Either I did it, or nobody did it, so I decided to do it. I learned a lot from that, and one of the things I learned being on this panel was that there was a serious issue with the technology they were developing in Japan, the forerunner of that on your cell phone. The investment may be here in Northeast Ohio, but the mentality isn't. I thought this was an opportunity for the physics department. Were there other types of interactions, people moving back and forth?DOANE: Oh, yes. Then, you have to pass graduate exams and so on. I stopped and looked at it. They'd made money before licensing PDLC materials. That happened in the late 70s, early 80s.CRAWFORD: Do you recall the name of that researcher from the University of Calabria?DOANE: Yes, his name was Giuseppe Chidichimo, but he called himself Pino. He decided to form a company up in Cleveland to manufacture liquid crystal twist cell displays . A slight pressure of the pointed object creates an image. CRAWFORD: When were you working on the application?DOANE: Probably 1989 or so. Doane became Assistant Director of the LCI (1979-1983) under Glenn Brown and served as the Director from 1983-1996. At USC, they were doing work on organic light-emitting diodes, and we were doing work on liquid crystal displays. Phil Bos, for example, was in the chemical physics program, but now he's in physics. DOANE: I'm not sure I can answer that. Not only displays, we had work going on with steering laser beams, night vision, and other optical devices. We decided at one time to try Amazon, and we sent them a number of them. Between the time I interviewed and when I came here, Glenn had already started putting together the Liquid Crystal Institute. He got very interested in these polymer dispersions and helped me with them. They gave materials for a presentation, and they were really helpful. You mentioned GM and Tektronix. Instead of just funding Utah, they sent out requests for proposals. I don't know how Fergason envisioned the Institute, but I do know that it wasn't like Glenn envisioned it. Kitchen has beautiful knotty pine cabinets. I wanted something like MIT and Stanford, where they had companies building up all around the universities. CRAWFORD: What was the reaction to that?DOANE: They picked up on it, but they didn't always do it as well as I would have liked. Nowadays, we have software that keeps track of publications, and you can get a score based on the quantity you have. But our initial work with General Motors really set the stage for becoming a display-oriented group because we then had a clean room and other facilities needed for this. One of the first things I did when I got back was to go to people like Dave Johnson in physics, Wilbur Franklin, Dave Uhrich, Edward Gelerenter and others. Then, lawsuits began to fly all over the place. It's just recognition that somebody saw what you were doing. Located at Interstate 225 at Alameda Avenue, the Town Center at . Fergason got involved with the twist cell technology over here and patented the twist cell in the US. That focused the company right there. DOANE: But THEMIS, as I understood it, they just wanted basic fundamental research on liquid crystals. CRAWFORD: Well, thank you very much for saying that. One of the things that happened at this time actually involves the Institute. Please contact the. I'm an Associate Professor and Historian of Science in the Department of History at Kent State University. Here, we had a new technology, we had patents on it. I think one of the biggest contributions ALCOM made was its students. Are there other benefits to the interactions between universities and spinoff companies? That deal ended up falling through. There was another candidate for one of Glenns positions, Professor Alfred Saupe who was on the faculty at Freiburg University in Germany. And we've employed students in the summertime as interns. But my wife was very good at handling things by herself. I think it was a March meeting, so I think it was '65. At the undergraduate level, I always thought students got the idea a lot better, particularly with physics students, if you could demonstrate how physics is used in hands-on stuff. The Timex contract was with the University. CRAWFORD: In a Daily Kent Stater article in 1973, Wilbur Franklin, professor of physics, who actually wrote an op-ed responding to the student protests. It was bistable, so we could make low-power, full color reflective displays. And it can cause change for the better sometimes. I was determined to do that, and at first, I tried to do it at a lower cost [to better attract investment]. CRAWFORD: In the scientific world, especially in academia, publication is very important. In the case of student dissertations, it is necessary to publish. One texture reflects a beautiful colored light. Those were kind of my early years. I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you to tell us a little bit about what it's been like living through the COVID pandemic over the last year, what effects it's had on your professional and personal lives, whatever you'd like to share. CRAWFORD: This was Project THEMIS?DOANE: Yes. [Laugh] [Polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) became known in industry as well, worldwide.] Good German name. A Building Advisor will be in touch with you shortly. Did you and Fergason remain