaveshwar Yelamaggad, Ctr. Liquid Crystal Research, India
A “Peelable Banana-shaped” Mesogen: A First Low Molar Mass Mono-dispersive
Bent-Rod Dimer Exhibiting Biaxial Nematic and Smectic A Phase
June 1
Lachezar Komitov, Chalmers & Gothenburg University, Sweden
Petransitional Behavior and Electro-optic Response of Siloxane AFLC Dimers with
large Molecular Tilt
June 3
Prof. Dirk J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands
Polymer Morphologies Controlled by Light – Light Controlled by Polymer
Morphologies
46
Seminars, 2002-2003
Liquid Crystal Research Seminars
Liquid Crystal Research Seminars began in AY 2003-2004 as a way to inform Kent State University
scientists about research being conducted in the departments of Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry
and the Liquid Crystal Institute. Scientists and graduate students are encouraged to share their current
research through this series which is held on Monday afternoons at the LCI.
2003
October 6
Philip J. Bos
Light Propagation in Liquid Crystal Infiltrated Microcavity Variable Refractive Index
Materials
October 6
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Interaction of Edge Dislocations with Weakly and Strongly Anchored Surfaces in
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Fast Switching Dual-Frequency Liquid Crystal Optical Retarder,Driven by an
Amplitude and Frequency Modulated Voltage
October 13
Deng-Ke Yang
A Simulation Study of a Liquid Crystal Optical Switch Based on Total Internal
Reflection
October 27
Ivan Smalyukh
Selective Imaging of 3D Director Fields and Probing of Biaxiality in Lamellar Liquid
Crystals
November 3
Antal Jákli
Antiferroelectric Ordering of Amphiphilic Glycolipids in Bent-core Liquid Crystals
(‘Sweet Banana’ project)
November 3
Carmen Otilia Catanescu
Tailoring the Physical Properties of Some High Birefringence Isothiocyanato-based
Liquid Crystals
December 8
Laura Bartolo (College of Arts & Sciences)
Organization, Exchange and Usability of Multidisciplinary Data in the Field of Soft
Matter
2004
February 23
Yuriy Nastyshyn
Focal Conics in Hybrid SmA Cells
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Ordered Droplet Structures at Liquid Crystal Surfaces
March 1
Sang Hwa Kim and L.-C. Chien
Photo-embossed Prismatic Polymers for LC Blazed Gratings
April 19
Yuriy Nastyshyn
Pretransitional Fluctuations in the Isotropic Phase of a Lyotropic Chromonic
Liquid Crystal
April 19
Yuriy Nastyshyn
Optical Characterization of Chromonematics
April 19
Yuriy Nastyshyn
Compact Settings for Optical Conoscopy of LC with Scattering Plates
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Table 15
ALCOM Industrial Partnership Program
Aerospace Display Systems
Agilent Technologies
AlphaMicron, Inc.
Avanex
Avery Dennison Microreplication
CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Company I (anonymous)
Company H (anonymous)
Corning, Inc.
CRI, Inc.
DCI, Inc.
Display Plasique
Dow Chemical Co.
Dow Corning
Dupont Company
Eastman Kodak Company
Grafix, Inc.
Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc.
Intel Corporation
Kent Displays, Inc.
LC-Tec, Inc.
Live Technologies Pty., Ltd.
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
LXD, Inc.
Motorola, Inc.
Optiva, Inc.
Planar Systems, Inc.
Rockwell Science Center
Rohm and Haas Company
Scientific Solutions, Inc.
SpectraSwitch
Sunnybrook & Women's College
VDC Display Systems
Hatfield PA
Wilmington DE
Kent OH
Fremont CA
Painesville OH
Stow OH
Corning NY
Woburn MA
Lenexa KS
Aurora OH
Midland MI
Midland MI
Wilmington DE
Rochester NY
Cleveland OH
Twinsburg OH
Santa Clara CA
Kent OH
Brunswick OH
Australia
Murray Hill NJ
Cleveland OH
Schaumburg IL
San Francisco CA
Beaverton OR
Thousand Oaks CA
Bristol PA
North Chelmsford MA
Santa Rosa CA
North York, Ontario CAN
Cape Canaveral FL
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Table 16
Resource Facility Services
Invoice
Date
7/24/03
7/28/03
7/29/03
7/29/03
8/13/04
8/21/03
8/22/04
9/9/03
9/9/03
9/17/03
9/18/03
9/19/03
9/25/03
10/8/03
10/24/03
10/28/03
11/5/03
11/7/03
11/17/03
11/17/03
11/17/03
11/19/03
11/19/03
11/19/04
11/20/04
12/4/03
12/5/03
12/19/03
12/30/03
12/31/03
12/31/03
12/31/03
12/31/03
1/5/04
2/9/04
3/8/04
3/12/04
3/12/04
3/25/04
4/9/04
4/9/04
4/20/04
5/11/04
6/4/04
6/25/04
Type
Client
Optical optimization
Lab & research carrel use, consultation, software
Cleanroom use for photolithography
Cleanroom use
Travel expenses for off-site LCI consultant
Liquid crystal module
Equipment use
LC Mixture
Atomic Force Microscopy of substrates
Cleanroom use and LCI staff time
Shipment to Avanex
Synthesis of chiral dopant
ITO glass
Liquid crystal mixture
Twist cell optics software
Pretilt angle measurements
Soxhlet extraction on PVA
Cleanroom use
Research office rent
EOM transmittance and spectrum measurements
Computer simulations for LC directors & optics
PI coating, rub, assembly, prototyping
Assembly of liquid crystal test cells
Cleanroom use and training
Cleanroom use and training
Pretilt Angle Measurements
Research office rent
Cleanroom use
Liquid crystal display samples
Cleanroom use and LCI staff time
Cleanroom use and equipment rental
Cleanroom use
Cleanroom use
Research office rent, January - April 2004
Test cell fabrication, mask design, custom work
EOM spectrum measurement
Cleanroom use and training
Cleanroom use
Test cell fabrication, custom mask design
Test cell fabrication with ITO patterning
Test cell fabrication, process development
Liquid crystal display, 90˚ TN rotator
Research office rent (April/May); cleanroom use
Prototyping and electrooptic testing
Synthesis of alpha deuterated 5CB
LXD
Eastman Kodak
LC Technologies
CoAdna Photonics
DCI
Individual
Semiconductor Insights
DCI
Scientific Solutions
Avanex
Avanex
Rockwell Intnl. Corp.
Zoll Medical
Lumera Corp.
Eastman Kodak
Intel Corp.
Kent Displays
CoAdna Photonics
Company I (Anonymous)
Avery Dennison Microreplication
CRI
Live Technologies Pty
Compro Services
Ebulent Technologies
Company I (Anonymous)
Intel Corporation
Company I (Anonymous)
Viztec
Industrial Tech. Res. Inst., Taiwan
Avanex
AlphaMicron
Avery Dennison Microreplication
CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Company I (Anonymous), Inc.
Dow Corning LTD
Avery Dennison Microrep.
Company I (Anonymous), Inc.
CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Dow Corning LTD
Dow Corning LTD
Dow Corning LTD
University of Maryland
Company I (Anonymous)
Dow Corning Inc.
Universitat Paderborn
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Table 17
Education and Public Service
Education Outreach – Undergraduate
As part of the effort to recruit students to the Chemical Physics Graduate Program, Sean Hyatt, Education
Outreach Program Administrator for the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education, visited the
following undergraduate schools to present information on Kent State University.
Date
College/University
4/20/94
4/30/04
4/30/04
5/6/04
University of Akron
Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College), 3 Campuses
Lakeland Community College
Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College), 3 Campuses
Allegheny County Community College
Dr. Sulaskshana Plumley, Physics Professor, visited the LCI with two students, Jamie Liscotti and April
Yosinski, in March, 2004, to collaborate on a research project with Professor Oleg D. Lavrentovich,
supported by the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education grant.
KSU Society of Physics Students
Nineteen undergraduate members of the KSU Society of Physics Students visited the Liquid Crystal
Institute on March 9, 2004, to tour the facilities and see a presentation on liquid crystals and the Chemical
Physics graduate program.
Student Intern Program
Eight undergraduate students worked at the Liquid Crystal Institute during May - August, 2004,
conducting research with KSU scientists.
Student
Project
Advisor
Dan Carney
Direct biaxiality in nematic phase liquid crystals
S. Sprunt
Stephen Daigle
Configurational bistability of Smectic-A LC 80CB
P. Palffy-Muhoray
Andrew Geisler
Molecular design, synthesis and its properties of a
highly fluorescent lyotropic chromonic LC
Q. Li, C. Woolverton,
O. Lavrentovich
Jessica Gregson
Behavior of granular matter
Physics
Erin Gustley
Use of LCs in possible drug delivery systems and as
detectors of potentially harmful microorganisms
A. Jákli, O. Lavrentovich
C. Woolverton
John Junkin
Molecular design, synthesis and properties of novel
photosensitive banana-shaped liquid crystals
A. Jákli, Q. Li
Stephen Nixon
New methods of building photonic liquid crystals
J. West
Aaron Rape
LC displays using high speed camera; and, high speed
camera to study candle’s properties in free fall (zero
gravity
J. Gleeson, A. Jákli
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Education and Public Service, 2003-2004
NSF REU Program - 2004
Jessica Hagerty (KSU) and Kelly Zewe (Geneva College, PA) worked in Dr. Antal Jákli’s laboratory at
the Liquid Crystal Institute on the project studying the characterization of liquid crystalline properties of
glycol lipids. Kelly was selected to give an oral presentation at the final REU meetings. Publications
resulting from this research are in progress.
Education Outreach – K-12
Twenty students from Stanton Middle School, Kent, and 40 students from West Geauga Middle School
visited the Liquid Crystal Institute on April 22, 2004 to have a tour of the LCI facilities and learn about
liquid crystals from LCI scientists.
On May 20, 2004, 15 high school exchange students from Rottenberg, Germany and 15 Kent Roosevelt
High School students who hosted them, visited the LCI for a tour and liquid crystal demonstratation.
Short Courses and Workshops
Short Course: Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices, February 24-27, 2004, 10 participants
from industries.
Visitors – Industry and Academia
Individuals visit the Liquid Crystal Institute each year to draw on the expertise of LCI scientists, tour the
facilities, collaborate on liquid crystal research, use the cleanroom facilities and inquire about our
education and outreach programs. Some visitors to the LCI included the following:
2003
July
August
September
November
December
2004
February Chonbuk Nat. University, Korea
DNP Corporation USA
Taiwan Delegation/Univ. Akron
Glide Incubator
New York University
March
Dow Corning Corp.
CoAdna Photonics
April
LMV, Munich
University of Freiburg
May
Akron Leadership Group
June
Philips Research, The Netherlands
Q-Panel
NASA Glenn Research Center
Case Western Reserve University
University of Akron
Ohio Board of Regents
Eastman Kodak
LC Technologies
CoAdna Photonics
Avanex Corporation
NASA Glenn Research Center
Semiconductor Insights
Avanex
Santec Systems, Inc.
Samsung, Korea
Photon-X
Coadna Photonics
Ebulent Technologies
Cornell BioTech Center
Avery Dennison Microreplication
Viztec
Avanex
AlphaMicron
CoAdna Photonics
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Education and Public Service, 2003-2004
Community
The Liquid Crystal Institute participates in the University’s annual program, Experience Kent State, a
one-day event where various departments on campus open their doors to the general public for activities
and tours such as children’s activities, ice cream social, planetarium show, musical performances, weather
station and museum tours, a tour of the Liquid Crystal Institute and other events. Experience Kent State
was held September 13, 2003. The LCI was open between 12:00-3:00 p.m. for free-flow tours of three
areas:
1) Liquid Crystal Displays - Dr. Bin Wang showed several types of liquid crystal displays
and explained how they operate.
2) Physics of Liquid Crystals - CPIP graduate student, Tod Schneider, gave demonstrations
and information about liquid crystals and their properties.
3) LCI Cleanroom - Cleanroom Manager Doug Bryant gave visitors a view of the
cleanroom through polymer dispersed liquid crystal windows and spoke about
how the cleanroom operates.
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APPENDICES
I. Strategic Plan
1. Strategic Plan for the Development of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid
Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
2. Memos
II. Outreach Activities
1. 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day
2. REU Summer Intern Program
3. Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
4. Liquid Crystal Short Course
5. Industrial Partnership Program
6. Technology Transfer
III. Doctoral Dissertations
1. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals, 1967 – 2004
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STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
GLENN H. BROWN LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE AND
CHEMICAL PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM
2004-2008
Prepared by
Philip J. Bos
Liang-Chy Chien
Antal Jakli
Jack R. Kelly
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Quan Li
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Deng-Ke Yang
February 29, 2004
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Introduction
The resounding success of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI) at Kent State
University to date is based on excellence in the synergistic areas of basic and applied research. It
is the deep insights originating in basic research into the fundamental nature of liquid crystals by
A. Saupe and others that lead to the invention and development of twisted nematic displays, the
first commercially successful technology in the field of modern LC displays (LCDs).
Conversely, applied work by J. W. Doane and others had greatly stimulated basic research in the
field of confined liquid crystals, both by providing resources, and by presenting challenging
scientific problems that directed the research plans of the NSF Science and Technology Center
led by the LCI for more than a decade from 1991-2002.
For the continued success of the LCI and its educational unit, the Chemical Physics
Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP), it is imperative to ensure vibrant and productive research in
both fundamental and applied areas. Basic liquid crystal research in new directions is needed to
sow the seeds of future technologies. New applied research is needed to fully exploit the
advances that have been achieved to date. These goals can be met only with continuous
enlistment and committed participation of young researchers with new visions and broad
scientific background, vigorous research programs and enthusiastic leadership skills.
The key to success is to move aggressively into new exciting research areas where we can build
on our past experience and expertise to make rapid progress and establish scientific leadership
for years to come.
