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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Liquid Crystal Materials and Liquid Crystal Cells | |
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| Properties of Liquid Crystals | |
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| Electro-optic Effects in Untwisted Nematic Liquid Crystals | |
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| The Planar and Harmonic Wave of Light | |
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| Propagation of Polarized Light in Birefringent Untwisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells | |
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| Electro-optic Effects in Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals | |
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| The Propagation of Polarized Light in Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells | |
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| The Various Types of TN Cells | |
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| Electronically Controlled Birefringence for the Generation of Colour | |
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| Descriptions of Polarization | |
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| The Characterizations of Polarization | |
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| A Differential Equation for the Propagation of Polarized Light through Anisotropic Media | |
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| Special Cases for Propagation of Light | |
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| Propagation of Light with an Arbitrary Incident Angle through Anisotropic Media | |
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| Basic Equations for the Propagation of Light | |
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| Enhancement of the Performance of LC Cells | |
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| Electro-optic Effects with Wide Viewing Angle | |
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| Multidomain VA Cells, Especially for TV | |
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| Polarizers with Increased Luminous Output | |
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| Two Non-birefringent Foils | |
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| Modified Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Polymer Dispersed LCDs (PDLCDs) | |
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| Guest-Host Displays | |
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| Bistable Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays (FLCDs) | |
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| Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Bistable Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Continuously Light Modulating Ferroelectric Displays | |
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| Deformed Helix Ferroelectric Devices | |
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| Antiferroelectric LCDs | |
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| Addressing Schemes for Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Direct Addressing | |
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| Passive Matrix Addressing of TN Displays | |
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| The Basic Addressing Scheme and the Law of Alt and Pleshko | |
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| Implementation of PM Addressing | |
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| Multiple Line Addressing | |
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| Two Frequency Driving of PMLCDs | |
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| Passive Matrix Addressing of Bistable Displays | |
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| Addressing of Ferroelectric LCDs | |
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| Addressing of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays | |
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| Addressing of Liquid Crystal Displays with a-Si Thin Film Transistors (a-Si-TFTs) | |
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| Properties of a-Si Thin Film Transistors | |
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| Static Operation of TFTs in an LCD | |
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| The Dynamics of Switching by TFTs | |
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| Bias-Temperature Stress Test of TFTs | |
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| Drivers for AMLCDs | |
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| The Entire Addressing System | |
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| Layouts of Pixels with TFT Switches | |
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| Fabrication Processes of a-Si TFTs | |
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| Addressing of VA Displays | |
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| Motion Blur | |
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| The Optical Response of a VA Cell | |
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| Reduction of the Optical Response Time by a Special Addressing Waveform | |
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| Addressing of LCDs with Poly Si-TFTs | |
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| Fabrication Steps for Top-Gate and Bottom-Gate Poly-Si TFTs | |
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| Laser Crystallization by Scanning or Large Area Anneal | |
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| Lightly Doped Drains for Poly-Si TFTs | |
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| The Kink Effect and its Suppression | |
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| Circuits with Poly-Si TFTs | |
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| Liquid Crystal on Silicon Displays | |
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| Fabrication of LCOS with DRAM-Type Analog Addressing | |
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| SRAM-Type Digital Addressing of LCOS | |
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| Microdisplays Using LCOS Technology | |
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| Addressing of Liquid Crystal Displays with Metal-Insulator-Metal Pixel Switches | |
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| Addressing of LCDs with Two-Terminal Devices and Optical, Plasma, Laser and e-beam Techniques | |
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| Components of LCD Cells | |
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| Additive Colours Generated by Absorptive Photosensitive Pigmented Colour Filters | |
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| Additive and Subtractive Colours Generated by Reflective Dichroic Colour Filters | |
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| Colour Generation by Three Stacked Displays | |
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| LED Backlights | |
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| Cell Assembly | |
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| Projectors with Liquid Crystal Light Valves | |
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| Single Transmissive Light Valve Systems | |
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| Systems with Three Light Valves | |
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| Projectors with Two LC Light Valves | |
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| A Rear Projector with One or Three Light Valves | |
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| A Projector with Three Optically Addressed Light Valves | |
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| Liquid Crystal Displays with Plastic Substrates | |
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| Advantages of Plastic Substrates | |
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| Plastic Substrates and their Properties | |
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| Barrier Layers for Plastic Substrates | |
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| Thermo-Mechanical Problems with Plastics | |
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| Fabrication of TFTs and MIMs at low Process Temperatures | |
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| Printing of Layers for LC-Cells | |
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| Printing Technologies | |
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| Surface Properties for Printing | |
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| Printing of Components for Displays | |
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| Cell Building by Lamination | |
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| Formats of Flat Panel Displays | |
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| Optical Units of Displays | |
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| Properties of Polarized Light | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |