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Conference Papers

  1. D. Shen, M. Afif, Z. Hong and F.A. Fernández, "Structures for self-assembly of liquid crystal colloids," BLCS Annual Conference, paper P7 in Book of Abstraxts, p. 40, Glasgow, UK, 19-21 April 2023.

  2. D. Shen, M.Yang and F.A. Fernández, "Accurate modelling of liquid crystal devices including diffractive effects," BLCS Annual Conference, paper P8, Bristol, UK, 11-13 April 2022.

  3. S.A. Jones, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández and J.C. Jones, "Defect dynamics of bistable latching," BLCS Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, 15-17 April 2019.

  4. M. Yang, Z. Nie, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Accurate modelling of the optics of high resolution liquid crystal devices including diffractive effects," BLCS Annual Conference, paper P3, Manchester, UK, 26-28 March 2018.

  5. L. Seddon, R. James, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, P. Deo, and D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, "Accurate modelling for the analysis and design of liquid-crystal-based microwave devices," in Proc. iWEM 2017, International Workshop on Electromagnetics, DOI: 10.1109/iWEM.2017.7968813, pp. 105-107, London, UK, 30 May-1 June 2017.

  6. M. Yang, S.E Day and and F.A. Fernández, "Modelling the optics of high resolution liquid crystal devices by the finite differences in the frequency domain method," in Proc. iWEM 2017, International Workshop on Electromagnetics, DOI: 10.1109/iWEM.2017.7968809, pp. 141-143, London, UK, 30 May-1 June 2017.

  7. M. Yang, Z. Nie, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "A finite difference in the frequency domain method to model high resolution liquid crystal devices," in proc. of 6th International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, LCP-16, paper PO17, p.59, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-16 September 2016.

  8. Z. Nie, M. Yang, E. Willman, F.A Fernandez and S.E. Day, "P-148: 3D Modelling of Twist Wall at the Electrode Edge of Liquid Crystal Cells," SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, proceedings of: 2016 International Symposium of the Society for Information Display (SID 2016), DOI: 10.1002/sdtp.11016, vol. 47, Nº 1, pp. 1685-1688, San Francisco, USA, 24-27 May 2016.

  9. F.A. Fernández, R. James, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, "Finite Element Modelling of Liquid Crystal-Based Microwave Devices," in Proc. of FEM-2016, 13th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, pp. 162-163, ISBN 978-88-6655-968-9 (online), Firenze, Italy, 16-18 May 2016.

  10. M. Lei, C. Poole, F.A. Fernandez, and S.E. Day, "Design and Evaluation of Tuneable Microwave Electric-LC Resonators Based on Liquid Crystal", British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference, 21-23 March 2016.

  11. Ruichen Tao, Takehiro Hayashi, Manabu Kagami, Shigeru Kobayashi, Manabu Yasukawa, Hui Yang, David Robinson, Hadi Baghsiahi, F. Aníbal Fernández and David R. Selviah, "Equilibrium Modal Power Distribution Measurement of Step-index Hard Plastic Cladding and Graded-index Silica Multimode Fibers", Optical Interconnects XV, vol. Proc. SPIE 9368, ISSN: 0277786X, DOI: 10.1117/12.2079355, p. 93680N, 3 April 2015.

  12. Menyang Yang, Prashant Patel, F. Anibal Fernández and Sally Day, "Numerical Modelling of Cholesteric Droplets," BLCS2015, BLCS Annual Conference, paper P.27, Sheffield, UK, 30 March-1st April, 2015.

  13. F.A. Fernández, L. Seddon, R. James, S.E. Day, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, S. Bulja, and P. Deo, "Accurate modelling of liquid crystal-based microwave devices," 5th International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, LCP-14, paper I6, Erice, Italy, 2-7 September 2014.

  14. P. Deo, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Beam steering 60 GHz slot antenna array using liquid crystal phase shifter," In Proc. of: The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014), ISBN: 978-8-8907-0184-9, DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901935, pp. 1005-1007, The Hague, The Nederlands, 6-11 April 2014.

  15. Z. Nie, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, E. Willman and R. James, "Modelling of liquid crystals at the pixel edge," SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, proceedings of: 2014 International Symposium of the Society for Information Display (SID 2014), ISSN: 0097966X, DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-0159.2014.tb00364.x, pp. 1382-1385, San Diego, CA, 1-6 June 2014.

  16. L. Seddon, P. Deo, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Accurate Modeling of Liquid Crystal-Tuned Meander-Line Phase-Shifter," In Proc. of: 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), ISSN: 0149645X, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2141-9, DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697799, Paper WEPB-2, Seattle, WA, USA, 2-7 June 2013.

  17. P. Deo, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "60 GHz liquid crystal phased array using reflection type phase shifters," In Proc. of: 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2187-7, pp. 927-929, Gothenburg, Sweeden, 8-12 April 2013.

  18. P. Deo, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Development of 60GHz phased antenna arrays using liquid crystal phase shifters," IET 4th Annual Seminar on RF and Microwave Components, DOI: 10.1049/ic.2013.0280, pp. 1-4, Birmingham, UK, March 2013.

