Photonics and Display Group
 

Liquid Crystal Materials

Dr. Sebastian Gauza
Research Scientist


(407) 823-4407 - Phone
(407) 823-6880 - Fax
sgauza@mail.ucf.edu

University of Central Florida
College of Optics & Photonics/CREOL/FPCE
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
PO Box 162700
Orlando, Florida 32816-2700



Educational History
1997-2001 Ph.D. in Dept. of Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. Dissertation for Doctor's Degree: "Antiferroelectric induced phase" – supervisor Prof. K. Czupryński
1992-1996 M.Sc. in Dept. of Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. Last two years - intensive study of the methods of physico-chemical analysis of organic compounds on individually way under supervising Prof. R. Dąbrowski. Master’s thesis: "Investigations of the selective light reflection in liquid crystals mixtures with SmAd phase"

Professional Experience
2002-Present Research scientist in the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
2001-2002 Lecturer/researcher in the Dept. in Dept. of Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
   

 

Book Chapters

Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices (Optical Science and Engineering)1. S. Gauza, "Organic Liquid Crystal Optoelectronic Materials and Devices", Chapter 26 in  "Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices", Taylor and Francis 2008, ed. S.S.Sun and L.R.Dalton

                        2. S. Gauza and S.T. Wu, "Liquid Crystals", Chapter 8 in "Handbook of Optics", McGraw-Hill Inc. 2009, ed. M. Bass

 

     

                                                                                                         

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Journal Publications


2009

  1. S. Gauza, A. Parish, S. T. Wu, A. Spadło, and R. Dąbrowski,
    Fast switching in the vicinity of smectic-to-nematic phase transition in high birefringence isothiocyanate mixtures
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. (Accepted, 2009)

  2. Q. Song, S. Gauza, J. Sun, S. T. Wu, and X. Liang
    Diluters' effects on high Dn and low viscosity negative De terphenyl liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. (Accepted, 2009)

  3. Z. Ge, L. Rao, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Modeling of blue phase liquid crystal displays
    J. Display Technology 5,  250-256 (July 2009)

  4. C. Y. Chang, K. W.  Ho, C. S. Hsu, C. H. Lin, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of
    a-methylstilbene-based liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 36, 425-433 (April 2009)

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

  6. Z. Ge, S. Gauza, M. Jiao, H. Xianyu, and S. T. Wu,
    Electro-optics of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal displays
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 101104 (March 2009)

  7. L. Scolari, S. Gauza, H. Xianyu, L. Zhai, L. Eskildsen, T. T. Alkeskjold,  S. T. Wu, and A. Bjarklev,
    Frequency tunability of solid-core photonic crystal fibers filled with nanoparticle-doped liquid crystals

    Optics Express 17, 3754-3764 (February 2009)

  8. L. Rao, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Low temperature effects on the response time of liquid crystal displays
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 071112 (February 2009)

  9. J. Dziaduszek, R. Dąbrowski, A. Ziółek, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Syntheses and mesomorphic properties of laterally fluorinated phenyl isothiocyanatotolanes and their high birefringent mixtures
    Opto-Electronics Rev. 17, 20-24 (January 2009)

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2008

  1. S. Gauza, M. Jiao, S. T. Wu, P. Kula, R. Dąbrowski, and X. Liang,
    High birefringence and low viscosity negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 1401-1408 (Dec 2008)

  2. H. Xianyu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu, 
    Submillisecond response phase modulator using a low crossover frequency dual frequency liquid crystal
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 1409-1413 (December 2008)

  3. M. N. Petersen, L. Scolari, T. Tokle, T. T. Alkeskjold, S. Gauza, S. T. Wu, and A. Bjarklev,
    Noise filtering in a multi-channel system using a tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber
    Opt. Express 16, 20067-20072 (November 2008)

  4. H. Xianyu, Y. Zhao, S. Gauza, X. Liang, and S. T. Wu,
    High performance dual frequency liquid crystal compounds
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 1129-1135 (September 2008)

