Educational History

      08.2001~Present:  PhD student, School of Optics/CREOL,
                                       University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

      08.2001~12.2003: M.S. in Optics, School of Optics/CREOL,

                                       University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

      08.1997~06.2001: B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry,

                                       National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan  

   Awards

      12/2005      3^rd place of First-author Paper Award

      10/2005      President of SID Florida Student Chapter

      05/2005      2^nd place of the 16th Chinese-American Scholar Association of Florida student paper contest

      05/2005      2005 SID Travel Grant Award

      02/2005      2005 UCF Graduate Student Travel Award

      01/2005      2005 Newport Research Excellence Award

      01/2005      2005 SPIE Student Travel Contingency Award

  US patent applications

      Chien-Hui Wen and Shin-Tson Wu," Method of aligning negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystals", filed on May/2005,

        Serial No. 11/110,208, Attorney’s Docket No. UCF-542.

   Publications 

1. C. H. Wen, B. Wu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu
   " Dopant-enhanced vertical alignment of lateral fluorinated liquid crystals"
   Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Accepted, 2006)
   　

2. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, and S. T. Wu
   " Isothiocyanato-tolanes based high birefringence and fast response time mixtures for photonic applications"
   Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Accepted, 2006)
   　

3. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, B. Wu, and S. T. Wu
   " Fast-response nematic liquid crystal mixtures"
   J. SID 14, 241-246 (March 2006).
   　

4. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, B. Wu, and S. T. Wu
   " High-figure-of-merit- nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals"
   Liq. Cryst. (Accepted. 2005)
   　

5. C.H. Wen, B. Wu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
   " Dopant-Induced Contrast Enhancement of Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Cells"
   J. Display Technology 2, 234 (Dec. 2005).
   　

6. C.H. Wen, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
   " High-contrast vertical alignment of lateral difluoro-terphenyl liquid crystals"
   Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 191106 (Nov. 2005)
   　

7. H. Ren, Y. H. Lin, C.H. Wen, and S. T. Wu,
   " Polarization-independent phase modulation of a homeotropic liquid crystal gel"
   Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 191106 (Nov. 2005)
   　

8. C.H. Wen, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
   " Photostability of liquid crystals and alignment layers"
   J. SID, 13, 805-811 (Sept. 2005)
   　

9. C.H. Wen and S.T. Wu,
   " Dielectric heating effects of dual-frequency liquid crystals"
   Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 231104 (Jun, 6, 2005)
   　

10. C.H. Wen, S. Gauza, J. Li, H. Wang, and S. T. Wu,
    "High-contrast homeotropic alignment of difluoro-tolane liquid crystals"
    Liq. Cryst.,  32, 643-649 (May. 2005)
    　

11. (Invited review paper) J. Li, C. H. Wen, S. Gauza, Ruibo Lu and S. T. Wu,
    "Refractive indices of liquid crystals for display Applications"
     J. Display Technology 1, 51 (Sept. 2005).
    　

12. C.H. Wen, S. Gauza and S.T. Wu,
    " Ultraviolet stability of liquid crystals containing cyano and isothiocyanato terminal groups"
    Liq. Cryst., 31,1479-1485 (Nov. 2004)
    　

13. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, B. Tan and S.T. Wu,
    "UV Stable High Birefringence Liquid Crystals"

    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 43, 7176-7180 (Oct. 2004)
    　

14. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, S.T. Wu, N. Janarthanan, and C. S. Hsu

    "Super high birefringence isothiocyanato biphenyl-bistolane liquid crystals"
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.,  43, 7634-8 (Nov. 2004).

    　

15. S. Gauza, H. Wang, C. H. Wen, S. T. Wu, A. Seed, and R. Dabrowski,
    “High birefringence isothiocyanato tolane liquid crystals”
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part I, 42, 3463-3466 (Jun. 2003).

  Conference Proceeding

1. (Invited paper) C. H. Wen, B. Wu, S. Gauza, and S.T. Wu,

   "Vertical alignment of high birefringence and negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystals for projection display"
    Proc. SPIE (Jan., 2006)

   　

2. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, and S.T. Wu,

   "Isothiocyanato-tolanes based high birefringence and fast response time mixtures for photonic applications"
   11th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals (Oct., 2005)

   　

3. C. H. Wen, B. Wu, S. Gauza and S.T. Wu,

   "Dopant-enhanced Vertical alignment of lateral fluorinated liquid crystals"
   11th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals (Oct., 2005)

   　

4. C. H. Wen, B. Wu, H. Wang, and S.T. Wu,

   "On the dielectric heating effects of dual-frequency liquid crystals"
   Proc. SPIE, 5947, 83-90 (Aug., 2005)

   　

5. (Invited paper) S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, and S.T. Wu,

   "High birefringence liquid crystals for photonic applications"
   Proc. SPIE, 5947, 51-64 (Aug., 2005)

   　

6. C. H. Wen, S. Gauza, J. Li,  H. Wang, S.T. Wu and X. Liang,

   "High contrast homeotropic alignment of difluoro-tolane liquid crystals"
   SID Digest 36, 1466-1469 (May, 2005)

   　

7. (Invited paper) C.H. Wen, S. Gauza and S.T. Wu,
   "Ultraviolet stability of liquid crystal alignment layers and mixtures"
   SPIE, Projection Displays XI, 5740, 67-75 (Jan. 25-27, 2005)
   　

8. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, B. Tan, Y. H. Wu, Y. H. Lin and S. T. Wu,
   "High-birefringnece and low-viscosity isothiocyaniane liquid crystals and applications to 50-µs response switching device"
   SID Tech. Digest 35, 1304-7 (May, 2004).
   　

9. (Invited paper) C. H. Wen, Y. H. Fan, S. T. Wu, R. Dabrowski, O. Catanescu and L. C. Chien,
   “Side chain effects on high birefringence liquid crystals”
    Proc. SPIE, 4658, 28-34 (Jan., 2002).

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