New positions are requested in the following areas:
1. Experimental soft matter and lyotropic liquid crystals of biological significance, one
faculty (proposed date of hire: 2004)
2. Structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance, one SRF
(2005)
3. Photonics, including biophotonics, one faculty (2004)
4. Thin organic films, one SRF (2005)
5. Nanoparticles and nanostructures, one faculty (2005)
6. Computer simulations of soft matter, one faculty (2006)
7. Materials characterization specialist, one faculty (2006)
Short descriptions of the proposed positions are given below.
1. Faculty position in experimental soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance
Currently there is a tremendous amount of research in the area of soft matter materials such as
colloids, polymers, elastomers and liquid crystals [1,2]. Many of them, for example, elastomers
and lyotropic LCs are closely related to biological systems; for example, orientational order
inherent to liquid crystals is clearly seen in the cell membranes, in the structure of spermatozoa,
etc. Kent State’s LCI has an excellent history of achievements in the field. The book by Glenn
Brown, founder of the LCI, was the first serious scientific monograph to discuss the link between
lyotropic liquid crystals and biological systems [3]. Yu and Saupe [4] discovered that lyotropic
liquid crystals are capable of a fascinating biaxial type of order.
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A faculty position is requested to advance the experimental studies in the field of liquid
crystalline elastomeres and lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs). LC elastomers demonstrate a strong
coupling between orientational order (which is the defining characteristic of a liquid crystalline
state) and mechanical deformations. By controlling orientational order, one can control the
mechanical response of the LC elastomers, as illustrated in Figure 1. The LC elastomers can be
developed into artificial muscles, micron-scale actuators, microfluidic components, etc.
Fig.1. Mechanical deformations of the
photosensitive LCE caused by light
irradiation. Prof. P. Palffy-Muhoray’s
project supported by NSF.
Lyotropic LCs claim a special place in biomedical applications, such as biological sensing and
controlled drug delivery. Researchers at LCI/CPIP, Dept. of Biology and NEOUCOM
demonstrated and patented a lyotropic LC sensor capable of real-time sensing of harmful
bacteria [5], Fig.2.
Fig.2. The lyotropic liquid crystal biosensor for the detection
and amplification of immune complexes. The inset shows
bacterial immune complex formation whereby a single antibody
cross links two microbial antigens. The transmitted optical
signal can be measured by an array of photo sensors on the
plastic film placed at the opposite side of the cassette.
O.D. Lavrentovich and C. Woolverton collaborative project,
supported by NSF.
Virus or
Ba cterium
Currently, to explore the feasibility of LC materials in biosensors, we conduct research supported
by NSF grant ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor Development, (PI: Oleg D.
Lavrentovich, LCI/CPIP, co-PI: Christopher J. Woolverton, Biological Sciences), DMR0346348, September 15, 2003-August 31, 2004. Our preliminary studies indicate also that the
lyotropic LCs can be used as a vehicle for controlled drug delivery [6-8].
The new faculty will be an experimentalist in the field of soft materials of biological
significance, will bridge our outstanding basic and applied research programs in the field of
traditional (solvent-independent, or thermotropic) LCs to the field of lyotropic LCs and LC
elastomeres and their interface with biological problems, such as drug delivery, microbial
sensing, artificial muscles, etc. The new faculty will work in close collaboration with the Ohio
Eminent Scholar in the field of Soft Matter Physics Theory.
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2. Senior Research Fellow, structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of
biological significance
Understanding modern materials such as liquid crystals requires sophisticated structural analysis
such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and spectroscopy. One interesting topic of
exploration is the role of orientational order in biological systems. There have been a number of
interesting discoveries of liquid crystalline structures formed by biological materials, such as
observation of cholesteric and columnar hexagonal liquid crystalline phases formed by DNA [9],
e.g., in human and stallion spermatozoa [10] with an intriguing difference in topological defects
in vivo and in vitro [11], double-twisted geometry of DNA in dinoflagellate chromosomes,
similar to double twist in the blue phases of LCs [12], etc.
Lamellar and hexagonal phases can also be formed when DNA is mixed with multivalent
cations. This system is of special interest, as cationic liposomes are known to be carriers of
genes in non-viral gene delivery applications. Nonviral gene delivery techniques are currently
under extensive study, since traditional viral vehicles often invoke undesirable immune
responses. Currently, the goal is to establish the correlation between different structures and their
transport efficiency; the impact of these studies on gene therapy and decrease control is
impossible to overestimate.
Q
Fig.3. The structural element and texture
of the blue LC phase.
P. Palffy-Muhoray’s group.
Recently, an informal interdisciplinary group of researchers, including David Allender
(Physics), Arne Gericke (Chemistry), Elizabeth Mann (Physics), Chris Woolverton (BSCI), and
Oleg Lavrentovich (LCI/CPIP) has been funded through the OBR research challenge program to
discuss the most promising directions in the field of biological membrane structures. All these
researchers will benefit greatly from the possibility to obtain the structural data that can be used
to submit a group proposal to the NSF’s Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR)
program and related programs at NIH.
The new SRF at LCI will specialize in the structural exploration of materials such as DNAcation complexes and cell membranes using the modern experimental techniques such as NMR,
fluorescence microscopy, X-ray and spectroscopy. Most of the experimental equipment (NMR,
fluorescence microscopy, X-ray) is already available at the LCI.
3. Faculty position in photonics, including biophotonics
Photonics is the science of generating and harnessing light as well as other forms of radiant
energy whose quantum unit is the photon. Building blocks of photonics are sources and detectors
of photons, photon control devices and their integration into systems. Biophotonics involves the
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interaction of light with living matter and organic materials, and encompasses biomimetic
aspects of photonics.
Many liquid crystal phases are self-assembled photonic band-gap materials. We have access to
these materials, and we have unique expertise to use and control them, as well as to produce new
PGG materials. We can then study and exploit the use these materials for a variety of new
applications where we have already demonstrated expertise [13,14] such as mirrorless laser
sources (Fig. 4) switchable filters, and elements for remote sensing. LC electroluminescence is
an exciting and promising area, where great progress can be expected.
Fig.4. Tunable “rubber” laser based on the LC elastomer of cholesteric type. The wavelength
of the laser emission can be tuned by mechanical stretching. P. Palffy-Muhoray’s group.
Harnessing light is also an area where the LCI has demonstrated expertise. Photoalignment [15],
light-induced segregation at the nanometer scale [16, 17] and the realization of optically driven
Brownian motors [18], all of crucial importance in
biophotonics, are examples.
Electrical control of photons is a key strength of the LCI,
through display and beam steering technologies. Liquid
crystals are ideal for optical control; the LCI has made
fundamental advances in the relevant third and higher
order nonlinear optics. The beam-steering efforts alone,
led by Prof. P. Bos at LCI/CPIP, has developed into a
multimillion-dollar research project over the last five
years [19, 20] (Fig. 5). The projects, supported by
DARPA and NASA, are conducted in collaboration with
companies such as Lockheed-Martin and Rockwell
Science Center. Beam steering research leads to new
applications such as communication between satellites,
countermeasures against micelles, barcode readers in the
stores, vehicle movable headlights, etc.
Fig.5. Prof. P. Bos demonstrates beamsteering device developed by his group
at the LCI/CPIP.