friends?DOANE: Yes, I didn't have any problem with Jim. But I would say that was kind of how I got started in it. Chemistry hadn't had its graduate program very long before that. Business acumen?DOANE: He was a Stanford graduate in physics. $269,900. Town Center at Cobb is now one of more than 50 shopping malls in the U.S. owned by Kohan, which is based in Great Neck, New York. Of all the discoveries I've made, that was probably the one that made the biggest splash. [Laugh] I thought that was so funny. I thought of it as a way that physicists could work with chemists, and vice versa, and still be in their own department. Or were you also learning more generally about the properties of matter and molecules?DOANE: The physical and chemical properties of liquid crystals, their molecular makeup, their unusual properties and how they fit as states of matter between solids and liquids. I know we've covered quite a bit of ground.DOANE: I have to say, I'm really impressed how prepared you were for this and how much you knew before you even set foot through this door. Information on the people and the population of Les Avenires Veyrins-Thuellin. I talked to a few people in the chemistry department, although I didn't have to do too much there because Glenn was a chemist. Turns out, it was extremely important because later on, when we came to the ALCOM [Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials] Center, that was extremely valuable.CRAWFORD: Why was that?DOANE: At that time NSF started a new program for Science and Technology Centers, and it was a new direction for NSF. When I lectured, even in elementary physics, I paid a lot of attention to demonstrations, rather than standing up at the blackboard. There were a number of things we could make on it. Under federal law, housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is unlawful. Then, liquid crystals came up again. But they were finding it not a very big market and a very unusual market. It was the first money I got where I could build a clean room and do the things I needed to do. CRAWFORD: And that was because of the shift to displays?DOANE: Yeah, because of the overall liquid crystal program. He reconfigured the company. And I think your work is absolutely essential in exploring how all of this happened and getting the history on it right. If I apply a voltage pulse, it does this and if I change the voltage of the pulse it does that." What did you want to see develop here?DOANE: The university was doing an awful lot of licensing of switchable window technology to Japan. Do you see yourself as a pioneer in scientific or technological entrepreneurship? Nearby cities and villages : Corbelin, Granieu and Brgnier-Cordon. I'm interviewing Dr. J. William Doane, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Emeritus Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, as well as Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Kent Displays. After Senior Research Fellows served in that position for a while, they found themselves directing graduate students and doing almost the same things as university professors do. CRAWFORD: When you told us about the discovery of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals, it sounded like it sort of happened by accident, because you had this researcher from Italy who had put the epoxy in and left it, and the next day, its whoa, this happened. He had moved on by then and wanted to develop and ultimately sell liquid crystal displays for watches. But in the end, I don't know how the military gets their displays today. I didn't know what I could contribute. She was wanting to start a family, and we thought we could do that, even while I was in graduate school. 2292 Bayswater Dr NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144 | Zillow Kennesaw GA For Sale Apply Price Price Range Minimum - Maximum Apply Beds & Baths Bedrooms Bathrooms Apply Home Type Deselect All Houses Townhomes Multi-family Condos/Co-ops Lots/Land Apartments Manufactured More filters [Laughs]CRAWFORD: She was teaching in Nebraska?DOANE: Yes. It really helps to have a relevancy to your research work rather than just being something of interest.] CRAWFORD: Would it be fair to say that the work being done in industry, especially in Japan, really played a significant role in reorienting liquid crystal work toward displays?DOANE: Yes. That's what you do as a director, you fund your organization. Back then, backlights were not very well-developed, and they took a lot of power. Samsung in Korea does it today on 60-inch and larger screens. Around '82 or '83, he decided to retire. However, when I came in '65, they had already advanced that to a solid-state physics program and were in the process of moving it to a standard physics program for all areas of physics. It was wonderful. They were able to get funding on some bill that was going through. They have these new cheese garlic rolls that they give you at Ruby Tuesday, that are to die for! There are alignment layers, retardation films, liquid crystal materials where significant contributions are made. In the first ones, there were some industrial people there. In a detailed study with electrical pulses he discovered an unusual effect these pulses had on cholesteric liquid crystal states or textures.] However, up until the ALCOM Center, nobody knew