New Developments in Liquid Crystals

Liquid crystal technology is a subject of many advanced areas of science and engineering. It is commonly associated with liquid crystal displays applied in calculators, watches, mobile phones, digital cameras, monitors etc. But nowadays liquid crystals find more and more use in photonics, telecommunications, medicine and other fields. Accordingly, first half of this book is dedicated to fundamental properties of liquid crystals, while Chapters 7-12 give a picture of recent trends in the sphere of liquid crystal displays and light modulators.