Iam-Choon Khoo - Liquid Crystals

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Third Edition

IAM‐CHOON KHOO

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania

This edition first published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Khoo, Iam-Choon, author.

Title: Liquid crystals / Iam-Choon Khoo, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022] | Series: Wiley series in pure and applied optics | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021038545 (print) | LCCN 2021038546 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119705826 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119705857 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119705796 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Liquid crystals–Congresses.

Classification: LCC QD923 .L53159 2021 (print) | LCC QD923 (ebook) | DDC 530.4/29–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038545LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038546

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Important progress and advances have been made in the multidisciplinary study of liquid crystals since the last edition of this book went into print in 2007. This new edition consists of 12 chapters, most of which have been completely revamped with the latest fundamental breakthrough and understanding of optical, electro‐, and nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals.

Chapters 1– 5cover the basic physics and optical properties of liquid crystals. Besides nematics that are widely used in ubiquitous devices, I have included sufficient discussions on other mesophases of liquid crystals such as the smectics, ferroelectrics, cholesterics, and the Blue‐phase to enable the readers to proceed to more advanced or specialized topics elsewhere. Several new sections have been added. For example, in Chapter 1, I have included a detailed account of the fabrication methods for growing massive single‐crystalline chiral 1‐D and 3‐D photonic crystals based on cholesteric and Blue‐phase liquid crystals and the feasibility of using cholesteric liquid crystals for ultrafast modulation of picosecond and femtosecond lasers of complex vector fields.