DoITPoMS - TLP Library Liquid Crystals

Liquid Crystals

This Teaching and Learning Package provides an introduction to liquid crystals, their physical properties and their modern-day applications.

	Aims Before you start Introduction Order and disorder – molecular orientation Order and disorder – molecular position Defects Optical properties – birefringence in nematics Optical properties – birefringence in chiral nematics Optical properties – observing defects Observing phase transitions Commercial uses Summary Questions Going further
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First created: September 2007. "Questions" updated: July 2008.