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  1. Highly sensitive sunset yellow-based optical and dielectric biosensing of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein in saliva

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, January 2026, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  2. Voltage-induced beam switching by a geometric phase metasurface incorporated into a Tamm plasmon polariton structure

    Article • Applied Optics, December 2025, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee, Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen

  3. Temperature-Responsive Transmission Switching in Smart Glass Comprising a Biphasic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Materials, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  4. Simulation of an Asymmetric Photonic Structure Integrating Tamm Plasmon Polariton Modes and a Cavity Mode for Potential Urinary Glucose Sensing via Refractive Index Shifts

    Article • Biosensors, September 2025, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  5. Light selective reflection asymmetry in cholesteric layer with planar–conical anchoring

    Article • Optical Materials, May 2025, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  6. Thermoresponsive switching in an adaptive polymer-stabilized polymorphic liquid crystal window without surface orientation treatment

    Article • Optics Express, February 2025, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  7. Dielectric analysis of unpolymerized and photopolymerized NOA65 in a parallel-plate cell

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, November 2024, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  8. Protein assay and immunoassay based on nematic thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals quantitated by haze measurement

    Article • Surfaces and Interfaces, November 2024, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  9. Overlooked Ionic Contribution of a Chiral Dopant in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

    Article • Materials, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  10. Dielectric and pseudo-dielectric heating effects in a dual-frequency liquid crystal cell

    Article • Chinese Journal of Physics, August 2024, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  11. Effects of ion doping on the dielectric and electro-optical properties of chiral nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, July 2024, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  12. Bicolor Tuning and Hyper-Reflective Color Switching Based on Two Stacked Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Cells with Asymmetric Electrothermal Optical Responses

    Article • Molecules, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  13. Electrically tunable thermoresponsive optic switch for smart window application based on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, October 2023, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  14. Liquid-Crystalline Materials for Optical and Photonic Applications: introduction to the feature issue

    Article • Optical Materials Express, July 2023, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  15. Optical and flexoelectric biosensing based on a hybrid-aligned liquid crystal of anomalously small bend elastic constant

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, July 2023, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  16. Electrically Tunable Defect-Mode Wavelengths in a Liquid-Crystal-in-Cavity Hybrid Structure in the Near-Infrared Range

    Article • Materials, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  17. Signal amplification strategies for optical biodetection at the liquid crystal–solid interface

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  18. Label-free optical and electrical immunoassays based on lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: Implications of real-time detection and kinetic analysis

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, March 2023, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  19. Wavelength- and Angle-Selective Photodetectors Enabled by Graphene Hot Electrons with Tamm Plasmon Polaritons

    Article • Nanomaterials, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen, Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  20. Special Issue: Soft Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials

    Article • Materials, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  21. Quantitative Biosensing Based on a Liquid Crystal Marginally Aligned by the PVA/DMOAP Composite for Optical Signal Amplification

    Article • Biosensors, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  22. Polymer Stabilization of Uniform Lying Helix Texture in a Bimesogen-Doped Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Frequency-Modulated Electro-Optic Responses

    Article • Materials, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  23. Metal–Dielectric Polarization-Preserving Anisotropic Mirror for Chiral Optical Tamm State

    Article • Nanomaterials, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen, Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  24. Electrically active and thermally passive liquid-crystal device toward smart glass

    Article • Photonics Research, October 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  25. A Single-Substrate Biosensor with Spin-Coated Liquid Crystal Film for Simple, Sensitive and Label-Free Protein Detection

    Article • Biosensors, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  26. Dielectric and electro-optical responses of a dielectrically negative nematic liquid crystal doped with cationic surfactant

    Article • Optical Materials Express, August 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  27. Label-Free Detection and Spectrometrically Quantitative Analysis of the Cancer Biomarker CA125 Based on Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Biosensors, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  28. Chiral-Selective Tamm Plasmon Polaritons

    Article • Materials, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen, Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  29. Signal Amplification in an Optical and Dielectric Biosensor Employing Liquid Crystal-Photopolymer Composite as the Sensing Medium

    Article • Biosensors, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  30. Liquid crystal–photopolymer composite films for label-free single-substrate protein quantitation and immunoassay

    Article • Biomedical Optics Express, August 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  31. Frequency-modulated textural formation and optical properties of a binary rod-like/bent-core cholesteric liquid crystal

    Article • Photonics Research, October 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  32. Liquid crystal-based capacitive, electro-optical and dielectric biosensors for protein quantitation

    Article • Liquid Crystals, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  33. Chiral Optical Tamm States at the Interface between an All-Dielectric Polarization-Preserving Anisotropic Mirror and a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal

    Article • Crystals, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  34. Electric-field-assisted signal amplification for label-free liquid-crystal-based detection of biomolecules

    Article • Biomedical Optics Express, September 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  35. Voltage-induced pseudo-dielectric heating and its application for color tuning in a thermally sensitive cholesteric liquid crystal

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  36. Electro-Thermal Formation of Uniform Lying Helix Alignment in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Cell

    Article • Crystals, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  37. Electric field-controlled transformation of the eigenmodes in a twisted-nematic Fabry–Pérot cavity

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  38. Electro-thermally tunable reflective colors in a self-organized cholesteric helical superstructure

    Article • Photonics Research, November 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  39. All-dielectric polarization-preserving anisotropic mirror

    Article • OSA Continuum, October 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  40. Electro-optical and dielectric properties of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal impregnated with a fluorine-containing compound

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, October 2018, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  41. Enhancing detection sensitivity in quantitative protein detection based on dye-doped liquid crystals

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, October 2018, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  42. Red, Green, and Blue Reflections Enabled in an Electrically Tunable Helical Superstructure

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, January 2018, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  43. Liquid-crystal tunable color filters based on aluminum metasurfaces

    Article • Optics Express, November 2017, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen, Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  44. Alternative generation of well-aligned uniform lying helix texture in a cholesteric liquid crystal cell

    Article • AIP Advances, October 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  45. Photonic Bandgap–Cholesteric Device with Electrical Tunability and Optical Tristability in Its Defect Modes

    Article • Crystals, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  46. Chiral Optical Tamm States: Temporal Coupled-Mode Theory

    Article • Crystals, April 2017, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  47. Chiral Optical Tamm States: Temporal Coupled-Mode Theory

    Article • February 2017, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  48. Dynamic Tuning and Memory Switching of Defect Modes in a Hybrid Photonic Structure

    Article • Crystals, October 2016, MDPI AG

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  49. Dielectric characterization and voltage holding ratio of blue-phase cells

    Article • Displays, September 2016, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  50. Temperature-dependent electrical and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystals doped with ferroelectric particles

    Article • Displays, September 2016, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  51. Bovine serum albumin detection and quantitation based on capacitance measurements of liquid crystals

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  52. Electrically active nanoantenna array enabled by varying the molecular orientation of an interfaced liquid crystal

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof Victor Reshetnyak, Prof. Kuo-Ping Chen, Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  53. Spectral Variations in Selective Reflection in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Containing Opposite-Handed Chiral Dopants

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee

  54. Phase and dielectric behaviors of a polymorphic liquid crystal doped with graphene nanoplatelets

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, April 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Distinguished Professor Wei Lee