Microwaves, Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Liquid Crystals: Preparation, Characterization and Applications

這本書是有關液晶分子在微波、毫米波和太赫茲波領域的首部專著。它呈現了關於微波、毫米波和太赫茲波液晶分子的第一手獨立研究。本書首先介紹了一般液晶分子，並回顧了微波、毫米波和太赫茲波液晶分子的歷史。接著，重點介紹了微波、毫米波和太赫茲波液晶分子的最新研究進展。首先介紹了新型液晶分子的合成和表徵，然後介紹了用於微波、毫米波和太赫茲波液晶分子的功能性器件的本土技術。展示了一些自主開發的代表性先進功能性器件，以展示液晶分子在微波、毫米波和太赫茲波以及其他非顯示應用中的潛力。這些研究將吸引來自材料、化學、電氣、生物和生物醫學工程等各個學科的科學家、工程師和學生的關注。本書適用於本科生、研究生、研究人員、專業人士和工業從業人員，他們對開發新型液晶分子並進一步擴展液晶分子的應用感興趣。

Prof. Anyong Qing received Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University in 1993, Master of Engineering degree from Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1995, and Ph. D. degree from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1997. He was a lecturer and post-doctoral fellow at Shanghai University from September 1997 to June 1998, a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from June 1998 to June 2000, a member of scientific staff at University of Kassel, Germany from July 2000 to May 2001, and a RF design engineer at VS Electronics Pte Ltd, Singapore from June 2001 to September 2001. He joined Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore in September 2001 as a research scientist and was promoted as a senior research scientist in January 2010. After granted National Young Thousand Talent professorship in September 2011, he joined University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in November 2012. He is currently chairing Department of Electrotechnical Electronics, Southwest Jiaotong University.

Prof. Qing has involved in various areas of research in terahertz theory & technology, photoacoustic theory & technology, compressive sensing, natural optimization, computational acoustics & electromagnetics, inverse acoustic & electromagnetic scattering, electromagnetic composite materials, antennas & antenna arrays, millimeter wave & and terahertz imaging, biomedical imaging. He has been very active in industrializing millimeter wave and terahertz technology for security, medical, and industrial applications. He is the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than 20 projects, including National Key R&D Plan, National Young Thousand Talent Grant, Foreign Talent in Culture and Education Grant, Defense Research and Technology Office, Singapore, Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency, European Atomic Energy Agency, National Science and Technology Board, Singapore, Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. Prof. Qing has authored two books, 1 invited book chapter, more than 180 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, 15 patents, and 1 registered software.

Prof. Qing is very active in voluntary services as editors, guest editors, technical program committee members, organizers, reviewers for funding agencies, universities, institutions, journals, and conferences. He has been appointed as an associate editor for Radio Science in 2017. He has also been invited to give numerous talks in different institutions and conferences.

Prof. Qing received numerous awards including Top 2% Scientist Worldwide, National Young Thousand Talent professorship, Sichuan Thousand Talent professorship, Chengdu Talent entrepreneurship, Changzhou Talent entrepreneurship, Xuzhou Talent entrepreneurship, Sichuan Province Scientific and Technological Progress Award, Long Service Award, National University of Singapore, and so on. Prof. Qing is a senior member of IEEE since 2005, a member of Material Research Society Singapore, and a member of Chinese Institute of Electronics.

Dr. Yizhe Zhao received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Chengdu University of Technology in 2014, Master of Engineering and Ph. D. degrees from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at National University of Singapore from 2019 to 2023. Since 2023, he has been an associate research fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China.

His current research includes laser microprocessing & nanofabrication, metamaterials, metasurfaces, liquid crystal devices, and tunable microwave devices and antennas.

Prof. Zhiyong Zhang is a professor at Wuhan Polytechnic University. He has been engaged in synthesis and application of organic photoelectronic information materials for thirty years. Prof. Zhang has involved in various areas of research in display of fluorinated liquid crystal, optical high refractive index liquid crystal materials, high refractive index liquid crystal optical thin film resin materials, high optical anisotropy nano oxide composite resin materials, and liquid crystal optoelectronic materials and environmental materials. He is the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for about 60 projects, including Ministry of Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Information Fund, National Development and Reform Fund, etc. Prof. Zhang has authored 125 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and 28 patents. His current research interests include nematic phase liquid crystal materials used in microwave phase shifter and synthesis of high refractive index nano-optical resin materials.

Prof. Anyong Qing於1993年獲得清華大學工學學士學位，1995年獲得北京廣播學院工學碩士學位，並於1997年獲得西南交通大學博士學位。他曾於1997年9月至1998年6月在上海大學擔任講師和博士後研究員，1998年6月至2000年6月在新加坡南洋理工大學擔任研究員，2000年7月至2001年5月在德國卡塞爾大學擔任科學人員，2001年6月至2001年9月在新加坡VS Electronics Pte Ltd擔任射頻設計工程師。他於2001年9月加入新加坡國立大學淡馬錫實驗室擔任研究科學家，並於2010年1月晉升為高級研究科學家。在2011年9月獲得國家青年千人計劃教授職位後，他於2012年11月加入中國電子科技大學，目前擔任西南交通大學電工電子系主任。

Prof. Qing在太赫茲理論與技術、光聲理論與技術、壓縮感知、自然優化、計算聲學與電磁學、逆向聲學與電磁散射、電磁複合材料、天線與天線陣列、毫米波和太赫茲成像、生物醫學成像等多個研究領域有所涉獵。他在將毫米波和太赫茲技術產業化應用於安全、醫療和工業領域方面非常活躍。他是20多個項目的主要或共同主持人，包括國家重點研發計劃、國家青年千人計劃、文化和教育外國人才計劃、新加坡國防研究和技術局、新加坡國防科學技術局、歐洲原子能機構、新加坡國家科學技術局、中國自然科學基金重點項目等。Prof. Qing撰寫了兩本書、1章邀請書、180多篇同行評審的期刊和會議論文、15項專利和1項註冊軟件。

Prof. Qing在編輯、客座編輯、技術計劃委員會成員、組織者、資助機構、大學、機構、期刊和會議的審稿人等志願服務方面非常活躍。他於2017年被任命為《Radio Science》的副編輯。他還應邀在不同機構和會議上發表了許多演講。

Prof. Qing獲得了眾多獎項，包括全球前2%的科學家、國家青年千人計劃教授職位、四川千人計劃教授職位、成都人才創業、常州人才創業、徐州人才創業、四川省科技進步獎、新加坡國立大學長期服務獎等。Prof. Qing自2005年起是IEEE的高級會員，是新加坡材料研究學會和中國電子學會的會員。

Dr. Yizhe Zhao於2014年獲得成都理工大學工學學士學位，2016年和2019年分別獲得中國電子科技大學工學碩士和博士學位。他於2019年至2023年間在新加坡國立大學擔任博士後研究員。自2023年起，他一直在中國科學院光電子學研究所光學技術國家重點實驗室擔任副研究員。

他目前的研究包括激光微加工和納米製造、超材料、超表面、液晶器件和可調微波器件和天線。

Prof. Zhiyong Zhang是武漢紡織大學的教授。他一直從事合成材料的研究。