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Khalil Kalantar
Azerbaijani optical scientist and inventor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khalil Kalantar (Azerbaijani: Xəlil Kələntər) or Kalil Kalantar[2][1] is an Azerbaijani scientist, inventor and electronics engineer. He is known for his inventions about LCD displays.[3][4][5][6][7]
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Education
In 1981, he moved to Japan in order to work as a professor in Nagoya University. Kalantar worked there for 10 years.[8] He got his Phd degree in Nagoya and Tohoku universities.[3][8][6]
Career
Academic
Kalantar is also author of 3 books and co-author of 6 books. Also he wrote more than 150 scientific articles.[3][8][4][5][6]
In 2008, he became the honorary member of Society for Information Display.[2][9] In 2011, he was awarded with "The Best Article" by SID.[2][10][11][9]
As an engineer
During his career, he worked on 2D optical coherent representations, optical-electronic sensors and measuring devices etc.[2]
From starting 1995, Kalantar worked on optic devices and modules for LCD blocks.[8][2] During his career, he worked with Fujitsu, Sony, Global Optical Solutions. Kalantar is also author of the VAIO's concept.[8][2]
In 2007 May, he awarded with prize for inventing a new optical design method for LCD lightning.[2]
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Inventions
One of his inventions was making light-guided optical boards with micro reflector and micro deflector.[8]
Kalantar is one of the inventors of the backlights of Liquid-crystal displays.[3][4][12][13][14] This technology has been used by phones, televisions, monitors etc.[6] First generation iPhone's and iPod Nano have used this technology.[8]
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References
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