I had an NIH grant on biological membranes (that are also liquid crystalline) as well. It seemed to be the best thing to do, and my wife, Shirley, agreed. Doane discusses his life and especially his career as the Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute. 2 hours from Kansas City. DOANE: It can mean several things. Updated fixtures and lighting in bathrooms. However, now I had a system that looked like I could do applied research. Faculty and research fellows in the Kent group were finding it more difficult to find support. CRAWFORD: But it also sounds like it was in line with your interests.DOANE: Oh, yes, it was very much in line with my interests. I wonder if you could tell us when and where you were born and what your early childhood was like.DOANE: Sure. Because part of the issue is that you're getting federal funding, so the research is supposed to be a public good, so how could you make it private? [Laugh]CRAWFORD: Why do you say that?DOANE: If the Institute had had a display program going, it would've been a bonanza. It just made for a nice, cohesive research program. But I got to know Lowell Heinke well in later years, and he was telling me that it was a very difficult lawsuit. DOANE: I never viewed myself as a pioneer. [Start Part 1]MATTHEW CRAWFORD: My name is Matthew Crawford. As I recall, he started it basically by bringing in three new people, one of whom was a chemist named Sardari Arora, a synthetic chemist who synthesized liquid crystals. Also researchers at Kent were not developing material for displays, but they could have been.] That was a discovery that turned out to be not only of scientific interest but also ended up in many applications. There were also different kinds of optical devices created. We decided I should go, so I went. Each room has its own private bath. Thinking about the generation of young people becoming scientists today, could you talk about what's involved in being a scientist? Akron contributed really nicely to the display technology because with polymers, they could make things like retardation films, and Akron really got involved. We put together a massive proposal from our group to NSF. DOANE: I think it was a variety of things. They were able to get funding on some bill that was going through. The Japanese could do this. It was a source of funding in an exciting area of research for faculty to get into and apply what they knew to that. He carried the technology to General Motors and got them involved. Tenant will be out by mid May. For the guy who takes on the challenge of the unpopular aspects of science it is often the guy who finds the exciting breakthroughs. He didnt fit in well in the University environment.. CRAWFORD: Good! ]CRAWFORD: Would you say that Kent Displays itself is a product of ALCOM?DOANE: Oh, yes. I wonder if you could say a little bit about the nature of the problem, that he didnt have a PhD. I had help from Dave Uhrich in Physics, who was great in editing things for us. I dont know what he called his company, but I think he made good business out of that. But that was the way Glenn wanted it. But Hoffmann-La Roche patented the twist cell display in Europe. Les Avenires Veyrins-Thuellin : Les Avenires Veyrins-Thuellin Localisation : Country France, Region Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes, Department Isre. Paris. Oftentimes, people talk about academic research, especially at this time, as being more independent because there weren't private interests, they weren't working for a company's lab. Little Tokyo. [And I wanted to get Alfred Saupe, Adriaan De Vries , who was doing X-rays, Mary Neubert, a synthetic chemist and others at the Institute, into the programs at the research campus and more involved with the department faculty]. [Laugh] I've heard other scientists comment on this, that it seems like the younger you are, the more bold you are in trying new things. I didn't view it as a building necessarily with its own administrative structure, rather as a building to support research. Mine were in Missouri, and by that time, hers were in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While it could show color, there were contrast and stability issues. It was the first patent I ever wrote. We are not looking for the development of marketable products. I think it was my second year Id been here, probably around '67 or so. And he was very helpful and supportive of this sort of thing. But I had no issues with him. I could have a display film that was flexible, the liquid crystal wouldn't flow out of it, it was trapped inside of it. You license a technology, and within a short while, sometimes within a year, the company you've licensed it to has already further developed technology and written patents around it, then they're back knocking on the door, negotiating for reduced payments. There were no doubt other faculty involved that I may have overlooked. I told President Mike Schwartz, and his [Vice President for Academic Affairs] at the time, [Terry] Roark. They were on glass substrates as opposed to plastic. He said he got a call from a guy in the Air Force he knew, and they wanted to explore liquid crystals. Further, in the ALCOM Center, we had a very successful K-12 program, too.CRAWFORD: When you were training students, how important was it to guide them on a trajectory into industry or academia?DOANE: [My approach was just to teach them basic science and how to do research that they use either in industry or academia.] If you had something black behind it to create a background, you could switch on and off a bright red image, for example, on black background. I wanted to learn Morse code, and I needed to make a little oscillator that would make tones and got a [telegraph] key, so I could [practice and] learn Morse code. We were working together in the lab, and he wanted to make a liquid crystal display. I said, "Oh, Jim, I haven't seen you in a long time. I found an investor, which I needed because it was going to be expensive to do it, and I wanted to set an example so other people at the University would do it. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you to tell us a little bit about what it's been like living through the COVID pandemic over the last year, what effects it's had on your professional and personal lives, whatever you'd like to share. The physics behind it isnt so simple, but it's a simple device and useful device as a paper replacement that can be reused. I just wanted to be from a place that people recognized. We will schedule showings by appointment only until the tenant has moved. They focused on one type of liquid crystal display, LCD, referred to as a twist cell. I can only speak from a Kent point of view because that's where I was at the time. I convinced Bill Manning to come aboard and also found somebody to run the company. At that particular time, the dean for research here wanted me to get involved in this lawsuit. ]CRAWFORD: I would imagine as a company, it's beneficial to have students, both undergraduates and graduates, who can come here and work that you know have experience in physics.DOANE: Particularly experience in liquid crystals. It was a bit of an awkward thing for Jim because he didnt have the PhD. Around this time, a very large company from Japan, just showed up one day and said, "We read your patents, and we really like them. In this case the university will make little or no up-front money from the license but it has value otherwise in