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 - LC polymer composites
• Brandeis University Complex Fluids - lots of interesting things
• Case Western Reserve LC Physics - nematics, smectics, FLCs, AFLCs
• U. of Colorado, Boulder - ferroelectric research
• U. of Colorado, Boulder - ferroelectric research again
• Cornell University - blue phases
• U. of Dayton Research Institute - photopolymers (at one point)
• Kent State, LC Institute - displays, constrained systems
• Kent State (ALCOM) - consortium with Akron and CWR
• Ohio State - lipid database
• Oregon Graduate Institute - Flat Panel Display Group
• U. of Pennsylvania - TGB phases, discotics
• U. of Texas - "Details not available"
• Toronto, Canada - NLO of smectic films
• UCLA - theory and simulations
• U. of Wisconsin - computer simulation of polymer liquid crystals

• Cambridge - polymers and colloids
• Edinburgh Applied Optics - device physics, interesting links
• Exeter - thin film photonics
• Hull LCG
• Manchester - under new management since I was there
• Oxford University Eng. Dept. - projects list
• Oxford University Eng. Dept.
• UCL Elec. Eng. - optical systems, correlators

• Gent, Belgium - nematic, FLC, AFLC displays
• ESPCI, France - phthalocyanine discotics
• GRPB, U. Rene Descartes, France - biophysics, membranes
• Bayreuth MCI, Germany - polymers
• Technical U. of Berlin, Germany - synthesis, PDLC, films
• Hamburg U., Germany - carbohydrates, lipids
• University of Patras, Greece - device physics
• Hong Kong U. of Science and Tech. - display fabrication and research
• Ancona, Italy - lyotropics
• FCI - computer simulations
• Nagaoka, Japan - ferroelectrics (Japanese)
• SUT, Japan - smectics
• University of the Phillipines - PDLC, cholesterics
• Ljubljana, Slovenia - light scattering, SHG
• Chalmers U., Sweden - has interesting microscope images

• ALCOM - consortium between Kent State, Akron and CWR
• ALCOM Education Outreach
• Asian Technology Information Program
• British Liquid Crystal Society
• International Liquid Crystal Society - based in Ohio
• Japanese LC Society
• Japanese Technology Evaluation Center, Loyola
• OSA
• SEMI-Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International
• Soc. for Imaging Science and Technology
• SID
• SPIE

• Advanced LC Technologies - Cosmic Crystals for Spiritual Awakening - groovy
• All Electronics - LCD panel sales
• Barco - projection displays
• Conscious Living Foundation - stress cards
• Crystalloid - custom LCD, Hudson, Ohio
• Display Products Technology, Scotland
• Display Search - consulting
• Displaytech, Colorado - high resolution FLC displays
• Earth Computer Technologies - LCD panel sales
• Hitachi (US)
• IBM - prototype AMLCD
• IBM - publications list
• InFocus, Oregon - projection equipment
• Instec - temperature control
• Kent Displays - reflective cholesteric displays
• LXD - custom and standard displays, good application details
• Kyocera - color STN
• Laptop Computer Displays - replacement displays for sale
• Merck, Germany - chemicals
• MicroDisplay - very interesting
• Optrex
• PCI - custom TN/STN displays
• Philips Electronics
• ROHM - large area displays
• Sarif - AM LCD displays
• Sharp, Japan - good technical information
• Sharp, UK
• Sharp Microelectronics, US - data sheets
• Toshiba - AM LCDs
• Xerox, Palo Alto, CA

• Polymer + LC Textbook - CWR, a lot of detail
• Liquid Crystal Thesaurus - Kent State
• Display technologies in Japan - Loyola
• Web controlled experiment

Newsgroups etc.

• LCD Technical Forum - mainly electronic engineers
• Liquid Crystals Today

Last updated 8/23/03 (numerous dead links removed)

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