* Zero-power Bi-stable Cholesteric Display, related to a liquid crystal display

Calculators usually have liquid crystal displays as output in place of historical vacuum fluorescent displays.

In the early 1970s liquid crystal displays ( LCDs ) were in their infancy and there was a great deal of concern that they only had a short operating lifetime.

The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display ( TFT-LCD ) thin panel, while older monitors use a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) about as deep as the screen size.

There are multiple technologies that have been used to implement liquid crystal displays ( LCD ).

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* Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of liquid crystal

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( Berkeley Lab ) have developed a piezoelectric generator sufficient to operate a liquid crystal display using thin films of M13 bacteriophage.

A supercooled liquid behaves as a liquid, but it is below the freezing point of the material, and in some cases will crystallize almost instantly if a crystal is added as a core.

The surface of a glass is often smooth since during glass formation the molecules of the supercooled liquid are not forced to dispose in rigid crystal geometries and can follow surface tension, which imposes a microscopically smooth surface.

Indium's current primary application is to form transparent electrodes from indium tin oxide ( ITO ) in liquid crystal displays and touchscreens, and this use largely determines its global mining production.

CRT technology has been replaced by flat screen technologies ( such as liquid crystal display ( LCD ), light emitting diode ( LED ) and plasma displays ) on television sets and computer monitors.

Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display.

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A liquid crystal display ( LCD ) is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals.

With actual liquid crystal between the polarizing filters, light passing through the first filter would be blocked by the second ( crossed ) polarizer.

The surface of the electrodes that are in contact with the liquid crystal material are treated so as to align the liquid crystal molecules in a particular direction.

The direction of the liquid crystal alignment is then defined by the direction of rubbing.

Before an electric field is applied, the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules is determined by the alignment at the surfaces of electrodes.

In a twisted nematic device ( still the most common liquid crystal device ), the surface alignment directions at the two electrodes are perpendicular to each other, and so the molecules arrange themselves in a helical structure, or twist.

The photochemical exchange occurs with a quantum yield of the order of unity in the liquid phase at 65-degrees using light absorbed only by the Af.

The contents of the manifold for liquid phase experiments were then mixed by shaking, redistributed to the reaction tubes, frozen down, and each tube was then sealed off.

-- The samples for liquid phase thermal reaction studies were prepared in Pyrex capillary tubing 2.5 mm. i.d. and about 15 cm. long.

In the liquid phase runs the amount of carbon tetrachloride in each reaction tube was determined by weighing the tube before opening and weighing the fragments after emptying.

-- In studying the liquid phase thermal reaction, some 70 tubes from 12 different manifold fillings were prepared and analyzed.

The liquid phase photochemical reaction.

The liquid phase photochemical exchange between chlorine and carbon tetrachloride was more reproducible than the thermal exchange, although still erratic.

Allotropy refers only to different forms of an element within the same phase ( i. e. different solid, liquid or gas forms ); the changes of state between solid, liquid and gas in themselves are not considered allotropy.

The saturation temperature is the temperature for a corresponding saturation pressure at which a liquid boils into its vapor phase.

If the pressure in a system remains constant ( isobaric ), a vapor at saturation temperature will begin to condense into its liquid phase as thermal energy ( heat ) is removed.

Similarly, a liquid at saturation temperature and pressure will boil into its vapor phase as additional thermal energy is applied.

For example, if a colloid consists of a solid phase dispersed in a liquid, the solid particles will not diffuse through a membrane, whereas with a true solution the dissolved ions or molecules will diffuse through a membrane.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

and to study phase transitions for Néel and spin liquid ordering.

Fuels of interest often include organic compounds ( especially hydrocarbons ) in the gas, liquid or solid phase.

Combustion of a liquid fuel in an oxidizing atmosphere actually happens in the gas phase.

Another commonly used basic distinction among the elements is their state of matter ( phase ), solid, liquid, or gas, at a selected standard temperature and pressure ( STP ).

For example, when liquid water starts freezing, the phase change begins with small ice crystals that grow until they fuse, forming a polycrystalline structure.

However, because of the relatively small diffusion rates in solids, the corresponding chemical reactions are very slow in comparison to liquid and gas phase reactions.

* The solvent refers to any substance capable of solubilizing another substance, and especially the liquid mobile phase in liquid chromatography.

The particles of the solid stationary phase or the support coated with a liquid stationary phase may fill the whole inside volume of the tube ( packed column ) or be concentrated on or along the inside tube wall leaving an open, unrestricted path for the mobile phase in the middle part of the tube ( open tubular column ).