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Over the 100 years since its discovery, liquid crystals have been the intriguing subject for both academia and industries. The textbook of de Gennes The Physics of Liquid Crystals published in 1974 is still the bible for many LC researchers, but new subjects unmentioned in the book have also risen for these years. This chapter describes the story of the recent developments and the future perspectives in physics of liquid crystals, especially focusing on the contributions by Japanese research groups for the last decade.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The author had worked for Hitachi, Ltd. and conducted the continuum simulations in the original development group of the IPS-mode LCD.

  2. 2.

    After the first IPS-mode paper at 1995, many research groups tried the simulation of the IPS-mode. However, almost all the groups did not calculate the electric fields within the glass substrates.

  3. 3.

    During we had been evaluating the first FOP test cell results, one of our colleague who was attending the Society of Information Display (SID) 1999 e-mail us that there was presentation of the FOP configuration from the original FFS research group [107]. We’re surprised the coincidence across the world.

  4. 4.

    The contents of this paper [80] was already presented at the Tenth International Liquid Crystal Conference (1984). However, I know that when I visited the university of Groningen in 1989 as the preprint just before its publication. Thus, I’d stayed the university of Groningen from 1990 to 1991 to study the MD of liquid crystals.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuka Tabe

  2. Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan

    Kenji Urayama

  3. Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Akihiko Matsuyama

  4. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Jun Yamamoto

  5. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Makoto Yoneya

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Tabe, Y., Urayama, K., Matsuyama, A., Yamamoto, J., Yoneya, M. (2014). Physics of Liquid Crystals. In: Koide, N. (eds) The Liquid Crystal Display Story. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54859-1_10

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