Kristiaan Neyts
Kristiaan Neyts is full senior professor at Ghent University, in the ELIS department, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and
heading the Liquid Crystals and Photonics
Group.
He received
a degree in physics engineering in 1987, a doctoral degree in engineering in
1992 and became professor in the ELIS
department in 2000 after post-docs in Ghent and Berkeley. He is co-author
of over 290 papers in the Web of Science core collection, and promotor or
co-promotor of 30 completed PhDs. The Liquid Crystals and Photonics
Group (LCP) has now 5 professors, 2 post-docs, 18 PhD students and 6 master
thesis students. The group is involved in UGent (IOF, BOF), national (FWO,
VLAIO), European and bilateral sponsored projects. The LCP group is one of 7
research groups that have joined in the UGent sponsored Multi-disciplinary
Research Network called Center
for Nano- and Bio-Photonics
Kristiaan Neyts chaired or
co-chaired several conferences organized in Ghent: the EL2002 (Electroluminescence); the LCP2006 International Workshop on
Liquid Crystals for Photonics; the ELOPTO
Symposium in September 2012; the SID-ME
chapter meeting in April 2013; the ELKIN
conference in May 2014 and the SID-EURODISPLAY conferences in
2015 and in 2019.
Current research interests (see also: Liquid Crystals and Photonics
Group)
- Liquid Crystals
Transmission, diffraction and waveguiding
Nematic and ferro-electric switchable components
Photoalignment
Chiral LC for flat reflective optics - Electroluminescence
and OLEDs
microcavity effects, diffraction and interference - Electrophoresis
and optical trapping
Electronic ink and electrophoretic displays
Charge and particle motion in polar and non-polar liquids
Optical trapping and particle manipulation - Electro-optical materials, piezo-electric
materials
- Characterization of solar cells
Here is a list of publications
of Kristiaan Neyts
Visit my profile on ResearchGate
Here is a link to the publications of
the Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group
Teaching
Elektrische Schakelingen en
Netwerken
Eerste semester, 6 studiepunten, 2
uur per week theorie, twee uur per week oefeningen. Plichtvak tweede bachelor
(Werktuigkunde, Elektrotechniek, Toegepaste Natuurkunde, Informatica)
Vakoverschrijdend
project Toegepaste Natuurkunde (together with
Christophe Leys and Dick Botteldooren)
Tweede
semester, 6 studiepunten, projectwerk. Plichtvak
derde bachelor toegepaste natuurkunde.
Optical
Materials
(taught in English at UGent and VUB, together with Jan
Danckaert)
Fall semester, 6 study points, Theory (2.5 h/week) - Exercises (2.5 h/week).
Compulsory course for students in the Master Photonics.
Display
Technology
(taught in English at UGent, together with Filip Strubbe)
Fall semester, 4 or 6 study points, Theory (1.66 h/week) - Exercises (0.83
h/week). Elective course for students in the Master Photonics and Master
Applied Physics.
Ingenieursproject I
(lecturing from 2008 until 2015)
Eerste semester, 6 studiepunten, 3 weken met introductielessen, 8 weken
projectwerk. Plichtvak eerste
bachelor.
Vanaf 2015-2016 gedoceerd
door Filip Beunis
Website of the Liquid
Crystals and Photonics Group
2013 / 2010 / 2008 / 2004
ELIS Department ; Ghent University
kristiaan.neyts at ugent.be
Liquid Crystals and Photonics website