Photonics and Display Group Linghui Rao 饶玲晖 Ph. D student in Optics Email:   lrao@creol.ucf.edu Office:  Room 283, CREOL Phone:  (407) 823-6876 Fax:      (407) 823-6880 University of Central Florida College of Optics & Photonics: CREOL & FPCE 4000 Central Florida Blvd. P.O. Box 162700 Orlando, Florida 32816-2700

Education
09/2007-Present	Ph. D Candidate in Optics, CREOL: The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
09/2003-06/2007	B.S. in Optical Science and Technology, School of Optoelectronics Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei Province, P. R. China

Honors and Awards
03/2012 07/2011 03/2011	SID Student Travel Grant Award (SID12’, Boston, MA, USA) IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award (10 recipients worldwide) UCF Who’s Who Among Students Award
03/2011	Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Oversea Chinese Students
02/2011	SID Student Travel Grant Award (SID11’, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
05/2010	Distinguished Paper Award for SID10’ annual meeting SID Student Travel Grant Award (SID10’, Seattle, WA, USA)
04/2010	SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering
03/2010	Robert-Bosch student paper award, Electronic Displays Conference 10’ (Nuremberg, Germany)
06/2009	Society of Information Display Student Travel Grant Award (SID09’, San Antonio, TX, USA)
06/2007	Graduation with Honor from HUST
12/2006	Research Innovation Award from HUST (0.04%)
03/2006	Excellence Award in Interpretation Contest of Hubei Province, P. R. China
09/2005	Excellent Student Leadership Award from HUST
09/2004 – 09/2006	Outstanding Student Award, First Class Scholarship from HUST
03/2004	First Class Scholarship of HUST (Top 1)

Leadership and Service

09/2009 – 10/2010         President of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF Student Branch

09/2008 – 08/2009         Vice President of Society of Information Display (SID) UCF Student Branch

07/2008 – 07/2009  Vice President of Chinese Students & Scholars Association at UCF

Journal Publications:

1. 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. of Disp. Tech. 7, 674-678 (Dec. 2011)
2. L. Rao, J. Yan, S. T. Wu, Y. H. Chiu, H. Y. Chen, C. C. Liang, C. M. Wu, P. J. Hsieh, S. H. Liu, and K. L. Cheng,  “Critical field for a hysteresis-free blue-phase liquid crystal device,” J. Display Technol. 7, 627-629 (Dec. 2011).
3. J. Yan, L. Rao, M. Jiao, Y. Li, H. 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).
4. Linghui Rao, Jin Yan, and S. T. Wu, “A large Kerr constant polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 081109 (Feb. 2011).
5. Linghui Rao, Jin Yan, and S. T. Wu “Prospects of emerging polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal displays”, J. Soc. Info. Disp., 18, 954-959 (November, 2010).
6. Linghui Rao, Hui-Chuan Cheng, and S. T. Wu, “Low Voltage Blue-Phase LCDs with Double-Penetrating Fringe Fields”, IEEE/OSA J. Display Technology, 6, 287-289 (August, 2010).
7. Linghui Rao, Zhibing Ge, Sebastian Gauza, Kuan-Ming Chen, and Shin-Tson Wu, “Emerging liquid crystal displays based on the Kerr effect”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 526, 185–197 (July, 2010)
8. Jin Yan, Meizi Jiao, Linghui Rao, and Shin-Tson Wu, “Direct measurement of electric-field-induced birefringence in a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal composite”, Optics Express, 18, 11450-11455 (May, 2010)
9. Hui-Chuan Cheng, Linghui Rao, Shin-Tson Wu, “Color Breakup Suppression in Field-Sequential Five-Primary-Color LCDs”, IEEE/OSA J. Display Technology, 6, 229-234 (April, 2010).
10. Linghui Rao, Zhibing Ge, and Shin-Tson Wu “Zigzag electrodes for suppressing the color shift of Kerr effect-based Liquid Crystal Displays”, IEEE/OSA J. Display Technology, 6, 115-120 (April, 2010).
11. Sukin Yoon, Miyoung Kim, Min Su Kim, Byeong Gyun Kang, Mi-Kyung Kim, Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Seung Hee Lee, Zhibing Ge, Linghui Rao, Sebastian Gauza, and Shin-Tson Wu, “Optimization of Electrode Structure to Improve the Electro-Optic Characteristics of Liquid Crystal Display Based on Kerr Effect”, Liq. Cryst., 37, 201-208 (Feb. 2010).
12. L. Rao, Z. Ge, and S. T. Wu, “Viewing angle controllable displays with a blue-phase liquid crystal cell”, Opt. Express, 18, 3143-3148 (Feb. 2010). (Highlighted by Nature Photonics)
13. J. Yan, H. C. Cheng, S. Gauza, Y. Li, M. Jiao, L. Rao, and S. T. Wu, “Extended Kerr effect in polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 96, 071105. (Feb. 2010)
14. Linghui Rao, Zhibing Ge, Shin-Tson Wu, “Low driving voltage blue phase liquid crystal displays”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 231101 (Dec. 2009).
15. Miyoung Kim, Min Su Kim, Byeong Gyun Kang, Mi-Kyung Kim, Sukin Yoon, Seung Hee Lee, Zhibing Ge, Linghui Rao, Sebastian Gauza and Shin-Tson Wu, “Wall-shaped electrodes for reducing the operation voltage of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal displays”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 42, 235502 (Nov. 2009).
16. Z. Ge, L. Rao, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu, "Modeling of blue phase liquid crystal displays", IEEE/OSA J. Display Technology, 5, 250-256 (Jul. 2009).
17. Linghui Rao, Sebastian Gauza, and Shin-Tson Wu, “Low temperature effects on the response time of liquid crystal displays”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 071112 (Feb. 2009).