  5. S. Gauza, A. Parish, S. T. Wu, A. Spadło, and R. Dąbrowski,
    Physical properties of laterally fluorinated isothiocyanato phenyl-tolane single liquid crystals components and mixtures
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 489, 135-147 (Aug 2008)

  6. A. Parish, S. Gauza, S. T. Wu, J. Dziaduszek, and R. Dąbrowski,
    New fluorinated terphenyl isothiocyanate liquid crystal single compounds and mixtures
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 489, 22-39 (Aug 2008)

  7. Q. Song, H. Xianyu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    High birefringence and low crossover frequency dual-frequency liquid crystals
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 488, 179-189 (Aug 2008).

  8. S. Gauza, A. Parish, S. T. Wu, A. Spadło, and R. Dąbrowski
    Fast switching near smectic-to-nematic phase transition
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 711-717 (June, 2008).

  9. S. Gauza, A. Parish, S. T. Wu, A. Spadło, and R. Dąbrowski
    "Physical properties of laterally fluorinated isothiocyanato phenyltolane liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 483-488 (April, 2008)

  10. T. T. Alkeskjold, L. Scolari, D. Noordegraaf, J. Lægsgaard, J. Weirich, L. Wei, G. Tartarini, P. Bassi, S. Gauza, S. T. Wu · and A. Bjarklev,
    Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers
    Opt. Quant. Electron. 39, 1009-1019 (April 2008).

  11. A. Parish, S. Gauza, S. T. Wu, J. Dziaduszek, and R. Dąbrowski
    New fluorinated terphenyl isothiocyanate liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 79-86 (Jan. 2008)

  12. C. Y. Chang, S. Y. Chien, C. S. Hsu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Synthesis of laterally substituted a-methylstilbene-tolane liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 35, 1-9 (Jan. 2008)

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2007

  1. S. Gauza, Y. Zhao, T. Le Cor, S. T. Wu, A. Ziółek, R. Dąbrowski, O. Catanescu, L. C. Chien, and C. S. Hsu,
    High
    Figure-of-Merit laterally fluorinated phenyltolane-isothiocyanates
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 479, 169-179 (December. 2007)

  2. H. Xianyu, S. Gauza, Q. Song, and S. T. Wu,
    High birefringence and large negative dielectric anisotropy phenyl-tolane liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 34, 1473-1478 (December. 2007)

  3. S. Gauza, X. Zhu, S. T. Wu, W. Piecek, and R. Dąbrowski,
    Fast switching liquid crystals for color-sequential LCDs
    J. Display Technology 3, 250-252 (Sept. 2007)

  4. Y. M. Liao, H. L. Chen, C. S. Hsu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of super high birefringence isothiocyanato bistolane liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 34, 507-517 (April, 2007)

  5. R. Dąbrowski, J. Dziaduszek, A. Ziółek, L. Szczuciński, Z. Stolarz, G. Sasnouski, V. Bezborodov, W. Lapanik, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Low viscosity, high birefringence liquid crystalline compounds and mixtures
    Opto-Electronics Review 15, 47-51 Jan. 2007)

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2006

  1. S.Gauza, Y.Zhao, T.Le Cor, S.T.Wu, A.Ziółek, R.Dąbrowski, C.O.Catanescu, and L.C.Chien,
    Enhancing birefringence by doping fluorinated biphenyl-tolanes
    J. Display Technology 2, 327-332 (December 2006)

  2. W.Piecek, Z.Raszewski, P.Perkowski, J.Kędzierski, J.Zieliński, R.Dąbrowski, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    A study of binary liquid-crystalline mixtures with wide antiferroelectric phase
    Ferroelectrics 343, 225-232 (December 2006)

  3. Y.M.Liao, N.Janarthanan, C.S.Hsu, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluoro and isothiocyanato biphenyl tolane liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 33, 1199-1206 (October 2006)

