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Professor Gregory Crawford leverages his research background in liquid crystal and polymer materials and his expertise in optical devices and displays for far-reaching applications in photonics, nano-science and technology, and biomedical devices. Examples of Professor Crawford's research include photonic crystals, the optical analog to semiconductors, that are electrically switchable for telecommunication applications; the fabrication and synthesis of novel nano-tubes for display and robust composite material applications; and non-invasive optical devices to measure hemoglobin in seconds from the conjunctiva, the internal part of your lower eyelid, without a painful and sometimes expensive blood test.
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Gregory P. Crawford is currently Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University. His basic research interests include liquid crystals, polymers, and their application in electro-optic devices for displays, medical devices, telecommunications and integrated optics. During the 2003-2004 academic year, Professor Crawford was on Sabbatical at the Technical University of Eindhoven working on a number of liquid crystal and polymer projects. In the summer of 1999, he was a visiting research Professor at Philips Research Laboratory (Natlab) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he focused on emissive pixel technology. He was formally a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and later dpiX, where he concentrated on liquid crystals and polymers materials for flat panel display applications. In addition to his research at Xerox, he instructed a graduate course on electronic displays at San Jose State University, frequently teaches short courses on flat panel displays at companies, universities and professional conferences, and he has developed a graduate course on flat panel display at Brown University. Professor Crawford did his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. focusing on electroclinic and ferroelectric materials for fast switching spatial light modulator applications. He received his B.S. in both Physics and Mathematics and a Ph.D. from Kent State University where he performed his doctoral research at the Liquid Crystal Institute and NSF ALCOM Center. He has over 200 research publications, review articles and book chapters, holds 15 US patents, and is the coeditor of the book entitled Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries formed by Polymer and Porous Networks. Professor Crawford is the editor of a new book entitled Flexible Flat Panel Displays, which has just appeared in the Spring 2005, and well as editor of a special edition on Nano-Technology in Displays for the Journal for the Society for Information Display. Professor Crawford has recently been elected as the Vice Chair and Chair of the 2005 and 2007 Gordon Conferences on Liquid Crystals, respectively. He is a fellow of the Society for Information Display. Professor Crawford's teaching interests include engineering and high technology entrepreneurship at both the undergraduate and graduate level. During his sabbatical in the Netherlands in 2003-04, he also started a engineering entrepreneurship program at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
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