Title: Liquid Crystal for VR
Abstract: Liquid crystals (LCs) have been widely used in display applications. Beyond displays, LCs are also attracting wide interests due to its unique optical properties and self-organizing nature. These together enable highly efficient and practical flat optics. In this talk, I will review the basics of LC optics and present the recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) displays and viewing optics based on LC optical elements, in order to enable glasses-like form factor, high efficiency, better image quality and user comfort.
About the Speaker: Dr. Fenglin Peng '17PhD is a tech-lead manager, research scientist at Reality Labs Research, Meta (formerly Facebook). She has been working on novel optics and display systems to enable future AR/VR glasses. She is the recipient of the 2023 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award. She has served as committee member for SPIE Photonics West and SID (the Society for Information Display) and has given multiple invited talks on SPIE, SID and OSA. She has co-authored one book chapter, over 50 journal and conference papers, and >50 patents. She received her PhD degree from College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), UCF in 2017 and bachelor degree from Zhejiang University.
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