1 Liquid Crystalline State -- 1.1 Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases -- 1.2 Mixtures -- 1.3 Liquid Crystalline Materials -- 1.4 Direct Influence of an Electric Field on the Structure of Liquid Crystals -- References -- 2 Properties of the Materials -- 2.1 Dielectric Permittivity -- 2.2 Electrical Conductivity -- 2.3 Optical Anisotropy and Dichroism -- 2.4 Viscoelastic Properties -- References -- 3 Surface Phenomena -- 3.1 Structure of Surface Layers -- 3.2 Surface Energy -- 3.3 Cells and Orientation -- References -- 4 Electrooptical Effects Due to the Uniform Distortion of Nematic Liquid Crystals -- 4.1 Electrically Controlled Birefringence -- 4.2 Twist-Effect -- 4.3 Supertwist Effects -- 4.4 'Guest-Host' Effect -- 4.5 The Flexoelectric Effect -- 4.6 Reflectivity in an Electric Field -- 4.7 Field Behavior of the Isotropic Phase -- 4.8 Electric Field Effects in Nematic Polymers -- References -- 5 Modulated and Nonuniform Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystals -- 5.1 Orientational Modulated Structures -- 5.2 Electrohydrodynamic Modulated Structures -- 5.3 Nematics in Spatially Nonuniform Fields -- References -- 6 Electrooptical Properties of Cholesterics and Nonferroelectric Smectics -- 6.1 The Pitch of Helix and the Optical Properties of Cholesterics -- 6.2 Field-Induced Dielectric Instabilities of Cholesterics -- 6.3 Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Cholesterics -- 6.4 Flexoelectric Effects -- 6.5 Electrooptical Effects in Blue Phases -- 6.6 Electric Field Behavior of Nonferroelectric Smectics -- References -- 7 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals -- 7.1 The Physical Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals. Methods of Measurement -- 7.2 Electrooptical Effects in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals -- 7.3 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Polymers -- References -- 8 Applications of Electrooptical Liquid Crystalline Materials -- 8.1 Displays -- 8.2 Optical Data Processing Devices -- 8.3 Other Applications -- References.
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Electrooptic effects provide the basis for much liquid-crystal display technology. This book, by two of the leaders in liquid-crystal research in Russia, presents a complete and accessible treatment of virtually all known phenomena occurring in liquid crystals under the influence of electric fields.