August 7, 2019
Schematic of the sensor with frustrated photodetectors indicated as a diode with two operating states. Bias and select functionality combined into a single interconnect eliminating the need for a readout transistor. Pixel circuit is shown as the inset. A paper titled “Organic photodetectors with frustrated charge transport for small-pitch image sensors” by Professor Kyle Renshaw…
August 1, 2019
Professors from CREOL have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award. The grant will support the development of multicolor two-photon excitation STED imaging system with multichannel compact semiconductor laser. Assistant Professor Kyu Young Han is the principal investigator of this grant, and is accompanied with two co-principal investigators: Professors Peter Delfyett and Eric…
August 1, 2019
Professor Luca Argenti was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award. He is the only recipient from Florida this year. See UCF Today: Another National Honor for One of UCF’s Physics Faculty Department of Energy Selects 73 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Energy’s…
July 18, 2019
CREOL graduate student Jennifer Hewitt appears in this Fox News video about the development of a light source and infrared camera specially designed to flush-out invasive pythons.
July 12, 2019
The SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship was awarded to Derek Burrell, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida (United States). This is the Society’s largest and most prestigious scholarship and is sponsored by SPIE. Burrell is pursuing an MS in Optics and Photonics from CREOL at the University of Central Florida, where…
July 12, 2019
PhD student Jennifer Hewitt, in Dr. Ron Driggers’s research group has received a DOD SMART Scholarship. The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing technical degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims…
July 1, 2019
CREOL Professors Ayman Abouraddy, Zenghu Chang, Patrick LiKamWa, Boris Zeldovich and Bahaa Saleh were inducted into the UCF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018. UCF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors 2018 Inductees
July 1, 2019
Professor Aristide Dogariu joins other CREOL professors, Zenghu Chang, Peter Delfyett, Martin Richardson and Eric Van Stryland, in receiving the UCF Trustee Chair Award. Dr. Aristide Dogariu is a Pegasus Professor and Distinguished Researcher in the College of Optics and Photonics. His research ranges from understanding fundamental aspects of light interaction with matter to actively developing new optical technology for sensing and…
July 1, 2019
From UCF Today: UCF Honors 11 Faculty Members with Luminary Awards From space research to the arts and humanities, faculty members across all disciplines were recognized for being academic leaders in their fields and conducting work that has a significant impact on the world. Associate Professor Mercedeh Khajavikhan, College of Optics and Photonics. Khajavikhan’s work is…
June 20, 2019
From June 16th to the 21st, the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada, hosted the first North American Summer School on Photonic Materials (NASSPM). The School was organized under the auspices of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), a not-for-profit society that promotes collaboration between experts in…
June 10, 2019
A paper “Light diffusing, down-converting perovskite-on-polymer microspheres” by Professors Shin-Tson Wu and Yajie Dong is featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Abstract: Remote downconverters such as phosphors or quantum dots that are physically separated from blue light-emitting diode (LED) chips can strongly enhance the luminescence efficiency of solid-state lighting (SSL)…
May 20, 2019
Professor Kyu Young Han’s work in a paper titled “Nuclear speckle fusion via long-range directional motion regulates speckle morphology after transcriptional inhibition” is featured on the cover of Journal of Cell Science. Abstract: Although the formation of RNA-protein bodies has been studied intensively, their mobility and how their number and size are regulated are still…