LIQUID CRYSTALS [3rd Edition] - I. C.

Khoo PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION TO LIQUID CRYSTALS 1.1. Molecular Structures and Chemical Compositions 1.2. Optical properties 1.2.1. Electronic Optical Transitions and Ultraviolet Absorption 1.2.2. Visible and Infrared Absorption; Terahertz, Microwave 1.3. Lyotropic, Polymeric, and Thermotropic Liquid Crystals 1.3.1. Lyotropic Liquid Crystals 1.3.2. Polymeric Liquid Crystals 1.3.3. Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Smectic, Nematic, Cholesteric, and Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals 1.3.4 Functionalized and Discotic Liquid Crystals 1.4. Mixtures,

And Magnetic Susceptibility 3.3.2. Free Energy and Torques by Electric and Magnetic Fields 3.4. Optical Dielectric Constants and Refractive Indices 3.4.1. Linear Susceptibility and Local Field Effect 3.4.2. Equilibrium Temperature and Order Parameter Dependence of Refractive Indices 3.5. Flows and Hydrodynamics 3.5.1. Hydrodynamics of Ordinary Isotropic Fluids 3.5.2. General Stress Tensor for Nematic Liquid Crystals 3.5.3. Flows with Fixed Director Axis Orientation 3.5.4. Flow with Direct Axis Reorientation 3.6. Field-Induced Director Axis Reorientation Effects 3.6.1. Field-Induced Reorientation without Flow Coupling - Freedericksz Transition 3.6.2. Reorientation with Flow Coupling References 4. CHOLESTERIC (including

Cholesteric Blue Phase Liquid crystals 4.3.1. Free Energies and Equation of Motion under an applied Field 4.3.2 Field-induced lattice distortion and new crystalline structures 4.3.3 Polymer-stabilization and electro-optical properties of non-cubic BPLC 4.4 Smectic and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: A brief Survey 4.4.1 Smectic-A Liquid Crystals; Free Energy; Light Scattering 4.4.2 Smectic-C Liquid Crystals; Free Energy; Field-Induced Director axis rotation 4.4.3 Smectic-C* and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; Free Energy 4.4.4 Smectic-C*-Smectic-A Phase Transition References 5. LIGHT Scatterings 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Electromagnetic Formalism of Light Scattering in Liquid Crystals 5.3. Scattering from Director

Electro-Optics of Nematic Liquid Crystals 6.3.1 Director Axis reorientation in Homeotropic and Planar Cell; Dual frequency Liquid Crystals 6.3.2 Freedericksz transition revisited 6.3.3 Field Induced Refractive Index Change and Phase Shift. 6.4 Liquid crystals switches for display applications 6.4.1 Liquid crystal switch - on axis consideration for Twist, Planar and Homeotropic aligned cells 6.4.2 Off-axis transmission, viewing angle and birefringence compensation. 6.4.3 Liquid crystal Display Electronics 6.5 Electro- Optical Effects in Other Phases of Liquid crystals 6.5.1 Surface Stabilized FLC 6.5.2 Soft-Mode FLCs 6.6 Non-display Applications of Liquid Crystals 6.6.1 Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator 6.6.2.