creating local industry that benefits the university in a variety of ways, creating jobs for students, attracting new students, endowments, PR etc.] That was the reason I came to Kent. There were in addition several senior research fellows that include Adriaan De Vries doing x ray studies, and Mary Neubert who performed chemical synthesis of liquid crystal materials for all the researchers to work on.] [There's a faculty member at Kent, Phil Bos that I'd like for you to interview.] My father was very interested in astronomy, and he would point out things to me about the Milky Way, the various stars, and so on. They knew how to do that very well. They sent the two of us to communications school. Everybody seemed happy with that, so we did it. Before, it was called Kent Display Systems. I know we've covered quite a bit of ground.DOANE: I have to say, I'm really impressed how prepared you were for this and how much you knew before you even set foot through this door. When you're running a research institute, like I was at Kent State, and it's funded by grants and contracts, that's about all you have time to do. This is because, after THEMIS, the Institute [lost its group funding and] started going downhill. That really got us going. And the city of Kent got nothing from it. We've talked a little bit about how the academic and industrial worlds were in some ways separate universes. The Mill at Chastain Floor Plans & Pricing. [I think it was called ARPA at that time. The dispersed polymers are necessary to control the width of the written line. Particularly, with General Motors and 3M. CRAWFORD: You had mentioned that the Defense Department, DARPA, the Navy, and so forth became interested in funding display research for their own uses. Further electrical engineers at Akron or Case did not have that expertise or interest. It can be green, red, whatever you want it to be. [Laugh] They wanted to fill a position at Kent, and I was looking at other schools, too. CRAWFORD: Was the goal to further understand the properties of liquid crystals? ]CRAWFORD: One of the themes I'm getting from your answers is, you seem to have a very open perspective in the sense of looking for opportunities, building connections, literally connecting the physics and chemistry departments on campus. CRAWFORD: I want to circle back to the late 80s. Request More Information. Basically, cancerous tissue has a different temperature than normal tissue, and they could detect it by very sensitive temperature measurements using liquid crystals. Basically, Glenn and I did the best we could to put this together. and our ]CRAWFORD: When you took over as director, obviously you were moving in this applied direction, but did you also want to develop the LCI's relationship with companies?DOANE: Oh, yes, I did. CONDO Specialist? In this other article he was interviewed for, which was talking about the work that was being done on displays with watch faces, calculators, and so forth, Dr. Franklin said, in the context of this article, "Research at the Institute here in Kent is not motivated by entrepreneurship. Today is August 9th, 2021. In talking to my friend at MIT, he was saying their experienceand he had a lot more experience than I did, was that MIT had trouble making money on licensing. I don't think the company lost any personnel. We put together this massive proposal. But when it's on campus, that's an issue you have. I was concerned at the time as I really didn't know how we would fit into the display world. These agreements are now well over 30 years ago and probably now terminated and some could be made public. I thought about it for a short while and agreed. He wasn't spending time at the Institute, the two weren't speaking to one another, and Glenn wanted to ask me if I would support him firing Fergason. We drove out, and we hadn't been there one day when I got a call from Glenn. After a while, NSF support began to fall off. Kent State university and its ALCOM center has probably graduated more students in the display industry than any other university in the US. The institute strongly contributed to that in many different ways. There are a lot of components to a display. ]You had to really make a little circuit at each pixel site to really make these things switch well. Paranormal Cirque III - Brandon, FL - April 27 - 30, 2023 Hosted By Paranormal Cirque III. That was the main event that really told me where I wanted to go. 2 car garage and Large front yard. Or at least we thought it was at that time. But it was clear that it wasn't going to be a very big business, and I wasn't sure that Bill Manning would ever get that much enjoyment out of signs. We have partnered with I'm stepping ahead a little bit, but after a few years when Glenn appointed me as associate director or whatever the title was, the first thing I did was go to the dean of arts and sciences and say, "I'd like to build a building on the research campus for liquid crystal research." It was sort of a political thing. Atlanta-based Preferred Apartment Communities (NYSE: APTS). I don't know whether I'm responsible for this, but I think the center got Steve Forrest at USC focused on using light-emitting diodes for displays. We were developing plastic, but we weren't far enough along. Well, that was marvelous. I saw a big opportunity to do that. Then, I saw that maybe this was an opportunity for a university to get involved in display research. My father, early on, had bought me a crystal radio set. I said, "I think what I would do is, go down to the store and get some epoxy." The Mill at Chastain is located at 3350 George Busbee Pkwy NW, Trulia is a registered Trademark of Zillow, Inc. Zillow, Inc. holds real estate brokerage, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Zillow Group is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for individuals with disabilities. We are doing this interview at Kent Displays in Kent, Ohio. The written line is erased electrically by simply pressing a button whereby the cholesteric liquid crystal is electrically switched from its color reflective state to its background state. She came out on a train around 1915, I think. Have a facility there based on what Glenn had started. And that's the proposal we gave them and that is what they funded. I had no issues with Glenn other than the fact that we disagreed on where the Institute should be located. Do you want to talk with a Located at Interstate 225 at Alameda Avenue, the Town Center at . It seems like a lot of the Nobel laureates are really young fellows or at least made their discoveries at a young age. I think John West could tell you more about that. Saupe, being in the Institute off campus, away from the physics department, was never around in physics. As a university, we may have, at one time, been the largest contributor to talks and demonstrations at those Society conferences. Incidentally, we've already started a company, we already know how to make windows. You can even write on it and store it on your cell phone if you want to. Its called a cholesteric liquid crystal. There are alignment layers, retardation films, liquid crystal materials where significant contributions are made. Today, I'm interviewing Dr. J. William Doane, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Emeritus Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, as well as Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Kent Displays. 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