  19. Raushan Mussina, David R. Selviah, F. Aníbal Fernández, Anton G. Tijhuis, Bastiaan P. de Hon, "Numerical modeling method for the dispersion characteristics of single-mode and multimode weakly-guiding optical fibers with arbitrary radial refractive index profiles," In Proc. of: SPIE 8619, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXI, ISSN: 0277786X, DOI: 10.1117/12.2002804, p. 86191R, San Francisco, California, USA, 4 - 7 February 2013.

  20. P. Deo, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Liquid crystal based patch antenna array for 60 GHz applications," in Proc. of: Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2929-3, DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2013.6486663, pp. 127-129, Austin, Texas, USA, 20-13 January 2013.

  21. S.E. Day, E. Willman, R. James, L. Seddon and F.A. Fernández, "Non-uniform surfaces and electric fields in liquid crystal devices," (Invited) In Proc. of: 4th Intl. Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, LCP-12, P10.4, Hong Kong, 9-11 December 2012.

  22. F.A. Fernández, E. Willman, R. James, L. Seddon and S.E. Day, "Finite element modelling of liquid crystal devices and applications," (Invited) In Proc. 4th Intl. Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, LCP-12, P9.3, Hong Kong, 9-11 December 2012.

  23. S. Day, E. Willman and F.A. Fernández, "Modelling of high resolution liquid crystal on silicon devices," in Abstracts of Photon 12, IOP, p.77, Durham, UK, 3-6 Sept. 2012.

  24. E. Willman, D. Kim, S.Y. Lau, L. Seddon, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Finite Element Modelling of Polymer Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Materials," in Proc. of: ELOPTO 2012, 13th International Symposium on Colloidal and Molecular Electrooptics, pp. 153-154, Ghent, Belgium, 2-5 Sept. 2012.

  25. S.E. Day, E. Willman, R. James and F.A. Fernández, "Defect Formation in Liquid Crystal Layers with Varying Anchoring Strength and Surface Shape," in Proc. of: 31st International display research conference, EuroDisplay 2011, ISBN: 978-1-61839-600-6, paper 1-9, Arcachon, France, 19-22 Sept. 2011.

  26. F.A. Fernández, (Invited) "Finite Element Modelling of Liquid Crystal Devices," In Abstracts of Liquid Crystal Modelling and Display Applications Intl. Workshop, Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, 24-25 August 2011.

  27. H. Baghsiahi, D.R. Selviah, E. Willman, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day, K. Aksit, S. Olcer, A. Mostafazadeh, E. Erden, V.C. Kishore, H. Urey and P. Surman, "Beam forming for a laser-based autostereoscopic multi-view display," SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, proceedings of: 2011 International Symposium of the Society for Information Display (SID 2011), ISSN: 0097966X, DOI: 10.1889/1.3621421, paper 48.4, pp. 702-705, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 15-20 May 2011.

  28. K. Aksit, S. Olcer, E. Erden, Kishore VC, H. Urey, E. Willman, H. Baghsiahi, S.E. Day, D.R. Selviah, F.A. Fernández, and P. Surman, "Light engine and optics for HELIUM3D auto-stereoscopic laser scanning display," 2011 3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), proceedings of IEEE 5th 3DTV Conference (3DTV-CON), ISSN: 21612021, DOI: 10.1109/3DTV.2011.5877226, Antalya, Turkey, 16-18 May 2011.

  29. S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, M. Yazdanpanahi, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Liquid Crystal Based Phase Shifters in 60 GHz Band," in proc. of: 2010 European Wireless Technology Conference (EuWIT 2010), Paris, France, Paper Nº 1270, pp. 37-40, ISSN: 2153-3644, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7233-8, 27-28 Sept. 2010.

  30. M. Yazdanpanahi, S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Liquid Crystal Based mm-wave Tunable Resonator," 2010 European Microwave Conference (EuMW 2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-7232-1, Paper Nº 1603, pp. 1233-1236, Paris, France, 28-30 Sept. 2010.

  31. P.J.M. Vanbrabant, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, R. James, E.J. Willman and F.A. Fernández, "Combining three-dimensional director and optical finite element modelling of liquid crystal devices," in Abstracts of LCP'10, 3rd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, paper 07, pp. 41-42, Elche, Spain, 8-10 September 2010.

  32. E. Willman, A. Bulak, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Three Dimensional Modelling of Liquid Crystal Alignment Induced by Patterned Surfaces," in Abstracts of LCP'10, 3rd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, paper PA14, pp. 97-98, Elche, Spain, 8-10 September 2010.

  33. R. James, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, S. Bulja and D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, "Characterisation of Nematic Liquid Crystals in the mm-Wave Band," in Abstracts of LCP'10, 3rd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, paper 010, pp. 47-48, Elche, Spain, 8-10 September 2010.

  34. O. Mitrofanov, T.K. Mavrogordatos, R. James, F.A. Fernández and J.A. Harrington, "Ag/PS hollow cylindrical waveguides for transmission of THz pulses," in 35th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-6655-9, DOI: 10.1109/ICIMW.2010.5612576, Paper Nº Tu-B2.4, Rome, Italy, 5 - 10 Sept. 2010.

