Wu / Yang Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-03202-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Display Technology

From laptop computers and mobile phones to digital cinema, LiquidCrystal Displays (LCDs) are integral components in an increasingarray of highly desirable consumer electronics and communicationdevices, and are already the predominant technology used in flatpanel displays.
This inter-disciplinary book is intended as an introductoryguide to the fundamental properties of liquid crystals and theirapplications in display and photonic devices, providing a basicunderstanding of the physics, optics, electro-optics, and materialaspects for state-of-the-art display and photonic devices.
Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devicesincludes:
* A comprehensive overview of LCDs including liquid crystalphysics, electro-optical properties, simulation techniques anddisplay and photonic applications.
* Numerous examples and case studies, solved problems andchallenging homework conundrums starting with basic physics andgradually introducing advanced device concepts and structures.
* The principles for designing advanced specialist transmissive,reflective, and transflective liquid crystal displays.
* Chapters on emerging technologies such as tuneable liquidcrystal photonic devices including laser beam steering, lightswitches for telecommunication and tunable-focus lenses.
Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices is avaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate studentsfollowing display systems courses, who will benefit from itssystematic approach. The introduction of advanced device conceptsand structures means that display engineers, scientists, andtechnicians active in the field can also utilise this uniqueresource, as can developers of a wide range of systems andapplications.
The Society for Information Display (SID) is an internationalsociety, which has the aim of encouraging the development of allaspects of the field of information display. Complementary to theaims of the society, the Wiley-SID series is intended to explainthe latest developments in information display technology at aprofessional level. The broad scope of the series addresses allfacets of information displays from technical aspects throughsystems and prototypes to standards and ergonomics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Shin-Tson

Yang, Deng-Ke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Series Editor's Foreword.
Preface.
1. Liquid crystal physics.
* Introduction.
* Thermodynamics and statistic physics.
* Orientational order.
* Elastic properties of liquid crystals.
* Response of liquid crystals to electro-magnetic fields.
* Anchoring effects of nematic liquid crystal at surfaces.
2. Propagation of light in anisotropic opticalmedium.
* Electromagnetic wave.
* Polarization.
* Propagation of light in uniform anisotropic optical media.
* Propagation of light in cholesteric liquid crystals.
3. Optical modeling methods.
* Jones matrix method.
* Mueller matrix method.
* Berreman 4x4 method.
4. Effects of Electric field on Liquid Crystals.
* Dielectric interaction.
* Flexoelectric Effect.
* Ferroelectricity in liquid crystals.
5. Freedericksz transition.
* Calculus of variation.
* The Fredeericksz transition: statics.
* The Freedericksz transition: dynamics.
6. Liquid Crystal Materials.
* Introduction.
* Refractive indices.
* Dielectric constants.
* Rotational Viscosity.
* Elastic constant.
* Figure-of-merits.
* Refractive index matching between liquid crystals andpolymers.
7. Modeling of liquid crystal director configuration.
* Electric energy of liquid crystals.
* Modeling electric field.
* Simulation of liquid crystal director configuration.
8. Transmissive liquid crystal display.
* Introduction.
* Twisted nematic cells.
* In plane switching (IPS) mode.
* Vertical alignment (VA) mode.
* Multi-domain Vertical Alignment (MVA) Cells.
* Optically compensated bend (OCB) cell.
9. Reflective and Trasreflective display.
* Introduction.
* Reflective liquid crystal displays.
* Transflector.
* Classification of Transflective LCDs.
* Dual-cell-gap Transflective LCDs.
* Single-cell-gap Transflective LCDs.
* Performance of transflective LCDs.
10. Liquid crystal display matrices, drive schemes andbistable displays.
* Segmented displays.
* Passive matrix displays and drive scheme.
* Active Matrix Displays.
* Bistable ferroelectric liquid crystal displays and drivescheme.
* Bistable nematic displays.
* Bistable cholesteric reflective display.
11. Liquid crystal/polymer composites.
* Introduction.
* Phase separation.
* Scattering properties of liquid crystal/polymercomposites.
* Polymer dispersed liquid crystals.
* Polymer stabilization liquid crystals.
* Displays from liquid crystal/polymer composites.
12. Tunable liquid crystal photonic devices.
* Introduction.
* Laser beam steering.
* Variable Optical Attenuators.
* Tunable-Focus Lens.
* Polarization-Independent LC Devices.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Deng-Ke Yang, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent StateUniversity, Kent, OH 44242Deng-Ke Yang is currently Professor ofthe Chemical Physics Program at Kent State University. He haspreviously co-authored Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays (Wiley,2001), written over 80 articles on liquid crystals and otherdisplays and has 15 patents. His fields of research are in LiquidCrystal and Polymer Physics and Liquid Crystal Displays and hisaffiliations include the American Physical Society, the Society forInformation Display and the International Liquid Crystal Society.
Dr Shin-Tson Wu, College of Optics and Photonics,University of Central Florida. Shin-Tson Wu is aprovost-distinguished Professor of Optics at the College of Opticsand Photonics, University of Central Florida. He is also a fellowof the IEEE, SID and OSA and has co-authored Introduction toMicrodisplays (Wiley, 2006), Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays(Wiley, 2001), and Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals(World Scientific, 1993), and written over 300 articles. Hisresearch interests are in liquid crystal displays and materials,bio-photonics, and optical communication.. Previous to his currentrole, Dr. Wu worked as a Senior Research Scientist at HughesResearch Laboratories (Malibu, California) for 18 years.