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Advance Liquid Crystal Materials and Devices Yuan (Esther) Chen Ph. D. Student Email: yuanucf@knights.ucf.edu Office: RM 287
Phone: (407)823-4922 University of Central
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Education: 08/2009-present Ph. D in progress, CREOL, the College
of Optics and Photonics, UCF 09/2007-
06/2009 R.A.,
Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU) 09/2005-06/2007 B.S. in Information
Engineering, Department of Optoelectronics, ZJU Honors and awards: 2013
Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Chinese
Students 07/2013 IEEE Photonics
Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award 06/2013 SPIE Optics and
Photonics Education Scholarship 06/2013 UCF Graduate
Research Excellence Fellowship 2013/2014 Distinguished
Student Paper Award for SID13 and SID14 International Symposium 2011-2014
SID travel grant 09/2009 Provost Fellowship,
UCF 10/2008 Huawei Scholarship
and First Honor Prize in College of Information science and Engineering, ZJU 05/2007 Excellent Graduate
of Zhejiang Province 08/2006 China Youth Science
and Technology Innovation Awards 2006
¡°Academic & Research Star¡± Fellowship of Chu Kochen Honors
College, ZJU 02/2006 Meritorious,
Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), USA 09/2005 First-Class Prize, China
Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2003-2006 First Class Prize Excellent
Student Scholarship, ZJU (top 3%) Leadership and services: 09/2010 ¨C
09/2011 Treasurer of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF
Student Branch 09/2011 ¨C
08/2012 Vice Chair of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF
Student Branch 08/2012 ¨C
09/2013 Chair of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF
Student Branch Journal publications: 1. F.
Peng, Y. Chen, S.-T. Wu, S. Tripathi, and R. J. Twieg ¡°Low
loss liquid crystals for infrared applications,¡± Liq. Cryst.
41, xxx (Accepted, 2014). 2. D.
Xu, J. Yan, J. Yuan, F. Peng, Y. Chen,
and S.-T. Wu, ¡°Electro-optic
response of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals,¡± Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 011119 (July 9, 2014). 3. (Review
paper) Y. Chen and S.-T. Wu, ¡°Recent
advances in polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal materials and
devices,¡± J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 131(13),
6333-6342 (July 5, 2014). DOI: 10.1002/app.40556 4. F.
Peng, Y. Chen, J. Yuan, H. Chen,
S.-T. Wu, and Y. Haseba, ¡°Low
temperature and high frequency effects on polymer-stabilized blue phase
liquid crystals with large dielectric anisotropy,¡± J. Mater. Chem.
C. 2, 3597-3601 (2014). 5. Z.
Luo, Y. Chen, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Wide color gamut
LCD with a quantum dot backlight,¡± Opt. Express 21, 26269-26284 (Nov. 4, 2013). 6. D.
Xu, Y. Chen, Y. Liu, and S. T. Wu,
¡°Refraction effect
in an in-plane-switching blue phase liquid crystal cell,¡± Opt. Express 21, 24721-24735 (Oct. 8, 2013). 7. J.
Yan, Y. Chen, D. Xu, and S.T. Wu,
¡°Angular dependent
reflections of a monodomain blue phase liquid crystal,¡± J. Appl. Phys.
114, 113106 (Sept. 18, 2013). 8. Y. Chen,
F. Peng, T. Yamaguchi, X. Song, and S. T. Wu, ¡°High performance
negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals for display applications,¡±
Crystals 3, 483-503 (Sept. 3, 2013). 9. Y. Chen,
J. Yan, M. Schadt, S. H. Liu, K. L. Cheng, J. W. Shiu, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Diluter effects on
polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals,¡± J. Display Technol. 9, 592-597 (2013). 10. Y. Chen
and S. T. Wu, ¡°Electric
field-induced monodomain blue-phase liquid crystals,¡± Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 171110 (2013). 11. Y. Chen,
D. Xu, S. T. Wu, S. Yamamoto, and Y. Haseba, ¡°A low voltage and
submillisecond-response polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal,¡±
Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 141116
(April 8, 2013). 12. Y. Chen, F.
