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Recent Topics for the Optical Properties in Liquid Crystals

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Liquid Crystals are equilibrium phases appearing between crystals and isotropic liquids, and have intermediate properties between them. Spontaneous meso-scale formation is also characteristic of liquid crystals, and comparatively easy fabrication of fine structures can be done. Because of these characters, liquid crystal is one of most successful functional organic materials from the viewpoint of application. That is obvious from the fact of the spread of flat panel display using liquid crystals. A liquid crystal flat panel displays utilize the light valve property of liquid crystals due to its optical anisotropy and easy tuning or alignment by external field such as electric field or mechanical stress. Such physical properties can be utilized for not only the displays but also various optical applications. In this chapter, I’d like to review recent topics of application using optical property of liquid crystals; photonic effects of cholesteric phase, new-type display mode using bent-core liquid crystals, and polymer stabilized blue phase and its application.

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Takanishi, Y. (2013). Recent Topics for the Optical Properties in Liquid Crystals. In: Aoyagi, Y., Kajikawa, K. (eds) Optical Properties of Advanced Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33527-3_6

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