  35. S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, M. Yazdanpanahi, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Advances in LC characterization with application to development of mm-wave devices," In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS 2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-7091-4, DOI: 10.1109/ICWITS.2010.5611989, pp. 1-4, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 Aug. - 3 Sept, 2010.

  36. Pieter J. M. Vanbrabant, Jeroen Beeckman, Kristiaan Neyts, Richard James and F. Aníbal Fernández, "A finite element framework for the optical analysis of LC devices," In Proc. ILCC 2010, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, paper O113, p. 862, Krakow, Poland, 11-16 July 2010.

  37. Richard James, Sally E. Day, F. Aníbal Fernández, S. Bulja and D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, "Applications of Nematic Liquid Crystals in Microwave Devices," (Invited) In Proc. ILCC 2010, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, paper I4, p. 26, Krakow, Poland, 11-16 July 2010.

  38. Themistokles K. Mavrogordatos, Richard James, F. Aníbal Fernández, James A. Harrington and Oleg Mitrofanov, "Modal dispersion modelling for dielectric-lined hollow metallic THz waveguides," 3rd Annual IoP Meeting on THz sensing: Techniques and Applications, London, UK, 1st July 2010.

  39. E. Willman, H. Baghsiahi, F.A. Fernández, D.R. Selviah, S.E. Day, Kishore V.C., E. Erden, H. Urey and P. Surman, "The Optics of an Autostereoscopic Multiview Display," In Proc. SID 2010, 2010 International Symposium of the Society for Information Display, ISSN: 0097-966X, DOI: 10.1889/1.3500412, paper 16.4, pp. 222-225, Seattle, USA, 23-28 May 2010.

  40. R. James, E. Willman, N. Harley, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández "Advanced-Super-View Pixel Modeling," In Proc. SID 2010, 2010 International Symposium of the Society for Information Display, ISSN: 0097-966X, DOI: 10.1889/1.3500573, paper 48.4, pp. 728-731, Seattle, USA, 23-28 May 2010.

  41. Slawomir Ertman, Tomasz R. Wolinski, Jeroen Beeckman, Kristiaan Neyts, Richard James and F.A. Fernández, "Numerical simulations of electrically induced birefringence in photonic liquid crystal fibers," In Proc. IOS 2010, 4th Conference on Integrated Optics, Sensors, Sensing Structures and Methods, Gliwice, Poland, 1-5 March 2010.

  42. S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, M. Yazdanpanahi, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "60 GHz Reflection Type Phase Shifter Based On Liquid Crystal," in Proc. 5th IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2010, pp. 697-699, New Orleans, 10-14 January 2010, DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2010.5434253.

  43. S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, M. Yazdanpanahi, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Planar Transmission Line Method for Measurement of Dielectric Constants of Liquid Crystals in 60 GHz Band," in Proc. Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2009, pp. 341-344, Singapore, 7-10 December 2009, DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2009.5385377.

  44. E. Erden, Kishore V.C., H. Urey, H. Baghsiahi, E. Willman, S.E. Day, D.R. Selviah, F.A. Fernández and P. Surman, "Laser Scanning Based Autostereoscopic 3D Display with Pupil Tracking," in Proc. 22nd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society, pp. 10-11, Antalya, Turkey, 4-8 October 2009.

  45. R. James, E. Willman, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Accurate Modelling of Defect Creation and Control," in Proc. of 13th International Conference on the Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC2009), p. P2, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 28th September - 2nd October 2009.

  46. P.J.M. Vanbrabant, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, R. James and F.A. Fernández, "Optical simulation of liquid crystal devices using a finite element beam propagation method," in Proc. of 13th International Conference on the Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC2009), p. O28, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 28th September - 2nd October 2009.

  47. Kishore V.C., Erdem Erden, H. Urey, E. Willman, H. Baghsiahi, S.E. Day, D.R. Selviah, F.A. Fernández and P. Surman, "Laser Scanning 3D Display with Dynamic Exit Pupil," XXIX International Display Research Conference, Eurodisplay 2009, in Proceedings, pp. 492-495, Rome, Italy, 14-17 Sept. 2009.

  48. Pieter J.M. Vanbrabant, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, R. James and F.A. Fernández, "Optical Analysis of Liquid Crystal devices using a Finite Element Beam Propagation Method," XXIX International Display Research Conference, Eurodisplay 2009, in Proceedings, pp. 450-453, Rome, Italy, 14-17 Sept. 2009.

  49. Wout De Cort, J. Beeckman, R. James, F.A. Fernández, R. Baets and K. Neyts, "New Wavelength-tuning Method in Optical Ring Resonators with Liquid Crystal Cladding: exploiting the Longitudinal E-field," in Proceedings of SPIE - 7414, Liquid Crystals XIII, DOI: 10.1117/12.825669, pp. 74140D1-10, San Diego, CA, USA, August 2009.

  50. Mani Yazdanpanahi, Senad Bulja, Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal, R. James, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Dielectric Characterisation of Liquid Crystals Using a Patch Resonator," 4th International Conference on Electromagnetic Near-Field Characterization and Imaging (ICONIC 2009), in Proceedings, pp. 126-129, Taipei, Taiwan, 24-26 June 2009.