Peng, and S.T. Wu, ¡°Submillisecond-response
vertically-aligned liquid crystal for color-sequential projection displays,¡±
J. Display Technol. 9, 78
(2013). 13. Y. Chen,
Z. Luo, F. Peng, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Fringe-field switching
with a negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal,¡± J. Display Technol.,
9, 74 (2013) 14. C.
D. Tu, C. L. Lin, J. Yan, Y. Chen,
and S. T. Wu, ¡°Driving
scheme using bootstrapping method for blue-phase LCDs,¡± J. Display
Technol. 9, 3 (2013). 15. J.
Yan, Y. Chen, S. T. Wu, and X.
Song, ¡°Figure of merit
of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals,¡± J. Display
Technol. 9, 24 (2013). 16.
J. Sun, Y. Chen, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Submillisecond-response
and scattering-free infrared liquid crystal phase modulators,¡±
Opt. Express 20, 20124-20129
(Aug. 27, 2012). 17.
Y. Li, Y. Chen, J. Yan, Y. Liu,
J. P. Cui, Q. H. Wang, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Polymer-stabilized blue phase
liquid crystal with a negative Kerr constant,¡± Opt. Mater. Express 2, 1135-1140 (2012). 18.
J. Yan, Y. Chen, S. T. Wu, S. H. Liu, K. L.
Cheng, and J. W. Shiu, ¡°Dynamic response of a
polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal,¡± J. Appl. Phys. 111, 063103 (March 15, 2012). 19.
J. Sun, R. A. Ramsey, Y. Chen, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Submillisecond-response
sheared polymer network liquid crystals for display applications,¡± J.
Display Technol. 8, 87-90
(Feb. 2012). 20.
Y. Liu, H. Ren, S. Xu, Y. Chen, L. Rao, T. Ishinabe, and S.
T. Wu, ¡°Adaptive focus
integral image system design based on fast-response liquid crystal microlens,¡±
J. Display Technol. 7,
674-678 (Dec. 2011). 21.
Y.
Chen, J. Yan, J. Sun, S. T. Wu, X. Liang, S. H. Liu, P. J.
Hsieh, K. L. Cheng, and J. W. Shiu, ¡°A microsecond-
response polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal,¡± Appl. Phys.
Lett. 99, 201105 (Nov. 15,
2011). 22.
Y. Li, Y. Chen, J. Sun, S. T. Wu, S. H. Liu,
P. J. Hsieh, K. L. Cheng, and J. W. Shiu, ¡°Dielectric
dispersion on the Kerr constant of blue phase liquid crystals,¡± Appl.
Phys. Lett. 99, 181126 (Oct.
31, 2011). 23.
Y.
Chen, J. Sun, H. Xianyu, S. T. Wu, X. Liang, and H. Tang, ¡°High birefringence
fluoro-terphenyls for thin-cell-gap TFT-LCDs,¡± J. Display Technol. 7, 478-481 (Sept. 2011). 24.
J. Sun, H. Xianyu, Y. Chen, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Submillisecond-response
polymer network liquid crystal phase modulators at 1.06-mm wavelength,¡±
Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 021106
(July 11, 2011). 25.
Y.
Chen, H. Xianyu, J. Sun, P. Kula, R. Dabrowski, S.
Tripathi, R. J. Twieg, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Low absorption
liquid crystals for mid-wave infrared applications,¡± Opt. Express 19, 10843-10848 (May 23, 2011). 26. Q.
