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The modern history of liquid crystals is closely related to the development of electronic displays, whose main advances are summarized in this chapter. For a more enthusiastic report, dense of interesting details, the reader is referred to the already cited paper by Hirohisa Kawamoto, “who was part of the story from 1970” [K2002], and from which paper several data and information included in the chapter are taken:

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