  51. R. James, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day, S. Bulja, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal and M. Yazdanpanahi, "Finite Element Analysis of a Balanced Microstrip Line Filled with Nematic Liquid Crystal", 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), IEEE IMS 2009, DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5165650, pp. 133-136, Boston, MA, 7-12 June 2009.

  52. S. Bulja, M. Yazdanpanahi, D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, R. James, S.E. Day, and F.A. Fernández, "Broadband characterisation of liquid crystals at microwave frequencies," In Proc. 23rd Annual British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, paper no. P11, Bristol, UK, 6-8 April 2009.

  53. K. Wang, D.R. Selviah, H. Baghsiahi, F.A. Fernández, I. Papakonstantinou and G. Yu, "Design rules for polymer waveguides and measurement techniques", (Invited) 2nd International IEEE Symposium on Photonic Packaging: electrical, optical circuit board and backplane, Munich, Germany, 13 Nov. 2008.

  54. H. Baghsiahi, D.R. Selviah, G.Y. Yu, K. Wang, M. Yau and F.A. Fernández, "Photolithographically Manufactured Acrylate Multimode Optical Waveguide Translation and Rotation misalignment Tolerances", ESTC 2008: 2nd Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference, Proceedings, pp. 617-621, Greenwich, UK, 1-4 Sept. 2008.

  55. D.R. Selviah, D.A. Hutt, A.C. Walker, K. Wang, F.A. Fernandez, P.P. Conway, D. Milward, I. Papakonstantinou, H. Baghsiahi, J. Chappell, S.S. Zakariyah, A. McCarth and H. Suyal, "Innovative Optical and Electronic Interconnect Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing Research", ESTC 2008: 2nd Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference, Proceedings, pp. 867-872, Greenwich, UK, 1-4 Sept. 2008.

  56. K. Wang, D.R. Selviah, I. Papakonstantinou, G.Y. Yu, H. Baghsiahi and F.A. Fernandez, "Photolithographically Manufactured Acrylate Polymer Multimode Optical Waveguide Loss Design Rules", ESTC 2008: 2nd Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference, Proceedings, pp. 1251-1255, Greenwich, UK, 1-4 Sept. 2008.

  57. W. de Cort, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, R. Baets, R. James and F.A. Fernández, "Tuning SOI filters with liquid crystals," in Abstracts of LCP'08, 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, pp. 117-118, paper PA21, Cambridge, UK, 21-23 July 2008.

  58. H. Azarinia, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, E. Schacht, R. James and F.A. Fernández, "Orientation of nematic liquid crystal in glass microstructures milled by focused ion beam," in Abstracts of LCP'08, 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, pp. 78-79, paper PA1, Cambridge, UK, 21-23 July 2008.

  59. Richard James, Pieter Vanbrabant, J. Beeckman, Eero Willman, K. Neyts, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Twist walls, disclinations and the In-Plane-Switching structure," in Abstracts of LCP'08, 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, pp. 66-67, paper O20, Cambridge, UK, 21-23 July 2008.

  60. J. Beeckman, R. James, E. Willman, F.A. Fernández, W. De Cort and K. Neyts, "Design of a liquid crystal tunable directional coupler," in Abstracts of LCP'08, 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, pp. 40-41, paper O7, Cambridge, UK, 21-23 July 2008.

  61. R. James, E. Willman and F.A. Fernández, "Electro-hydrodynamics of liquid crystals," (Invited) In Abstracts of PIERS'08, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, paper 5P1.4, p.630, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2-6 July 2008.

  62. J. Beeckman, R. James, F.A. Fernández, E. Willman and K. Neyts, "Linear and nonlinear optical waveguiding in liquid crystal devices," (Invited) In Abstracts of PIERS'08, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, paper 5P1.4, p.625, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2-6 July 2008.

  63. Sally E. Day, E. Willman, Richard James and F.A. Fernández, "Defect loops in the Zenithal Bistable Display," in Proceedings of SID 2008, Society for Information Displays International Symposium, pp. 1034-1037, paper 67.4, Los Angeles, CA, 18-23 May 2008.

  64. Richard James, F.A. Fernández, E. Willman, K. Tong and S.E. Day, "Liquid Crystals in Microwave Devices" BLCS Annual Conference, paper P21, p. 51, Norwich, UK, 17-19 March 2008.

  65. Jeroen Beeckman, F.A. Fernández, R. James, E. Willman and K. Neyts, "Finite Element Analysis of Liquid Crystal Waveguides," in Proceedings of OLC'07, 12th Intl. Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, paper PSI-9, Puebla, Mexico, 1-5 Oct. 2007.

  66. R. Ghannam, R.W James, N. Collings, W.A. Crossland, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "Switching Properties of VAN LCOS Devices with Ultra-microscale Electrodes," in Proceedings of SPIE, DOI: 10.1117/12.733228, vol. 6654, Photonic Devices: Liquid Crystals, paper 66540R, San Diego, CA, 28-30 August 2007.

  67. Richard James, Eero Willman, F.A. Fernández and Sally E. Day, "Modelling liquid crystal defect trajectories," in Proceedings of ECLC 2007, 9th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, p. OF5, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-6 July 2007.

