Biography
Dr. Shin-Tson Wu is a Trustee Chair Professor at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics. Prior to joining UCF in 2001, he was with Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California) where the first laser and liquid-crystal-on-silicon were invented. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University (Taipei). His research interests at UCF focus on augmented reality and virtual reality, including light engines (mini-LEDs, micro-LEDs, and OLEDs), optical systems (lightguide, diffractive optics, and projection optics), and display materials (liquid crystals, quantum dots, and perovskites).
Dr. Wu is a recipient of the UCF Medal of Societal Impact (2024), Optica/IS&T Edwin H. Land medal (2022), SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer award (2022), OSA (now Optica) Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (2014), SID Slottow-Owaki Prize (2011), OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award (2010), SPIE G. G. Stokes Award (2008), and SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2008). He has co-authored 7 books, 690 journal papers and 330 conference papers, and obtained 99 issued US patents. His publications have accumulated over 54,000 citations, with an h-index of 110.
Dr. Wu is an Academician of Academia Sinica (2022), a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012), a member of Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida, and one of the first six inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID and SPIE. In the past, he served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, OSA Publications Council Chair and OSA Board of Directors, and SID Honors and Awards committee chair.
Awards & Honors
- 2024: UCF Medal of Societal Impact
- 2023: UCF Excellence in Research Award
- 2023: CREOL Excellence in Research Award
- 2022: Academician of Academia Sinica
- 2022: Optica/IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal
- 2022: SPIE Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
- 2014: OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
- 2014: Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2012: National Academy of Inventors
- 2011: SID Slottow-Owaki Prize
- 2010 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
- 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Prize
- 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award
Research Group
- Augmented reality and virtual reality: Optical systems
- Microdisplays: mini-LED, micro-LED, and OLED
- Imaging optics: Deflectors, gratings, and lenses
Research Scientists
Graduate Students
Yuqiang Ding
Optics Ph.D.
Yizhou Qian
Optics Ph.D.
John Semmen
Graduate Research Assistant
Hosna Tajvidi Safa
Optics Ph.D.
Publications
Qian, YZ (Qian, Yizhou) [1] ; Chen, SC (Chen, Sung-Chun) [2] ; Hsiang, EL (Hsiang, En-Lin) [1] ; Akimoto, H (Akimoto, Hajime) [3] ; Lin, CL (Lin, Chih-Lung) [2] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Enhancing a Display's Sunlight Readability with Tone Mapping" Photonics 11(6) (2024)
Qian, YZ (Qian, Yizhou) [1] ; Hsiang, EL (Hsiang, En-Lin) [1] ; Huang, YH (Huang, Yu-Hsin) [2] ; Lin, KH (Lin, Kuan-Heng) [2] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "High-Efficiency Vertical-Chip Micro-Light-Emitting Diodes via p-GaN Optimization and Surface Passivation" Crystals 14(6) (2024)
Luo, ZY ; Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqiang) [1] ; Yang, Q (Yang, Qian) [1] ; Wu, ST "Ghost image analysis for pancake virtual reality systems" Optics Express 32(10) pp. 17211-17219 (2024)
Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqiang) [1] ; Luo, ZY (Luo, Zhenyi) [1] ; Borjigin, G (Borjigin, Garimagai) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "High-efficiency and ultracompact pancake optics for virtual reality" Journal of the Society for Information Display (2024)
Yang, Q (Yang, Qian) [1] ; Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqiang) [1] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Full-color, wide field-of-view single-layer waveguide for augmented reality displays" Journal of the Society for Information Display (2024)
Q. Yang, Y. Ding and S. T. Wu "Full-color, wide FoV single-layer waveguide for AR displays" J. Soc. Inf. Display. 32, 1-8 (2024)
Z. Luo, Y. Ding, Q. Yang, and S. T. Wu "Ghost image analysis for pancake virtual reality systems" Opt. Express 32 (10), 17211-17219 (2024)
Y. Ding, Z. Luo, G. Borjigin, and S. T. Wu "High-efficiency and ultracompact pancake optics for virtual reality" J. Soc. Inf. Display. 32, 1-9 (2024)
Yang, ZY (Yang, Zhiyong) [1] ; Hsiang, EL (Hsiang, En-Lin) [1] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "High-Performance Tandem White Micro-OLEDs for Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality Displays" Crystals 14(4) (2024)
Y. Ding, Z. Luo, G. Borjigin, and S. T. Wu "Breaking the optical efficiency limit of virtual reality with a nonreciprocal polarization rotator" Opto-Electron Adv. 7(3), 230178 (2024)
