{"id":135750,"date":"2023-06-13T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//?p=135750"},"modified":"2023-06-13T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:20:02","slug":"ucf-is-professor-inventor-shin-tson-wus-mountaintop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//ucf-is-professor-inventor-shin-tson-wus-mountaintop/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750//","title":{"rendered":"麻豆原创 is Trustee Chair Professor, Inventor Shin-Tson Wu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s Mountaintop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shin-Tson Wu remains quiet whenever someone pulls out a smartphone or turns on a tablet. He/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s too humble to mention that he helped invent the screens they/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019re viewing. The technology used for the LCD screen is among an astonishing number of patents issued for Wu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s inventions /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2014 96 at last count. In 2014, he was one of six inaugural honorees into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, alongside Thomas Edison and the father of air conditioning, John Gorrie./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

You might wonder why Wu isn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019t spending his days on top of a mountain, with a view of an ocean and of all that he has influenced. The answer is, he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s already been there. He chose to leave a distinguished career with Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, 22 years ago. He left the prestige, the commanding mountain views, and the potential for wealth, and he reset his focus at 麻豆原创./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cMy main priority is not myself,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d says Wu, who was honored with 麻豆原创/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s Excellence in Research award earlier this year. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s OK to see others profit from my research. A rich life to me is not just about money. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s helping others have better lives./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

Wu says this from a modest office in CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. His windows since 2001 have looked over slivers of 麻豆原创/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s campus: Gemini Drive and a parking garage, among them./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cHere, let/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s go to the lab,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d Wu says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cSeeing is a much better way to understand./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cA rich life to me is not just about money. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s helping others have better lives./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2014 Shin-Tson Wu, Trustee Chair Professor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

The trustee chair professor, this modern-day Edison, enthusiastically leads the way to a lab that appears dim. Various scopes and tools sit organized on two tables. Blue light could damage the tools, which is why the lab looks yellowish. Wu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019s visitor starts to ask about the scopes./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cThose are not the interesting pieces,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d Wu says politely. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cThis is./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

He holds up the tiniest screen you/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019ve ever seen, about the size of a pinky nail. Wu and his group of student researchers moved on years ago from the original LCD technology that changed the way we view screens./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cMy patent for that is old news,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d he says, without a hint of ego. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cIt is being used everywhere now. In here we/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2019re looking to the future with the use of liquid-crystal-on-silicon [LCoS]./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

To help his visitor also see the future, Wu asks a doctoral student, Tim Yang /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201922MS, to position a set of AR goggles over the eyes. Vivid digital images appear over the actual field of vision /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u2014 specifically, chameleons ride bicycles in front of Wu. This demonstration of augmented reality provides a glimpse of the next possible applications of liquid-crystal-on-silicon, with detailed images projected from a microdisplay. Wu explains what he envisions./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cPeople in the military could use this to see a commanding officer giving instructions over real-life situations,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d Wu says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201cBy making this very small, it could be integrated into something less bulky, like sunglasses. Eventually, consumers could use it to see information about points of interest when traveling, without looking at a phone. But those examples are just a start./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/135750/n