The areas of activity of the new faculty member are expected to encompass the study and
teaching of light/organic matter interactions, explore single molecule detection, develop optical
sensors, exploit the emerging field of optical manipulation with emphasis on optical tweezers
and microfluidic devices, model and study photon transport, and work towards creating clinically
useful technologies.
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4. Senior Research Fellow, Thin organic films
Modern information technologies rely increasingly on soft
organic materials such as liquid crystals. The next step is to
expand the area of applicability of informational displays by
replacing the glass-based devices with all-plastic displays.
The Liquid Crystal Institute pioneered the development of
flexible displays 19 years ago by creating the first working
prototype shown in Fig. 6.
Fig.6. The first prototype of LC cholesteric
bistable display confined between two flexible
plastic plates. John West’s lab, 1995.
The State of Ohio approved a $1.6M equipment grant to build the Flexible Optical and
Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility at the LCI. This project is performed in collaboration
with faculty from other departments (R. Twieg, Chemistry) and with local industry (Hana,
AlphaMicron, Kent Displays and others). The necessary condition of the successful
development of this and other projects related to flexible displays is the expertise in thin film
properties and thin film processing. The work will impact not only the plastic displays, but also
other modern applications, such as plastic switchable eyeware developed by AlphaMicron, an
LCI spin-off company located in Kent (Fig. 7).
Fig.7. AlphaMicron's liquid crystal eyewear before and
after switching the liquid crystal.
Dr. B. Taheri.
The SRF will explore the properties of thin organic films such as polymer films for plastic
displays, orientationally ordered films for optical compensators and polarizers.
5. Faculty position in Nanoparticles and Nanostructures
One of the most exciting areas of materials science today is the creation of nanoparticles and
their incorporation into ordered materials for optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical
applications. Metal and semiconductor nanoparticles with a wide variety of shapes, ranging
from rods (nanowires) to pyramids and toroids, and functionalized to enable incorporation into
organic materials, are becoming produced by nanoparticle researchers today. Applications range
from nano-electronics to photonics to biomedical device mechanics. A key feature of these
materials is their shape anisotropy and sought after orientational order. Nanoparticles may be
regarded as nanoscale liquid crystals, whose diversity of particle shape promises new phases and
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responses well beyond those found in conventional low molecular weight or polymeric liquid
crystals. Expertise with orientational order makes the LCI ideal for work with nanoparticle work;
the field of nanoparticles represents a natural and exceptionally promising area of liquid crystal
research. The potential of the field can be illustrated by our recent research on lyotropic
chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs).
The LCLC family embraces a wide range of dyes, drugs, nucleic acids, antibiotics, carcinogens,
and anti-cancer agents; the anti-asthmatic drug, disodium cromoglycate known under the trade
name INTAL, is one example. A new and intriguing feature of these materials that recently
captured our efforts is that the plank-like rigid geometry of the central core and face-to-face
stacking of the LCLC molecules result in a long-range orientational order in LCLC films of
nanometer and micrometer thickness (Fig. 8). The deposition techniques to produce these films
are considerably less complicated than the classical Langmuir-Blodgett method. Relatively thick
(micrometer) LCLC films are deposited by a simple wire-wound wet-film applicator rod while
thin (nanometers) films are deposited by a layer-by-layer technique, with alternating monolayers
of LCLC and oppositely charged polyions [21]. The well-aligned films of LCLC can be used for
optical elements such as polarizers and compensating films [22].
Fig.8. Nanometer-thick film deposited
from the solution of the lyotropic
chromonic LC (left) and the chemical
structure of the molecule capable
forming the lyotropic LC (right). O.D.
Lavrentovich’s group.
H3C
H 3C
CH3
H 3C
H3C
CH3
H 3C
CH3
H3C
CH3
N+
N+
N+
N+
CH3
H3C
CH3
N+
N+
N+
N+
CH3
H3C
CH3
The areas of activity of the new faculty member are expected to encompass the production of
metallic, semiconductor and organic nanoparticles, the study of orientational order of assemblies
of various functionalized nanoparticles, the realization of switchable photonic band gap
materials, optically negative materials, the study of the interaction of living cells with
nanostructured surfaces, the behavior of nanoparticles in conventional liquid crystals, the study
of orientationally ordered natural clay composites and LCLCs to advance the basic knowledge
of orientational order in the systems composed of anisometric supramolecular nanoparticles and
to develop applications ranging from biomedical prosthetic to automotive applications.
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6. Faculty position in computer simulations
The Liquid Crystal Institute pioneered the modern science of composite materials based on LCs
and polymers, such as polymer-dispersed LCs and polymer stabilized LCs. These composites are
extremely complex as the orientational order of the LC component is superimposed onto the
concentration gradients of other components such as polymer. As an example of the interplay
between the LC order and polymer architectures, Figure 9 illustrates supramolecular structures
obtained by polymerizing photosensitive monomers in the distorted cholesteric matrix. Advances
in further development of modern materials are impossible without high-level mathematical and
computational modeling.
The requested faculty in the field of computer simulations of soft matter, will use (a) the firstprinciple atomic modeling to construct realistic models of molecular interactions in soft matter
and liquid crystals of biological importance, and (b) develop phenomenological models of
composite materials such as lyotropic LCs and polymer-LC composites. The computational
models will address problems of great fundamental and applied importance, such as light
deflection by LC systems, hydrodynamics of ordered fluids, phase separation in orientationally
ordered systems, band gap structures in heterogeneous anisotropic media, mechanical response
of LC elastomers, light propagation in heterogeneous materials, etc. An underlying feature of all
these problems is the presence of orientational order, the fundamental property of LCs, which
explains why the specialist in mathematical modeling and computer simulations must be placed
within the LCI/CPIP unit.
Fig.9. Polymer architectures created by photoinduced polymerization in the LC matrix with a
spatially-nonuniform director field.
L.-C. Chien’s group.
7. Faculty position in materials characterization
The LCI mission is three-fold: education, research and services such as characterization of
materials and devices. The later is performed at the Characterization Facilities of the Institute.
An important part of this research equipment infrastructure is the Characterization Facilities.
The Characterization Facilities include state-of-the-art equipment such as confocal fluorescence
microscope, x-ray with two-dimensional detector, differential scanning calorimetry, solid-state
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) set up, atomic force microscope, Abbe refractometry,
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scanning electron microscope, custom-made set ups to characterize elastic, optical and surface
properties of liquid crystals and other organic materials.
The Characterization Facilities have already proven to be a powerful vehicle driving the
economic development in the Northest Ohio and beyond, by engaging in collaborative research,
training the workforce and maintaining strong connections with industry in Northeast Ohio and
beyond. Among the Northeast Ohio companies that use the Characterization Facilities are such
well-known high-tech leaders as AlphaMicron, Kent Displays, LXD, Hana, CoAdna, and others.
This year, the LCI teamed up with the largest producer of the active-matrix liquid crystal TVs,
Samsung, to explore the new horizons of the liquid crystal based technologies, which already
surpassed the level of $10 billion in annual sales. Collaboration with the LCI and the use of
Characterization Facilities at the LCI is one of the reasons why Northeast Ohio LC-related
companies enjoy their success.