Yang, X. Jiang, X. Guo, Y. Chen,
and L. Tong, ¡°Hybrid
structure laser based on semiconductor nanowires and a silica microfiber knot
cavity¡±, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94,
101108 (2009). 27. Y. Chen,
Z. Ma, Q. Yang, and L. Tong, ¡°Compact optical short-pass
filters based on microfibers¡±, Optics Lett. 33, 2565 (2008). 28. X. Jiang, Y. Chen, G. Vienne, and Limin Tong, ¡°All-fiber add-drop filters based on microfiber knot resonators¡±, Optics Lett. 32, 1710 (2007). Book chapter: 1. Y. Chen, J. Sun and S. T. Wu, ¡°Submillisecond response liquid crystals for display and
photonics devices¡±, in book ¡°Progress in Liquid Crystal (LC) Science and
Technology¡±, (World Scientific, 2013) Conference
proceedings: 1.
(Distinguished
student paper award) Y. Chen, J.
Yan, M. Schadt, S. H. Liu, K. L. Cheng, J. W. Shiu,
and S. T. Wu, ¡°Diluter effects on large dielectric anisotropy blue phase
liquid crystals¡±, SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech.
Papers, 45, 1392 (2014, San Diego, CA) 2.
(Distinguished
student paper award) D. Xu, Y. Chen,
Y. Liu, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Low-voltage and high-transmittance blue-phase liquid
crystal displays,¡± SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech.
Papers, 45, 168 (2014, San Diego, CA) 3.
(Distinguished
student paper award) Z. Luo, Y. Chen,
and S. T. Wu, ¡°Quantum Dots-enhanced LCD color and optical efficiency,¡± SID
Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, 45, 245 (2014, San
Diego, CA) 4.
(Invited
paper) Y. Chen and S. T. Wu, ¡°The
outlook for blue-phase LCDs¡±, Proc. SPIE 9005, 900508 1-7 (2014, San
Francisco, CA) 5.
(Invited
paper) Z. Luo, S. Xu, Y. Chen, Y.
Liu and S. T. Wu, ¡°Prospects of quantum dots-based liquid crystal displays,¡±
Proc. SPIE 9005, 90050G 1-7 (2014, San Francisco, CA) 6.
Y. Chen, F. Peng, T. Yamaguchi, X. Song and
S.-T. Wu, ¡°High Birefringence Negative Dielectric Anisotropy Liquid Crystals
for Display Applications¡±, IMID 2013, Daegu, Korea 7.
(Distinguished student paper award) Y. Chen, Z. Luo, F. Peng, and S. T.
Wu, ¡°High performance fringe-field switching
with a negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal¡±, SID Int.
Symp. Digest Tech. Papers (2013). 8.
Y. Chen, F. Peng, and S. T. Wu, ¡°A vertically-aligned LCOS with
submillisecond response time¡±, SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers (2013). 9.
(Invited talk) Y. Chen, Z. Luo, F. Peng, and S. T. Wu, ¡°Next generation mobile
LCDs¡±, 2nd Symposium on Liquid Crystal Photonics, Chengdu, China (2013). 10.Y.
Chen, J. Yan, J. Sun, S. T. Wu, X. Liang, S. H.
Liu, P. J. Hsieh K. L. Cheng, and J. W. Shiu, ¡°A microsecond-response blue phase liquid
crystal device¡±, SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers 43,
98(2012). 11. Y. Li, Y. Chen, J. Sun,
S. T Wu, S. H. Liu, P. J. Hsieh, K. L. Cheng, J. W. Shiu, S. I.
Yamamoto, and Y. Haseba, ¡°Frequency effects on polymer-stabilized
blue-phase liquid crystals¡±, SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers 43,
22 (2012). 12. J. Yan, Y. Chen, S. T. Wu, S. H. Liu, K. L. Cheng, and J. W. Shiu,
¡°Dynamic decay processes of a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal¡±,
SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers 43, 102 (2012). 13. J. Sun, Y. Chen, S. T. Wu and R. A. Ramsey, ¡°Submillisecond response
sheared polymer network liquid crystals for 3D displays¡±, SID Int. Symp.
Digest Tech. Papers 42, 82 (2011). 14.Y. Chen, H. Xianyu, J. Sun, and S. T. Wu, ¡°High-birefringence fluoro-terphenyls for thin-cell-gap LCDs,¡± SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers 42, 1681 (2011). |