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Liquid crystals in the nineties and beyond /

This book is a collection of 13 articles, written by experts, on different aspects of the physics and applications of liquid crystals. In addition to giving self-contained review articles with good bibliography, the authors have discussed the anticipated or highly important and desirable breakthroug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kumar, Satyen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anisotropy of the nematic-smectic a phase transition / B.S. Andereck
  • Thermal investigations of phase transitions in thermotropic liquid crystals / J. Thoen
  • Numerical studies of phase transitions and critical phenomena in liquid crystals / C. Dasgupta
  • High resolution calorimetric studies at phase transitions of alkylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystals confined to submicron size cylindrical cavities / D. Finotello and G.S. lannacchione
  • Physical properties of thin substrate-free liquid-crystal films / T. Stoebe and C.C. Huang
  • Ferroelectric liquid crystals: from the plane wave to the multisoliton limit / I. Muševič [and others]
  • The optical properties of chiral liquid crystals / K.A. Suresh
  • Patterns in thin liquid crystal films and the divergence ("surfacelike") elasticity / O.D. Lavrentovich and V.M. Pergamenshchik
  • Liquid crystal defects in a magnetic field / G.S. Ranganath
  • Saddle-splay elasticity in nematic liquid crystals / G.P. Crawford and S. Žumer
  • Rheology and rheo-optics of polymer liquid crystals / M. Srinivasarao
  • Recent advances and future directions of NMR spectroscopy of molecules oriented in liquid crystals / C.L. Khetrapal
  • Improvement of the viewing angle for display devices with gray scale / P.J. Bos.