Liquid crystals : physical properties and nonlinear optical phenomena /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khoo, Iam-Choon
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Wiley, ©1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to Liquid Crystals
  • 2. Order Parameter, Phase Transition, and Free Energies
  • 3. Nematic Liquid Crystals
  • 4. Cholesteric, Smectic, and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
  • 5. Light Scatterings
  • 6. Laser-Induced Nonelectronic Optical Nonlinearities in Liquid Crystals
  • 7. Thermal, Density, and Other Nonelectronic Nonlinear Mechanisms
  • 8. Electronic Optical Nonlinearities
  • 9. Introduction to Nonlinear Optics
  • 10. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena Observed in Liquid Crystals.