To continue the successful development of materials research, to explore new opportunities in
the field, and to educate the CPIP students in the field of material properties, we request a faculty
position in the field of materials characterization. This specialist will employ the currently
available experimental techniques (such as atomic force microscope, scanning electron
microscope, fluorescent confocal polarizing microscope, NMR, X-ray) and will expand them to
advance the basic understanding of modern materials.
References
1.
M. Warner and E.M. Terentjev, Liquid Crystal Elastomers (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003)
2.
M. Kleman and O.D. Lavrentovich, Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction, Springer NY, 638 pp (2003)
3.
Glenn H. Brown and J.J. Wolken “Liquid Crystal and Biological Structures,” Academic Press, NY (1979)
4.
L.J. Yu and A. Saupe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 2109 (1983).
5.
C. Woolverton, K. Doane, G. Niehaus, O.D. Lavrentovich, S. Schmidt, and S. Signs, Detection and
Amplification of Ligands, U.S. # 6,171,802 (February 2001).
6.
M. Jayne Lawrence and G.D. Rees, Microemulsion-based media as novel drug delivery systems, Advanced
drug delivery reviews 45, 89-121 (2000).
7.
S. Nazzal, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, and M.A. Khan, Preparation and in vitro characterization of a
eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism
and progress of emulsion formation, International Journal of Pharmaceutics 235, 247-265 (2002).
8.
C. Woolverton et al., Lyotropic liquid crystals for drug delivery, in preparation (2004)
9.
F. Livolant, A.M. Levelut, J. Doucet, and J.P. Benoit, The highly concentrated liquid-crystalline phase of
DNA is columnar hexagonal, Nature 339, 724-726 (1989).
10. N.S. Blanc, A. Senn, A. Leforestier, F. Livolant and J. Dubochet, DNA in human and stallion spermatozoa
forms local hexagonal packing with twist and many defects, J. Structural Biology 134, 76-81 (2001)
11. F. Livolant, Condensed phases of DNA: Structures and Phase Transitions, Progress in Polymer Science 21,
1115-1164 (1996).
12. F. Livolant and Y. Bouligand, Double helical arrangement of spread dinoflagellate chromosomes,
Chromosoma 80, 97 (1980)
13. W. Cao, A. Muñoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray and B. Taheri, “Lasing in a three-dimensional photonic crystal of
the liquid crystal blue phase II”, Nature Materials 1, 111 (2002).
14. M.F. Moreira, I.C.S. Carvalho, L.C.G. Valente, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, A Munoz “Fiber coupled
cholesteric liquid crystal laser”, Brazilian Journal of Physic, 32, 455 (2002)
15. W. Gibbons, T. Kosa, P. Palffy-Muhoray, P.J. Shannon, S.T. Sun, “Continuous Gray-Scale Obtained via
Polarized Light Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Nature 377, 43 (1995).
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16. W.R. Folks, S. Keast, T.A. Krentzel, B. Zalar, H. Zeng, Yu.A. Reznikov, M. Neubert, S. Kumar, D.
Finotello, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Photocontrol of Smectic Spacing, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320, 77 (1998).
17. Y. Lansac, Mattew A. Glaser, N. A. Clark and O. D. Lavrentovich, Photocontrolled nanophase segregation
in a liquid-crystal solvent, Nature 398, No.6722, 54 (1999).
18. P. Palffy-Muhoray, T. Kosa and Weinan E, “Brownian Motors in the Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals”,
(invited) Appl. Phys. A 75, 294 (2002)
19. X. Wang, B. Wang, M. Fisch, J. Anderson, V. Sergan, P. Bos, F. Miranda, Invited Paper “Liquid Crystal on
Silicon (LCOS) Wavefront Corrector and Beam Steerer, SPIE Conference on High-resolution wavefront
control: Methods, Devices, and Applications, part of the 2003 SPIE Annual Meeting.
20. C.M. Titus, J.R. Kelly, E.C. Gartland, S.V. Shiyanovskii, J.A. Anderson, and P.J. Bos, Opt.Lett. 26, 1188
(2001).
21. T. Schneider and O.D. Lavrentovich, Self assembled monolayers and multilayered stacks of lyotropic
chromonic liquid crystalline dyes with in-plane orientational order, Langmuir 16, 5227 (2000).
22. T. Sergan, T. Schneider, J. Kelly, O.D. Lavrentovich, Polarizing-alignment layers for twisted nematic cells,
Liquid Crystals 27, 567 (2000).
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LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE
TEL:
(330)
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(330)
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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO:
Joe Danks, Dean
DEPARTMENT:
Arts & Sciences
FROM:
Oleg Lavrentovich, Interim Director/LCI/CPIP
DATE:
May 7, 2004
SUBJECT:
CPIP GA/TF Budgets for FY 2005/ 3 pages
At the May 4, 2005 LCI/CPIP faculty meeting the CPIP faculty members discussed the draft of the GA/TF Budgets
for FY 2005 and expressed their deep concern about the fact that the budget would support only 7.5 CPIP stipends
(or $120,000) in 2004-2005.
Since its re-introduction in 1994, the CPIP admits six students each year, which is close to the minimum of five
required to maintain a normal teaching process. This translates into a minimum of 12 stipend needed to cover the
stipends of the first and second year students. The documents available to me indicate that in the recent past, the
CPIP received more than 7.5 stipends (although these stipends were smaller). For example, Vice Provost and Dean
Adams informed on February 21, 2001 (please see attached) that the CPIP had 10 doctoral stipends and one
additional stipend, total 11 (or $132,000), in FY-2002. The current plan to support only 7.5 stipends makes it
extremely difficult to operate the graduate program, even when helped by the one-time transfers from GA Funds (for
which we are very thankful).
The CPIP faculty members do their best in securing extramural funding, matching each stipend received from the
College with about two stipends from our research grants. For example, currently our grants cover 24 stipends, six
of which go to the graduate students from other programs (one Chemistry, two Biological sciences, one Math, and
two Physics). We just made a call for proposals for Samsung Scholarship grants in the field of liquid crystals
funded through our collaborative agreement with Samsung, in which we stressed that students from departments
other than the LCI/CPIP will be eligible to receive the scholarships (please see attached). Our research grants and
scholarships, however, cannot be easily used to support 12 CPIP students (on average) during their first two years as
they spend much of their time in the classroom. We also keep our stipends at a relatively low level, despite the
obvious fact that it backfires in our recruiting efforts, especially among the US students. To offset the deficit this
year and the year before, we used the salary savings of CPIP faculty. However, this is not a permanent solution. We
thus respectfully ask you to consider the possibility of funding the necessary minimum of 12 student stipends for the
CPIP which would bring the level of support to $192,000 in the CPIP GA/TF budget in FY 2004-2005.
