(Nanowerk News) An international research team from Russia, France, and Germany has proposed a new method for orienting liquid crystals. It could be used to increase the viewing angle of ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

Sharp Corp. Aquos liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions sit in the thermostatic aging room at the company’s plant in Yaita, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. Select an option below to continue reading ...

Current generation portable computers and instruments utilize back-lit liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFLs) provide the highest available efficiency for backlighting ...

Under the right conditions, liquid crystals condense into astonishing structures, spontaneously generating filaments and flattened discs that can transport material from one place to another, much ...

Check out the latest liquid-crystal display monitors. They come big-screen (19-plus inches) with high-resolution (at least 1,600- by 1,200-pixel) flat panel displays. They don't come cheap, but ...

Liquid crystals are all around us, from cell phone screens and video game consoles to car dashboards and medical devices. Run an electric current through liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and they ...