ResearchGroup series today introduces Display and Photonics Lab at Brown led by Prof. Gregory Crawford at Brown University.

From their website:

"The display lab focuses on liquid crystal and polymer materials for flat panel display, telecommunications and electro-optic applications. Before 1960, liquid crystals were virtually unknown. Today they are all around us: they are used for electronic displays in wristwatches, calculators, laptop computers, and are now beginning to penetrate into the large-area desktop computer market, threatening the century old domination of cathode-ray-tubes (CRT); they are also an important component in high-strength fibers; and they naturally occur in the cell membranes of many biological systems."

Research Projects:

• NMR Study of 2-dimensional Periodic Structures
• In-Plane Switching of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal
• The Switchable Circle-to-Point Converters (SCPCs)
• Polarizer
• Liquid Crystal based Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications
• Electromechanical Analysis of Transparent Conducting Substrates for Flexible Display Applications
• Nanotube self-assembly by holographic recording in composite materials
• H-PDLC Quasi Crystals

Highlight

• Prof. Crawford is the editor of a recent published book, "Flexible Flat Panel Displays” (Wiley-Europe, Chichester, 2005). "The book encompasses many chapters focused on the fundamentals and applications of flexible flat planel displays written by researchers who are authorities in their respective fields."
  

See their group webpage (http://display.engin.brown.edu/main/) for details.

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