The Physics and Chemistry of Liquid Crystal Devices

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Surface Orientation and Compliance Effects on Twist-Cell Performance....Pages 1-11
Molecular Orientation of Monomolecular Liquid Crystal Layers on Various Substrates....Pages 13-21
An R.F. Plasma Technique for Producing Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells....Pages 23-37
Liquid Crystal — Surface Interactions by Surface Plasmons....Pages 39-46
Anchoring Properties of Liquid Crystals at the Substrates: Temperature Dependence of Pretilt....Pages 47-60
Optical Characteristics of Liquid Crystal Displays....Pages 61-78
Multiplexing Limits of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays and Implications for the Future of High Information Content LCDs....Pages 79-93
Influence of the Device Parameters on the Performance of Twisted-Nematic Liquid-Crystal Matrix Displays....Pages 95-104
Ultimate Limits for RMS Matrix Addressing....Pages 105-113
Accurate Optical Measurement of Small Tilt Angles in Thin Twisted Nematic Layers....Pages 115-123
Effects of Cell and Material Properties on Multiplexing Levels of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays....Pages 125-142
Sensitive Measurement of Twist in LCD’s....Pages 143-152
Liquid Crystal for Multiplexed Twisted Nematic Displays — Its Philosophy and Practice....Pages 153-171
Guest-Host Displays....Pages 173-198
Analog Displays — The Other Approach to LCD’s....Pages 199-217
Projection Storage Displays Using Laser-Addressed Smectic Liquid Crystals....Pages 219-239
The Role of Shadows in the Viewability of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays....Pages 241-252
Directly Driven Liquid Crystal Analogue Meter and Horological Displays....Pages 253-262
Liquid Crystal Materials for Display Devices....Pages 263-287
Synthesis of Trans -4-Alkylcyclohexane Carboxylic Acids and their Nematogenic Esters....Pages 289-294
Preparation and Characterization of a Series of Liquid Crystalline Diesters....Pages 295-303
Effect of Molecular Structure on Mesomorphism. 10 1 . Design of Materials having Smectic-Isotropic Maxima in Binary Mixtures....Pages 305-317
Thermodynamics of the Liquid Two-Phase Regions in Binary Mixtures of Mesogenic Materials....Pages 319-330
The Analysis of Liquid Crystal Mixtures....Pages 331-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-348