Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals

Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 448
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789048188291
ISBN-13 : 9048188296
Rating : 4/5 (296 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals by : Lev M. Blinov

Download or read book Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals written by Lev M. Blinov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Lev M. Blinov is ideal to guide researchers from their very first encounter with liquid crystals to the level where they can perform independent experiments on liquid crystals with a thorough understanding of their behaviour also in relation to the theoretical framework. Liquid crystals can be found everywhere around us. They are used in virtually every display device, whether it is for domestic appliances of for specialized technological instruments. Their finely tunable optical properties make them suitable also for thermo-sensing and laser technologies. There are many monographs written by prominent scholars on the subject of liquid crystals. The majority of them presents the subject in great depth, sometimes focusing on a particular research aspect, and in general they require a significant level of prior knowledge. In contrast, this books aims at an audience of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, chemistry and materials science. The book consists of three parts: the first part, on structure, starts from the fundamental principles underlying the structure of liquid crystals, their rich phase behaviour and the methods used to study them; the second part, on physical properties, emphasizes the influence of anisotropy on all aspects of liquid crystals behaviour; the third, focuses on electro-optics, the most important properties from the applications standpoint. This part covers only the main effects and illustrates the underlying principles in greater detail. Professor Lev M. Blinov has had a long carrier as an experimentalist. He made major contributions in the field of ferroelectric mesophases. In 1985 he received the USSR state prize for investigations of electro-optical effects in liquid crystals for spatial light modulators. In 1999 he was awarded the Frederiks medal of the Soviet Liquid Crystal Society and in 2000 he was honoured with the G. Gray silver medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society. He has held many visiting academic positions in universities and laboratories across Europe and in Japan.


Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals Related Books

Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Lev M. Blinov
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-26 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book by Lev M. Blinov is ideal to guide researchers from their very first encounter with liquid crystals to the level where they can perform independent ex
Liquid Crystals
Language: en
Pages: 556
Authors: Shri Singh
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: World Scientific

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physic
Liquid Crystals
Language: en
Pages:
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Liquid Crystals and Biological Structures
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Glenn Halstead Brown
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Liquid Crystals and Biological Structures ...
Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: P. S. Pershan
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: World Scientific

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Current understanding of different phases as well as the phase transitions between them has only been achieved following recent theoretical advances on the effe