  68. Richard James, Eero Willman, F.A. Fernández and Sally E. Day, "Computer Modelling of Liquid Crystal Hydrodynamics" in Proceedings of COMPUMAG 2007, pp. 177-178, Aachen, Germany, 24-28 June 2007.

  69. R. Pitwon, K. Hopkins, D. Milward, D.R. Selviah, I. Papakonstantinou, K. Wang and F.A. Fernández, "High speed pluggable optical backplane connector," in Proceedings of International Symposium on Photonic Packaging: Electrical Optical Circuit Board and Optical Backplane, (Fraunhofer IZM), pp. XXX, Munich, Germany, 16 Nov. 2006.

  70. T. Borel, P. Morvan, K. Sarayeddine, P. Rommeveaux, W. Becker, A. Manabe, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, M. Gardner, H. DeSmet, H. Lebrun and G. Gomez, "A 0.83" full HDTV liquid crystal on silicon component with in-pixel memory and 450 Hz refresh rate", in SID Symposium Digest, Society for Information Display International Symposium 2006, vol. 37, P.212, pp. 1027-1030, San Francisco, CA, 4-9 June 2006.

  71. I. Papakonstantinou, K. Wang, D.R. Selviah and F.A. Fernández, "Experimental study of bend and propagation loss in curved polymer channel waveguides for high bit-rate optical interconnects," in Proceedings of IEEE/LEOS, 17th Annual Workshop on Interconnections within High-Speed Digital Systems, pp. xx-xx, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 14-17 May 2006.

  72. Eero Willman, Richard James, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "2D and 3D Modelling of Liquid Crystal Hydrodynamics Including Order Parameter Changes" in Proceedings of LCP-06, International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, pp. O23, Ghent, Belgium, 26-28 April 2006.

  73. H. DeSmet, D. Cuypers, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "Inter-gray-level response times of a liquid crystal display," in Proceedings of Eurodisplay 2005, 25th International Display Research Conference, pp. 294-297, Edinburgh, 20-22 Sept. 2005.

  74. K. Wang, M.C. Gardner, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, K. Sarayeddine and P. Benoit, "Modelling the effect of angular variation of the optical properties of a nematic liquid crystal in an LCOS rear projection TV system," in Proceedings of Eurodisplay 2005, 25th International Display Research Conference, pp. 120-123, Edinburgh, 20-22 Sept. 2005.

  75. R. James, M.C. Gardner, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "3D Modelling of high resolution devices," in Proceedings of ECLC'05, 8th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, p. P52, Sesto, Italy, 27 Feb. - 4 March 2005.

  76. I. Papakonstantinou, D.R. Selviah and F.A. Fernández, "Multimode laterally tapered bent waveguide," In Proceedings of The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2004, Volume 2, Puerto Rico, 7-11 Nov. 2004, pp. 983-984.

  77. T. Kataoka, S.E. Day, D.R. Selviah and F.A. Fernández, "Polarization-insensitive liquid crystal Fabry-Perot tunable optical filter," In Proceedings, SID 2004, Society for Information Displays International Symposium, DOI: 10.1889/1.1825784, pp. 1530-1533, Seattle, WA, 25-27 May 2004.

  78. M.C. Gardner, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, K. Sarayeddine, J.J. Sacre and P. Benoit, "Three-dimensional modelling of a projection TV system by dynamic LC simulation and ray tracing," In Proceedings, SID 2004, Society for Information Displays International Symposium, pp. 68-71, Seattle, WA, 25-27 May 2004.

  79. F.A. Fernández and L. Kulas, "A simple finite difference approach using unstructured meshes from FEM mesh generators," In Proceedings, MIKON-2004, 15th International Conference on Microwaves Radar, and Wireless Communications, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 585-588, May 17-19, 2004.

  80. F.A. Fernández, R. James, S.E. Day, O.A. Peverini, D. Olivero and C. Oldano, "Modelling of liquid crystal diffraction devices," (Invited) In Proceedings of PIERS'04, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, paper 46.5, Pisa, Italy, 28-31 March 2004.

  81. M.C. Gardner, S.E. Day and F.A. Fernández, "Liquid crystal VAN tilt bias by surface relief patterning," In Proceedings, SPIE, 5249: Optical Design and Engineering, DOI: 10.1117/12.513308, vol. 5249, pp. 729-739, St. Etienne, France, 29 Sept. 3 Oct. 2003.

  82. R. James, S. Vermael, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and K. Neyts, "Modelling of ion transport in liquid crystal cells," In Proceedings, SPIE, 5249: Optical Design and Engineering, DOI: 10.1117/12.513385, vol. 5249, pp. 95-102, St. Etienne, France, 29 Sept. 3 Oct. 2003.

  83. R. James, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day, M. Komarcevic and W.A. Crossland, "Modelling of high resolution phase spatial light modulators," In proceedings of OLC'03, 10th Intl. Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, pp. 81-82, Aussois, France, 13-19 Sept. 2003.

