Edward Peter Raynes (born )
RAYNES, Prof. (Edward) Peter
''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering at the University of Oxford (since 1998). He was, and continues to be, an early developer and advocate of liquid crystal display
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display, flat-panel display or other Electro-optic modulator, electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liqui ...
s (LCDs).
Raynes was educated at St Peter's School, York
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and obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge; he then worked at RSRE (Malvern
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) for 21 years until 1991. He is a Fellow of St Cross College
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.
He has been the chief scientist of Sharp Laboratories ( Europe) since 1992.
Awards
* IoP Paterson medal 1986
* Society of Information Display
Selected publications
* Electro-optic response times in liquid crystals, E. Jakeman, and E. P. Raynes, Physics Letters A, Vol. 39, Iss. 1, p. 69-70 1972.
* Improved contrast uniformity in twisted nematic liquid-crystal electro-optic display devices, E P Raynes, Electronics Letters. Vol. 10, pp. 141–142. (1974)
* Recent advances in liquid crystal materials and display devices, E. P. Raynes, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. ED-26, p. 1116-1122 (1979).
* Supertwisted nematic liquid crystal displays (review), E. P. Raynes and C. M. Waters, Displays, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, pp. 59–63 (1987)
* Optical studies of thin layers of smectic-C materials, Anderson, M.H., Jones, J.C., Raynes, E.P., Towler, M.J., Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 24, Iss. 3, pp. 338–342 (1991)
* Ferroelectric liquid crystal display, Koden, M., et al., Shapu Giho/Sharp Technical Journal, Iss. 69, pp. 47–50 (1997)
References
People educated at St Peter's School, York
External links
St Cross information
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1945 births
Living people
Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society
English physicists
Engineering academics
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Sharp Corporation people
Academics of the University of Oxford