how to electronically switch it from one texture to the other. Looking back on it, I'm not sure why he hired Fergason in the first place. Also, it involved radio frequencies, something I was really familiar with. Freshly painted, with hardwoods and tile throughout, this 3 bedroom 2 bath will not last long. [I think it was called ARPA at that time. DOANE: Yeah, it was, but my focus changed to the company because I really wanted this company to survive and do well. Another company that was very involved with liquid crystal display work was Tektronix in Oregon. But that didn't work out. You mentioned Al Green was the CEO and Asad was the CTO.DOANE: At first, I had no involvement in the company at all because I was directing the LCI. I'm sure I had considered this because I really had to look at an area of physics in which I could support our family. Also, I think it forces people, particularly in governments, to look at how we deal with diseases. That's its attractiveness. [Laugh]CRAWFORD: Why do you say that?DOANE: If the Institute had had a display program going, it would've been a bonanza. This means you have to really have a very powerful backlight to see the image that took a lot of power from a battery. An ex-CEO of the Hoover vacuum cleaner company, Joe Cutinella, was on the Kent State University Board of Trustees at that time, and I think his influence really helped, particularly in getting the University to accept this idea of starting local companies. ________________[1] Dr. Doane wants to be clear that Goodyear's interest in liquid crystal displays for their blimp was separate from his receipt of the award from the Society for Information Displays. A display researcher, Wolfgang Helfrich, when he was at RCA worked with a group that explored many of these ways to make liquid crystal displays. [Laugh] I worked with him as an undergraduate, building his electronics, and I became very familiar with the kind of stuff he was doing. USC applied, I applied, and so did these other universities.] Bill got the company going, but the defense contracts helped it to grow to further develop the technology. I think he may have written it when he was at the University of Cincinnati. These days, science means you've got to work with other people. That is a major benefit because small companies, particularly, cannot afford the very expensive research equipment that universities have for their research. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. He said, "Let's get the governor here." It had to be very lightweight, and we couldn't do plastic that well back then. We put the infringing company out of business, and their attorneys faced a little bit of trouble, too. I thought I was too old to be a good researcher anymore. There's very fundamental stuff going on in universities with DNA research, for example, but they're involved very practically, investigating the feasibility for all sorts of industrial interests. Today he is CEO taking the company into new exciting directions with new products. But when I married Shirley, she knew from the very beginning I wanted to go back to graduate school. I can only speak from a Kent point of view because that's where I was at the time. I need a softball player." I thought I wanted to go into electrical engineering.CRAWFORD: Was it the problem-solving, working with your hands that attracted you to engineering?DOANE: I think so. [Laughs] I was pretty much an only child. DOANE: Yes. [I believe it was University money I brought him on with. Doane was involved in the invention of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs). From Akron University [we have hired students with expertise in polymers. CRAWFORD: I've been reading Brown's papers and looking at the early annual reports from what it sounds like, from what he was writing and putting in the reports at the time, he really saw the primary focus of the Institute as studying the structure of liquid crystals. The Mill at Chastain Floor Plans & Pricing. Xerox was studying its electro-optical properties. They don't want to establish competitors [before they have the product on the market]. DOANE: I don't know how you define a pioneer, but I would say that my primary contributions, while I've published a lot and written a lot of patents, was more in working with others, getting others involved, building a program for Kent State University. Heinke was the attorney involved in this lawsuit. The anchor stores are huge. That's really a benefit for [Kent Displays]. I thought it should be patented. NSF was supporting a lot of basic research, but there was no indication of how it was actually going into technology. If you're going to have a graduate program, you have to have faculty who can bring in money, at least in sciences. CRAWFORD: But it also sounds like it was in line with your interests.DOANE: Oh, yes, it was very much in line with my interests. Do source of income protections exist for me at the state level in Georgia? If this interview is important to you, you are advised to consult the original digital audio files and any additional files related to the interview in the Kent State University Special Collections and University Archives. The name of the company who manufactures this now and markets it is Ebulent [and its CEO is Xiao-Yang Huang]. Distance (in kilometers) between Les