  4. S.Gauza, C.H.Wen, B.Wu, S.T.Wu, A.Spadło, and R.Dąbrowski,
    High figure-of-merit nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals
    Liq. Cryst. 33, 705-710 (June 2006)

  5. S.Gauza, S.T.Wu, A.Spadło, and R.Dąbrowski,
    High performance room temperature nematic liquid crystals based on laterally fluorinated isothiocyanato-tolanes
    J. Display Technology (September 2006)

  6. J.Li, S.Gauza, S.T.Wu, T.T.Alkeskjold, J.Lægsgaard, and A.Bjarklev,
    High dno/dT liquid crystals and their applications in a thermally tunable liquid crystal photonic crystal fiber
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 355-370 (2006)

  7. Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, Y.H.Wu, Y.Zhou, and S.T.Wu,
    High contrast and fast response polarization-independent reflective display using a dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal gel
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 371-378 (2006)

  8. C.H.Wen, B.Wu, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Dopant-enhanced vertical alignment of lateral fluorinated liquid crystals
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 454, 323-332 (2006)

  9. S.Gauza, C.H.Wen, Y.Zhao, S.T.Wu, A.Ziółek, and R.Dąbrowski,
    Isothiocyanato-tolanes based high birefringence and fast response time mixtures for photonic applications
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453, 215-226 (2006)

  10. S.Gauza, C.H.Wen, B.Wu, S.T.Wu, A.Spadło, and R.Dąbrowski,
    Fast-response nematic liquid crystal mixtures
    J. SID 14, 241-246 (March 2006)

  11. T.T. Alkeskjold, J.Lægsgaard, A.Bjarklev, D.S.Hermann, J.Broeng, J.Li, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Highly tunable large-core single-mode liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber
    Appl. Opt. 45, 2261-2264 (April 2006)

  12. Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, Y.H.Wu, Y.Zhao, J.Fang, and S.T.Wu,
    IPS-LCD using a glass substrate and an anisotropic polymer film
    J. Display Technology 2, 21-25 (March 2006)

  13. H.Wang, T.X.Wu, S.Gauza, J.R.Wu, and S.T.Wu,
    A method to estimate the Leslie coefficients of liquid crystals based on MBBA data

    Liq. Cryst. 33, 91-98 (January 2006)

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2005

  1. Y.H.Lin, H.W.Ren, K.H.Fan-Chiang, W.K.Choi, S.Gauza, X.Zhu, and S.T.Wu,
    Tunable-focus cylindrical liquid crystal lens,
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44, 243-244 (January 2005)

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

  3. S.Gauza, J.Li, S.T.Wu, A.Spadło, R.Dąbrowski, Y.N.Tzeng, and K.L.Cheng,
    High birefringence and high resistivity isothiocyanate-based nematic liquid crystal mixtures
    Liq. Cryst. 32, 1077-1085 (August 2005)

  4. J.Li, C.H.Wen, S.Gauza, R.Lu, and S.T.Wu,
    Refractive indices of liquid crystals for display applications
    (Invited review paper) J. Display Technology 1, 51-61 (September 2005)

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

  6. A.Spadło, R.Dąbrowski, J.Dziaduszek, E.Ścibior, S.Urban, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Liquid crystalline materials with high birefringence
    J. Optical Technology 72,  659-661 (September 2005)

  7. C.H.Wen, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    High-contrast vertical alignment of lateral difluoro-terphenyl liquid crystals
    Appl. Phys. Lett.  87, 191909 (November 2005)

  8. Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, Y.H.Wu, X.Liang, and S.T.Wu,
    Reflective direct-view display using a dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal gel
    J. Display Technology 1, 230-233 (December 2005)

  9. C.H.Wen, S.Gauza, B.Wu, and S.T.Wu,
    Dopant-induced contrast enhancement of vertically aligned liquid crystal cells
    J. Display Technology 1, 234-239 (December 2005)