Please contact me at 24844 if you have questions. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
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LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE
TEL:
(330)
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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO:
Joe Danks, Dean
FROM:
Oleg Lavrentovich, Interim Director
DEPARTMENT:
Arts & Sciences
DATE:
May 6, 2004
SUBJECT:
Graduate Secretary position
The Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) has been in existence for ten years. During all
these years we have not had a budget for a graduate secretary. In 1994, when the first six students have been
admitted to CPIP, the duties of the graduate secretary have been added to duties of Secretary to the two Associate
Directors of the Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI). In the years prior to CPIP, the Secretary to the Associate Directors
of LCI was a full-time employment position on its own. The duties of the Secretary to the two Associate Directors
included (and continue to include) secretarial support of educational outreach activities and industrial partnership
programs, in short, the two vital directions that make the LCI visible on campus and beyond. This position is
currently occupied by Lynn Fagan. The volume and variety of work she performs is well above the standard
expectations for a Secretary and we request an upgrade for Lynn’s position from Secretary to Senior Secretary.
The CPIP currently is significantly larger than it was in 1994, with 30 students already enrolled and six new
students coming for AY 2004-05. All duties relating to the CPIP graduate program are handled by Lynn. She
coordinates work with the Graduate Coordinator, Prof. L.-C. Chien and myself as LCI/CPIP Interim Director. She
prepares all paperwork required for the students, handles selection of candidates and orientation for incoming
students, registers students on-line, prepares catalog and schedule book course entries. She was responsible for the
large portion of our CPIP self-study report this year, collecting and summarizing numerous data. As already stated,
in additional to these CPIP duties, Lynn is a secretary to the two LCI Associate Directors, Phil Bos and Peter PalffyMuhoray. She essentially handles two full-time jobs.
This seems to be an appropriate time to request funding for a CPIP graduate secretary so that we can
upgrade Lynn’s salary and her status. Because the position is multi-functional and covers the need of both CPIP and
LCI, and because we understand the current financial difficulties, we request a 50/50 split in funding. We anticipate
a salary level of approximately $27,000 and therefore request that Arts & Sciences fund one half of the salary which
is equal to $13,500 per year.
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Liquid Crystal Day
April 23, 2004
(brochure and mail flyer)
67
NSF REU Program
71
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
73
Short Course
Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices
February 24-27, 2004
75
Industrial Partnership Program
Providing scientific expertise and services to the liquid crystal industry
77
Technology Transfer
Transferring liquid crystal technology from the
research laboratories to the marketplace
79
APPENDIX III
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON LIQUID CRYSTALS
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
1967
GULRICH, LESLIE
Brown
X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic Structure of p-methoxybenzylidene
p'-cyanoaniline
* DuPont
Chemistry
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
Crystal Structure Analysis of X-Ray of 2,2'-Dibromo-4,4'-bis-(pmethoxybenzylideneamino) Biphenyl
Chemistry
*
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
Mossbauer Effect in a Smectic Liquid Crystal
* Retired
Uhrich
March
1973
VISINTAINER, JAMES
Doane
Spin-Lattice Relaxation in the Nematic Liquid Crystalline Phase
* Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio
Physics
March
1973
WISE, RAYMOND
Doane
A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Smectic C Liquid Crystals
* Retired
Physics
June
1973
FELLNER, HANS G.
Light Scattering from Liquid Crystals
* Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA
August
1973
DETJEN, ROBERT E.
Uhrich
A Mossbauer Investigation of the Lattice Dynamics of the Smectic Liquid
Crystalline State
Franklin/Christensen
Physics
Physics
Physics
*
August
1973
KESS, SHARON
Franklin
The Photostatistics of Brillouin Scattering by a Liquid Crystal
* IBM Corp., R&D, Vermont
81
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1973
Advisor
Department
MURPHY, JOHN A.
Doane
NMR Pulsed Gradient Studies of Diffusion in Liquid Crystals
* Keithley Instruments, Solon, Ohio
Physics
December 1973
NANDY, PAPIYA SENGUPTA
Saupe
Theoretical Studies of the Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid
* Instructor of Physics, Jadavpur University
Physics
March
1974
SCHENZ, ANNE FILLER
Optical and Faraday Studies of Liquid Crystals
* General Foods, White Plains, NY
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
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
Neff
Chemistry
Chemistry
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
AIMIUWU, VICTOR Q.
Uhrich
Fe-57 Mossbauer Study of Four Ferrocene Derivatives in a Smectic B Liquid
Crystalline Glass
1976
Physics
*
August
1976
MORITZ, ELAN
Franklin
A Class of Nonlinear Electrohydrodynamic Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
* Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL
Physics
December 1976
FLICK, CATHERINE M.
Gelerinter
An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Action of Selected Polyene
Antibiotics on Lipid Planar Multibilayers (Model Membranes)
* John Wollman Enterprises, Indiana
Physics
December 1976
UKLEJA, PAUL
Doane
Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Director Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals
* Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Physics
June
BOS, PHILIP J.
Doane
NMR Studies of Orientational Order in the Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Phase
* Professor, Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University
Physics
1978
82
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
June
Name, Title of Dissertation
1978
Advisor
D'SIDOCKY, RICHARD
Fishel
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
Department
Chemistry
* Resarch Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio
August
1978
LAPRICE, WALTER J.
Uhrich
Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Nematic, Smectic B and Smectic H
Liquid Crystalline Glasses
* Materials Engineer, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA
Physics
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
A Test of Curvature Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition
* Lorrain Co. Community College, Elyria OH
Physics
June
GRADDICK, WILLIAM
Spielberg
The Effect of Calcium on the Thermotropic Phase Behavior of Dipalmitol
Phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) Multilayers
Physics
1979
*
June
1980
NAIKSATAM, PRAKASH
Fishel
Structure-Property Relationships of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
* Brookhaven National Lab
Chemistry
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
X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phases
* Industrial Scientist, Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA
Physics
August
1980
VAZ, NUNO A.
Doane
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Orientational Order in Lyotropic Liquid
Crystals
* Research Scientist, General Motors, Warren, Michigan
Physics
December 1980
DEHOFF, RICHARD J.
Johnson
Physics
Specific Heat in the Vicinity of a Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C Multicritical Point
* Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR
December 1980
HAVEN, THOMAS J.
Saupe
Elastic and Viscous Properties of Nematic Systems in Aqueous Decylammonium
Chloride Solutions
* Research Scientist, Sarif, Vancouver, Washington
Physics
December 1980
RICHARDS, BERNARD L.
Moroi
Rotational Diffusion in Nematic Liquid Crystals
* Assistant Professor, Stark Campus, Kent State University
Physics
83
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
May
1981
LOCKHART, THOMAS E.
Gelerinter
Indices of Refraction at Smectic A-Smectic C Phase Transitions
* Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Physics
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
Mean Field Study of Molecular Tilt in Uniaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases
* Real Estate, Philadelphia
Physics
December 1981
VAZ, MARIA J.
Doane
Orientational Order in Phospholipid, Cholesterol-Phospholipid, and ProteinPhospholipid Bilayer Membranes: A DMR Study
* Professor, Lawrence Technical University, Detroit MI
Physics
June
1982
SHARMA, BRIJ B.
Saupe
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
Physics
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
SHIH, LIH-BIN
Brown
Laser Light Scattering of Surface Fluctuations of Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, S.C. Johnson, Racine, WI
Chemistry
December 1982
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
BENIGNI, SAMUEL P.
