Table of Contents

Physics.- Surface Orientation and Compliance Effects on Twist-Cell Performance.- Molecular Orientation of Monomolecular Liquid Crystal Layers on Various Substrates.- An R.F. Plasma Technique for Producing Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells.- Liquid Crystal — Surface Interactions by Surface Plasmons.- Anchoring Properties of Liquid Crystals at the Substrates: Temperature Dependence of Pretilt.- Optical Characteristics of Liquid Crystal Displays.- Multiplexing Limits of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays and Implications for the Future of High Information Content LCDs.- Influence of the Device Parameters on the Performance of Twisted-Nematic Liquid-Crystal Matrix Displays.- Ultimate Limits for RMS Matrix Addressing.- Accurate Optical Measurement of Small Tilt Angles in Thin Twisted Nematic Layers.- Effects of Cell and Material Properties on Multiplexing Levels of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays.- Sensitive Measurement of Twist in LCD’s.- Liquid Crystal Devices.- Liquid Crystal for Multiplexed Twisted Nematic Displays — Its Philosophy and Practice.- Guest-Host Displays.- Analog Displays — The Other Approach to LCD’s.- Projection Storage Displays Using Laser-Addressed Smectic Liquid Crystals.- The Role of Shadows in the Viewability of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays.- Directly Driven Liquid Crystal Analogue Meter and Horological Displays.- Liquid Crystal Materials.- Liquid Crystal Materials for Display Devices.- Synthesis of Trans-4-Alkylcyclohexane Carboxylic Acids and their Nematogenic Esters.- Preparation and Characterization of a Series of Liquid Crystalline Diesters.- Effect of Molecular Structure on Mesomorphism. 101. Design of Materials having Smectic-Isotropic Maxima in Binary Mixtures.- Thermodynamics of the Liquid Two-Phase Regionsin Binary Mixtures of Mesogenic Materials.- The Analysis of Liquid Crystal Mixtures.