"Liquid Crystals: Recent Advancements in Fundamental and Device Technologies" ed. by Pankaj Kumar Choudhury

Liquid crystals exhibit amazingly interesting properties that make them indispensable for several technological applications. The book is aimed to focus on various aspects of research and development that liquid crystal mediums have come across in recent years.

This would be ranging from the physical and chemical properties to the important applications that the liquid crystals have in our everyday life. It is expected that the book will make the expert researchers to be abreast of recent research advancements, whereas the novice researchers will benefit from both the conceptual understanding and the recent developments in the area. Multitudes of research themes and directions pivoted to liquid crystals remain the essence, which the readers would get the glimpse of and move ahead for further investigations.

Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Whither Liquid Crystals?
2 Synthetic Cationic Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymers
3 From a Chiral Molecule to Blue Phases
4 Phase Transition effect on the Parametric Instability of Liquid Crystals
5 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Incorporated with Different Kinds of Carbon Nanomaterials or Biomolecules
6 Electrical and Thermal Tuning of Band Structure and Defect Modes in Multilayer Photonic Crystals
7 Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Smectic A Liquid Crystals
8 Temperature Effects on Liquid Crystal Nonlinearity
9 Micro/Nano Liquid Crystal Layer-Based Tunable Optical Fiber Interferometers
10 Liquid-Crystal-Based Phase Gratings and Beam Steerers for Terahertz Waves
11 Design and Fabrication of Ultra-Short Throw Ratio Projector Based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon
12 Recent Dispersion Technology Using Liquid Crystal