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Kristiaan
NEYTS

PhD of Applied Science
Professor
Director of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies
Room 2415
(852) 3469 3157
(852) 2358 1485
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Photonics (Ph)
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Liquid Crystals
Displays
Electro-optic devices
Light emitting devices
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Kristiaan Neyts is full professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT) since September 2023.

He received a degree in physics engineering in 1987, a doctoral degree in engineering in 1992 and became professor at Ghent University in the ELIS department in the faculty of Engineering and Architecture 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. He founded the Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group (LCP) at UGent which has now 5 professors, 2 post-docs and 18 PhD students. He was also co-founder of the Center for Nano- and Bio-Photonics, a UGent sponsored Multi-disciplinary Research Network.

 

At UGent Kristiaan Neyts has been teaching the following courses:

  • Electrical Circuits and Networks (undergraduate program Engineering)
  • Optical Materials (Master Photonics Engineering)
  • Display Technology (Master Photonics Engineering)

 

Current research interests 

  • Liquid Crystals 
    • Transmission, diffraction, lensing, waveguiding
    • Nematic and ferro-electric switchable components 
    • Photoalignment of chiral LC for flat reflective optics 
  • LEDs and OLEDs
    • Microcavity effects, diffraction and interference 
  • Electrophoresis and Optical Trapping 
    • Electronic ink and electrophoretic displays
    • Optical trapping and particle manipulation
  • Electro-optical materials, piezo-electric materials

 

Awards

  • Sidmar award for best master thesis in the faculty of engineering in 1988
  • AIG award for best PhD thesis at the faculty of engineering in 1993
  • Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal Research - Diamond Award for Inge Nys in 2020, for the paper on tilted chiral liquid crystal gratings (last author: K. Neyts)
  • Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal Research - Gold Award for Migle Stebryte in 2021, for the paper on large angle forward diffraction (last author: K. Neyts)

 

He chaired or co-chaired several conferences organized in Ghent: the EL2002 conference on Electroluminescence; the LCP 2006 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.

At UGent Kristiaan Neyts has been teaching the following courses:

  • Electrical Circuits and Networks (undergraduate program Engineering)
  • Optical Materials (Master Photonics Engineering)
  • Display Technology (Master Photonics Engineering)