  84. S. Vermael, G. Stojmenovik, K. Neyts, D.K.G. de Boer, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "3-Dimensional ion transport in liquid crystals," In Proceedings of ECLC'93, 7th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, p. 45, Jaca, Spain, 6-11 April 2003.

  85. R. James, S. Vermael, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and K. Neyts, "Aspects in the modelling of liquid crystal devices," British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Meeting, 7-9 April 2003.

  86. D.K.G. de Boer, A.C. Nieuwkerk, R. Cortie, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and R. James, "Domain walls in photo-aligned double-domain twisted nematic liquid crystal displays," In Proceedings of IDW'02, 9th Intl. Display Workshops, Hiroshima, Japan, 4-6 Dec. 2002.

  87. F. Abdel Malek, S.S.A. Obayya, B.M.A. Rahman, J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández, K.T.V. Grattan, "Rigorous full vectorial finite element analysis of sharp optical waveguide corners," In Proceedings SPIE, vol. 4829, 19th Congress of the Intl. Commission for Optics, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 2002, pp. 496-498.

  88. F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day, P. Trwoga, H. Deng and R. James, "Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modelling of Liquid Crystal Display Cells using a Vector Approach and Finite Elements," (Invited) In Proceedings of PIERS'02, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, p. 194, Cambridge MA, 1-5 July 2002.

  89. R. James, F.A. Fernández, and S.E. Day, "Three dimensional modelling of nematic liquid crystals", In Proceedings of British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference, London, 26th March 2002.

  90. S. Vermael, K. Neyts, D.K.G. de Boer, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, P.F. Trwoga and F. Lanowith, "Two-Dimensional Monte-Carlo-based ion transport algorithm in liquid crystals," In Proceedings of RUG-FTW 2nd PhD Symposium, Gent, Dec. 2001, paper 92.

  91. S. Vermael, K. Neyts, C. Desimpel, D.K.G. de Boer, S.E. Day, F.A. Fernández, P.F. Trwoga and F. Lanowith, "Two-Dimensional Monte-Carlo-based ion transport algorithm in liquid crystals," In Proceedings of IDRC/AD/IDW'01, In Proceedings of the 21st Intl. Display Research Conf. and 8th Intl. Display Workshop, Nagoya, Japan 16-19 Oct. 2001, pp.33-35.

  92. F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day, P. Trwoga and H. Deng, "Three-Dimensional modelling of liquid crystal display cells using finite elements," In Proceedings of OLC2001, 9th Intl. Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Sorrento, Italy, 1-6 Oct. 2001. p.77

  93. F.A. Fernández, H. Deng and S.E. Day, "Modelling of Liquid Crystal Displays using a Constant Charge Approach," In Proceedings of COMPUMAG'2001, 13th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Evian, France, 2-5 July 2001, pp. I.96-I.97.

  94. D.K.G. de Boer, M.T. Johnson, J.A.M.M. van Haaren, M. Fukimoto, M. Yoshiga, Y. Hamawaki, T. Unate, F.A. Fernández and S.E. Day, "Optical response of structured vertically aligned and In-Plane-Switching LCDs," In Proceedings of International Display Research Conference, Palm Beach, Florida, 25-28 Sept. 2000.

  95. F.A. Fernández and D. Mirshekar-Syahkal, "Complex modes in dielectric loaded waveguides resonators," (Invited) In Proceedings of PIERS 2000, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, p. 697, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 5-14 July 2000.

  96. F.A. Fernández, H. Deng, S.E. Day and J.B. Davies, "A constant charge dynamic model of liquid crystal display cells," (Invited) In Proceedings of PIERS 2000, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, p. 334, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 5-14 July 2000.

  97. H.F. Deng, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and J.B. Davies, "Computer modelling of liquid crystal displays," In Proceedings of EuroDisplay'99, 19th International Display Research Conference, pp. 319-322, Berlin, Germany, 6-9 September 1999.

  98. M. Rajarajan, S.S.A. Obayya, F.A. Fernández, B.M.A. Rahman and K.T.V. Grattan, "Rigorous study of leaky modes in optical waveguides," In Proceedings of Photonics West, SPIE Conference on Integrated Optics Devices III, San Jose, California, pp. 185-195, 23-29 Jan. 1999.

  99. F. Di Pasquale, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and J.B. Davies, "Time Domain Modelling of Liquid Crystal Display Cells in Two and Three Dimensions," In Proceedings of IEEE COMPUMAG'97, 11th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, vol. 1, pp. 47-48, 3-6 Nov. 1997.

  100. F.A. Fernández, F. Di Pasquale, J.B. Davies and S.E. Day, "Modelling of liquid crystal devices using finite elements," (Invited), In Proceedings of PIERS'97, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 46, 7-11 July 1997.

  101. F. Di Pasquale, F.A. Fernández, S.E. Day and J.B. Davies, "Two-dimensional modelling of nematic liquid crystal display cells using the In-Plane-Switching mode," In Proceedings of SID'97, Society for Information Display Intl. Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 695-698, 13-15 May 1997.

  102. F. Di Pasquale, F.A. Fernández, J.B. Davies and S.E. Day, "Analysis of twisted nematic liquid crystal display cells using the finite element method," In Proceedings of SID EuroDisplay'96, 16th International Display Research Conference, Birmingham, UK, 1-3 October 1996.

