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Dr. Philip J. Bos is Associate Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute and a Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at ����ֱ�� State University. He is the inventor of the pi cell and an alignment method for SmC* devices. His research interests include novel liquid crystal devices and applications.

Education

           Ph.D.    Physics      ����ֱ�� State University         May, 1978

                          (Deuterium Magnetic Resonance Studies of Orientational Order in the Liquid Crystalline Phases)

            M.A.     Physics      ����ֱ�� State University         Sept., 1974

            B.A.      Physics      Hope College                      June, 1973

Employment

                         2001-present          Professor,  Chemical Physics Program

                                            Liquid Crystal Institute,  ����ֱ�� State University

                       1997-present           Associate Director ; Liquid Crystal Institute, ����ֱ�� State University

            1995- 2001             Associate Professor,  Chemical Physics Program

                                            Liquid Crystal Institute,  ����ֱ�� State University

            7/95 - 9/95            Interim Director, Liquid Crystal Institute          

            1994-1995              Senior Research Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute

                                            ����ֱ�� State University

            1984-1993              Principal Scientist,  Display Research Dept.

                                            Tektronix Laboratories,  Tektronix Inc.

            1981-1984              Senior Scientist,  Display Research Dept.

                                            Tektronix Laboratories,  Tektronix Inc.

            1979-1981              Scientist,  Display Research Dept.

                                            Tektronix Laboratories,  Tektronix Inc.

            1978-1979              Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute,

                                            ����ֱ�� State University

               Honors and Awards

Invited Ben Sturgen Lecturer for 25^th British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference. ( 2011)

Slottow-Owaki Prize  ( for outstanding contribution to education in the field of information display ),   Society for Information Display, 2010

Fellow,   Society for Information Display

Distinguished Scholar Award,  ����ֱ�� State University, 2006 

Educational Activities

               Course Development and Teaching

Developed Graduate level course “ Liquid Crystal Displays” .  Course has been offered  annually since 1995.

Co-developed continuing education course “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices”.  Course has been offered annually since  about 1993

Developed Graduate level course “Liquid Crystal Device Prototyping”.  Course has been offered annually since 2011

            Graduate Students:

            Chad Hoke                  1995-1999       Ph.D.               (to Hewlett Packard  Labs)

            Assad Kahn                 1995-1995       M.S                 ( to ����ֱ�� Display Systems)

            Jim Anderson              1995  2002      PhD                 ( to Hana Microdisplays Inc.)

            Philip Watson             1996- 2000      Ph.D                ( to 3M Optical Devices Div)

            Hiroyuki  Mori            1996-1999       Ph.D                ( to Fuji Photo Film )

            Chuck Titus                 1997- 2000      Ph.D                ( independent consultant)

            Mike Alimov               1998-1999       M.S                 ( to S-Vision)

            Shuxin Li                    1998-1999       M.S.                ( to Densitron)

            Salman Saeed             1998-2002       Ph.D                ( to 3-5 Systems)

            Bin Wang                    1999-2001       PhD                 ( to Agilent)

            Erica Bramley             2000-2003       PhD                 ( to Kodak)

            Chenhui Wang            2000-2003       PhD                 ( to ChemImage)

            Jianru Shi                    2001-2005       PhD                 ( Post – Doc )

            Xinghua Wang            2002-2005       PhD                 ( to ChemImage)

            Yanli Zhang                2002-2005       PhD                 ( to Intel )

            Cheng Chen                2003-2006       PhD                 (to Apple Computer)

            Yong-Kyu Jang           2005-2007       PhD                 ( to Samsung Electronics)

            Mitya Reznikov          2005-2008       PhD                 (to Technion University)

            Lei Shi                         2006-2009       PhD                 (to ChemImage )

            Mike Dorjgotov          2006-2010       PhD                 ( to Apple Computer)

            Yi Huang                    2008-2013       PdD                 ( to Apple Computer)

            Lu Lu                          2009-2012       PhD                 ( to  Pittsburgh Plate Glass)

            Liwei Li                      2009-2013       PhD                 ( to Compound Photonics)

            Hsien-Hui Cheng        2011-2015       PhD                 (to Z-Space)

            Valerie Finnemeyer     2012-2016       PhD                 (to MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

            Kun Gao                     2014-2017       PhD                 (to BEAM Co.)

            Afsoon Jamali             2015-

            Colin McGinty            2015-

            Comrun Yousefzadeh 2016-

            Post Docs:

            Mark Flynn     1994                                        (to Kaiser Electronics)

            Dave Fredley 1994 - 1995                             ( to Motorola)

            Jon Ruth          1994 -2003                              ( to Alpha-Micron)

            Jianlin Li         1995-1996                               (to Polytronix)           

            Jianmin Chen 1995-1996                               ( to Samsung)

            Jianfung Li      1996-1997                               (to Reveo)

            Ray Folks        1995-1996

            Vasa Sergan    1996 –2002                             (California State University,   Sacremento 

            George Barrick        2002-2003                                  ( to CWRU)

            Gi-Dong Li     2001-2003                               ( to Pusan University)

            Mike Fisch      2002-2003                               ( to NEOBeam)

            Bin Wang        2003-2006                               ( to Eastman Chemical)

            Bentley Wall   2005-2008                               ( to Dynamic Eye)

            Ke Zhang        2006-20

           Visiting Scientists

            Janez Pirs                    annually                       (Inst. of Joseph Stephan, Slovenia)

            H. Wilderbeek             1999                (Eindhoven University of Technology)

            D.L.Seekola                1999                (University of Pretoria)

            Prof. H. Okada            3/96 - 8/96                   (Toyama Univ)

            Prof.  T. Nose             3/96 - 8/96                   (Akita Univ)

            N-D Kim                     9/95 - 8/96                  (Samsung)

            Hiroyuki Mori             9/96 – 9/99                  (Fugi-Film)

            Jianmin Chen             1997                            (Samsung)

            J.J. Lyu                        1997                            (Samsung)

           Byung-Seob Ban         2005                            (Samsung)

           Andriy Nych               2006                            (Institute of Physics, Kiev, Ukraine)

           Oleg Yaroshchuk        2013                            (Institute of Physics, Kiev, Ukraine)

Professional  Society Activities

            Facebook/Oculus Technology Advisory Board ( 2015)

            Member program committee for the Society for Information Display annual conference. and session chairman  2014 – 2016

            Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display ( 2008-2013)

            Chair, Academic Committee,   Society for Information Display ( 2008-2013)

            Member  program committee, 2008  International Display Research Conference

            General Chair,  26^th International Display Research Conference; ����ֱ�� , Ohio ( 2006)

            Member, Scientific Committee, 21^st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Keystone Co, (2006)

            Member program committee for the Society for Information Display annual conference. and session chairman  1993? – 2013

            Member Scientific Committee,  19^th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Edinburgh (2002)

            General Chair: 20^th International Display Research Conference, Palm Beach Florida ( 2000)

            Oversees Advisor,  6- 12^th  International Display Workshops, Japan (1999-2009)

            Member Scientific Committee, and session chair: 18^th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Sendai Japan ( 2000)

            Program Chair for 1997 International Display Research Conference, Toronto

            NSF Engineering Research Center Site review team for Opto-electronic Computing Systems Center at Univ. of Colorado (Feb 15, 1996)

            Program Committee member and Session chair at the 1994 International Display Research Conference, Monterey.

            Past Member,  Editorial Board of Liquid Crystals

Journal Articles: (155)

Issued Patents (35)