2. Edition - April 2007
142.- Euro
2007. 368 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-471-75153-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-75153-3 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Liquid Crystals, Second Edition is a comprehensive revision and expansion of the 1994 book Liquid Crystals: Physical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena. The revised book includes new chapters dealing with electro-optical effects and liquid crystal display science and technology as well as significant expansion of chapters from the first edition. This new edition provides complete coverage of the fundamentals and applied aspects of liquid crystalline physical, optical, electro-optical and nonlinear-optical properties and phenomena.

From the contents
Preface.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Liquid Crystals.

Chapter 2. Order Parameter, Phase Transition, and Free Energies.

Chapter 3. Nematic Liquid Crystals.

Chapter 4. Cholesteric, Smectic, and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.

Chapter 5. Light Scatterings.

Chapter 6. Liquid Crystal Optics and Electro-Optics.

Chapter 7. Electromagnetic Formalisms for Optical Propagation.

Chapter 8. Laser-Induced Orientational Optical Nonlinearities in Liquid Crystals.

Chapter 9. Thermal, Density, and Other Nonelectronic Nonlinear Mechanisms.

Chapter 10. Electronic Optical Nonlinearities.

Chapter 11. Introduction to Nonlinear Optics.

Chapter 12. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena Observed in Liquid Crystals.

Index.