Solitons in Liquid Crystals

Lam, Lui; Prost, Jacques

Solitons are a well-known and intriguing aspect of nonlinear behavior in a continuous system such as a fluid: a wave propagates through the medium without distortion. Liquid crystals are highly ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. Solitons in liquid crystals (sometimes referred to as "walls") have a wide variety of remarkable properties that are becoming important for practical applications such as electroluminescent display. This book, the first review of the subject to be published, contains not only surveys of the existing literature, but presents new results as well.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 1991-12-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780387968780

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0917-1

Dimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm

Pages: 338.0