Solitons in Liquid Crystals |
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| Editor:
| Lam, Lui
Prost, Jacques
Charvolin, J.
Helfrich, L. Lam |
| Series title: | Partially Ordered Systems Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-387-96878-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
| Publisher: | Springer
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $498.95 |
Book Description:
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Solitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject...
More DescriptionSolitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject to be published, contains not only surveys of the existing literature, but presents new results as well.