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2004

  1. H.W.Ren, Y.H.Fan, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Tunable microlens arrays using polymer network liquid crystal
    Opt. Comm. 230, 267-271 (Feb, 2004)

  2. H.W.Ren, Y.H.Fan, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Tunable-focus cylindrical liuid crystal lens
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 652-653 (Feb, 2004)

  3. Y. H. Fan, Y. H. Lin, H. W. Ren, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Fast-response and scattering-free polymer network liquid crystals
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1233-5 (Feb, 2004)

  4. J. Li, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    High temperature-gradient refractive index liquid crystals
    Opt. Express 12, 2002-10 (May, 2004)

  5. H. W. Ren, Y. H. Fan, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Tunable-focus flat liquid crystal spherical lens
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 4789-91 (June, 2004)

  6. J. Li, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Temperature effect on the liquid crystal refractive indices
    J. Appl. Phys. 96, 19-24 (July, 2004)

  7. F. Du, Y. Q. Lu, H. W. Ren, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal for polarization independent variable optical attenuator
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 7083-6 (Oct. 2004)

  8. S. Gauza, C. H. Wen, B. J. Tan, and S. T. Wu,
    UV stable high birefringence liquid crystals
    Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 7176-80 (Oct. 2004)

  9. 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)

  10. C. H. Wen, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Ultraviolet stability of liquid crystals containing cyano and isothiocyanato terminal groups
    Liq. Cryst. 31, 1479-85 (Nov. 2004)

  11. J. Rutkowska, P. Perkowski, J. Kędzierski, Z. Raszewski, S. Kłosowicz, R. Dąbrowski, K. Czupryński, S. Gauza,
    Investigation of the SmCg* Phase by Dielectric Measurements
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (2004)

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2003

  1. A. Spadło, R. Dąbrowski, M. Filipowicz, Z. Stolarz, J. Przedmojski, S. Gauza, Y. H. Fan, and S. T. Wu,
    Synthesis, Mesomorphic and Optical Properties of Isothiocyanatotolanes
    Liq. Cryst. 30, 191-8 (Feb. 2003)

  2. S. Gauza, H. Wang, C. H. Wen, S. T. Wu, A. Seed, and R. Dąbrowski,
    High birefringence isothiocyanato tolane liquid crystals
    Jpn. J. Applied Physics, Part I 42, 3463-66 (June, 2003)

  3. F. Du, S. Gauza,  and S. T. Wu
    Influence of curing temperature and high birefringence on the properties of polymer-stabilized liquid crystals
    Optics Express 11, 2891-6 (Nov. 3, 2003)

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2002

  1. S.Gauza, R.Dąbrowski, K.Czupryński, W.Drzewiński, and K.Kenig,
    Induced antiferroelectric smectic CA* phase. Structural correlations
    Ferroelectrics, 276, 207 (2002)

  2. K. Czupryński, S. Gauza, and W. Drzewiński,
    DSC Studies Of Systems With Induced Antiferroelectric Phase
    Ferroelectrics, 276, 197 (2002)

  3. R.Dąbrowski, J.M.Oton, V.Uruchi, J.L.Gayo, K.Czupryński, and S.Gauza,
    Induced antiferroelectric phase in multicomponent systems
    Polish Journal of Chemistry, 76(2-3), 331 (2002)

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1997-2001

  1. S.Gauza, K.Czupryński, R.Dąbrowski, W.Kuczyński, and D.Pociecha,
    Bicomponent systems with induced antiferroelectric SmC*A phase
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 365, 189 (2001)

  2. R.Dąbrowski, W.Drzewiński, K.Czupryński, S.Gauza, K.Kenig, W.Kuczyński, and F.Goc,
    Systems with enhanced antiferroelectric Phase. Phase diagrams, dielectric and electro-optic studies
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 365, 199 (2001)

