Biography
Prior to joining UCF in 2001, Dr. Wu was with Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California). He received his Ph.D. in Laser Physics from University of Southern California, and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University. His research at UCF focuses on five areas: 1. Next-generation liquid crystal displays, 2. Adaptive lenses, 3. Spatial light modulators, 4. Biophotonics, and 5. New photonic materials.
Dr. Wu is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE. He is a recipient of the 2011 SID Slottow-Owaki prize, 2010 OSA Jesoph Fraunhofer award, 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes award and 2008 SID Jan Rajchman prize. He was the founding chief editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology.
Dr. Wu has co-authored 7 books: "Introduction to Adaptive Lenses" (Wiley, 2012), "Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays" (Wiley, 2010), "Introduction to Flat Panel Display" (Wiley, 2008), "Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices (Wiley, 2006), "Introduction to Microdisplays" (Wiley, 2006), "Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays" (Wiley, 2001), and "Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals" (World Scientific, 1993), 7 book chapters, 400 journal papers, and 100 issued patents. Several of his patents have been implemented in display and photonic devices.
Awards & Honors
SPIE Fellow
IEEE Fellow
SID Fellow
OSA Fellow
2012
Charter Fellow
2011
SID Slottow-Owaki Prize
2011
Excellence in Research Award
2011
Research Incentive Award (RIA)
2010
OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
2010
Pegasus Professor
2008
SID Jan Rajchman Prize
2008
SPIE G. G. Stokes Award
2006
University Distinguished Researcher for 2006
2004
Editor-in-Chief IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
2003
IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award
2000
SID Special Recognition Award
1997
ERSO (Taiwan) Special Achievement Award
1991
Hughes Annual Best Paper Award
1991
Hughes Team Achievement Award
Recent Publications
2013
J. Yan, S.T. Wu, K.L. Cheng, and J.W. Shiu
"A full-color reflective display using polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal"
Applied Physics Letters 102, 011113
2013
Y. Chen, D. Xu, S.T. Wu, S. Yamamoto, and Y. Haseba
"A low voltage and submillisecond-response polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal"
Applied Physics Letters 102, 141116
2013
C.D. Tu, C.L. Lin, J. Yan, Y. Chen, P.C. Lai, and S. T. Wu
"Driving scheme using bootstrapping method for blue-phase LCDs"
Journal of Display Technology 9, 3-6
2013
Y. Chen and S.T. Wu
"Electric field-induced mono-domain blue phase liquid crystals"
Applied Physics Letters 102, 171110
2013
J. Yan, Y. Chen, S. T. Wu, and X. Song
"Figure of merit of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals"
Journal of Display Technology 9, 24-29
2013
Y. Chen, Z. Luo, F. Peng, and S. T. Wu
"Fringe-field switching with a negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal"
Journal of Display Technology 9, 74-77
2013
H. Ren, S. Xu, and S. T. Wu
"Liquid crystal pump"
Lab Chip 13, 100-105
2013
J. Yan, Z. Luo, S.T. Wu, J.W. Shiu, Y.C. Lai, K.L. Cheng, S.H. Liu, P.J. Hsieh, and Y.C. Tsai
"Low voltage and high contrast blue phase liquid crystal with red-shifted Bragg reflection"
Applied Physics Letters 102, 011113
2013
D. Xu, L. Rao, C. D. Tu, and S. T. Wu
"Nematic liquid crystal display with submillisecond grayscale response time"
Journal of Display Technology 9, 67-70
2013
Y. Liu, Y.F. Lan, H. Zhang, R. Zhu, D. Xu, C.Y. Tsai, J.K. Lu, N. Sugiura, Y.C. Lin, S.T. Wu
"Optical Rotatory Power of Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystals"
Applied Physics Letters 102, 131102
