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liq·uid crys·tal dis·play
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a form of visual display used in electronic devices in which a layer of a liquid crystal is sandwiched between two transparent electrodes. The application of an electric current to a small area of the layer alters the alignment of its molecules, which affects its reflectivity or its transmission of polarized light and makes it opaque.
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Liquid crystal may be new source for energy
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...called the bent-core liquid crystal, this world is not...University. "These liquid crystals can generate electricity...researchers in the Liquid Crystal Institute are...shape. Normal liquid crystals appear as long cylinders. Two normal liquid crystals ...
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Liquid Crystal Display Trailblazer Receives Largest Prize for Invention in the United States; James Fergason's Achievements Recognized With $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Business Wire; 5/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...use of cholesteric liquid crystals in temperature...rings. A Twist on Liquid Crystals A few years...join the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent...effect of liquid crystals - the key discovery...today's liquid crystal displays (LCDs...observed that ...
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Liquid Crystal Technologies.(Chorum Technologies)
Newspaper article from: Fiberoptic Product News; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...characterized and understood, liquid crystal is hardly a new technology...the name suggests, liquid crystal is comprised of both an ordered...what is exciting about liquid crystal is its flexibility and efficiency...notes, "Because liquid crystal has the unique optical ...
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Liquid Crystal Institute blazes new trails at Kent state.
Magazine article from: Inside Business; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...any item with a liquid crystal display...University: the Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI...Mecca of liquid crystals around the world...for example. Liquid crystals do not generate...center for liquid crystal research. In the...With our skills in ...
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Liquid crystals' future very exciting
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...13 -- "FUTURE OF Liquid Crystal materials is very exciting...demystify the liquid crystals and help in developing...used to make other liquid crystal based optical devices...applications of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Organic...the theory of liquid ...
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Developing liquid crystals as lubricants
Magazine article from: Tribology & Lubrication Technology; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...German manufacturer of liquid crystals, has contracted...lubricants, liquid crystals exhibit a phasestate...liquid and a solid crystal; they are able to...applications. Since liquid crystals are made mainly for...temperature range of liquid crystals. ...
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Presumed mute, liquid crystals sound off.(research indicates liquid-crystal rods sounds)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...They concentrated on nematic liquid crystals, the most widely used type of liquid-crystal material. To confirm that the liquid-crystal rods themselves make...to cells containing disordered liquids. Then, they didn't hear a...
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Advances in Liquid Crystal Materials Expanding Their Scope in Novel Applications.
PR Newswire; 5/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...PRNewswire/ -- Advances in liquid crystal materials have had...technologies, with liquid crystal display (LCD) technology...handheld devices. Liquid crystals have also integrated...video performance, liquid crystal polymers and elastomers...advances in polymer ...
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Handbook of Liquid Crystal Research.
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 10/5/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...508442 X It is a fact: liquid crystals are a matter of life...naturally occurring liquid crystals that constitute life...today without liquid crystal displays (LCDs...different types of liquid crystals, and there are many...broad types of liquid crystal ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Advances in Liquid Crystal Materials Expanding Their Scope in Novel Applications
Newspaper article from: Wireless News; 6/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...Sullivan: Advances in Liquid Crystal Materials Expanding...technologies, with liquid crystal display (LCD) technology...Sullivan. Liquid crystals have also integrated...offer opportunities for liquid crystal materials," notes...Jayarajah. "Liquid crystal ...
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Liquid Crystals
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...lower than this range, the liquid crystals are only like solids...temperatures above this range, the liquid crystals behave only like liquids. They can flow and the molecules...range, different for every liquid crystal, liquid crystals are able...
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Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...clear, easily flowing liquid. Liquid crystals, however, change into a cloudy liquid very different from liquids like water, alcohol, or cooking...they look much like any other liquid. When the liquid crystal is a solid, its molecules are...
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liquid crystal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
liquid crystal liquid whose component particles, atoms or molecules...of order far exceeding that found in ordinary liquids and approaching that of solid crystals. As a result, liquid crystals have many of the optical properties of...
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liquid crystal display
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...tal dis·play • n. a form of visual display used in electronic devices in which a layer of a liquid crystal is sandwiched between two transparent electrodes. The application of an electric current to a small area of the layer...
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liquid-crystal display
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
liquid-crystal display See LCD .
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