Conference Proceedings/Presentations:

Oral presentations:

1. L. Rao, J. Yan, S. T. Wu, S. Yamamoto, and Y. Haseba, “Hysteresis-free blue-phase LCDs”, SID annual meeting, Boston, MA, May 2011. (Accepted)
2. L. Rao, J. Yan, and S. T. Wu “Temperature effect on polymer-stabilized blue-phase LCDs”, SID annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 2011.
3. L. Rao, Z. Ge, and S. T. Wu, “Emerging blue phase liquid crystal displays”, SPIE Optics+Photonics 2010, San Diego, CA, August, 2010. (Invited Paper)
4. L. Rao, Z. Ge, and S. T. Wu, “Low voltage blue phase LCDs with patterned electrodes”, SID annual meeting, Seattle, WA, May, 2010. (Distinguished Student Paper)
5. L. Rao, Z. Ge and S. T. Wu, “Viewing angle controllable displays using a blue phase liquid crystal cell”, SID annual meeting 2010, Seattle, WA, May, 2010.
6. L. Rao, and S. T. Wu, “Applications of blue phase liquid crystals”, FPD China 2010, Shanghai, China, March, 2010.
7. L. Rao, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu, “Low-Temperature Effect on the Liquid-Crystal Response Time of Mobile Displays”, SID Symposium Digest 09’, vol. 40, issue 1, 1000-1002. (San Antonio, TX, June, 2009)

Magazine Publications:

1. Linghui Rao, Zhibing Ge, Sebastian Gauza, Kuan-Ming Chen, Shin-Tson Wu and Seung Hee Lee, “Emerging LCDs based on the Kerr effect”, Information Display, Nov. 2009.

US Patent Pending:

1. Sebastian Gauza, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Linghui Rao, Hsu-Kuan Hsu, and Chao-Lung Chin, “Liquid crystals composition and liquid crystal display with patterned electrodes” (Oct. 2009).

Journal Reviewers:

J. Soc. Info. Disp.

Hobby:

Badminton

Useful links:

ISI citation SPIN Data Base Free Patent Database

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