The physics of liquid crystals J. Prost, P. G. de Gennes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

I'm not sure why, but it seems not many people are familiar with the idea of liquid crystals (LC's for those who love the lingo) despite the fact that they are probably the most common form of matter you interact with every day. GO The physics of liquid crystals. Language: English Released: 1994. Motivated by a search for experimental probes to access the physics of fractionalized excitations called spinons in spin liquids, we study the interaction of spinons with lattice vibrations. Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Physical Review®, Physical Review Letters®, Reviews of Modern Physics®, and Physical Review Special Topics® are trademarks of the American Physical Society. Paul Evenson, Professor of Physics, Bartol Research Inst., University of Delaware. In 1904, German physicist, Otto Lehmann, named his research "liquid crystals" and, in 1911, liquid crystals were put between thin plates by Charles Mauguin, a French mineralogist. Physical Review®, Physical Review Letters®, Reviews of Modern Physics®, and Physical Review Special Topics® are trademarks of the American Physical Society. We typically learn the three phases In 1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won the nobel prize in Physics for discovering that many of the complex behaviors we see in the world around us have simple explainations. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Page Count: 608. The article, Heat- and electric-field-driven bistable devices using dye-doped nematic liquid crystals by Hideo Takezoe et al will appear in the Journal of Applied Physics. Scientists discover evidence for 'electronic liquid crystal' states within the parent compound of one type of iron-based, high-temperature superconductor. The Physics of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: Phase Transitions and Structural Properties (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials) Pages: 316. Pure Resistor; Inductor; Capacitor; Atomic Physics; Introduction To Atomic Physics; Photo Electric Effect; Lasers; Nuclear Physics; Radioactivity; Elementary Particles: Solid State Electronics; Soft Condensed Matter Physics; Liquid Crystals. Question relates to the physics of liquid crystals(tried to add liquid-crystal or soft matter physics tag but couldn't find one). 1Department of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway 3Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Reviews of Modern Physics®, and Physical Review Special Topics® are trademarks of the American Physical Society.