Liquid Crystals, 3rd Edition

The latest edition of the leading resource on the properties and applications of liquid crystals.

In  the newly revised Third Edition of Liquid Crystals, 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.

New  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.

Liquid  Crystals 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:

A thorough introduction to liquid  crystals, including their molecular structures, chemical compositions,  order parameter, phase transition, and free energies.

Practical  discussions of nematic, cholesteric, smectic, and ferroelectric liquid  crystals, and explorations of linear and nonlinear light scattering in  these phases.

A detailed quantum mechanical treatment of the linear  and nonlinear electronic optical response of liquid crystal molecules to  optical fields.

A self-contained discussion of the fundamentals of  nonlinear optics/photonics and comprehensive review of all liquid  crystalline materials-based nonlinear optical processes and  applications.

The latest edition of Liquid Crystals 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.