Progress in liquid crystal science and technology : in honor of Shunsuke Kobayashi's 80th birthday / Hoi-Sing Kwok, Shohei Naemura & Hiap Liew Ong, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwok, Hoi-Sing.

Naemura, Shōhei.

Ong, Hiap Liew.

Series:

Series on liquid crystals ; v. 4.

Series on liquid crystals ; vol 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liquid crystals.

Crystallography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 704 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The presence of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) marks the advances in mobile phones and television development over the last few decades. Japanese companies were the first to commercialize passive-matrix TNLCDs and, later on, high-resolution activematrix LCDs.Prof. Shunsuke Kobayashi has made essential contributions to Japan's prominence in LCD development throughout this period. He is well-known not only for his own groundbreaking research, but also for the training of many prominent figures in the display industry, both in Japan and in other countries.This book brings together many prominent

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Part 1. Reminiscences; Introduction: Memories of 43 Years of Liquid Crystal Research Shunsuke Kobayashi; 0.1. Introduction; 0.2. Transition from Dislocations in Inorganic Crystals to Disclinations in Liquid Crystals; 0.3. Transition from the Microwave Semiconductor to the Infrared Holography and to the Optics of LCDs; 0.4. Transition from the DSM-mode LCD to the TN and STN-mode LCD; 0.5. Transition from Rubbing Technology to Some Non-rubbing Technologies such as Photoalignment; 0.6. Defect Free PSV-FLCD

0.7. Transition from Color LCDs with Color Filters to Color Filterless FSC-LCD0.8. Transition from the Micro Technology to that of Nanometers and Nanoparticles; 0.8.1. Amplification of a capacitor containing metal nanoparticle doped with nematic liquid crystal: The necessity of the negative dielectric constant of inclusion; 0.8.2. Enhancement of the performance of LCD by nanoparticles; 0.9. Using Organic Films for Substrates and Active Matrix Driving for LCDs; 0.10. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Part 2. LC Materials

1. Symmetry and the Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals Tom C. Lubensky1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Nematic Liquid Crystals; 1.3. Smectic Liquid Crystals; 1.4. Discotic Liquid Crystals; 1.5. Nematic Elastomers; 1.6. Conclusion; References; 2. Defect Textures of Liquid Crystals Stephen James Cowling, Edward James Davis, Richard John Mandle and John William Goodby; 2.1. The Role and Importance of Polarized Light Microscopy; 2.2. The Structures of the Liquid Crystal Phases of Rod-like Molecules; 2.3. Polymorphism and Defect Textures; 2.4. Homeotropic and Homogeneous and Defect Textures

2.5. Specimen Preparations2.6. Applications in the Identification of Liquid Crystal Phases; 2.6.1. Schlieren Textures; 2.6.2. Schlieren Textures of Edge and Screw Dislocations; 2.6.3. Focal-conic Textures; 2.6.4. Mosaic Textures; 2.6.5. Bookshelf Alignment and Defects; 2.7. Summary; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Electric Birefringence in the Isotropic Phase of Nematic Liquid Crystals Shohei Naemura; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Theory; 3.3. Experimental Procedure; 3.4. Summary; Acknowledgments; References

4. Development History of Liquid Crystal Displays and its Materials Matthias Bremer, Melanie Klasen-Memmer and Kazuaki Tarumi4.1. Introduction; 4.2. TN-TFT; 4.2.1. Historical Overview; 4.2.2. Review of LC Material Development; 4.3. In-Plane Switching and Vertically Aligned Modes; 4.3.1. Historical Overview; 4.3.2. LC Material Development for IPS Displays; 4.3.3. LC Material Development for VA Displays; 4.4. Summary and Outlook; References; 5. Cholesteric Blue Phases Under Confinement: Skyrmion Lattices and Other Exotic Defect Structures Jun-ichi Fukuda and Slobodan Žumer; 5.1. Introduction

5.2. Model- Landau-de Gennes Theory

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814417600

9814417602

OCLC:

897557440