Vacancies for PhD position in the Liquid Crystals & Photonics group
The Liquid Crystals & Photonics group is currently looking for new PhD students with a master degree in photonics, physics, applied physics or electronics. More info about these positions can be found in the Vacancies-section of this site.
Liquid Crystals & Photonics Group
The Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group is part of the department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Ghent University in Belgium. The research aims at the development of new electro-optical devices based on liquid crystals, electrophoretics or luminescent materials and is headed by Prof. dr. ir. Kristiaan Neyts.
LCP Group's results in the media
A recent publication in Physical Review Letters, by Filip Beunis, Filip Strubbe, Kristiaan Neyts and Dmitri Petrov is a research highlight in the latest issue of both Nature Physics and Nature Materials. Also the popular scientific magazine EOS and the Belgian magazine Knack devoted an article to the results.
LCP Group's results are focus topic in Physics
A recent publication in Physical Review Letters, by Filip Beunis, Filip Strubbe, Kristiaan Neyts and Dmitri Petrov, received the label "editor's suggestion", and was covered in APS's magazine Physics as the focus topic of the week: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/3.
Sofie Lambert wins IMEC prize for best master thesis
Sofie Lambert has won the IMEC prize for the best master thesis in engineering at Ghent University for the academic year 2010-2011. The dissertation is entitled 'Trimming Silicon-on-Insulator Ring Resonators with a Polymerizable Liquid Crystal Cladding' (supervisors : prof. dr. ir. Jeroen Beeckman (ELIS-LCP) and prof. dr. ir. Roel Baets (INTEC)). The prize is awarded yearly for a master thesis which offers an excellent contribution to the innovation or the improvement of micro- and nano-electronic components.
Best Poster Presentation Award ELKIN 2010
Filip Beunis, postdoc in the ‘Liquid Crystals and Photonics’ group at department ELIS, together with co-authors Filip Strubbe, Bart Verboven, Kristiaan Neyts en Dmitri Petrov, has won the ‘Best Poster Presentation Award’ at the ‘9th International Electrokinetics Conference (ELKIN 2010)’, which took place from June 6 to 10, 2010 in Turku (Finland). The winning work ‘Monitoring of charging events on particles in a nonpolar liquid’ is a collaboration between UGent and the ‘Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)’ in Barcelona (Spain) and reports experiments, reminiscent of Millikan’s famous oil-drop experiment, in which changes of only one electron charge on a colloidal particle are monitored during a long time.
