{"product_id":"liquid-crystals-hardback-9781119705826","title":"Liquid Crystals (Hardback) 9781119705826","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiquid Crystals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIam-Choon Khoo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119705826, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 January 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Khoo's book is an exceptional resource that comprehensively explores the fascinating world of its namesake. As with previous editions, this meticulously updated and expanded edition delves deep into both fundamental principles and the myriad applications of these unique materials, making it a useful text for students, researchers, and engineers in the field. This third edition brings the book up to date with the latest advancements in liquid crystal research. New topics for this edition includes photonic crystals, metamaterials, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and fabrication techniques for cholesteric and blue-phase liquid crystals.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRyan Aguinaldo, IEEE Photonics Newsroom Book Reviews Editor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe latest edition of the leading resource on the properties and applications of liquid crystals\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn the newly revised Third Edition of \u003ci\u003eLiquid Crystals,\u003c\/i\u003e Professor Iam Choon Khoo delivers a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals and applied aspects of optical physics, light scattering, electro-optics, and non-linear optics of liquid crystals. The book's opening chapters include coverage of the foundational physics and optical properties of liquid crystals and lead to more advanced content on the display, photonics and nonlinear optics applications of liquid crystals.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew topics, including photonic crystals, metamaterials, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and fabrication methods for massive cholesteric and blue phase liquid crystals are discussed at length. Analytical methods and experimental observations of nonlinear light propagation through liquid crystalline and anisotropic materials and devices are also discussed.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Crystals\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful and unique treatment of the nonlinear optics of liquid crystals. New and expanded sections round out this new edition and add to the most up-to-date resource on this topic available today. The book also includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA thorough introduction to liquid crystals, including their molecular structures, chemical compositions, order parameter, phase transition, and free energies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractical discussions of nematic, cholesteric, smectic, and ferroelectric liquid crystals,  and explorations of linear and nonlinear light scattering in these phases.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA detailed quantum mechanical treatment of the linear and nonlinear electronic optical response of liquid crystal molecules to optical fields.\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eA self-contained discussion of the fundamentals of nonlinear optics\/photonics and comprehensive review of all liquid crystalline materials-based nonlinear optical processes and applications.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe latest edition of \u003ci\u003eLiquid Crystals\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for graduate students, professors, research scientists and engineers in industrial or government laboratories. It's also an ideal reference for anyone seeking a one-stop textbook with complete coverage of the optical, electro-optical, and non-linear optical properties and processes of liquid crystals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Introduction to Liquid Crystals 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1.1. Molecular Structures and Chemical Compositions 1\u003cbr\u003e1.2. Optical Properties 3\u003cbr\u003e1.3. Lyotropic, Polymeric, and Thermotropic Liquid Crystals 6\u003cbr\u003e1.4. Mixtures, Polymer-dispersed, and Dye-doped Liquid Crystals 11\u003cbr\u003e1.5. Liquid Crystal Cells Fabrication 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Order Parameter, Phase Transition, and Free Energies 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e2.1. Basic Concepts 29\u003cbr\u003e2.2. Molecular Interactions and Phase Transitions 33\u003cbr\u003e2.3. Molecular Theories and Results for the Liquid Crystalline Phase 34\u003cbr\u003e2.4. Isotropic Phase of Liquid Crystals 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Nematic Liquid Crystals 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e3.1. Introduction 44\u003cbr\u003e3.2. Elastic Continuum Theory 44\u003cbr\u003e3.3. Dielectric Constants and Refractive Indices 49\u003cbr\u003e3.4. Optical Dielectric Constants and Refractive Indices 53\u003cbr\u003e3.5. Flows and Hydrodynamics 60\u003cbr\u003e3.6. Field-induced Director Axis Reorientation Effects 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Cholesteric, Smectic, and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4.1. Cholesteric Liquid Crystals 73\u003cbr\u003e4.2. Optical Properties of Cholesterics 