Z. Yang, E. L. Hsiang, and S. T. Wu "High-Performance Tandem White Micro-OLEDs for Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality Displays" Crystals 14, 332 (2024)
Luo, ZT (Luo, Zhenyi) [1] ; Li, YNQ (Li, Yannanqi) [1] ; Semmen, J (Semmen, John) [1] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Achromatic diffractive liquid-crystal optics for VR displays" Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIX 12907 (2024)
Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqiang) [1] ; Luo, ZY (Luo, Zhenyi) [1] ; Borjigin, G (Borjigin, Garimagai) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Breaking the optical efficiency limit of virtual reality with a nonreciprocal polarization rotator" Opto-Electronic Advances (2024)
G. Borjigin, Y. Ding, J. Semmen, H. Tajvidi Safa, H. Kakeya, and S. T. Wu "Coarse Integral Volumetric Imaging Display with Time and Polarization Multiplexing" Photonics 11, 7 (2024) PDF
Borjigin, G (Borjigin, Garimagai) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqiang) [1] ; Semmen, J (Semmen, John) [1] ; Safa, HT (Safa, Hosna Tajvidi) [1] ; Kakeya, H (Kakeya, Hideki) [2] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Coarse Integral Volumetric Imaging Display with Time and Polarization Multiplexing" Photonics 11(1) (2024)
Yuqiang Ding, Qian Yang, Zhiyong Yang, and Shin-Tson Wu "High efficiency waveguide-based near-eye displays" Provisional patent application number: 63/617,799 (2024)
Y. Ding, Q. Yang, Y. Li, Z. Yang, Z. Wang, H. Liang, and S. T. Wu "(Review paper) Waveguide-based augmented reality displays: perspectives and challenges" eLight 3, 24 (2023) PDF
Ding, YQ (Ding, Yuqian) [1] ; Yang, Q (Yang, Qian) [1] ; Li, YNQ (Li, Yannanqi) [1] ; Yang, ZY (Yang, Zhiyong) [1] ; Wang, ZY (Wang, Zhengyang) [2] ; Liang, HW (Liang, Haowen) [2] ; Wu, ST (Wu, Shin-Tson) [1] "Waveguide-based augmented reality displays: perspectives and challenges" Elight 3(1) (2023)
Y. Huang and S. T. Wu "High fidelity mini-LED backlit liquid crystal displays" Liq. Cryst. Today 32(2), 25-37 (2023) PDF
C. C. Lin, et al. "(Roadmap paper) The Micro-LED Roadmap: Status Quo and Prospects" J. Phys. Photon 5(4), 042502 (2023) PDF
Alumni
PhD
Qian Yang, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2024Zhiyong Yang, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2024
En-Lin Hsiang, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2023
Yannanqi Li, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2023
Junyu Zou, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2023
Jianghao Xiong, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022
Kun Yin, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022
Ziqian He, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2021
Tao Zhan, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2021
Fangwang Gou, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2020
Yuge "Esther" Huang, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2020
Juan "Rachel" He, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Md Javed Rouf Talukder, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Guanjun Tan, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Yun-Han Lee, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2018
Haiwei Chen, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017
Ruidong Zhu, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017
Fenglin Peng, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2017
Daming Xu, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2016
Sihui He, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2015
Zhenyue Luo, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2015
Yuan Chen, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2014
Yifan Liu, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2014
Jie Sun, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2013
Jin Yan, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2013
Hui-Chuan "Ethan" Cheng, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2012
Yan Li, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2012
Su Xu, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2012
Linghui Rao, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2012
Kuan Ming Chen, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2012
Sergiy Mokhov, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2011
Meizi Jiao, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2010
Qiong Song, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2010
Zhibing Ge, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Fall 2008
Ying Zhou, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2008
Qi Hong, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2006
Yi-Hsin Lin, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2006
Chien-Hui "Vicky" Wen, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2006
Yung-Hsun Wu, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2006
Fang Du, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Yun-Hsing "Claire" Fan, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Jun "Daniel" Li, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Haiying Wang, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2005