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New Developments in Liquid Crystals

Edited by Georgiy V Tkachenko, ISBN 978-953-307-015-5, Hard cover, 234 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: November 01, 2009 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Electrical and Electronic Engineering
DOI: 10.5772/239

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. The goal of this book is to show the increasing importance of liquid crystals in industrial and scientific applications and inspire future research and engineering ideas in students, young researchers and practitioners.