Light Scattering Study of Liquid Crystal Mixtures
Author: Ralph Schaetzing
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 446
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Author: Ralph Schaetzing
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lorraine Solomon
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 170
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Published: 1972
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Iam-Choon Khoo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1119705797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest edition of the leading resource on the properties and applications of liquid crystals In the newly revised Third Edition of Liquid Crystals, Professor Iam Choon Khoo delivers a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals and applied aspects of optical physics, light scattering, electro-optics, and non-linear optics of liquid crystals. The book's opening chapters include coverage of the foundational physics and optical properties of liquid crystals and lead to more advanced content on the display, photonics and nonlinear optics applications of liquid crystals. New topics, including photonic crystals, metamaterials, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and fabrication methods for massive cholesteric and blue phase liquid crystals are discussed at length. Analytical methods and experimental observations of nonlinear light propagation through liquid crystalline and anisotropic materials and devices are also discussed. Liquid Crystals offers an insightful and unique treatment of the nonlinear optics of liquid crystals. New and expanded sections round out this new edition and add to the most up-to-date resource on this topic available today. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to liquid crystals, including their molecular structures, chemical compositions, order parameter, phase transition, and free energies Practical discussions of nematic, cholesteric, smectic, and ferroelectric liquid crystals, and explorations of linear and nonlinear light scattering in these phases. A detailed quantum mechanical treatment of the linear and nonlinear electronic optical response of liquid crystal molecules to optical fields. A self-contained discussion of the fundamentals of nonlinear optics/photonics and comprehensive review of all liquid crystalline materials-based nonlinear optical processes and applications. The latest edition of Liquid Crystals is an indispensable resource for graduate students, professors, research scientists and engineers in industrial or government laboratories. It's also an ideal reference for anyone seeking a one-stop textbook with complete coverage of the optical, electro-optical, and non-linear optical properties and processes of liquid crystals.
Author: Joseph Gordon Shanks
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 542
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Published: 1983
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 363
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elliot R. Bernstein
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA total of 16 papers have appeared in the literature dealing with both the theoretical and experimental (light scattering) investigation of phase transitions and critical phenomena in simple molecular solids. New Brillouin scattering data have been obtained for benzil single crystals near the phase transition at 83.5K. A mean field approach to the dynamics of structural phase transitions in molecular crystals has been developed. Brillouin scattering study of the successive phase transitions in methmmonium iron chloride. In addition to the magnetic transition at lwo temperature, this system also possesses successive structural phase transitions. These have been studied by means of lattice dynamics and far infrared spectroscopy, birefringenence, x-ray and neutron diffraction, specific heat and ultrasonic sound velocity measurements, and ultrasonic attentuation measurements. Also pursued were high pressure Raman, Brillouin, and Rayleigh scattering studies of benzene in a diamond anvil cell.