Spielberg
Physics
An X-Ray Study on the Thermal Behavior of Potassium-Palmitate-Water Mixtures
* Staff Scientist, RCA, Inc., Lancaster PA
December 1983
BIGGERS, RAND R.
Johnson
Thermal Properties Near the Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point
* Research Scientist, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
December 1983
BOONBRAHM, POONPONG
Saupe
Physics
Optical Studies on Micellar Nematics and on Phase Transitions Between Nematic
* Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
December 1983
GOODEN, CLARENCE E.
Johnson
Light Scattering and Magnetic Deformation Study of the Nematic-Smectic A
* Research Scientist, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach,FL
84
Physics
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
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
* Research Scientist, US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio
December 1983
STEFANOV, MICHAEL E.
Saupe
Physical Properties of Nematic Decylammonium Chloride/Ammonium
Chloride/Water Systems
Physics
Physics
*
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
* Pres. and CEO, Strenk Scientific Consultants, Inc., Middleburg Heights, Ohio
August
1984
MARANDE, ROBERT P.
Uhrich
Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Smectic A., Smectic B and Smectic C
Liquid Crystalline Glasses
* Assistant Professor, Behrend College, Erie, PA
Physics
December 1984
HAFIZ, NAJMA
Allender/Doane
Nematic Phases in Liquid Crystals: Theory of Uniaxiality and Biaxiality and an
NMR Study of Reetrants
Physics
*
May
1985
RAHMAN, JOLLY A.
deVries/Spielberg
The Development of Some Molecular Models for Smectic A Phases
* Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
Physics
May
1985
SPIELBERG, JOHANAN
Gelerinter
An EPR Study of Glass-Forming Liquids and Liquid Crystals
Physics
*
August
1985
HENDERSON, GIRARDEAU L.
Allender
Phenomena at the Isotropic - Nematic Transition Induced by Surface Order
* Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City, FL
Physics
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
*
August
1985
VLACHOPOULOS, PETROS
Lee
Theoretical Studies of Local Orientational Order in Cholesterics and Cholesteric
Liquid Crystal Mixtures
Physics
*
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
85
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
May
1986
WU, BAO-GANG
Doane
Physics
Deuterium NMR of Asymmetric Motion and Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystals
and Microdroplet Controlled Scattering in Display Applications
* 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
The Influence of Monovalent Ions on Dipalmitoylphosphatidyl-choline Bilayer
Structure and Packing
* Assistant Professor of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Physics
May
1987
KHAN, IQBAL
Johnson
Director Dynamics Above Nematic-Smectic (A,C) Transitions
* Scientist, Textile Institute of Pakistan
Physics
August
1987
FIGUEIRINHAS, JOAO
Doane
A Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the SF Phase
* Scientist, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal
Physics
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
Curvature Elasticity of the Micellar Nematics
* Lecturer, Beijing University, China
Saupe
Physics
December 1987
GOLEMME, ATTILIO
Doane
Physics
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, Unviersity of Calabria, Rende, Italy
December 1987
KLEMM, STEFAN
Lee
Quantum Simulation of Polyene Ground States
* Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Physics
December 1987
MELNIK, GEORGE
Saupe
Critical Properties of Phase Transitions in Micellar Nematics in Microscopic
Textures of Micellar Cholesterics
* North American Phillips Corp., Briarcliff Manor, NY
Physics
August
1988
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
* Assistant Professor of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC,
May
1989
RISSER, STEVEN
Lee
Model Hamiltonian Calculations of the Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated
Molecules
* Texas A&M, Commerce, TX
86
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
August
Name, Title of Dissertation
1989
Advisor
WHITEHEAD JR., JOE B.
Doane
Light Scattering from Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Associate Professor of Physics, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, MS
Department
Physics
December 1989
VITHANA, HEMASIRI
Johnson
Physics
Light Scattering and Magnetic Field Deformation Study Near the Nematic-Smectic
A Phase Transition: Critical Behavior of Twist and Bend Elastic Coefficients
* Research Scientist, Reveo, Hawthorne, NY
May
1990
ERDMANN, JOHN H.
Doane
Electro-Optic Response of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals
* Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc., Twinsburg, OH
Physics
May
1990
LEE, JONG-CHEON
Allender/Neff
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
Physics
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, Unviersity of Lowell
May
1991
BOYD, DARWIN
Uhrich
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
Physics
May
1991
GLEESON, JAMES L.
Palffy-Muhoray
Instabilities During Directional Solidification of a Transparent Material
* Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Physics
August
1991
SARKAR, MOINUDDIN
Spielberg
X-Ray Study of Some Columnar Thermotropic Mesophases
* Assistant Profesor of Physics, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Physics
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 3-Amino
and 3-Hydroxy-6H-D(b,d) Pyrans
* Avery Dennison, Pasadena, CA
December 1991
CHEN, LI
Kumar
High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic to Smectic-A Phase
Transition and the Frustrated Smectic A Phase
Physics
*
December 1991
CRAWFORD, GREGORY P.
Doane
Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined to Cylindrical Cavities: A 2H-NMR Study
* Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University
87
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
December 1991
LIU, JIMING
Saupe
Line Defects in Biaxial Nematics and Critical Properties of Nematic-Isotropic
Transitions Near the Landau Point
* Computer Scientist, Pittsburgh, PA
December 1991
YUAN, HAIJI (JIM)
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals
* CoAdna Photonics, Inc., San Jose, CA
Palffy-Muhoray
Physics
May
1992
KIM, JAE YON
Palffy-Muhoray
Phase Separation Kinetics of Binary Liquid Crystal Polymer Mixtures
* Research Scientist, Samsung Corp., Seoul, Korea
Physics
August
1992
SEEKOLA, DESMOND
Kelly
Dielectric Response of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystalline Films
* SpectraSwitch, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
Physics
Palffy-Muhoray
Department
Physics
December 1992
LIN, HEFEN
Optical Fibers with Liquid Crystalline Cores
* Philips Flat Displays, San Jose, CA
Physics
December 1992
NAGVEKHAR, DEVDATT
Fishel
Novel Mesomorphic Systems Based on Heteromethylene Bridged Biphenyls
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA
Chemistry
May
1993
KIM, DU RIM
Saupe
Effects of Polymers in the Rotational Viscosity of Nematic Liquid Crystals and
Dynamics of Field Alignment
* Instructor, Kangwon National University, Korea
Physics
May
1993
PATEL, PREM L.
Kumar
High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Study of Frustrated Smectics
* Private Enterprise, Philadelphia, PA
Physics
August
1993
AMARASINGHE, NANDANA
Moroi
Physics
Iterative Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equation in a X(2) Medium and Permittivity
Gradient Induced Polaration and Second Harmonic Generation in Inhomogeneous
Media
* Staff Scientist, SpectraSwitch, Santa Rosa CA
August
1993
ONDRIS-CRAWFORD, RENATE
Doane
The Effect of Molecular Anchoring and Curvature on Confined Nematic Liquid
* University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Physics
December 1993
FREDLEY, DAVID S.
West
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, GERMANO S.
