Cholesteric Liquid Crystals : Dielectric and Optical Applications (Engineering Materials)

Kumar, Pankaj (EDT)/ Sharma, Vandna (EDT)/ Adimule, Vinayak (EDT)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789819638208

Full Description

This book highlights the latest developments and advancements in cholesteric liquid crystals. It covers a wide range of techniques to develop/modify the cholesteric liquid crystal systems with various optically active chiral dopants. It presents the unexplored features of cholesteric liquid crystals, their diverse properties such as fluorescence, photoluminescence, utility in optical smart windows, optical switching states, energy, and sensor usage with the modification by various carbon-based nanomaterials as intercalating substances. The book examines developments in the field of size and shape of cholesteric liquid crystals. In summary, the book is essential for readers to understand all parameters of cholesteric liquid crystals relating to the device architectures, techniques of formation, optical storage applications, display properties, and various diversified applications in the field of optical smart windows, molecular switches, etc.

Contents

Introduction to Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Preparation and device Architectures.- Recent Advances in Fabrication, Photo switching Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- Recent developments in the Photoisomerization and color contrast ratio of various types of cholesteric liquid crystals.- Recent Advances in the Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- Role of Chiral Dopants, Luminescence Applications of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.