Frontiers in Optics of Liquid Crystals and Displays
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Liquid Crystals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 4628
Special Issue Editors
Interests: liquid crystal display; display optics; AR/VR; micro-LED display
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After decades of extensive material research and development, as well as device innovations, liquid crystal (LC) has extended its applications to cover displays, spatial light modulators, adaptive lenses for sensors, etc. LC exhibits a certain degree of orientational order compared to an isotropic liquid while it is less rigid than a crystalline solid and can flow easily, which enables its unique properties including large physical anisotropies and high susceptibility to external stimuli. LC has widespread applications in flat panel displays, including TVs, projectors, monitors, smartphones, etc. In addition to traditional displays, lately, LC-based diffractive optics have also attracted increasing interest to address the major challenges in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) displays due to its advantages of high efficiency, polarization selectivity, switching ability and ultrathin form factor. In the meantime, the phase-only modulation property and photo-patternable characteristic of liquid crystal enable novel photonic applications such as spatial light modulators, gratings, and lenses, which can be used to dynamically manipulate the wavefront of a light source with fast-switching and precise wavefront control.
This Special Issue is aimed at the fundamental and applied research on the optics of liquid cyrstal as well as their state-of-the-art applications and relevant display technologies. Topics for this Special Issue will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel LC display technologies including AR, VR, automotive displays, transparent displays, etc.;
- Planar liquid crystal optical elements;
- LC-based spatial light modulators and optical elements;
- LC technologies in sensing applications;
- Multi-stable operations in LCs and their applications such as smart windows and reflective displays, etc.
Dr. Fangwang Gou
Dr. Haiwei Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- liquid crystal
- liquid crystal lens
- virtual reality/augmented reality
- diffractive optics
- flat optics
- polarization holography
- spatial light modulator
- near-eye display
