Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals

May 1999
HOKE, CHARLES D.
Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable Twist Cell

August 1999
MORI, HIROYUKI
Fabrication and Optical Effects of a Discotic Negative Birefringence Film for Liquid Crystal Displays

May 2000
ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO
Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals

May 2000
MA, RUI-QING
Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications

May 2000
WATSON, PHILIP E.
The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

May 2000
XU, MING
Electro-Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices and Applications of Dual Frequency Cholesterics

August 2000
COLEGROVE, JENNIFER
Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device Performance

December 2000
ANDERSON, JAMES E.
Transitions from the Homeotropic in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

December 2000
MI, XIANG-DONG
Dynamics of the Transitions Among Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Textures

December 2000
TITUS, CHARLES M.
Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices

December 2000
YUAN, HAIJUN
Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure

May 2001
LIU, WEIMIN
Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays

December 2001
VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY
Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

December 2001
ZHANG, FANG
Physical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays

May 2002
WANG, BIN
Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations

August 2002
SAEED, SALMAN
Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters

May 2003
KANG, SHIN-WOONG
Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on Self-Assembled Pattern-Forming States of LiquidCrystals: Morphology, Phase Separation and Potential Applications

May 2003
KHAN, ASAD
Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display Technology

August 2003
MONTBACH, ERICA BRAMLEY
Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements

August 2003
SMALYUKH, IVAN
Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy

December 2003
WANG, CHENHUI
Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices