E. Peter Raynes
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Edward Peter Raynes {{postnom|country=GBR|FRS|HonFInstP}} (born {{birth date|1945|7|4|df=yes}})[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U31994 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 displays (LCDs).
Raynes was educated at St Peter's School, York and obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge;{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} he then worked at RSRE (Malvern) for 21 years until 1991. He is a Fellow of St Cross College.
He has been the chief scientist of Sharp Laboratories (Europe) since 1992.
Awards
- IoP Paterson medal 1986
- Society of Information Display {{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
Selected publications
- Electro-optic response times in liquid crystals, E. Jakeman, and E. P. Raynes, Physics Letters A, Vol. 39, Iss. 1, pp. 69–70 1972. {{doi|10.1016/0375-9601(72)90332-5}}
- 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, pp. 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) {{doi|10.1016/0141-9382(87)90038-2}}
- 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) {{doi|10.1088/0022-3727/24/3/016}}
- Ferroelectric liquid crystal display, Koden, M., et al., Shapu Giho/Sharp Technical Journal, Iss. 69, pp. 47–50 (1997)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060320112310/http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/fellows/raynes.htm St Cross information]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060303054954/http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows.html St Cross Fellows]
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