  103. H.E. Hernández-Figueroa, F.A. Fernández, F. Di Pasquale and J.B. Davies, "Finite element modelling of open radiating waveguides," (Invited), In Proceedings of PIERS'95, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, p.1067, Seattle, 24-28 July 1995.

  104. H.E. Hernández-Figueroa, K.W.K. Loh and F.A. Fernández, "Trains of bright solitons in birefringent fibres," In Proceedings of 1995 IEEE/SBMO Intl. Conf. on Microwaves and Optoelectronics, pp. 145-148, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24-27 July 1995.

  105. F.A. Fernández, "Recent developments in finite element analysis of microwave and optical devices," (Invited), In Proceedings of 1995 IEEE/SBMO Intl. Conf. on Microwaves and Optoelectronics, DOI: 10.1109/SBMOMO.1995.509668, pp. 493-500, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24-27 July 1995.

  106. F. Di Pasquale, F.A. Fernández, J.B. Davies and S.E. Day, "Finite Element Analysis of Nematic Liquid Crystal Devices in 2-D", LMS Symposium on Mathematical Models of Liquid Crystals and Related Polymeric Systems, University of Durham, U.K., 10-20 July 1995.

  107. F. Di Pasquale, F.A. Fernández, J.B. Davies and S.E. Day, "2D Finite Element Modelling of Liquid Crystal Materials," in Proceedings of COMPUMAG'95, IEEE Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, pp. 526-527, Berlin, 10-13 July 1995.

  108. F.A. Fernández, F. Di Pasquale and J.B. Davies, "Finite Element Analysis of Integrated Optical Structures," (Invited), 11th Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Conference, ACES'95, Monterey, CA, 20-24 March 1995.

  109. F. Di Pasquale, M. Federighi, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "Modelling of highly-efficient single-frequency Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped fibre lasers," (Invited), in Proceedings of European Symposium on Advanced Networks and Services, SPIE vol. 2449, p. 236-244, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20-24 March 1995.

  110. H.E. Hernández, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "Full vectorial modal analysis of 2D ARROWs by the finite element method," in Digest of 1994 OSA Annual Meeting, p. 155, Dallas, Texas, 2-7 Oct. 1994.

  111. E. Gonzalez, H.E. Hernández and F.A. Fernández, "Finite element time domain scalar modeling of propagation in planar waveguides," in Digest of 1994 OSA Annual Meeting, p. 144, Dallas, Texas, 2-7 Oct. 1994.

  112. F. Di Pasquale, H.E. Hernández, J.B. Davies and F.A. Fernández, "Finite element modelling of high-concentration erbium-doped nonlinear couplers," in Digest of 1994 OSA Annual Meeting, p. 129, Dallas, Texas, 2-7 Oct. 1994.

  113. F.A. Fernández, H.E. Hernández-Figueroa and Y. Lu, "A vectorial finite element solution for 2D leaky waveguides," in Digest of 6th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, CEFC'94, p. 350, Aix les Bains, France, 5-7 July 1994.

  114. F.A. Fernández and E. Gonzalez, "Comparison of marching methods applied to the solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation," in Digest of 6th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, CEFC'94, p. 328, Aix les Bains, France, 5-7 July 1994.

  115. Y. Lu and F.A. Fernández, "The efficient solution of large sparse nonsymmetric and complex eigensystems by subspace iteration," in Digest of the 9th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, COMPUMAG'93, Miami, Florida, 31 Oct. - 4 Nov. 1993, p. PD3-7.

  116. Y. Lu and F.A. Fernández, "Vector finite element analysis of integrated optical waveguides," in Digest of the 9th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, COMPUMAG'93, Miami, Florida, 31 Oct. - 4 Nov. 1993, p. OE-3.

  117. H. Bissessur, R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "A Vectorial 3-D Finite Element Propagation Method," COST 240 Meeting, Paris, France, 27 October 1993.

  118. H.E. Hernández-F., F. Di Pasquale, R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "The three-waveguide soliton coupler," in Proceedings of the OSA Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena 3rd Topical Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 19-22 Sept. 1993, pp. 73-76.

  119. F. Di Pasquale, H.E. Hernández-F., R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "Numerical study of active three-waveguide nonlinear directional coupler," in Proceedings of the OSA Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena 3rd Topical Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 19-22 Sept. 1993, pp. 116-119.

  120. Y. Lu and F.A. Fernández, "Finite element analysis of semiconductor waveguides with regions of optical loss or gain," in Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Symposium on IC Technology, Systems and Applications (ISIC-93), Singapore, 15-17 Sept. 1993, pp. 727-731.

  121. F.A. Fernández, "Finite element analysis of microwave and optical waveguides," (Invited), in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electromagnetics in Aerospace Applications (ICEAA), Torino, Italy, 14-17 Sept. 1993, pp. 373-377.

  122. R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández, J.B. Davies and H. Bissessur, "Efficient Vectorial Analysis of Propagation in Three-Dimensional Optical Devices," in IEEE/OSA Integrated Photonics Research 1993, Palm Springs, California, Tech. Digest Series (OSA), vol. 10, pp. 392-395, 22-24 March, 1993.

