Photonics and Display Group Liquid Crystal Displays Yan Li Ph. D. student (407) 823-6822 - Phone (407) 823-6880 - Fax yanli@creol.ucf.edu University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics: CREOL & FPCE 4000 Central Florida Boulevard PO Box 162700 Orlando, Florida 32816-2700

EDUCATION
08/2007-Present	Ph. D. student, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
09/2005-07/2007	M. S. in Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
09/2001-07/2005	B. S. in Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

AWARDS
2011	IEEE Orlando Section Scholarship
2011	Who's Who Among Students i American Universities & Colleges
2011	SID distinguished student paper award
2009	SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science & Engineering
2008	Journal of the Society for Information Display Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award
2005-2006	Zhejiang University  first-grade scholarship, Enterprise Scholarship
2004-2005	Excellent Undergraduate Thesis in Zhejiang University
2003-2004	“Yaguang Scholarship” , Zhejiang University third-grade scholarship ,  The title of Excellent All-round Student
2002-2003	Zhejiang University second-grade scholarship
2001-2002	Zhejiang University third-grade scholarship

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

2009.9-2010.9                                                     Chair of IEEE Photonics society UCF Student Branch

2008.9- 2009.8                                                    Chair of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF Student Branch

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. Yan. 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).

2. Yan. Li, Y. Liu, Q. Li, and S. T. Wu, “Polarization independent blue-phase cylindrical lens with a resistive film,” Appl. Opt. 51, 2568-2572 (May 10, 2012).

3. Yan. 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).

4. C. T. Lee, Yan Li,  H. Y. Lin and S.T. Wu, " Design of polarization-insensitive multi-electrode GRIN lens with a blue-phase liquid crystal," Opt. Express, 19, 17402-17407(2011).

5. Yan Li and S. T. Wu, “Transmissive and transflective blue-phase LCDs with enhanced protrusion electrodes,” J. Display Technol. 7, 359-361 (July, 2011).

6. J. Yan, L. Rao, M Jiao, Yan Li, H. C. Cheng, and S. T. Wu, “Polymer-stabilized optically isotropic liquid crystals for next-generation display and photonics applications,” (Feature article) J. Mater. Chem. 21, 7870-7877 (2011).

7. Yan Li and S. T. Wu, “Polarization independent adaptive microlens with a blue-phase liquid crystal,” Opt. Express 19, 8045-8050 (April 25, 2011).

8. J. Yan, Yan Li, and S. T. Wu, "High-efficiency and fast-response tunable phase grating using a blue phase liquid crystal," Opt. Lett. 36, 1404-1406 (2011).

9. Yan Li, M. Jiao and S. T. Wu," Transflective display using a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal", Opt. Express 18, 16486-16491 (Aug. 2010).

10. J. Yan, H. C. Cheng, S. Gauza, Yan Li, M. Jiao, L. Rao, and S. T. Wu, “Extended Kerr effect of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 071105 (Feb. 15, 2010).  

11. M. Jiao, Yan Li, and S. T. Wu, “Low voltage and high transmittance blue-phase liquid crystal displays with corrugated electrodes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 011102 (Jan. 4, 2010).

12. Yan Li, T. X. Wu, S. T. Wu, "Broadband wide-incident-angle polarization converter using liquid crystal films," J. Soc. Info. Display 17, 849-852 (Oct. 2009).

13. Yan Li, T. X. Wu, and S. T. Wu, "Design optimization of reflective polarizers for LCD backlight recycling,"
    J. Display Technology  5, 335-340（Aug. 2009）

14. Yan Li, Z. Ge, and S. T. Wu, "A simple transflective LCD for mobile applications," J. Display Technology 5, 319-322（Aug. 2009）.

15. M. Jiao, S. Gauza, Yan Li, J. Yan, S. T. Wu, and T. Chiba, "Negative A-plates for broadband wide-view liquid crystal displays", Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 101107 (Mar. 2009).

16. Yan Li, Z. Ge, R. Lu, M. Jiao, S. T. Wu, "Fast-response liquid crystal displays using crossed fringe fields,"
    J. Soc. Info. Display 16, 1069-1074 (Oct. 2008).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

1.  Yan. Li and S. T. Wu, "Polarization independent adaptive mircrolens array using a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal", SID 2011, Los Angeles, CA, 2011.
2. Yan. Li, M. Jiao and S. T. Wu, “ A wide-view transflective display using a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal”, SPIE Photonics West, Invited Talk, San Francisco, CA. (2011)
3. M. Jiao, Yan. Li, and S. T. Wu, “Low voltage and high transmittance blue-phase liquid crystal displays with corrugated electrodes”, SID 2010, Seattle, WA, pp167-169.  (2010).
4. S. T. Wu, Z. Ge, C. C. Tsai, M. Jiao, S. Gauza, and Yan. Li, "Enhancing the energy efficiency of TFT-LCDs", SID 2009 Invited Talk, San antonio, TX, pp 1655-1657. (2009).
5. Yan Li, Z.Ge, S.T.Wu, "A simple transflective LCD for mobile display applications" SID 2009, San antonio, TX, pp 1655-1657. (2009)
6. Yan Li, Z. Ge, R. Lu, M. Jiao, S. T. Wu ,  " Wide-view and fast-response LCDs using crossed fringe field switching effect",   International Display Research Conference, Orlando, FL, pp 237-240.( 2008)

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