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Liquid Crystals

Known as: Crystal, Liquid, Crystals, Liquid, Liquid Crystal 
Materials in intermediate state between solid and liquid.
National Institutes of Health

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2007
2007
Tuning the far-field superlens: from UV to visible.
A far-field optical superlens, which is able to form sub-diffraction- limited images in the far field at UV wavelength, was… 
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
Liquid crystal pretilt angle control using nanotextured surfaces
A scalable and economical method to control the pretilt alignment of nematic liquid crystal (LC) to ∼45° has long been sought as… 
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Integrated electro-optic switch in liquid crystals.
We demonstrate a compact, low-power and broadband electro-optic switch in a simple waveguide geometry with undoped nematic liquid… 
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
Synthesis and Characterization of A New Series of “Mesogen-Jacketed Liquid Crystal Polymers” Based on the Newly Synthesized Vinylterephthalic Acid
The synthesis and characterization of a new series of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystal polymers, poly{2,5-bis[(para-substituted… 
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1997
Highly Cited
1997
Orientational photorefractive effects observed in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals.
We present a novel type of photorefractive polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) that contains a polymer, low-molecular liquid… 
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1997
Highly Cited
1997
Dye-doped liquid crystals as high-resolution recording media.
Light-induced anchoring of the molecular director is reported to be an efficient method for writing permanent holographic… 
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1996
Highly Cited
1996
Parameter space representation of liquid crystal display operating modes
A parameter space approach is used to represent the operation of all liquid crystal displays. The Jones matrix nematic is used to… 
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
Surface-stabilized holography in an azo-dye-doped liquid crystal.
Holograms are recorded by a 514-nm laser polarized parallel to the molecular director in an azo-dye-doped nematic liquid crystal… 
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
Visual observation of dispirations in liquid crystals.
  • Yoichi TakanishiHideo TakezoeA. FukudaJunji Watanabe
  • Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 35928176
In this work, wedge-screw and twist-edge dispirations in liquid crystals were visually observed. In smectic phases, such as the… 
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1991
Highly Cited
1991
A maximum‐entropy analysis of the problem of the rotameric distribution for substituted biphenyls studied by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in nematic liquid crystals
The statistical principle of maximum entropy is applied to the analysis of dipolar couplings from 1H NMR of nonrigid molecules…