Andrzej KOTLICKI
University of British Columbia

Applied Research at the Structured Surface Physics Laboratory at UBC

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We are going to describe the projects that constitute the research currently being performed in the Structured Surface Physics Laboratory at UBC. There are three major projects, two of which are quite advanced and are being partially developed by a UBC spin-off company. They are as follows:

1. The Charged Liquid Electro-Active Response Display (CLEAR) is a new reflective display technology with dramatically increased reflectance difference between black and white states in all lighting conditions (compared to a more traditional LCD display).
2. The High Dynamic Range (HDR) display is capable of displaying light intensity over five orders of magnitude, compared to a regular TV set with a range of only 2 orders of magnitude.
3. The new “green” triple illumination system uses alternative light sources: solar light and the light that is normally lost from gas furnaces, as well as electric fluorescent light.

We will also shortly introduce several other projects: the “Millisun,” an illuminator that produces a wide light beam with the angular characteristic of solar light; a new kind of integrating sphere; an electrostatic air pump; an electrostatic liquid pump, and a Protein Adsorption Sensor .

*In collabaration with: L. A. Whitehead UBC,M Mossman UBC,H Seetzen UBC.