Biography
Prior to joining UCF in 2001, Dr. Wu was with Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California) where the first laser was invented. He received his Ph.D. in Laser Physics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University (Taipei). His research at UCF focuses in five areas: 1. Advanced displays, including quantum dots and sunlight readable LCDs and OLEDs, 2. Wearable displays including augmented reality and virtual reality, 3. Adaptive lenses, 4. Spatial light modulators, and 5. New photonic materials.
Dr. Wu is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012) and one of the first six inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014). He is the recipient of 2014 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, 2011 SID Slottow-Owaki Prize, 2010 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award, 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award and 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Prize. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE. He was the founding chief editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, OSA publications council chair and board member, and presently he is SID Honors and Awards committee chair.
Dr. Wu has co-authored 7 books, over 630 journal papers, and obtained 191 patents including 93 US patents. Several of his patents have been implemented in display and photonic devices.
Awards & Honors
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- IEEE Photonics Society Fellow
- Society for Information Display (SID) Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- 2018 Two students Juan He and Guanjun Tan won SPIE education scholarships
- 2018 My student Juan He won CREOL IA Day best poster paper award
- 2018 My student Juan He won DOE distinguished poster paper award
- 2018 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
- 2016 Research Incentive Award (College Level)
- 2016 Excellence in Research Award
- 2016 Associate editor IEEE Photonics Journal
- 2016 Chair, SID Honors and Awards Committee
- 2015 Editorial Board, Liquid Crystals Journal
- 2014 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
- 2014 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2014 Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
- 2013 OSA Board of Directors (2013 – 2014)
- 2012 National Academy of Inventors 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
Research Group
- Advanced liquid crystal display materials, display devices, and device modeling.
- Electronic laser beam steering and adaptive optics using fast-response spatial light modulators.
- Adaptive liquid crystal and liquid lenses for forveated imaging and zoom lens.
- Bio-inspired tunable optical filters using cholesteric liquid crystals.
Scientists
Students
Publications
C.C. Zhang, Z.Q. He, M. Mogensen, A.J. Gesquiere, C.H. Chen, T.L. Chiu, J.H. Lee, S.T. Wu and Y.J. Dong "A deep-dyeing strategy for ultra-stable, brightly luminescent perovskite-polymer composites," Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(10), pp. 3396-3402 (2021)
Z.Q. He and S.T. Wu "Compact, fast-response, continuous, and wide-angle laser beam steerers" Journal of the society for Information Display (2021)
E.L. Hsiang, Y.N.Q. Li, Z.Q. He, T. Zhan, C.C. Zhang, Y.F. Lan, Y.J. Dong and S.T. Wu "Doubling the optical efficiency of color-converted micro-light-emitting diode displays with a patterned cholesteric liquid crystal polymer film" Journal of the Society for Information Display (2021)
Y.N.Q. Li, T. Zhan, Z.Y. Yang, C. Xu, P.L. LiKamWa, K. Li and S.T. Wu "Broadband cholesteric liquid crystal lens for chromatic aberration correction in catadioptric virtual reality optics " Optics Express, 29(4), pp. 6011-6020 (2021)
T. Zhan, E.L.Hsiang, K. Li and S.T.Wu "Enhancing the Optical Efficiency of Near-Eye Displays with Liquid Crystal Optics" Crystals, 11(2), A. 107 (2021)
Z.Q. He, K. Yin, K.H. Fan-Chiang and S.T. Wu "Enlarging the Eyebox of Maxwellian Displays with a Customized Liquid Crystal Dammann Grating" Crystals, 11(12), A. 195 (2021)
J.Y. Zou, Q. Yang, E.L. Hsiang, H. Ooishi, Z. Yang, K. Yoshidaya and S.T. Wu "Fast-Response Liquid Crystal for Spatial Light Modulator and LiDAR Applications" Crystals, 11(2), A. 93 (2021)
J.Y. Zou, Z.Q. He, Q. Yang, K. Yin, K. Li and S.T. Wu "Large-angle two-dimensional grating with hybrid mechanisms" Optics Letters, 46(4), pp. 920-923 (2021)
J. Xiong, K. Yin, K. Li, and S. T. Wu "Holographic optical elements for augmented reality: principles, present status, and future perspectives" Advanced Photonics Research 2, 2000049 (2021)
Z. He, K. Yin, and S. T. Wu "Peculiar polarization response in chiral liquid crystal stacks for multispectral camouflage" Opt. Express 29(2), 2931-2939 (2021)
E.L. Hsiang, Y. Li, Z. He, T. Zhan, C. Zhang, Y. Dong, S.T. Wu "Enhancing the efficiency of color conversion micro-LED display with a patterned cholesteric liquid crystal polymer film" Nanomaterials 10, 2430 (2020)
T. Lin, T. Zhan, J. Zou, F. Fan, S.T. Wu "Maxwellian near-eye display with an expanded eyebox" Optics Express 28(26), 38616-38625 (2020)
K. Yin, J. Xiong, Z. He, and S.T. Wu "Patterning liquid crystal alignment for ultra-thin flat optics" ACS Omega 5, 31485-31489 (2020)
Y. Li, Z. Yang, R. Chen, L. Mo, J. Li, M. Hu, and S.T. Wu, "Submillisecond-response polymer network liquid crystal phase modulators" Polymers 12(12), 2862 (2020)
J. Xiong, G. Tan, T. Zhan, S.T. Wu "Breaking the field-of-view limit in augmented reality with a scanning waveguide display " OSA Continuum 3(10), 2730-2740 (2020)
Z. Yang, T. Zhan and S.T. Wu "Polarization independent guided-mode resonance in liquid crystal-based polarization gratings" OSA Continuum, 3(11), pp. 3107-3115 (2020)
T. Zhan, K. Yin, J. Xiong, Z. He and S.T. Wu "Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: perspectives and challenges" iScience, 23(8), 101397 (2020)
C.Y. Yoo, J.H. Xiong, S.K. Moon, D.H. Yoo, C.K. Lee, S.T. Wu and B. Lee "Foveated display system based on a doublet geometric phase lens" Optics Express, 28(16), 23690-23702 (2020)
J.Y. Zou, E.L. Hsiang, T. Zhan, K. Yin, Z.Q. He and S.T. Wu "High dynamic range head-up displays" Optics Express, 28(16), 24298-24307 (2020)
K. Yin, T. Zhan, J. Xiong, Z. He, S.T. Wu "Polarization volume gratings for near-eye displays and novel photonic devices" Crystals 10, 561 (2020)
Alumni
PhD
Fangwang Gou, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2020Yuge "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
MS
Jianxiong 'Steven' Zhu, Optics M.S., Spring 2016Jiamin Yuan, Optics M.S., Fall 2015
Yating Gao, Optics M.S., Summer 2015
Amy Creekmore, Optics M.S., Spring 2015
Victoriya Relina, Optics M.S., Spring 2013
David Fox, Optics M.S., Spring 2008
Amanda Parish, Optics M.S., Spring 2007