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Daniel STOENESCU: Doctor of Materials Science - Lecturer at Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom-Bretagne
INTRODUCTION
With industrial production booming, liquid crystal displays have invaded our daily lives. They have replaced CRTs faster than anyone could have imagined. We are currently witnessing genuine competition between the various liquid crystal display techniques (TN, VA or IPS), and each technique requires dedicated materials with specific properties.
This article looks at liquid crystal displays from a materials perspective. The first part presents the basic vocabulary of the field, the physical properties of liquid crystals and the physical phenomena exploited in displays. The article is a continuation of Philippe Barois'
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Two major exhibitions and conferences are organized each year, bringing together the major producers of liquid crystals and displays: the Society for Information Display (SID) in the USA, and IMID (International Meeting on Information Displays) in Asia.
Two other biennial conferences are organized in turn: European Conference on Liquid Crystals, organized in 2011 in Maribor
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