文档介绍：LIQUID CRYSTALS
Frontiers in Biomedical Applications
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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Frontiers in Biomedical Applications
Editors
Scott J. Woltman
Gregory P. Crawford
Brown University, USA
Gregory D. Jay
Rhode Island Hospital & Brown University, USA
World Scientific
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LIQUID CRYSTALS: FRONTIERS IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
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ISBN-13 978-981-270-545-7
ISBN-10 981-270-545-7
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To the past, present and future members of the
Display and Photonics Laboratory,
Brown University.
Preface
Liquid crystals in biomedical applications: pathways to new
opportunities
For more than 100 years, the liquid crystal science has grown and flourished;
fueled, especially in recent decades, by the display industry. A number
of renowned researchers have gone so far as to declare that the field is
undergoing a “renaissance.” The many advancements in the past decade
have enabled liquid crystal devices to rate nearly all fields of optic