Ph.D., & M.S., Alumni

PhD

M.S.

 

PhD graduates

 

2020

  • Tianyi Guo,  2020  Using Light to Study Liquid Crystals and Using Liquid Crystals to Control Light  Advisor:  Dr. Peter Palffy-Muhoray
  • Taras Turiv, 2020  Dynamics of Living and Inanimate Microparticles Controlled by Nematic Liquid Crystals  Advisor:  Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich
  • Yingfei Jiang, 2020  Flexolectric Liquid Crystals and their Application  Advisor:  Dr. Deng-Ke Yang
  • Hao Yu, 2020  Liquid Crystal Flat Optical Elements Enabled by Molecular Photopatterning with Plasmonic Metamasks  Advisors:  Dr. Qi-Huo Wei
  • Hao Wang, 2020  Artifical Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches Based on Halogenated and Cyclic  Azo-Binaphthyl Derivatives Advisor:  Dr. Quan Li

 

2019

 

2018  

 

2017

  • Kun Gaor, 2017  Optical Simulation and Fabrication of Pancharatnam (Geometric) Phase Devices from Liquid Crystals Advisor:  Dr. Philip Bos
  • Alireza Moheghi, 2017  LC/Polymer Composites, Scattering Properties and Application in Displays  Advisor:  Dr. Deng-Ke Yang
  • Chenhui Peng, 2017  Active Colloids in Isotropic and Anisotropic Electrolytes   Advisor:  Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich

 

2016

  • Seyyed Muhammad Salili, 2016  Dynamic and Magneto-Optic Properties of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals Advisor:  Dr. Antal Jakli 
  • Jie Xiang, 2016  Twist Bend and Double Twist in Liquid Crystals Advisor:  Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich
  • Souptik Mukherjee, 2016  Electro-Optic Response of Hometropic, Hole Patterned, Nematic Liquid Crystals Cells Under AC and DC Voltage   Advisor:  Dr. Bahman Taheri
  • Valerie Finnemeyer, 2016 Development of Liquid Crystal Infrared Imaging Sensors   Advisor:  Dr. Philip Bos
  • Libo Weng, 2016 Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystals: Topology-Mediated Electro-Optical Behavior and Applications  Advisor: Liang-Chy Chien
  • Cheng Cheng,  2016 A Swing Driven By Liquid Crystals  Advisors: Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama & Peter Palffy-Muhoray
  • Shaung Zhou,
  • Nikolaus Glazar,

 

2015

  • Pedro Countino Soto,
  • Min Su Kim,
  • Anshul Sharma,
  • Youngki Kim,
  • Hsien-Hui Cheng
  • Mykhailo Pevnyi,
  • Shuojia Shi,
  • Hossein Nemati
  • Haun Yan,
  • Da-Wei Lee,
  • Cuiyu Zhang,
  • Christopher Culbreath,

 

2014

  • Thanh Son Nguyen,
  • Volodymyr Borshch,
  • Yue Cui,
  • Emine Kemikliogu,
  • Vianney Gimenez Pinto,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Israel Lazo Martinex,
  • Ayan Chakrabarty,

 

2013

  • Liwei Li , 2013 Optical Simulation and Fabrication of Pancharatnam (Geometric) Phase Devices from Liquid Crystals Advisor:  
  • Nick Diorio,
  • Yi Huang,

 

2012

  • Lu Lu , 2012 Optical Simulation and Fabrication of Pancharatnam (Geometric) Phase Devices from Liquid Crystals  Advisor:  
  • Wilder Iglesias,
  • Rafel Zola,
  • Badel Mbanga

 

2011

  • Jun Geng,  2011 Optical Simulation and Fabrication of Pancharatnam (Geometric) Phase Devices from Liquid Crystals  Advisor:  
  • Sarah Hicks,
  • Lena Lopatina,
  • Stefanie Taushanoff,

 

2010

  • Jake Fontana,
  • Bohdan Senyuk,
  • Heung-Shik Park
  • Shawan Hurley,
  • Gregory Richards,
  • Subas Dhakal
  • Shin-Ying Lu
  • Jeremy Neal
  • Enkh-Amgalan (Mike) Dorigotov,

 

2009

  • Lei Shi
  • Clinton Braganza,
  • Oleg Pishnyak,
  • Mingxia Gu,
  • John Harden,

 

2008

  • Dmytro (mitya) Reznikov,
  • Xiaoli Zhou,
  • Christopher Bailey,
  • Ebru Buyuktanir
  • Fenghua Li,
  • Hailiang Zhang,

 

2007

  • Ye Yin,
  • Yong-Kyu Jang,

 

2006

  • Cheng Chen,
  • Shouping Tang,
  • Guoqiang Zhang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Ke Zhang,
  • Alexander Semyonov,