  3. J. Rutkowska, J. Kędzierski, Z. Raszewski, P. Perkowski, R. Dąbrowski, K. Czupryński,and S.Gauza,
    Properties of system with induced SmC*A phase
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 366, 617 (2001)

  4. S.Gauza, K.Czupryński, R.Dąbrowski, K.Kenig, W.Kuczyński, and F. Goc,
    Bicomponent Systems with Induced or Enhanced Antiferroelectric SmCA* Phase
    Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst.,351, 287 (2000)

  5. S.Gauza, R.Dąbrowski, J.Dziaduszek, and K.Czupryński,
    Synthesis, mesomorphic properties and chemical stability of some fluoro terminally substituted acetylenes
    Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst., 332, 2561 (1999)

  6. S.Gauza, M.Brodzik, R.Dąbrowski, J.Przedmojski, and B.Ważyńska,
    Influence of structure of two ring ester on the induction of smectic Ad phase in bicomponent mixtures containing a compound with virtual Ad phase
    Phase Transition, 60(4), 223 (1997)

  7. S.Gauza and M.Brodzik,
    Effect of polarity of liquid crystal compounds on the induction of smectic Ad phase
    Biul. WAT XLIV, 85 (1995)

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Conference Proceedings

2009

  1. S. Gauza, M. Jiao, P. Kula, R. Dąbrowski, X. Liang, and S.T. Wu,
    High Birefringence and Negative Dielectric Anisotropy Liquid Crystal Mixtures for Vertical Alignment Applications
    SID Symposium Digest 48, 992-995 (2009) (May 11 - June 5, San Antonio, TX)

  2. M. Jiao, S. Gauza, Y. Li, J. Yan, T. Chiba, and S.T. Wu,
    Negative A-Plates Using Stretched Polystyrene
    Late-News Paper, SID Symposium Digest 48, 590-592 (2009) (May 11 - June 5, San Antonio, TX)

  3. S.T. Wu, Z. Ge, C.C. Tsai, M. Jiao, S. Gauza, and Y. Li,
    Enhancing the Energy Efficiency of TFT-LCDs
    Invited Paper, SID Symposium Digest 48, 677-680 (2009) (May 11 - June 5, San Antonio, TX)

  4. Q. Song, S. Gauza, J. Sun, X. Liang, and S.T. Wu,
    Effects of Diluters on High Δn and Low Viscosity Negative Δε Liquid Crystals
    SID Symposium Digest 48, 996-999 (2009) (May 11 - June 5, San Antonio, TX)

  5. L. Rao, S. Gauza, X. Liang, and Shin-Tson Wu
    Low-Temperature Effect on the Liquid-Crystal Response Time of Mobile Displays
    SID Symposium Digest 48, 1000-1002 (2009) (May 11 - June 5, San Antonio, TX)

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2008

  1. S. Gauza, P. Kula, X. Liang, S.T. Wu, and R. Dąbrowski,
    High Birefringence and Low Viscosity Liquid Crystals with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy
    ILCC ICC Jeju, 3-MA11, June 29- July 4, 2008, Jeju, Korea

  2. S. Gauza, A. Parish, S.T. Wu, A. Spadło, and R. Dąbrowski,
    Fast switching in the vicinity of smectic-to-nematic phase transition in high birefringence
    isothiocyanate mixtures

    ILCC ICC Jeju, 3-MA10, June 29- July 4, 2008, Jeju, Korea

  3. S. Gauza,
    High birefringence liquid crystals for photonic and display applications
    Korean-Ukrainian-American (KUA) Joint Workshop “New Horizons of Liquid Crystals Science and Application II”, 2008, June 27-29, Jeonju, Korea

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2007

  1. S. Gauza, X. Zhu, S. T. Wu, W. Piecek, and R. Dąbrowski,
    High birefringence liquid crystals for color-sequential LCDs
    SID Symposium Digest 46, 142-145 (2007) (May 21-25, Long Beach, CA)

