Student Services Building

Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development

Student Services Building, Room 324
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
256.824.6100

 

Dr. Robert Lindquist

Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Professor, ECE

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Student Services Building
Room 324G
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.6100
robert.lindquist@uah.edu

Biography

Professor Lindquist's major research interests include optical networking devices, liquid crystal components, integrated electronics on glass, photonics, planar waveguides, and micro- and nanofabrication technologies. Prior to coming to UAH, Dr. Lindquist worked for Corning Incorporated where he managed a liquid crystal development group and work as a senior research scientist. Prof. Lindquist holds more than 8 US patents and has published more than 40 journal and conference papers.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1992
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1986

Expertise

  • Liquid crystal device design & fabrication
  • Nano and microfabrication processes
  • Liquid-crystal based chemical and biological sensors
  • Electronics on glass

Recent Publications

  • R. Lindquist, D. L. Forti, A. Tareki, and J. Guo, "Tunable metamaterial in the terahertz regime using liquid crystal," SPIE Optics and Photonics Annual Conference, August 25-29, 2013, San Diego, California, USA. (Invited Talk)

  • Yongbin Lin, Mollye Sanders, Taylor Bono, Krishnan Chittur, Robert Lindquist, "Improved nanofabrication for plasmonic nanostructures on optical-fiber tip for biosensors." SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA, 27 - 29 August 2013. (Invited talk)

  • R.G. Lindquist, "Roles of Liquid Crystals in Optical Microsystems," International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics 2013, Beijing, China, May 2013. (Invited Talk)

  • "Liquid Crystal Sensor Microchip," Hassanzadeh, A.; Lindquist, R.G.,Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.12, no.5, pp.1536,1544, May 2012 doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2174219

  • "Design of an a-Si:H Interface Circuit for Liquid Crystal Chemical and Biological Sensor Array," Hassanzadeh, A.; Lindquist, R.G.; Dashen Shen, Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.12, no.5, pp.1284,1288, May 2012 doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2169402

  • "Influence of the bias voltage on surface-driven orientational transitions for liquid crystal based chemical and biological sensors," Y. Zou, J. Namkung, Y. Lin, D. Ke and R. G. Lindquist, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 44, 2011