Liquid crystals are a special kind of material that has properties of both liquids and crystals. They can flow like a liquid, but their molecules are organized like crystals. These materials are used to make modern digital screens like those in smartphones and TVs because they can manipulate light in useful ways.
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It's shaped like a nostalgic arcade machine, and it comes with a 3.5 - inch
liquid crystal display of its own.
Future glasses could
use liquid crystals to switch from close - to long - range viewing at the touch of a button.
The Japanese electronics manufacturers currently striving to
make liquid crystal displays large enough to serve as wall - mounted TVs, may be beaten to it by a different technology.
The color
liquid crystal screen displays information for the audio, climate control, trip computer and other systems.
The «mood rings» popular in the 1970s showed, in a subdued way, that
liquid crystals change colour with temperature.
The concept's
liquid crystal glass roof (allowing it to change from transparent to translucent) could be feasible for production, albeit with a high price tag.
For their work on the production of
liquid crystal light valves used in large area productions displays of colour television and optical signal processing.
While liquid crystals have transformed display technology, new knowledge about how these crystals order themselves in both space and time is making possible next - generation cameras free of mechanical zoom.
They achieved this by placing a special type of
liquid crystal behind the LCD, which reflected red, blue and green.
Since liquid crystal - like phases are common among dyes and pharmaceuticals, this research could have potential applications down the line.
It gets an instrument cluster with
large liquid crystal display offering a wide range of information.
The two universities and three companies which collaborated on the project developed two types
of liquid crystal with higher melting points by joining together their rod - shaped molecules into longer chains.
The Japanese government is pouring money into a research effort to develop flat
liquid crystal displays bigger than the largest existing TV screens, but thin enough to hang on the wall.
Its intricate patterns are common in the microscopic world, from the matrices of
liquid crystal molecules (like those in laptop displays) to the intracellular compartments of living organisms.
Organofluorine molecules are also used
in liquid crystals for displays, as well as ozone - friendly refrigerants and propellants.
Traditional spatial light modulators are based
on liquid crystals or micro mirrors and provide many independently controllable pixels.
The high contrast, flexibility, image stability, and low power consumption make EPDs the ideal replacement
for liquid crystal displays in products like these, and in many segmented applications.
iPhone 2018 will include new
liquid crystal polymer (LCP) modules for LTE manufactured by both Intel and Qualcomm.
Scientists from China's Tsinghua University have discovered methods to recover indium
from liquid crystal displays for recycling.
Impressio uses
liquid crystal elastomer technology, which mimics muscles and shock - absorbing cartilage, to create dissipative liner materials for protective equipment.
The way the e-paper, which uses a flexible
cholesteric liquid crystal panel, works is this: The basic principle is that this material holds a very similar structure to the biological cholesterol molecules from which the e-paper has got its name 12Re - Paper.
The plastic PET substrate, high molecular
liquid crystal material, nano pigment absorption layer material, and silver electrode are all recyclable and can be put to use again once the e-paper has reached the maximum number of re-writes allowed on it.
Rebalance your eye area from winter's gusts with
liquid crystals creating holographic light diffusors, plumpers, all while repairing the skin from fine lines, puffiness and circles.
Most oil - based
liquid crystals found in displays respond to this kind of confinement similarly in that they form a central axis with two poles, but differently in that they don't twist away from that axis.
A 4.2 - inch thin film
transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) at the center of the instrument cluster presents the full - color Multi Information Display (MID).
Speculating as to why the Spigen Rugged Armor case seems to be causing this issue more frequently than other cases (even the Spigen
Liquid Crystal case looks to be unaffected), users have suggested that the Rugged Armor's rear sensor cutout is rather small, which makes it easy for dust to accumulate on top of the auto - focus sensor.
Materials scientist Jong - Hyun Ahn and chemist Byung Hee Hong of Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea report that their graphene sheet — which they grew on copper foil — is both a better transparent conductor and a more flexible material than indium tin oxide, currently the leading choice in applications such
as liquid crystal displays.
LCDs create an image by sending light from a fluorescent panel through a series of polarization filters and
liquid crystal layers.
Nicolas Bourriaud at London's Tate Britain
Liquid Crystal Environment by Gustav Metzger Nicolas Bourriaud is one of Europe's most respected curators and has been working on the Altermodern exhibition at Tate Britain since 2007.
His experience encompasses matters concerning electrical, mechanical and computer - related technologies,
including liquid crystal displays, semiconductor circuitry and packaging, semiconductor manufacturing, computer networking, wireless communications, software, internet systems and protocols, error correction algorithms, encryption, consumer electronics, optics, sensors, oil and gas exploration equipment, automotive parts and systems, control systems and window systems.
If such processes involve substances that form
liquid crystal phases, as many dyes and drugs do, then the understanding gained through our experiments is going to be important in achieving whatever results are desired.»
«A lot of the work that is done to understand these types of
liquid crystal systems,» Collings said, «is to put two competing influences on them, such as the molecules» natural tendency to line up perfectly versus some confinement or external field that says, «We're not going to let you do that.»»
Even LX models get a touch - screen interface for the audio system, which uses a high -
definition liquid crystal display for sharp graphics.
The nonprofit research and development institute describes its i2R e-Paper technology as a flexible cholesteric
liquid crystal panel, and is so named because it has a similar structure to biological cholesterol molecules.
From Polymer
Dispersed Liquid Crystal self - dimming glass in the rear windows and panoramic roof, to the in - house hybrid connectivity solution that keeps the car and mobile devices within connected to the internet via multiple wireless carriers and multiple network technologies, everything in the FF 91 feels new and innovative.