Liquid crystals : Applications and Uses. Vol. 3 /

This book reviews comprehensively the technological, scientific, artistic and medical applications of liquid crystals. It starts with the basics of liquid crystals and covers electro-optical, thermo-optical, colour, polymeric, lyotropic, and scientific applications of liquid crystalline materials. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bahadur, Birendra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©1992.
Temas:
Liquid crystals.
Liquid Crystals
Cristaux liquides.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Cristaux liquides > Applications industrielles.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 5. Surface alignment of liquid crystals / Tatsuo Uchida and Hidehiro Seki. 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Theoretical background
  • 5.3. Mechanism of surface alignment of liquid crystals
  • 5.4. Surface anchoring energy
  • 5.5. Materials and processes used for aligning liquid crystals in LCDs
  • 5.6. Techniques for measuring tilt angles
  • 5.7. Impact of alignment and tilt angles on the electro-optical performance of LCDs
  • 5.8. Reliability and life of various alignments and aligning agents
  • References
  • 11. Dichroic liquid crystal displays / Birendra Bahadur. 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Dichroic dyes
  • 11.3. Cell preparation
  • 11.4. Dichroic parameters and their measurements
  • 11.5. Impact of dye structure and liquid crystal host on physical properties of a dichroic mixture
  • 11.6. Optical, electro-optical and life parameters
  • 11.7. Dichroic mixture formulation
  • 11.8. Heilmeier displays
  • 11.9. Quarter wave plate dichroic displays
  • 11.10. Dye-doped TN displays
  • 11.11. Phase change effect dichroic LCDs
  • 11.12. Double cell dichroic LCDs
  • 11.13. Positive mode dichroic LCDs
  • 11.14. Supertwist dichroic effect (SDE) displays
  • 11.15. Ferroelectric dichroic LCDs
  • 11.16. Polymer dispersed dichroic LCDs
  • 11.17. Dichroic polymer liquid crystal displays
  • 11.18. Smectic A dichroic LCDs
  • 11.19. Fluorescent dichroic LCDs
  • References
  • 17. Applications of liquid crystals in optical computing / Noel A. Clark and Kristina M. Johnson. 17.1. Liquid crystals
  • 17.2. Liquid crystal spatial light modulators
  • 17.3. Parallel optical processing (POP)
  • 17.4. Conclusion
  • References
  • 19. Other types of LCDs / Shunsuke Kobayashi and Akihiro Mochizuki. 19.1. Introduction
  • 19.2. Tunable birefringence LCDs
  • 19.3. Electrically controlled birefringence effect LCDs with a compensating cell or polymer layers
  • 19.4. Dual frequency addressing LCDs
  • 19.5. Pi-cell
  • 19.6. Cholesteric-nematic phase change LCDs
  • 19.7. Thermally addressed LCDs (Cholesteric)
  • 19.8. Bistable LCDs
  • 19.9. Wide viewing angle TN LCDs using retardation sheets
  • References
  • 20. Thermochromic liquid crystals in devices / Ian Sage. 20.1. Introduction
  • 20.2. Chiral liquid crystal phases
  • 20.3. The optical properties of chiral phases
  • 20.4. Thermochromism in chiral LC phases
  • 20.5. Materials for thermochromic applications
  • 20.6. Liquid crystal thermometry andr device construction
  • 20.7. Chiral nematic materials in engineering applications
  • 20.8. Medical thermography
  • 20.9. Miscellaneous applications
  • References
  • 22. Liquid crystal polymers / H. Finkelmann, W. Meier and H. Scheuermann. 22.1. Introduction
  • 22.2. Types of LC polymers
  • 22.3. LC phase properties
  • 22.4. Applications
  • 22.5. Conclusion
  • References.

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