Avenires Veyrins-Thuellin and the biggest cities of France. Doane later helped create spin-off companies, such as Kent Displays, Inc. which was established in 1993. Bahman Taheri founded one of them, Alpha Micron, Inc.. That was one reason. "]DOANE: That may have been how it was then. The only places I could see it going in the US was to General Motors, 3M, and a small company in Texas. It was a beautiful country. I'm curious if you think it still applies today. That's another big story. ALCOM was to combine science and technology where applications are important. Thank you! We made some [very nice full-color, high resolution, flexible color displays]. We discovered we could make a unique reflective display. I thought it was a way to build the graduate programs. As a graduate student, when I got into nuclear magnetic resonance, I had a research assistantship while I was working on my PhD, and that was funded with a grant. CONNECT WITH THE LOCAL REAL ESTATE ADVISOR. There can be non-disclosure agreements with an industry in which confidential information is transferred. It was a very fun time. However, at that time, he was not very well. Something they could say, "We're known for this." CRAWFORD: We talked yesterday about some of the difficulties around Fergason's patenting ventures, and you had said that throughout the 70s, you were doing primarily basic research and weren't really working on applications. She had come out [West] to teach school after her college work, which is where she met my father and how she wound up in the sod house. Have a facility there based on what Glenn had started. The University wanted to license it, and I talked the University into letting me form a company around this. CRAWFORD: I'm wondering about the relationship between Kent Displays and the Liquid Crystal [Institute]. The written line is erased electrically by simply pressing a button whereby the cholesteric liquid crystal is electrically switched from its color reflective state to its background state. I did see its potential in applications and recognized that it should probably be patented. I just thought it was really good for the University to have this sort of thing, and I was able to convince Rudy Butler, the dean of arts and sciences at that time, to do this. University of Oklahoma at Stillwater, various places. I wanted to create KDI to set an example so others would do it, and it worked. We considered it a paper replacement. CRAWFORD: This kind of fits with a little bit of what we're talking about right now, how the Institute relates to the two main departments that are related to the study of liquid crystals, physics and chemistry.DOANE: Actually, biology is getting more and more involved [and, as I understand it, also engineering and there may be more].CRAWFORD: You mentioned that as part of ALCOM, the University committed to this new building, which is the LCI building at the end of the science mall on campus. He got an appointment at Texas A&M. If you had something black behind it to create a background, you could switch on and off a bright red image, for example, on black background. DOANE: I think that may be one of my best contributions, actually.CRAWFORD: Could that be seen as pioneering? It was a nice program. First, I wanted to start spin-off companies. Licensing, in general, I found not to be a very good business for a university. It can be green, red, whatever you want it to be. Because I was far out in the country, I went to a one-room schoolhouse for all eight grades. To my knowledge, it was the first patent that Kent State ever had, at least following the Bayh-Dole Act. This was a prime incentive in forming Kent Displays.This new reflective technology came about when early on, the Xerox group was working on things called cholesteric liquid crystals. I also met McGrath, and they invited me to visit Kent. That's very, very rare. But I thought, "Maybe the Institute needed new direction." Staff reports. Basically university research on liquid crystal materials and industrial research on liquid crystal displays were disconnected. The College of Wooster is down the road, and we've had a lot of students from there. As far as the material he was talking about, he was perhaps right. Up until then, I was doing basic research, studying liquid crystals at a molecular level, learning how they ordered themselves, how they fluctuate, how various molecular atomic groups fluctuate, and so on. University patenting was difficult for different reason, but from what I understand, I think around '65, '67, there was an individual in the federal government who was trying to make it easier for federal universities to patent research. Everybody in the US lost on this issue. Its called that because it can be found in the cholesterol of living systems. I just knew Jim was working on this stuff. What are you doing here?" Then, one weekend, this Bill comes to Kent and knocks on my door and says, "I have my son-in-law, Joel Domino, out in the car. CRAWFORD: When he did talk about applications, it was mostly in cancer detection work with breast cancer and so forth, and less about the work on displays and stuff. And in the meantime, I'd talked with others who may have wanted to invest in it, some people up in Cleveland who thought they might do it. We were developing a display technology that had come out