Zvi Yaniv, PhD

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Dr. Yaniv, as the former President of Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. and the Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Applied Nanotech, (1996-2014), has been instrumental in guiding the company to become a pioneer in nanotechnology in a variety of fields, such as electron field emission from carbon films/carbon nanotubes for display applications, nanocomposites, inks and pastes for the printed electronics industry, thermal management materials, sensors, and large outdoor electronic displays. Outdoor displays present particular challenges, among them the competition posed by sunlight. While at ANHI, using his expertise in developing avionic displays, he founded Electronic Billboard Technology (EBT), which made "sun-visible" standard LCDs. These displays could function outdoors in direct sunlight and retain their readability, without being "washed out" by the sun's rays. The sun-visible LCD displays were among a number of unique products EBT developed in a very short time after its inception. Dr. Zvi Yaniv was a founder of Kent Display Systems in Kent, Ohio, the "no-power" reflective LCD Company and of Optical Imaging Systems, Inc. (OIS) in Troy, Michigan. As President and CEO of OIS, he led the company during its years of development and in the initial commercialization of advanced active matrix liquid crystal displays and amorphous silicon image sensors. While at OIS, Dr. Yaniv was one of the founders of Unipac, presently AU Optronics, one of the premier display companies in the world. Education Dr. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in physics/mathematics and a M.Sc. in electro-optics with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics (liquid crystals) at Kent State University. Dr. Zvi Yaniv's 45-year career began in earnest in 1970 when he founded the Electro-Optics Department at the Ben Gurion University's Practical Engineering College in Be'er Sheva, Israel, while serving as its vice-president and a professor of electro-o