 

2005

  • Volodymer Bodanar,
  • YGuangxun Liao,
  • Yanli Zhang,
  • Fushan Zhou,
  • Tod Schneider,
  • Jianru Shi
  • Xinghua Wang,
  • Wenyi Cao

 

2004

  • Sang Hwa Kim,
  • Strahinja Stojadinovic,
  • Roland Ennis,
  • Yuanming Haung,

 

2003

  • Chenhui Wang,
  • Erica Bramley Montbach,
  • Ivan Smalyukh, 
  • Shin-Woon Kang,
  • Asad Khan,

 

2002

  • Linli Su,
  • Salman Saeed,
  • Bin Wang

 

  • David Heineman,
  • Dmitry Voloshchenko
  • Fang Zhang
  • Bharat Raj Acharya
  • Letemeskel Asfaw,
  • Weimin Liu,

 

 

  • Jim Anderson
  • Dmitri A. Konovalov,
  • Xiang-Dong Mi,
  • Anlun Tang, 
  • Charles Titus,
  • Haijun Yuan,
  •  
  • Jennifer Colegrove
  • Mingji Cui
  • Patrick Dunn,
  • Tomohiro Ishikawa,
  • Rui-Quing Ma,
  • Eui-Yeul Park,
  • Philip E. Watson,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Huairen Zeng,
  • Kuo-Yuin Li
  • Shuxin Li,
  • Hiroyuki Mori,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Charles Hoke,
  • Sami Mkaddem,
  • Hong Lui,
  • Hristina Galabova,
  • Xiao-Ding WAng
  • Martin Brett
  • Gongjian Hu
  • Sihai Qian
  • Hong DIng
  • Xiao-Yang Haung
  • Syed H. Jamal,
  • Jianmin Chen,
  • Raymond Folks,
  • Zhijian Lu,
  • Song Dai,
  • William Fritz,
  • Jing Haung, 
  • Yimin Ji,
  • Natasha Kothekar,
  • Joeseph T. Mang
  • Sugath Abegunarathna,
  • Brain C. Cull,
  • Yeuk K. Fung
  • Seung Hee Lee,
  • Jianlin Li,
  • Sungsik Pak,
  • Timothy Davis,
  • Rheinhardt Zeller,
  • Sung-Tae Shin,
  • David S. Fredley
  • Germano Iannacchione,
  • Nandana Amarasinghe,
  • Renate Ondris-Crawford,
  • Du Rim Kim,
  • Prem L. Patel
  • Hefen Lin,
  • Deydatt Nagvekhar,
  • Desmond Seekola,
  • Jae Yon Kim
  • Li Chen,
  • Gregory P. Crawford,
  • Jiming Liu,
  • Haiji (Jim) Yuan,
  • Moinuddin Sarkar,
  • Wen-Chen Su,
  • Darwin Boyd,
  • James T. Gleeson
  • Ravi Subramaniam,
  • Sundar Subramanyam,
  • John H. Erdmann,
  • Jong-Cheon Lee,
  • Sulakshana Plumley,
  • Hemasiri Vithana,
  • Joe B. Whitehead Jr.
  • Barbara J. Frisken
  • Steven Risser,
  • Nason Phonphok,
  • Attilio Golemme,
  • Stefan Klemm,
  • George Melnik,
  • Joao Figueirinhas,
  • Michael E. Lewis,
  • E. Zhou,
  • Iqbal Khan,
  • Beth A. Cunningham,
  • Young-Hee Lee,
  • Bao-Gang Wu,
  • Kazi A Mottakabbir,
  • Girardeau Henderson,
  • Hsing-Chung Liu
  • Petros Vlachopoulos
  • Jolly A. Rahman,
  • Johanan Spielberg,
  • Najma Hafiz,
  • Robert P. Marande,
  • Lawrence M. Strenk,
  • Rizwan Mahmood,
  • Roberet A. Roth,
  • Michael E. Stefanory,
  • Rand R. Biggers,
  • Poonpong Boonbrahm,
  • Clarence E. Gooden,
  • Samuel P. Benigni,
  • Douglas G. Todoroff,
  • Zyi Yaniv,
  • Brij B. Sharma,
  • Anil N. Shetty,
  • Lih-Bin Shih,
  • Michael R. Kuzma,
  • Maria J. Vaz,
  • Petros Ktorides,
  • Thomas E. Lockhart,
  • Richard J. Dehoff,
  • Thomas J. Haven,
  • Bernard L. Richards,
  • Gerard H. Ba

 

 

 

M.S. Graduates

 

2018

  • Michael Romeo, 2018, Routing Among Planetary Bodies, Advisor:  Dr. Feodor Dragan
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