Abhishek Kumar
SRIVASTAVA
PhD in Physics
Associate Professor
Associate Director of Center for Display Research
Research Area
Photonics (Ph)
Quantum Engineering (QE)
Research Interests
Display technologies
Liquid crystals (LCs)
Nanomaterials
Photo-aligned ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs)
Solid-state electronics and photonics (S2EP)
Profile
He received his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from the University of Lucknow, Lucknow. He is a fellow of the Society for Information Display. He received Young Scientist Fast Track Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology of the Gov. of India, and ILCS Early-Career Award: The Michi Nakata Prize for his early career efforts in the Field of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals and Photo-Alignment from International Liquid Crystal Society. He has published 280 research papers and holds 30 patents/patent applications, and he is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society of Information Display, Wiley.
Selected Publications
- Inverted Device Engineering for Efficient and Bright Quantum Rod LEDs, 2026, Link
- High‐Speed and Continuously Tunable Polarization Rotator Using High‐Tilt Electrically Suppressed Helix Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, 2026, Link
- Polarized Color Filters Using Colloidal Quantum Rod Nanocrystals for Advanced High-Performance Displays, 2025, Link
- Ultralow Roll-Off Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes Using Engineered Carrier Injection Layer, 2023, Link
- Quantum-Rod On-Chip LEDs for Display Backlights with Efficacy of 149 lm W−1: A Step toward 200 lm W−1, 2021, Link
- Photoaligned Nanorod Enhancement Films with Polarized Emission for Liquid-Crystal-Display Applications, 2017, Link
- Photoinduced Micropattern Alignment of Semiconductor Nanorods with Polarized Emission in a Liquid Crystal Polymer Matrix, 2017, Link
Affiliation
Honors & Awards
Honors and Awards
He received numerous resach awards and recognition for his work. Some of the key distinctions are listed below.
- SID Fellow, 2026
- The ILCS Early-Career Award: The Michi Nakata Prize, 2014, by the International Liquid Crystal Society, USA.
- Best I-Zone display prototype of the year for FLC displays, SID 2018, USA.
- Bronze Award for the Quantum rod enhancement film, IMID-2018, Busan, Korea, 2018.