World Liquid Crystal Resources

Electron micrograph of nematic phase

This page has links to university groups (N. American, UK, rest of world), organizations, companies and to some introductory articles. Lists are in alphabetical order within categories. Or return to Contact Us or Home Page.

University Research Groups in N. America

• Akron Polymer Science - polymer liquid crystals
• Brandeis University - Complex Fluids
• Case Western Reserve LC Physics - nematics, smectics, FLCs, AFLCs
• U. of Colorado, Boulder - liquid crystal research
• U. of Colorado, Boulder - ferroelectric liquid crystal research
• Cornell University - blue phases
• CREOL, Florida - Optics and Photonics
• Kent State, LC Institute - displays, constrained systems
• Minnesota - smectics
• Merced - biological systems and smectics
• Wisconsin - computer simulation of polymer liquid crystals
• Wisconsin - educational materials, sensors

• Bristol - including dendrimers
• Cambridge - Center for Molecular Materials ...
• Durham - simulations
• Exeter - thin film photonics
• Hull LCG
• Manchester - under new management since I was there
• Sheffield - polymers
• Strathclyde - theory
• UCL Elec. Eng. - photonics
• York - materials research

• World Map - from Soft Matter World
• Gent, Belgium - nematic, FLC, AFLC displays
• ESPCI, France - phthalocyanine discotics
• Bayreuth MCI, Germany - polymers
• Hamburg U., Germany - including carbohydrate liquid crystals
• University of Patras, Greece - device physics
• LIPIDAT, Ireland - lipid database
• Ljubljana, Slovenia - light scattering, SHG

• Asian Technology Information Program
• British Liquid Crystal Society
• International Liquid Crystal Society - based in Ohio
• Japanese LC Society
• World Technology Evaluation Center, Loyola
• OSA (Optical Society)
• SEMI-Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International
• Soc. for Imaging Science and Technology
• SID (Society for Information Display)
• SPIE

• All Electronics - LCD panel sales
• Barco - projection displays
• Display Search - consulting
• EIO - panels for sale
• Micron - high resolution FLC displays (once Displaytech)
• Hitachi (US)
• IBM - prototype AMLCD
• InFocus, Oregon - projection equipment
• Instec - temperature control for LC studies
• Kent Displays - flexible displays (Ohio)
• LXD - custom and standard displays, good application details
• Kyocera
• Merck -> EMD Chemicals (US) - chemicals
• Optrex
• PCI - custom TN/STN displays
• Philips Electronics Research
• Sharp (US) - TVs
• Sharp Laboratories of Europe (SLE)
• Sharp Laboratories (US)
• Toshiba - AM LCDs
• Xerox Parc

• Intro and history - nobelprize.org
• Polymer + Liquid Crystals - textbook and virtual lab
• Sharp (Japan) - display technologies

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Last updated 1/21/11

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