Research Interest

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.

Degrees

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Electrical Engineering, 1992
M.S., Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, 1988
B. S., Pennsylvania State University, Electrical Engineering, 1986

Recent Publications

“Relative Humidity Measurement Using Capacitive Sensors,” Alireza Hassanzadeh, Robert G. Lindquist and Abdollah Borghei, Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2008, Huntsville, AL, April.

“Neuro-Fuzzy System to Monitor Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal Profile,”Alaeddin S. Abu-Abed and Robert G.Lindquist, Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2008, Huntsville, AL, April.

“Flat-Top / Distortionless Tunable Filters Based On Liquid Crystal Multi Cavities For DWDM Applications,” Shadi A. Alboon and Robert G. Lindquist, Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2008, Huntsville, AL, April.

“Flat top liquid crystal tunable filter using coupled Fabry-Perot Cavities,” Shadi A. Alboon and Robert G. Lindquist ,Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 231-236 (2008).

"Capacitive Transduction in Partially Disordered Systems: Application to LC-Based Biosensors," Alaeddin Abu-Abed and Robert Lindquist, SAS 2007 Proceedings, San Diego, CA, 2007.

"Liquid Crystal Sensors with Capacitive Transduction," Robert Lindquist, Alaeddin Abu-Abed, Woo-Hyuck Choi, IEEE Sensor 2006 Proceedings, Daegu, Korea, October 22-25, 2006.

"Full Spectrum, Multi-cavity Tunable Liquid Crystal Filter," Lindquist, Robert and Chen, Sheng-Wen, presented at the Optics in the Southeast, August 2006.

"Model of a MEMS sensor using a common gate MOSFET differential amplifier," D.J. Coe, J.M. English, T.J. Kaiser and R.G Lindquist, Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, Vol. 39, pp 4353-4358, 2006.

"Design of a MEMS Accelerometer using an Integrated Common Gate Differential MOSFET Amplifier," D.J. Coe, J.M. English, T.J. Kaiser and R.G Lindquist, Sensor Letters, Vol.4, 1-7, 2006.

"Wavelength Compensation in a WSXC using Off-Voltage control," J. Michael Harris; Robert G. Lindquist, Corning Incorporated, US Patent 6,567,202, Issued May (2003).

"Liquid crystal planar non-blocking NxN cross-connect," Thomas M. Leslie; Robert G. Lindquist, Corning Incorporated, US Patent 6,559,921, Issued May (2003).

"Wavelength selective cross-connect switch using a MEMS shutter array," Robert G. Lindquist, Corning Incorporated, US Patent 6,535,311, Issued March (2003).

"Symmetric wavelength selective switch for interconnecting two WDM rings Corning Incorporate, Inventor(s): P. Brophy, Christopher P.; Robert G. Lindquist, Application No. 09/691426, Filed 20001018, US Patent 6,532,318 B1, Issued March (2003).

"Lateral field based liquid crystal electro-optic polarizer," Lindquist, Robert G., Corning Incorporated, US Patent 6,388,730, Issued May (2002).

"Electronic display device for simultaneously displaying 2D and 3D images," Venkata A. Bhagavatula, Robert L. Carlson, and Robert G. Lindquist, Corning Incorporated, US Patent 6,137,456, Issued October (2000).

"An Optoelectronic Design of the Simultaneous Optical Multiprocessor Exchange Bus," R.G. Lindquist, J. Kulick, W. Cohen, R. Gaede, B. Wells, M. Abushagur, D. Shen, C. Katasinis, and S.T. Kowel, SPIE Photonic West Symposium on Optoelectronic Interconnects, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3005, pp.303-313 (1997).

"A Pixel-Scale Digital-to-Analog Converter for Liquid Crystal on VLSI Displays," A. Thomsen, R.G. Lindquist, J.H. Kulick, P.J. Nasiatka, G.P. Nordin, and S.T. Kowel, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems I, 42(9), (1995).

"A Real-Time 3-D Display Based on the Partial Pixel Architecture," M. Jones, G. Nordin, J. Kulick, R.G. Lindquist, and S. Kowel, Optics Letters, 20 (12), (1995).

"High Resolution Liquid Crystal Phase Grating Formed by Fringing Fields From Interdigitated Electrodes," R.G. Lindquist, J. Kulick, G. Nordin, J. Jarem, S. T. Kowel, M. Friends, and T.M. Leslie, Optics Letters, 19 (9), (1994).

"Dynamics of Picosecond Laser Induced Density, Temperature, Flow and Reorientational Effects in the Mesophases of Liquid Crystals," I. C. Khoo, R. G. Lindquist, R. R. Michael, R. J. Mansfield, and P. G. LoPresti, J of Applied Physics 69 (7), 3853-3859 (1991).