Inaugural Issue of Journal of Display Technology Scheduled for September 2005
Jointly sponsored by seven IEEE Societies, and the Optical Society of America, the Journal of Display Technology (JDT) is a new archival journal devoted to the timely dissemination of new results and discussions in all aspects of display technologies, from understanding the basic science and engineering of devices, to device design and fabrication, to system design, applications, and human-factors topics. Clearly, these topics span many disciplines, and this journal will bridge, for the first time, these multidisciplinary themes. Papers are solicited in all areas of display technology including:
· Display systems and engineering
· Materials and components
· Optical design
· Lighting technologies
· Display drivers and interfaces
· Display packaging
· Manufacturing technology
· Reliability and testing
· Applications
The inaugural issue of the JDT is scheduled for September 2005. The mid-year introduction in 2005 will be followed by quarterly publication in 2006. The member prices for the introductory year will be $13 for online, $14 for print, and $17 for both in 2005, reflecting just two issues printed in the launch year. Subscriptions will be available during the 2005 renewal period this fall. In 2006, when four issues will be printed, subscription rates will be adjusted. A wide circulation is assured because approximately 900 libraries worldwide subscribe to IEEE periodical packages that will contain the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology. Additionally, OSA will include JDT as an offering in its top-ranked Optics InfoBase.
Manuscripts can be submitted electronically for peer review thorough IEEE's Manuscript Central https://www.i-leos.org/ New authors should create an account. Authors who have previously submitted manuscripts to LEOS publications simply select the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology and log on. For questions contact Linda Matarazzo, Manager, IEEE LEOS Editorial Office, l.matarazzo@ieee.org (phone +1 732 562 3910; fax +1 732 981 1138).
The JDT will utilize "rapid-posting," that is, as soon as an article is edited for publication, the staff-formatted version will be posted in Xplore®. When JDT is printed, the version with page numbers and issue ID suitable for citation referencing will replace the earlier online pre-print copy.
Shin-Tson Wu Named Editor-in-Chief of JDT
Shin-Tson Wu will be the first Editor-in-Chief of the new IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology and will form his editorial board this fall. Dr. Wu is the Provost-Distinguished Professor of Optics at the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida (UCF). Prior to joining UCF in 2001, Dr. Wu worked at Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California) for 18 years. He received his PhD from the Center for Laser Studies, University of Southern California, and his BS in physics from National Taiwan University.
Dr. Wu's entire career has been devoted to liquid-crystal display science, technology, and electro-optics. His major contributions are in projection liquid-crystal displays, wide-view and fast-response liquid-crystal televisions, transflective liquid-crystal displays for cell phones, and high birefringence liquid crystals for tunable photonic devices. Several of his inventions are implemented in commercial products. His studies at UCF, concentrate in five areas: liquid-crystal displays, liquid-crystal materials, foveated imaging, bio-photonics, and optical communications. His research group consists of two professors, seven research scientists and thirteen PhD students.
Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, SID, and OSA. He is a recipient of the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, SID Special Recognition Award, ERSO (Taiwan) Special Achievement Award, Hughes team achievement award, and Hughes Research Labs outstanding paper award. Dr. Wu has co-authored two books: Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays (Wiley, 2001), and Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals (World Scientific, 1993), four book chapters, over 200 journal papers, 60 invention disclosures, and 150 conference presentations.
Dr. Wu has been serving as a Technical Advisory Committee member for steering Taiwan's display industry for more than a decade. Most of Taiwan's display engineers benefit directly or indirectly from Prof. Wu's seminars or training courses. Dr. Wu is serving as a conference co-chair for the IEEE/LEOS (Display), CLEO (Display and Solid-State Lighting), and MRS (Liquid Crystal Materials) conferences.
Hirohisa Kawamoto Named Steering Committee Chair of JDT
Hirohisa Kawamoto is the Chair of the first Steering Committee organized to launch the new IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology in 2005. Kawamoto, an IEEE Fellow, is Visiting Professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Nara, Japan. He received the B.S. degree in electronics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1961 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 and 1970 respectively.
From 1961 to 1968, he was with the Matsushita Electronic Corporation, Osaka, Japan. In 1970, he taught as an Acting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley. From 1970 to 1980, he worked for RCA David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ. In 1980 he founded the Sony Consumer Electronics Laboratories in Paramus, NJ where he served as General Manger until 1985. During the same time he founded the Princeton Community Japanese Language School, Princeton, NJ and served as its Chairman of the Board of Trustees until 1985.
From 1985 to 2001, he was with the Sharp Corporation, Japan, where he participated in the founding of Sharp Laboratories of Europe at Oxford, U.K., and Sharp Laboratories of America at Camus, WA. His last assignment at Sharp was Vice President and Division General Manager of the Technical Information Center.
Since July 2001, he has been a Senior Business Advisor with Silicon Image Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, stationed in Nara Gakuen-Mae, Japan. From 1994 to 2000, he acted as a delegate from Japan to the Committee of Action of International Electro-Technical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Kawamoto was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 1992 for contributions to materials, device, and systems technologies for the use of video systems. Dr. Kawamoto has also received the IEEE Centennial Medal and Third Millennium Medal.