Jun Luo

He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2000. He held a position of associate professor in the same institute till the summer of 2001, where he conducted research on crystal growth and characterization of nonlinear optical crystals, such as YCOB and GdCOB. From 2001 to 2002 he worked at Lightwaves 2020, Inc, which located at San Jose, California, as a R&D Engineer and developed new magneto-optical materials by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technique for Faraday rotator application. From 2002 to 2004 he worked at University of Central Florida as a Research Associate. During this period, he focused on Czochralski growth of langasite and its isomorphs for high-precision bulk and surface acoustic waves (BAW & SAW) devices. He joined in TRS at 2004, and since then he has been leading (principle investigator) 1 Phase 3 , 5 Phase 2 and 3 Phase 1 SBIR or STTR projects, through which, a series of relaxor-PT single crystals have been developed to meet the challenges of new generation of transducer, actuator and sensor applications. He made major contributions on commercialization of these crystals at TRS, including TRSX2B, TRSX4B, TRSX4B-HQ. Dr. Luo is the author and co-author of 3 book chapters and over 40 technical papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He has 3 published patents and few pending ones. He also gave numerous presentations (including 5 invited ones) on academic conferences.