of the ALCOM Center. That turned out to be a really good thing to do. CRAWFORD: How did you find her?DOANE: I knew her because she was in the physics department, and I saw what a good administrator she was there. Everybody was from industry. Their backlighting technology was becoming cheaper and cheaper as was battery technology, and it was becoming harder to compete. Applications did not come until people started working with them. I think that really helped because it forced them to think, "What can I really make with this stuff?" It was a form of technology transfer. I couldn't come into my lab, and there was a short time we couldn't do things.CRAWFORD: But it didn't lead to a sense of, "Maybe we should downplay our support from the military"?DOANE: No. I don't think I saw anybody from RCA. I don't think they had any effect on the Institute or what it was doing. Do you think that's useful for science?DOANE: It happens because universities have a need to be open which is not true for industry. We could make a low power reflective display with that. [Laugh] I sat down with DengKe and we wrote a patent. In the end, we won out. So I got a board, drilled holes to put the tube in, ran wires down it to put in the holes [and got the oscillator to work]. You need a very bright backlight behind it to see a color image. CRAWFORD: If I understood you correctly, a spin-off company doesn't necessarily mean more financial benefit for a university than licensing does. And the size. As a good rule of thumb, ideally you would have at least three times your monthly rent in combined household income. He retired from Kent State University and the LCI in 1996. It turned out, the annual national meeting that year was in Kansas City. But they did. Today, I'm interviewing Dr. J. William Doane, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Emeritus Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, as well as Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Kent Displays. There were few trees in Western Nebraska. Ultimately, however, full-color flat panel screens ended up being manufactured in Japan then Korea and other Asian countries. CRAWFORD: ALCOM is funded in 1991, and five years later, you retire. I think once the University got into it, they thought it was a nice way to go, too. A university cannot and should not try to compete with industries on problems of interest to industry. He was going to give a paper on liquid crystals as temperature sensors.CRAWFORD: This was the year you finished your PhD?DOANE: Yes, either '64 or '65. Of course, we pay for it, but it's nice to have that facility available, and it's nice for them to make it available.CRAWFORD: Did Kent Displays then, and does it now, send its own people to use the facilities? But the first two years of graduate school, I really couldn't do too much research. The University of Missouri was where I could go because I had support. [Laugh] That was the start of a major change in my research life. That was their focus. I just did what I thought ought to be done. In the summer of '67, my wife and I took our summer vacation, and we went back home to visit our parents. Oral History Interview with J. William Doane by Matthew Crawford. Around that time, I got someone from Canada, Peter Palffy, in optics. The two come together through technology transfer and patent agreements]. I wanted the technology we were developing to wind up in the community. We were just trying to understand what the liquid crystal phases looked like on a molecular level.] So you can see green writing on a black background. Over the years, I've directed something like 25 doctoral dissertations, and I don't know how many master's students. We have also worked with scientists and professors, who have been consultants for us. DOANE: I never viewed myself as a pioneer. I talked to the physics department to see if I could get an appointment for him in physics, but they didnt want to do it. A BHHS Georgia Properties agent will be in touch with you to schedule a showing or provide you with building information. There were other researchers at Kent working on liquid crystals. And I did. Your people want to be part of the academic environment. Do additional legal protections exist for the LGBTQ community at the county level in Cobb County? I hired her, and she was delighted to come. I didn't come here because of liquid crystals, but right after I got here, I went into it, hook, line, and sinker. But the program did not last long as better ways to detect cancer evolved. [Graduate research programs were in their early stages.] Originally moving into the space between physics and chemistry was essential in getting the ALCOM Center. That was a major distraction for the company. I did have a high school teacher, [Harley Rutledge], who was right out of college and had a degree in physics. It's a win-win situation to have local companies build up around a university. What were those signs?DOANE: They were called Info Signs. I just happened to see the right people at the right time. DOANE: It was very good for the LCI [and also for Kent State in other ways]. CRAWFORD: What did it look like when he was switching?DOANE: It would switch between a specific reflective color to no color at all; that is, become totally transparent. 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