Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Preface
5 1 Introduction to Liquid Crystals 1.1. MOLECULAR STRUCTURES AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS 1.2. OPTICAL PROPERTIES 1.3. LYOTROPIC, POLYMERIC, AND THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 1.4. MIXTURES, POLYMER‐DISPERSED, AND DYE‐DOPED LIQUID CRYSTALS 1.5. LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS FABRICATION REFERENCES
6 2 Order Parameter, Phase Transition, and Free Energies 2.1. BASIC CONCEPTS 2.2. MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS AND PHASE TRANSITIONS 2.3. MOLECULAR THEORIES AND RESULTS FOR THE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE 2.4. ISOTROPIC PHASE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS REFERENCES
7 3 Nematic Liquid Crystals 3.1. INTRODUCTION 3.2. ELASTIC CONTINUUM THEORY 3.3. DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS AND REFRACTIVE INDICES 3.4. OPTICAL DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS AND REFRACTIVE INDICES 3.5. FLOWS AND HYDRODYNAMICS 3.6. FIELD‐INDUCED DIRECTOR AXIS REORIENTATION EFFECTS REFERENCES
8 4 Cholesteric, Smectic, and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals 4.1. CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 4.2. OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CHOLESTERICS 4.3. CHOLESTERIC BLUE PHASE LIQUID CRYSTALS 4.4. SMECTIC AND FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS: A BRIEF SURVEY References
9 5 Light Scattering 5.1. INTRODUCTION 5.2. ELECTROMAGNETIC FORMALISM OF LIGHT SCATTERING IN LIQUID CRYSTALS 5.3. SCATTERING FROM DIRECTOR AXIS FLUCTUATIONS IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 5.4. LIGHT SCATTERING IN THE ISOTROPIC PHASE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 5.5. TEMPERATURE, WAVELENGTH, AND CELL GEOMETRY EFFECTS ON SCATTERING 5.6. SPECTRUM OF LIGHT AND ORIENTATION FLUCTUATION DYNAMICS 5.7. RAMAN SCATTERINGS 5.8. BRILLOUIN AND RAYLEIGH SCATTERINGS 5.9. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR LIGHT SCATTERING REFERENCES
10 6 Liquid Crystals Optics and Electro‐optics 6.1. INTRODUCTION 6.2. REVIEW OF ELECTRO‐OPTICS OF ANISOTROPIC AND BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS 6.3. ELECTRO‐OPTICS OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 6.4. NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL SWITCHES FOR DISPLAY APPLICATION 6.5. ELECTRO‐OPTICAL EFFECTS IN OTHER PHASES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 6.6. NON‐DISPLAY APPLICATIONS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS References
11 7 Optical Propagation in Anisotropic Materials 7.1. ELECTROMAGNETIC FORMALISMS FOR OPTICAL PROPAGATION 7.2. POLARIZED LIGHT PROPAGATION IN LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL 7.3. EXTENDED JONES MATRIX METHOD 7.4. FINITE‐DIFFERENCE TIME‐DOMAIN TECHNIQUE 7.5. NONLINEAR LIGHT PROPAGATION IN LIQUID CRYSTALS – A FIRST LOOK 7.6. SYSTEMS OF UNITS References
12 8 Laser‐induced Reorientation Nonlinear Optical Effects 8.1. INTRODUCTION 8.2. LASER‐INDUCED MOLECULAR REORIENTATIONS IN THE ISOTROPIC PHASE 8.3. MOLECULAR REORIENTATIONS IN THE NEMATIC PHASE 8.4. NEMATIC PHASE REORIENTATION DYNAMICS 8.5. LASER‐INDUCED DIRECTOR AXIS REALIGNMENT IN DYE‐DOPED LIQUID CRYSTALS 8.6. DC FIELD AIDED OPTICALLY INDUCED NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS – PHOTOREFRACTIVITY 8.7. REORIENTATION IN OTHER PHASES OF PRISTINE (UNDOPED) LIQUID CRYSTALS
