Jingyu Lin (
Chinese: 林景瑜) is a Chinese-American physicist and
engineer working in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors and photonic devices. She is a co-inventor of
MicroLED. In 2000, the husband-wife research team led by
Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin proposed and realized the operation of the first MicroLED and passive driving MicroLED microdisplay.[1][2][3][4][5] In 2009, their team and colleagues at III-N Technology, Inc. and
Texas Tech University realized and patented the first active driving MicroLED microdisplay in
VGA format by heterogeneously integrating MicroLED array with Si
CMOS active-matrix driver.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
The single-chip high-voltage DC/AC LEDs via on-chip integration of mini- and
MicroLED arrays developed by their team in 2002 have been widely commercialized for general solid-state lighting and automobile headlights.[12][13][14][15][16]
Under the support of
DARPA-MTO’s SUVOS, CMUVT, DUVAP, and VIGIL programs, their research team contributed to the early developments of III-nitride deep UV emitters and detectors and InGaN energy devices in the United States. These include the prediction and confirmation that Al-rich AlGaN deep UV emitters emit light in the transverse-magnetic (TM) mode, the demonstration of the first UV and blue photonic crystal LEDs (PC-LEDs), one of the first to demonstrate conductivity control in Al-rich AlGaN and AlN deep UV avalanche photodetectors with an ultrahigh specific detectivity.[17] Supported by
ARPA-E, their research team has realized thermal neutron detectors based on ultrawide bandgap semiconductor hexagonal boron nitride with a record high detection efficiency among solid-state detectors.[18][19][20]
Education
Jingyu Lin obtained PhD in physics in 1989 from
Syracuse University under the guidance Arnold Honig. She received her BS in physics in 1983 from
SUNY Oneonta.[21]
Career
Currently, she is a co-director of the Nanophotonics Center and is the inaugural Linda F.
Whitacre endowed chair and Horn Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering within the
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at
Texas Tech University (TTU). To be designated a Horn Professor is the highest honor received by a Texas Tech faculty member.[22] In 2008, she along with her husband
Hongxing Jiang (a Horn Distinguished Professor, co-director of the Nanophotonics Center and the inaugural
Edward Whitacre endowed chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering at TTU), relocated their research team to TTU from
Kansas State University where she was a professor of physics.[21]