Liang-Chy Chien

Biographie:
Chien received a PhD (1988) from the University of Southern Mississippi in Polymer Science. joined the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State as a postdoctoral fellow in 1988 and was promoted to a Senior Research Fellow in 1989. He holds the appointments as an Associate Professor (1995) and Professor (2000) at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute and Materials Science Program as well as a visiting professor at Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands (2003) and Stanford University (2015).

He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE/LEOS Journal of Display Technologies (2004-2011), Crystals (2016- ), Journal of Display Technologies (2016 - ), Journal of Society of Information Displays (2012- ), guest editor of IEEE/IPC, Applied Optics and Molecular Crystal and Liquid Crystals (2013-2014). Chien also serves as the Conference Chair/Co-Chair for Liquid Crystals at Materials Research Society, SPIE Photonics West, Optics of Liquid Crystals, International Liquid Crystal Conference, Gordon Research Conference. He has authored/co-authored 25 SPIE/MRS Conference Proceedings and 9 Book Chapters as well as published over 300 referred/juried papers (Google Scholar) liquid crystals, photo- and non-contact alignments, polymer-stabilized liquid crystals. -Chien is an inventor/co-inventor on enabling technologies including bistable color cholesteric liquid crystal displays, photoalignment, polymer-stabilized liquid crystals with 48 issued patents (Google Patents).

Titre de la communication:
Photoaligned and polymer-protected liquid crystal spatial light modulators