Properties of the Materials

This chapter describes the most important physical parameters which mainly determine the electrooptical behavior of liquid crystal,cells. According to existing phenomenological theories we first: (i) introduce these parameters, then; (ii) illustrate their dependence on the concrete molecular structure; (iii) then give evidence as to how to measure them and how to develop new liquid crystalline mixtures, having optimal values for them.

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