Photonic circuits, which manipulate light to perform various computational tasks, have become essential tools for a range of ...

For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in quantum materials. Under certain conditions, electrons ...

Microdisplays based on liquid-crystal-on-silicon technology may soon ... colour gamut and can achieve well in excess of the ITU-R Recommendation BT.709 colour gamut (for high-definition television ...

1.Enlarged photomicrograph of a liquid crystal. A Nicol prism is used as analyser; there is no polariser. The substance is ethyl pam-azoxybenzoate, temperature 114 °-120 ° C. Notice the polygons ...

What are Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles? Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.

After watching [Ben Krasnow]’s efforts to build a liquid crystal display, we can easily see why the suits thought what they did. It’s an amazing engineering feat. Before building his own ...

thermodynamic integration methods and their applications to equilibrium solids and grain boundary kinetics, phase transitions in systems of particles with soft repulsive interactions, mean-field ...

LCD technology utilizes the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. These crystals do not emit light directly but use a backlight or reflector to produce images in ...

In 1888, liquid crystals were identified by Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer and German physicist Otto Lehmann. Studying the cholesterol in carrots using a temperature-controlled polarizing ...

More than $2 billion has been spent over the past 15 years in trying to develop the technology and infrastructure behind liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) displays. After a fitful start ...