Room 223 LCM
Tel: (330) 672-4612; Fax: (330) 672-2796
E-mail: jfrancl@lci.kent.edu

A.A.S. in Electronic Technology, University of Akron, 1986

· Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (PDLCs)
· Electric Field-Induced Polymer Walls in Nematic and Cholesteric LCDs

Systems Administrator for the LCI (PC Guru)

J.L. West, K. Jewell, J. Francl, Y. Ji and J.R. Kelly, "Surface Anchoring, Polymer Glass Transition and Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Electrooptics," Proc. SPIE, 1665, 8-12 (1992).

J.L. West, R.B. Akins, J. Francl and J.W. Doane, "Cholesteric/Polymer Dispersed Light Shutters," Appl. Phys. Lett., 63, 1471-1473 (1993).

J.L. West, G.R. Magyar and J.J. Francl, "Polymer-Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Materials for Black-on-White Displays," SID Digest of Tech. Papers XXV, 608-610 (1994).

J.L. West, M. Rouberol, J.J. Francl, Y. Ji, J.W. Doane, M. Pfeiffer, "Flexible Displays Utilizing Bistable, Reflective Cholesteric, Polymer Dispersions and Polyester Substrates," Proc. Asia Display '95, 55-57 (1995).

Y. Ji, J.J. Francl, J.L. West, "The Mechanism for the Formation of Polymer Wall in Higher Polymer Content Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Mixture," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 299, 395-400 (1997).

Y. Kim, J. Francl, B. Taheri, J.L. West, "A Method for the Formation of Polymer Walls in Liquid Crystal/Polymer Mixtures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 2253-2255 (1998).

Y. Kim, J. Francl, B. Taheri, J.L. West, "A Novel Method for the Formation of Polymer Walls in LC/Polymer Displays," SID Intl. Digest Tech. Papers XXIX, 397-400 (1998).

Y. Kim, V.H. Bodnar, J. Francl, B. Taheri, J.L. West, "A Novel Method for the Formation of Polymer Walls in Liquid-Crystal/Polymer Displays," SID Intl. Digest Tech. Papers 6, 227-229 (1998).

C.D. Sheraw, L. Zhou, J.R. Huang, C.C. Kuo, J.A. Nichols, L. Jia, D.J. Gundlach, T.N. Jackson, M.G. Kane, I.G. Hill, M.S. Hammond, J. Campi, B.K. Greening, J. Francl, J. West, "Flexible Liquid Crystal Displays Driven by Organic Thin Film Trnsistors on Polymeric Substrates," paper presented at Device Research Conference, University of Notre Dame, June, 2001.