Multidimensional Optics and Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

This book introduces the reader to an alternative description of multidimensional optics in liquid crystals and uniaxial media, and gives a systematical investigation on the dynamic properties of twist nematic devices and ECB devices including flow. This book also presents the investigation on the backflow and dynamic properties of nematic liquid crystals in modulated electric fields. Based on the understanding to backflow and dynamics of liquid crystals, the dynamics of colloidal particles dispersed in nematic liquid crystals and the flow-induced dynamic optical crosstalk between pixels in nematic liquid crystal devices are also studied. The book is dedicated to both scientists and engineers, who are seeking an alternative approach to multidimensional optics in liquid crystals and uniaxial media, or are seeking efficient theoretical and numerical calculation methods and a basic understanding on dynamics of nematic liquid crystals and colloidal dispersions with liquid crystal components.