  2. H. Xianyu, Q. Song, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Large negative dielectric anisotropy and high birefringence liquid crystals
    SID Symposium Digest 46, 146-149 (2007) (May 21-25, Long Beach, CA)

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2006

  1. R. Dąbrowski, J. Dziaduszek, A. Ziółek, L. Szczuciński, Z. Stolarz, G. Sasnouski, V. Bezborodov, W.Lapanik, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Compounds and mixtures with high positive dielectric and optical anisotropy
    ILCC Keystone, Colorado, SYNTP-12, 2-7 July 2006

  2. S. Gauza, Y. Zhao, S.T. Wu, A. Ziółek, and R. Dąbrowski
    High Figure-of-Merit Laterally Fluorinated Biphenyltolane-isothiocyanates
    ILCC Keystone, Colorado, SYNTP-58, 2-7 July 2006

  3. J. Harriman, S. Gauza, S.T. Wu, D. Wick, B. Bagwell, T. Martinez, D. Payne and S. Serati
    Transmissive spatial light modulators with high figure-of-merit liquid crystals for foveated imaging applications
    (Invited paper) Proc. SPIE 6135, 61350C, January 2006

  4. C. H. Wen, B. Wu, S. Gauza, and S. T. Wu
    Vertical alignment of high birefringence and negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystals for projection displays
    (Invited paper) Proc. SPIE 6135, 61350U, January 2006

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2005

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

  2. C.H.Wen, S.Gauza, J.Li, S.T.Wu, H.Wang, and X.Liang
    High-contrast homeotropic alignment of difluoro-tolane liquid crystals
    SID Tech. Digest 36, 1466-1469 (Boston, MA, May 23-27, 2005)

  3. Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, Y.H.Wu, and S.T.Wu,
    Single-substrate IPS-LCD using an anisotropic polymer film
    Proc. SPIE, ”Novel Optics”, 5936, 59360O (Aug. 20, 2005)

  4. J.Li, S.Gauza, Y.H.Lin and S.T.Wu,
    Origins of liquid crystal refractive indices
    (Invited Lecture) Proc. of the 3rd student-organizing international mini-conference on information electronics system(SOIM-COE05), 103-106 (Sendai, Japan, Oct. 6-7, 2005) 

  5. S.Gauza, C.H.Wen, S.T.Wu, R.Dąbrowski, C.S.Hsu, C.O.Catanescu, and L.C.Chien,
    High birefringence liquid crystals for photonic applications
    Proc. SPIE "Optics and Optoelectronics", 5947-6 (Poland, August 28 - September 2, 2005)

  6. C.H.Wen, B.Wu, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Dopant-enhanced vertical alignment of lateral fluorinated liquid crystals
    The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 62 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)

  7. S.Gauza, C.H.Wen, and S.T.Wu,
    Isothiocyanato-tolanes based high birefringence and fast response time mixtures for photonic applications
    The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 76 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)

  8. J.Li, S.Gauza, S.T.Wu, T.T.Alkeskjold, J.Lægsgaard, and A.Biarklev,
    High temperature-gradient refractive index liquid crystals and their applications in a highly thermal tunable photonic bandgap fiber
    The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 111 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)

  9. Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, Y.H.Wu, and S.T.Wu,
    High contrast and fast response polarization-independent reflective display using a dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal gel
    The 11th International topical meeting on optics of liquid crystal, 154 (Florida, Oct. 2-7, 2005)

  10. S.T.Wu, Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, Y.H.Wu, Y.Zhao, J.Fang, and S.Gauza,
    Novel lliquid crystal alignment layer using an anisotropic polymer film
    (Invited Talk) The 61st Southwest and the 57th Southeast Joint Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Memphis, Nov. 1-4, 2005)

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2004

  1. 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 (2004)

  2. Y.H.Fan, Y.H.Lin, H.Ren, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    Fast-Response polymer network liquid crystals for optical communications
    SID Tech. Digest 35, 1526-9 (2004)

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2003

  1. S.Gauza, F.Du, J.R.Wu, and S.T.Wu,
    High Birefringence and Low Viscosity LC Mixtures
    SID Tech. Digest 34, 1054-7 (May, 2003)

  2. H.Ren, S.Gauza, and S.T.Wu,
    A High Contrast and Low Voltage PSCT Reflective Display
    SID Tech. Digest 34, 641-3 (May, 2003)

  3. S.Gauza, F.Du, J.R.Wu, S.T.Wu, and R.Dąbrowski,
    High Birefringence and Wide Nematic Range Liquid Crystal Mixtures
    (Invited paper) Proc. SPIE 5213, 1-8 (San Diego, CA, Aug. 5-7, 2003)

  4. A.Spadło, W.Drzewiński, R.Dąbrowski, M.Filipowicz, Z.Stolarz, E.Ścibior, J.Kędzierski, S.Gauza, and S. T. Wu,
    Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluoro and chloro-substituted isothiocyana-tolanes
    Proc. SPIE 5565, 19-25 (Zakopane, Poland, Oct. 13-17, 2003)

  5. S.Gauza, J.R.Wu, S.T.Wu, A.Spadło, R.Dąbrowski, N.Janarthanan, C.S.Hsu, C.O.Catanescu, and L.C.Chien,
    Molecular engineering of high birefringence liquid crystals
    (Plenary lecture) Proc. SPIE 5565, 159-164 (Zakopane, Poland, Oct. 13-17, 2003)

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2002

  1. R.Dąbrowski, K.Czupryński, W.Drzewiński, S.Gauza, S.T.Lagerwall, and P.Rudquist,
    Threshold and V-shape switching orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystals for high contrast display

    SID Tech. Digest 33, 770-3 (2002)

  2. S.T.Wu, S.Gauza, and H.Y.Wang,
    High birefringence liquid crystal mixtures for laser beam steering

    (Invited paper) 2002 IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings 522-3 (Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 10-14, 2002)

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1997-2001

  1. W. Kuczyński, R. Dąbrowski, S. Gauza, F. Goc, J.Hoffman, K.Czupryński, J.Drzewiński, and K.Kenig,
    Electrooptical properties of mixtures with the induced antiferroelectric phase
     SPIE, 4147, 79 (2000)

  2. J. Rutkowska, P.Perkowski, J.Kędzierski, Z.Raszewski, R.Dąbrowski, S.Gauza, and E.Miszczyk,
    Physical properties of components of mixture with induced SmC*A phase
     SPIE, 4147, 101 (2000)

  3. W.Drzewiński, K.Czupryński, S.Gauza, S.Yakovenko, A. Muravski, and R.Dąbrowski,
    Comparative study of the molecular tilt in antiferroelectric liquid crystals
    SID Digest , 45 (1998)

  4. S.Gauza, K.Czupryński, and S.Kłosowicz,
    Selective light reflection in mixtures with induced Ad phase
    SPIE 3318, 137 (1997)

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Issued and Pending Patents:

  1. R.Dąbrowski,  K.Czupryński, W.Drzewiński,J.Dziaduszek, S.Gauza, A.Spadło, and S.T.Wu,
    Liquid crystalline single compounds and mixtures with high birefringence
    Patent No. P 354663 June 21, 2002.

  2. R.Dąbrowski, W.Drzewiński, K.Czupryński, J.Dziaduszek, S.Gauza, J.Oton, and K.Kenig,
    New antiferroelectric smectic liquid crystalline materials with V-shape electrooptical response and the way of their formulation
    Patent No. PL 197365 April 21, 2000.

  3. R.Dąbrowski, K.Czupryński, W.Drzewiński, S.Gauza, and K.Kenig,
    New way for obtaining the multicomponent antiferroelectric liquid crystalline systems. New mixtures with antiferroelectric properties
    Patent No. PL 194462 April 22, 1999.

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