Jingyu Lin

Chinese-American physicist and engineer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jingyu Lin (Chinese: 林景瑜) is a Chinese-American physicist and engineer working in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors and photonic devices. She is a co-inventor of MicroLED. In 2000, the husband-wife research team led by Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin at Kansas State University (KSU) proposed and realized the operation of the first MicroLED and passive driving MicroLED microdisplay.[1][2][3][4][5] In 2009, their team and colleagues at III-N Technology, Inc. and Texas Tech University (TTU) realized and patented the first active driving MicroLED microdisplay in VGA format by heterogeneously integrating MicroLED array with Si CMOS active-matrix driver.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

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Jingyu Lin
林景瑜
Jingyu Lin, 2024
Born
EducationSyracuse University
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SpouseHongxing Jiang
Engineering career
DisciplinePhysics
InstitutionsTexas Tech University
ProjectsCo-inventor of MicroLED
Significant designSingle-chip high-voltage DC/AC LEDs
Awards
  • Horn Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech University (2014 – present)
  • Barnie E. Rushing, Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Award, TTU (2014)
  • NSF Career Advancement Award (1994)
  • Senate Research Award, Syracuse University (1986)
Websitewww.depts.ttu.edu/ece/faculty/jingyu_lin/index.php
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The single-chip high-voltage DC/AC LEDs via on-chip integration of mini- and MicroLED arrays developed by their team in 2002 have been widely commercialized for general solid-state lighting and automobile headlights.[12][13][14][15][16]

Under the support of DARPA-MTO’s SUVOS, CMUVT, DUVAP, and VIGIL programs, their research team contributed to the early developments of III-nitride deep UV emitters and detectors and InGaN energy devices in the United States. These include the prediction and confirmation that Al-rich AlGaN deep UV emitters emit light in the transverse-magnetic (TM) mode, the demonstration of the first UV and blue photonic crystal LEDs (PC-LEDs), one of the first to demonstrate conductivity control in Al-rich AlGaN and AlN deep UV avalanche photodetectors with an ultrahigh specific detectivity.[17] Supported by ARPA-E, their research team has developed crystal growth technologies for producing thick epitaxial films (or quasi-bulk crystals) of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) ultrawide bandgap semiconductor in large wafer sizes and realized h-BN thermal neutron detectors with a record high detection efficiency.[18][19][20][21]

Education

Jingyu Lin obtained PhD in physics in 1989 from Syracuse University under the guidance Arnold Honig. She received her BS in physics in 1983 from SUNY Oneonta.[22]

Career

Currently, she is a co-director of the Nanophotonics Center and is the inaugural Linda F. Whitacre endowed chair and Horn Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering within the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University (TTU). To be designated a Horn Professor is the highest honor received by a Texas Tech faculty member.[23] In 2008, she along with her husband Hongxing Jiang (a Horn Distinguished Professor, co-director of the Nanophotonics Center and the inaugural Edward Whitacre endowed chair at TTU), relocated their research team to TTU from Kansas State University where she was a professor of physics.[22]

Honors and awards

Elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, 2019[24]

Elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018[25]

Elected fellow of the SPIE - the international society for optics and photonics, 2017[26]

Elected fellow of the Optical Society of America, 2016[27]

Elected fellow of the American Physical Society, 2012[28]

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