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Liquid crystals /
Despite many of us staring at liquid crystals--in the form of liquid-crystal displays--for large portions of our waking life, for many their science and beauty is an untold story full of surprise and wonder. This book takes you on a photographic journey through the science of liquid crystals. By the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2018]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP expanding physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is a liquid crystal?
- 2.1. Protons, electrons and atoms
- 2.2. Molecules
- 2.3. Phases of matter
- 2.4. Liquid crystal
- 3. Light
- 3.1. What is light?
- 3.2. Polarised light
- 3.3. Circular polarisation
- 3.4. How is light affected by matter?
- 3.5. Light and anisotropic materials
- 3.6. Polarising optical microscopy
- 4. Nematic liquid crystals
- 4.1. The nematic liquid crystal molecule
- 4.2. Director orientation gradients
- 4.3. Liquid crystal defects
- 4.4. Isotropic-to-nematic phase transitions
- 4.5. Adding dispersants
- 4.6. Electric fields and liquid crystal displays
- 5. Long-pitch cholesterics
- 5.1. Symmetry
- 5.2. Repeating helical structures
- 5.3. Defects and distortion
- 5.4. Cholesteric droplets
- 5.5. Out of the isotropic phase
- 5.6. Helix unwinding
- 6. Short-pitch cholesterics
- 6.1. Iridescent beetles and mood rings
- 6.2. Lying helix
- 6.3. Standing helix
- 6.4. Phase transitions
- 7. Blue phases, smectics and lyotropics
- 7.1. Blue phase
- 7.2. Smectic liquid crystals
- 7.3. Twist grain boundary phases
- 7.4. Lyotropics
- 8. Discotic and columnar liquid crystals
- 8.1. Discotic nematic phase
- 8.2. Columnar phase
- 8.3. Crystal growth
- 9. Conclusion.