79\u003cbr\u003e4.3. Cholesteric Blue Phase Liquid Crystals 97\u003cbr\u003e4.4. Smectic and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: A Brief Survey 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Light Scattering 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.1. Introduction 115\u003cbr\u003e5.2. Electromagnetic Formalism of Light Scattering in Liquid Crystals 115\u003cbr\u003e5.3. Scattering From Director Axis Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals 118\u003cbr\u003e5.4. Light Scattering in the Isotropic Phase of Liquid Crystals 122\u003cbr\u003e5.5. Temperature, Wavelength, and Cell Geometry Effects on Scattering 125\u003cbr\u003e5.6. Spectrum of Light and Orientation Fluctuation Dynamics 127\u003cbr\u003e5.7. Raman Scatterings 129\u003cbr\u003e5.8. Brillouin and Rayleigh Scatterings 133\u003cbr\u003e5.9. A Brief Introduction to Nonlinear Light Scattering 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Liquid Crystals Optics and Electro-optics 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e6.1. Introduction 142\u003cbr\u003e6.2. Review of Electro-Optics of Anisotropic and Birefringent Crystals 143\u003cbr\u003e6.3. Electro-Optics of Nematic Liquid Crystals 149\u003cbr\u003e6.4. Nematic Liquid Crystal Switches for Display Application 156\u003cbr\u003e6.5. Electro-Optical Effects in Other Phases of Liquid Crystals 159\u003cbr\u003e6.6. Non-Display Applications of Liquid Crystals 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Optical Propagation in Anisotropic Materials 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e7.1. Electromagnetic Formalisms for Optical Propagation 175\u003cbr\u003e7.2. Polarized Light Propagation in Liquid Crystal Display Panel 185\u003cbr\u003e7.3. Extended Jones Matrix Method 193\u003cbr\u003e7.4. Finite-difference Time-domain technique 196\u003cbr\u003e7.5. Nonlinear Light Propagation in Liquid Crystals – a First Look 197\u003cbr\u003e7.6. Systems of Units 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Laser-induced Reorientation Nonlinear Optical Effects 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e8.1. Introduction 203\u003cbr\u003e8.2. Laser-Induced Molecular Reorientations in the Isotropic Phase 204\u003cbr\u003e8.3. Molecular Reorientations in the Nematic Phase 212\u003cbr\u003e8.4. Nematic Phase Reorientation Dynamics 219\u003cbr\u003e8.5. Laser-Induced Director Axis Realignment in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals 225\u003cbr\u003e8.6. DC Field Aided Optically Induced Nonlinear Optical Effects in Liquid Crystals – Photorefractivity 226\u003cbr\u003e8.7. Reorientation in Other Phases of Pristine (Undoped) Liquid Crystals 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. Thermal, Density, Lattice Distortion Optical Nonlinearities in Nematic, Cholesteric, and Blue-phase Liquid Crystals 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e9.1. Introduction 241\u003cbr\u003e9.2. Electrostriction and Flows in Non-Absorbing Liquid Crystals –a General Overview 242\u003cbr\u003e9.3. Laser-Induced Density and Temperature Modulations in Liquid Crystals 245\u003cbr\u003e9.4. Optical Nonlinearities of Nematic Liquid Crystals 254\u003cbr\u003e9.5. Coupled Nonlinear Optical Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals 260\u003cbr\u003e9.6. Nonlinear Optical Responses of Cholesteric Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10. Electronic Optical Nonlinearities 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e10.1. Introduction to Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Molecules 275\u003cbr\u003e10.2. Density Matrix Formalism for Optical Induced Molecular Electronic Polarizabilities 278\u003cbr\u003e10.3. Linear and Nonlinear Electronic Susceptibilities 282\u003cbr\u003e10.4. Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index Change and nonlinear Absorption 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11. Nonlinear Optics 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e11.1. Introduction 302\u003cbr\u003e11.2. Coupled Maxwell Wave Equations 308\u003cbr\u003e11.3. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena 310\u003cbr\u003e11.4. Stimulated Scatterings 328\u003cbr\u003e11.5. Ultrafast Laser Pulse Self-Action Effects in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12. Nonlinear Optical Processes Observed in Liquid Crystals 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e12.1. Self-Action Nonlinear Optical Processes 348\u003cbr\u003e12.2. Optical Wave Mixings 358\u003cbr\u003e12.3. Liquid Crystals for All-Optical Image Processing 369\u003cbr\u003e12.4. Harmonic Generations and Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy 374\u003cbr\u003e12.5. Optical Switching 37512.6. Nonlinear Absorption and Optical Limiting of Lasers for Eye\/Sensor Protection 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 390\u003cbr\u003eIndex 398\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Physics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Physics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Physics%20%5BPH%5D%22\"\u003ePH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52430882865432,"sku":"9781119705826","price":103.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781119705826.jpg?v=1784764906","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/liquid-crystals-hardback-9781119705826","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}