Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals : Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments
Patrick. Oswald
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (645 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Half-Title; Series; TItle; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Dedication; Preface to the English edition; Chapter A.I Some history; Chapter A.II Modern classification of liquid crystals; Chapter A.III Mesogenic anatomy; Chapter B.I Structure and dielectric properties of the nematic phase; Chapter B.II Nematoelasticity: Frederiks transition and light scattering; Chapter B.III Nematodynamics and flow instabilities; Chapter B.IV Defects and textures in nematics; Chapter B.V Anchoring and anchoring transitions of nematics on solid surfaces. - Chapter B.VI The nematic-isotropic liquid interface: static properties and directional growth instabilitiesChapter B.VII Cholesterics: the first example of a frustrated mesophase; Chapter B.VIII Blue Phases: a second example of a frustrated mesophase; Chapter B.IX Overview of growth phenomena and the Mullins-Sekerka instability; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX. - Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear). This excellent volume meets the need for an up-to-date text on liquid crystals.Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Paris
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| ISBN | 0415321409. - 9780415321402
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