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By Iam-Choon Khoo

The basic technological know-how and most recent functions of liquid crystal applied sciences

an outstanding specialist reference and improved upper-level pupil textual content, Liquid Crystals , moment variation is a complete therapy of the entire uncomplicated rules underlying the original actual and optical houses of liquid crystals. Written via an the world over identified pioneer within the nonlinear optics of liquid crystals, the ebook additionally offers a distinct, in-depth dialogue of the mechanisms and theoretical ideas at the back of all significant nonlinear optical phenomena happening in liquid crystals.

Fully revised and up-to-date with the most recent advancements, this moment version covers:

  • Basic physics and optical homes of liquid crystals
  • Nematics, in addition to different mesophases resembling smectics, ferroelectrics, and cholesterics
  • Fundamentals of liquid crystals for electro-optics, and reveal and non-display comparable purposes
  • Various theoretical and computational thoughts utilized in describing optical propagation via liquid crystals and anisotropic fabrics
  • Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals, together with up-to-date literature reports and primary discussions

established to stick to a traditional series of guide, from simple physics to the newest really good optical, electro-optical, and nonlinear functions, Liquid Crystals is a textbook that grounds scholars within the basics ahead of introducing them to the most up-tp-date discoveries within the box. Written in a transparent, reader-friendly type, it positive factors a number of figures, tables, and illustrations, together with very important and hard-to-find equipment and fabric parameters. helpful to scholars, researchers, and people operating with liquid crystal purposes in numerous industries, Liquid Crystals , moment version is the main complete and up to date source to be had.

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1989. Rev. Mod. Phys. 61:385. 8. , 2000. Blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals as thermotropic photonic crystals. Phys. Rev. E. 62: 1435–1437. 9. , K. Kawai, Y. Matsuo, K. Kanie, T. Kato, and E. Nakamura. 2002. Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals. Nature. 419: 702–705. qxd 20 1/11/2007 3:57 PM Page 20 INTRODUCTION TO LIQUID CRYSTALS 10. See, for example, Nishiyama, Isa, Jun Yamamoto, John W. Goodby, and Hiroshi Yokoyama. 2004.

In this case a quantitative description of the dynamics of the field-induced effects must account for these surface energy terms. ,4 which treats the case of optical field-induced effects in a hybrid aligned nematic liquid crystal cell. 2. A homeotropic nematic liquid crystal with strong surface anchoring: (a) external field off; (b) external field on — only the bulk director axis is deformed. 3. NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS Soft boundary condition. Applied field will reorient both the surface and bulk director axis.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. deGennes, P. G. 1974. The Physics of Liquid Crystals. Oxford: Clarendon Press. deGennes, P. G. 1971. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 12:193. Landau, L. D. 1965. Collected Papers. D. ). New York: Gordon & Breach. Litster, J. D. 1971. Critical Phenomena. R. E. ). New York: McGraw-Hill. Khoo, I. C. and S. T. Wu. 1993. Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals. Singapore: World Scientific. See, for example, Blinov, L. M. 1983. Electro-optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Liquid Crystals.

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