  123. Y. Lu, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "Spurious-solution-free finite element approach for anisotropic and lossy waveguides," in Proc. International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering, ICCME'92, pp. 851-856, Singapore, 11-13 November 1992.

  124. B.M.A. Rahman, Y. Liu, P.A. Buah, K.T.V. Grattan, F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger and J.B. Davies, "Accurate finite element analysis of nonlinear optical fibers," in Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, 1992, Maui, Hawaii, Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1991), vol. 18, pp. 370-372, 17-21 August 1992.

  125. Y. Lu and F.A. Fernández, "Finite element analysis of lossy dielectric waveguides," in Digest of CEFC'92, 5th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, DOI: 10.1109/CEFC.1992.720730, p. TP12, Claremont CA, U.S.A., 3-5 August 1992.

  126. F.A. Fernández and Y.C. Yong, "An adaptive mesh generator for 2-dimensional finite element calculations," in Digest of CEFC'92, 5th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, p. MP44, Claremont CA, U.S.A., 3-5 August 1992.

  127. F.A. Fernández, Y. Lu, J.B. Davies and S. Zhu, "Finite element analysis of complex waves in inhomogeneous waveguides," in Digest of CEFC'92, 5th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, p. MOF3, Claremont CA, U.S.A., 3-5 August 1992.

  128. Y. Lu, F.A. Fernández, S. Zhu and J.B. Davies, "A new variational finite element analysis of microwave and optical waveguides without spurious solutions," International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics," London, U.K., pp. 160-163, 25-27 November 1991.

  129. F.A. Fernández, B.M.A. Rahman, R.D. Ettinger and J.B. Davies, "Accurate finite element software for microwave and optical waveguides," International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics," London, U.K., Conference Publication Nº 350, pp. 14-17, 25-27 November 1991.

  130. B.M.A. Rahman, P. Wood, K.T.V. Grattan, A.W. Palmer, J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández and R.D. Ettinger, "Accurate finite element modelling of optical fibre propagation characteristics for sensors," 5th IOP Conference on Sensors and Their Applications, Edinburgh, 22-25 September 1991.

  131. B.M.A. Rahman, F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger and J.B. Davies, "Finite element analysis of two-transverse-dimensional bistable nonlinear integrated optical waveguides" in Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena, 1991, Cambridge, U.K. Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1991), vol. 15, pp. 96-99, 2-4 September, 1991.

  132. F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger, J.B. Davies and B.M.A. Rahman, "Finite element modal analysis of self-defocusing nonlinear optical limiter," in Technical Digest International Microwave Conference SBMO'91, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 336-341, 22-25 July, 1991.

  133. F.A. Fernández and Y. Lu, "Finite element analysis of complex modes in lossless waveguides," in Technical Digest International Microwave Conference SBMO'91, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 318-323, 22-25 July, 1991.

  134. B.M.A. Rahman, F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger and J.B. Davies, "Computer modeling of abrupt power-induced transverse switching in nonlinear waveguides" Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO'91, Baltimore, USA, pp. 208-209, 12-17 May, 1991.

  135. F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger, J.B. Davies and B.M.A. Rahman, "A numerical study of the quasi-TE mode in optical waveguide with saturable nonlinear rectangular core," in IEEE/OSA Conference on Integrated Photonics Research 1991, Monterey, California, Tech. Digest Series (OSA), vol. 8, pp. 33-34, 9-11 April, 1991.

  136. R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández and J.B. Davies, "Application of adaptive remeshing techniques to the finite element analysis of nonlinear optical waveguides," International Conference on Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling, Digest p. 48, New York, USA 22-24 October 1990.

  137. T.B. Koch, J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández and R. März, "Computation of wave propagation in integrated optical devices using a z-transient variational principle," 4th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Digest p. PA-06, Toronto, Canada, 22-24 October 1990.

  138. J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández and Y. Fang, "Finite-difference solution of inhomogeneous waveguide modes using a fast direct solver routine," 4th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Digest p. DB-03, Toronto, Canada, 22-24 October 1990.

  139. F.A. Fernández and Y. Lu, "A variational finite element formulation for dielectric waveguides in terms of transverse magnetic fields," 4th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Digest, p. PA-03, Toronto, Canada, 22-24 October 1990.

  140. T.B. Koch, J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández, R.D. Ettinger, Y. Lu, B.M.A. Rahman and R. März, "Electromagnetic Propagation in integrated optical devices of arbitrary transverse and longitudinal geometry," Proc. European TEAM Workshop and International Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, pp. 275-293, Oxford, U.K., 23-25 April 1990.

  141. J.B. Davies, R.D. Ettinger, F.A. Fernández, B.M.A. Rahman and R. Souza, "Variational and finite element solutions of TE modes in waveguides with nonlinear material", US National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, DB-2.8, 4-6 Jan. 1989.

  142. J.B. Davies, F.A. Fernández and G.Y. Philippou, "Finite element analysis of angular dependent modes in arbitrary periodic linear accelerator cavities", International U.R.S.I. Symposium, Munich, August 1980.

 

 

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