
Jingyu Lin () is a Chinese-American physicist and
engineer
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working in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors and photonic devices. She is a co-inventor of
MicroLED
MicroLED, also known as micro-LED, mLED or μLED is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic Light-emitting diode, LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Inorganic semiconductor microLED (μLED) technol ...
. 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. In 2009, their team and colleagues at III-N Technology, Inc. and
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
(TTU) realized and patented the first active driving MicroLED microdisplay in
VGA format by heterogeneously integrating MicroLED array with Si
CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss
", , ) is a type of MOSFET, metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) semiconductor device fabrication, fabrication process that uses complementary an ...
active-matrix driver.
The single-chip high-voltage DC/AC LEDs via on-chip integration of mini- and
MicroLED
MicroLED, also known as micro-LED, mLED or μLED is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic Light-emitting diode, LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Inorganic semiconductor microLED (μLED) technol ...
arrays developed by their team in 2002 have been widely commercialized for general solid-state lighting and automobile headlights.
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. Supported by
ARPA-E
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, 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.
Education
Jingyu Lin obtained PhD in physics in 1989 from
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...
under the guidance Arnold Honig. She received her BS in physics in 1983 from
SUNY Oneonta.
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
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
(TTU). To be designated a Horn Professor is the highest honor received by a Texas Tech faculty member. 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
Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant coll ...
where she was a professor of physics.
Honors and awards
Elected fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors
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, 2019
Elected fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, 2018
Elected fellow of the
SPIE
SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. It ...
- the international society for optics and photonics, 2017
Elected fellow of the
Optical Society of America
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, 2016
Elected fellow of the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...
, 2012
References
Jingyu Lin - 2016-17 SPIE Women in Optic
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American electronics engineers
American women engineers
Texas Tech University faculty
Kansas State University faculty
Syracuse University alumni
State University of New York at Oneonta alumni
21st-century American inventors
American women academics
21st-century American women
Fellows of SPIE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of Optica (society)