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    The twisted nematic effect (TN-effect) was a major technological breakthrough that made the manufacture of large, thin liquid crystal displays practical...
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    alignment is chosen so that its relaxed phase is a twisted one (see Twisted nematic field effect). This twisted phase reorients light that has passed through...
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  • consumer electronics. 1971 Twisted nematic field effect LCD 1974 Electroluminescent display (ELD): 1984 Super-twisted nematic display (STN LCD) to improve...
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    field is applied, the orientation of the liquid-crystal molecules is determined by the alignment at the surfaces of electrodes. In a twisted nematic (TN)...
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  • viewing angle dependence and low-quality color reproduction of the twisted nematic field effect (TN) matrix LCDs prevalent in the late 1980s. The True depth...
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  • electric field, which can be used to create images. This change is called the twisted nematic (TN) field effect. Earlier TN displays twisted the liquid...
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    include the Freedericksz transition, the twisted nematic field effect and the in-plane switching effect. From early liquid crystal displays the buying public...
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    physicists Martin Schadt and Wolfgang Helfrich invented the twisted nematic field effect (TN-effect) in the Central Research Laboratories of F. Hoffmann-La...
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  • to compete against direct view LCDs based on nematic liquid crystals using the Twisted nematic field effect or In-Plane Switching. Today, the FLCD is used...
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  • economics Trickle-up fashion Twisted nematic field effect (display technology) (liquid crystal displays) (liquid crystals) Twomey effect (air pollution) (atmospheric...
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  • Helfrich, W. (1971-02-15). "VOLTAGE‐DEPENDENT OPTICAL ACTIVITY OF A TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL". Applied Physics Letters. 18 (4). AIP Publishing: 127–128...
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  • followed by a number), a DNA sequence that can change positions Twisted nematic field effect, the technology that made LCD displays practical Thoron, symbol...
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    mechanics. It is characterized by the Meissner effect, the complete cancellation of the magnetic field in the interior of the superconductor during its...
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    discovered and patented the Twisted nematic field effect (TN). Also, new room-temperature liquid crystal compounds for the TN effect were developed during this...
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    analogue television, by Walter Bruch of Telefunken in Hanover 1970: Twisted nematic field effect by Wolfgang Helfrich (with Swiss physicist Martin Schadt) 1983:...
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  • silicon TFTs are more costly and much more difficult to produce. The twisted nematic (TN) display is one of the oldest and frequently cheapest kind of liquid...
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  • discovered restriction enzymes Martin Schadt, co-inventor of twisted nematic field effect (TN-effect) René Sommer, co-inventor of computer mouse René Thury...
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  • Army knife Full Metal Jacket bullet Argand lamp by Aimé Argand Twisted nematic field effect by Hoffmann-La Roche Scanning tunneling microscope by Heinrich...
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  • made of protons and neutrons. Wolfgang Helfrich: Co-inventor of Twisted nematic field effect. Rudolf Hell: Inventor of the first fax machine (Hellschreiber)...
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    University Press. p. 88. R. Williams (1968). "Optical Rotatory Effect in the Nematic Liquid Phase of p-Azoxyanisole". Physical Review Letters. 21 (6):...
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  • direction when no electric field is applied. This is critical for the display's function; for example, in twisted nematic (TN) displays, the alignment...
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  • crystal. To understand the effect a magnetic field produces on the distortion free energy density, a small region of local nematic order n ^ {\displaystyle...
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  • Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-30858-4. Zöcher, H. (1933). "The effect of a magnetic field on the nematic state". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 29 (140):...
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  • fabricated an a-Si dot-matrix display, and Canon's Y. Okubo fabricated a-Si twisted nematic (TN) and guest-host LCD panels. In 1983, Toshiba's K. Suzuki produced...
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  • Cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLCs), also known as chiral nematic liquid crystals, are a supramolecular assembly and a subclass of liquid crystal characterized...
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    the other, giving the molecules a twisted, helical structure. Twisted nematic liquid crystals are naturally twisted, and are commonly used for LCDs because...
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    alignment of the liquid-crystal layer and the specific field-effect used, being either Twisted Nematic (TN), In-Plane Switching (IPS) or Vertical Alignment...
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  • through anisotropic chiral or twisted nematic phase, to the high-temperature isotropic liquid phase. Only the nematic mesophase has thermochromic properties;...
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  • Uzer Tuva or Bust! Twin Quasar Twin paradox Twisted nematic field effect Twisted sector Twistor space Twistor theory Two-balloon experiment Two-body Dirac...
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  • alignment layers, unlike today's most widely used TFT LCD modes such as Twisted Nematic (TN), In-Plane Switching (IPS) or Vertical Alignment (VA). The Blue...
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