Liquid crystals are a state of matter that possess properties of both solid and liquids. Owing to its unique physical properties, liquid crystals have found important applications in optics and optoelectronics, including the expanding technology of flat panels. This book presents an engineering-oriented, practical treatment of the optics of liquid crystal displays. It covers all aspects of the technology, beginning with the simplest case of plane wave propagation in homogeneous media, and gradually building up to more advanced concepts. With few books available even on related subjects, this title certainly fills a gap in the field.
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"The book will be immensely helpful to young engineers in R and D to master the topics and make it
comfortable for students to progress in the field. I highly recommend Yeh and Gu's second edition." (Current Engineering Practice, 1 November 2010)
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
comfortable for students to progress in the field. I highly recommend Yeh and Gu's second edition." (Current Engineering Practice, 1 November 2010)
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Pochi Yeh, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for several important contributions in optics, including the development of a matrix method for optics of layered media, the theory of photorefractive phase conjugators, and the theory of wave mixing in nonlinear media.
Claire Gu, PhD, is Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published more than 200 journal and conference papers and, in 2007, was elected a Fellow of SPIE (The International Society of Optical Engineering). --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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A few fundamental principles like Maxwell's equations are used in the book to develop successful theory. Thorough examples help to apply the theory to very broad range of actual technological problems of modern optical science. It makes the book of great use to graduate students and to anyone having good mathematical background.
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vertical viewing characteristics, natural twist rate, small birefringence approximation, uniform tilt angle, local principal coordinate system, viewing symmetry, birefringent plate sandwiched, cell twist angle, polarizer azimuth angles, elliptic polarization state, total twist angle, pretilt angle, output polarization state, viewing angle characteristics, horizontal viewing angle, vertical viewing angle, rubbed directions, entrance polarizer, achromatic lines, phase retardation, displacement field vector, normally white mode, tilt angle distribution, large viewing angles, elastic energy density Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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vertical viewing characteristics, natural twist rate, small birefringence approximation, uniform tilt angle, local principal coordinate system, viewing symmetry, birefringent plate sandwiched, cell twist angle, polarizer azimuth angles, elliptic polarization state, total twist angle, pretilt angle, output polarization state, viewing angle characteristics, horizontal viewing angle, vertical viewing angle, rubbed directions, entrance polarizer, achromatic lines, phase retardation, displacement field vector, normally white mode, tilt angle distribution, large viewing angles, elastic energy density Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Optical Waves in Layered Media (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Pochi Yeh on 5 pages
- The Physics of Liquid Crystals (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. G. de Gennes on page 17, page 18, and page 301
- Liquid Crystals by S. Chandrasekhar F.R.S. on page 18, and page 301
- Handbook of Physics, by Edward Uhler, And Odishaw, Hugh Condon on page 95
- Color in Business, Science, and Industry. THIRD EDITION (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Deane B. Judd in Front Matter
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- Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers by Toralf Scharf on 4 pages
- Polarization Engineering for LCD Projection (Wiley Series in Display Technology) by Michael D. Robinson on page 128, and page 195
- Optical Waves in Layered Media (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Pochi Yeh in Front Matter
- A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin in Back Matter
- One- and Two-Dimensional Fluids: Properties of Smectic, Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals (Condensed Matter Physics) by Antal Jakli on page 289
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