Finotello
AC Calorimetric Study of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and Restrictive
* Asst. Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
May
SHIN, SUNG-TAE
Kumar
Physics
Calorimetric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions in Lyotropic Liquid
Crystals
* Faculty, Korea University
1994
88
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
December 1994
ABEGUNARATHNA, SUGATH
Saupe
Physics
Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals: Polymer Dispersions and Chiral Smectic
Phases
* Unknown
December 1994
CULL, BRIAN C.
Kumar
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
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
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
Physics
Physics
Physics
*
May
1995
KOTHEKAR, NATASHA
Allender
Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Surface Effects and Critical Phenomena in
Nematic Liquid Crystals
Physics
*
May
1995
MANG, JOSEPH T.
Kumar
High Resolution X-Ray and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Liquid
Crystal Structure
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, NM
Physics
August
1995
DAI, SONG
Spielberg
X-ray Studies of Phase Transitions and Structures of Some Columnar Liquid
* Research Specialist, Alltristar Corp., Mogadore OH
Physics
August
1995
FRITZ, WILLIAM
Doane
Reflection from Imperfect Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Basic Properties and
Applications
* Gelcore, Cleveland OH
Physics
August
1995
HUANG, JING
Johnson
Critical Behavior of Heat Capacity Near a Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point
* Computer Specialist, Cray Computer, NJ
Physics
89
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
1995
JI, YIMIN
Kelly
Physics
Surface Anchoring at a Polymer/Liquid Crystal Interface in the Neighborhood of the
Glass Transition
* Thales Navigation, Inc.
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
December 1995
LU, ZHIJIAN
Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays
* Rockwell Scientific
May
1996
HUANG, XIAO-YANG
Doane
Physics
Field-Induced Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications
in Displays
* Unknown
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
* Returned to China
August
Doane
Physics
December 1996
QIAN, SIHAI
Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Porous Media
* Optiva, Inc., South San Francisco CA
May
1997
HU, GONGJIAN
Palffy-Muhoray
Laser Induced Configurational Transition in Liquid Crystals
* Arroyo Optics, Santa Monica, CA
Physics
May
1998
GALABOVA, HRISTINA
Allender
A Theoretical Study of Surface Induced Phenomena in nematic Liquid Crystals
* Staff Scientist, Reveo Corp., Hawthorne, NY
Physics
May
1998
WANG, XIAO-DING
West/Allender
Physics
Polarized Ultraviolet Light Induced Alignment for Liquid Crystal Displays on wellDefined Polyimide Films
* Staff Scientist, Micro Display Corp., San Pablo, CA
August
1998
LIU, HONG
Allender
Theory of Liquid Crystal Static Distortions in Uniaxial and Biaxial Nematics
* Lecturer, Nanjing University, China
May
1999
HOKE, CHARLES D.
Bos
Chem-Phys
Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable
Twist Cell
* Agilent, Inc.
90
Finotello
Physics
Physics
Physics
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
August
1999
MORI, HIROYUKI
Bos
Chem-Phys
Fabrication and Optical Effects of a Discotic Negative Birefringence Film for Liquid
Crystal Displays
* Staff Scientist, Fuji Photo Film Company, Japan
August
1999
WU, WEI
Kelly
Single and Multiple Light Scattering Studies of PDLC Films in the presence of
Electric Field
* Monsanto
Physics
December 1999
ZENG, HUAIREN
Finotello
Physics
Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Confined Geometries: An NMR Perspective
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
May
2000
ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO
Lavrentovich
Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY
Chem-Phys
May
2000
MA, RUI-QING
Yang
Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications
* Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY
Chem-Phys
May
2000
WATSON, PHILIP E.
Bos
The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Research Scientist, 3M Company, Minneapolis MN
Chem-Phys
May
2000
XU, MING
Yang
Chem-Phys
Electro-Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices and Applications
of Dual Frequency Cholesterics
* Research Scientist, Chorum Technologies, Richardson TX
August
2000
COLEGROVE, JENNIFER
Kelly
Chem-Phys
Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device Performance
* Unknown
August
2000
CUI, MINGJI
Kelly
Temperature Dependency of Viscoelastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
* CoAdna Photonics
Physics
December 2000
ANDERSON, JAMES E.
Bos
Transitions from the Homeotropic in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Hana Microdisplay Technologies
Chem-Phys
December 2000
KONOVALOV, DMITRI A.
Sprunt
A Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Ferrielectric Phases of Chiral Smectic
Liquid Crystals
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University
Physics
December 2000
MI, XIANG-DONG
Yang
Dynamics of the Transitions Among Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Textures
* Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak
Chem-Phys
December 2000
TANG, ANLUN
Sprunt
Physics
Dynamics of Chiral Smectic-A and Twist Grain Boundary Phases of Liquid Crystals
* KLA-Tencor, California
December 2000
TITUS, CHARLES M.
Bos
Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices
* Consultant for EIS, Inc., Kent, OH
91
Chem-Phys
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
Name, Title of Dissertation
Advisor
Department
December 2000
YUAN, HAIJUN
Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure
* Avanex, Inc., Fremont, CA
Palffy-Muhoray
Chem-Phys
May
2001
LIU, WEIMIN
Kelly
Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays
* EL-COS, Inc., San Jose, CA
Chem-Phys
August
2001
ACHARYA, BHARAT RAJ
Kumar
Correlation Between the Surface Properties and Liquid Crystal Anchoring on
Polymer Films
* Platypus Technologies, Madison WI
Physics
August
2001
ASFAW, LETEMESKEL
Coherent Backscattering from Complex Liquids
* Alcorn State University, Mississippi
Sprunt
Physics
December 2001
VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY
Laventovich
Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
* Motorola
Chem-Phys
December 2001
ZHANG, FANG
Yang
Physical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays
* Dimensional Media, Inc.
Chem-Phys
May
2002
WANG, BIN
Bos
Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations
* Lab Manager, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Chem-Phys
August
2002
SAEED, SALMAN
Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters
* Three Five Systems, Inc.
December 2002
May
2003
Bos
SU, LINLI
West
Studies on Non-Contact Alignment of Liquid Crystals
* AlphaMicron, Inc., Kent, OH
KANG, SHIN-WOONG
Chien
Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on
Self-Assembled Pattern-Forming States of LiquidCrystals: Morphology,
Phase Separation and Potential Applications
Chem-Phys
Chemistry
Chem-Phys
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University
May
2003
KHAN, ASAD
Doane/Yang
Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display
Technology
* Kent Displays, Inc.
Chem-Phys
August
2003
MONTBACH, ERICA BRAMLEY
Bos
Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical
Elements
* Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY
Chem-Phys
August
2003
SMALYUKH, IVAN
Lavrentovich
Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing
Microscopy
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University
Chem-Phys
WANG, CHENHUI
Bos
Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices
* (Company name confidential)
Chem-Phys
December 2003
92
Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals
Date
May
Name, Title of Dissertation
2004
Advisor
ENNIS, ROLAND
Palffy-Muhoray
Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: the Dynamics of Phase Separation and the
Saffman-Taylor Instability
Department
Chem-Phys
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute
May
2004
HUANG, YUANMING
Jákli
Electro-optical and Dielectric Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Formed by Banana-shaped Molecules
* Unknown
93
Chem-Phys