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1 17. FREIBURGER ARBEITSTAGUNG FLOSSIGKRISTALLE April 1987 TIB/UB Hannover

2 I n h a 1 t M. SCHADT, F. LEENHOUTS Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd., Basel ELECTRO-OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE NEW, BLACK-WHITE AND HIGHLY MULTIPLEXABLE OPTICAL MODE INTERFERENCE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY Vortrag 1 E. P. RAYNES RSRE, Malvern ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS FOR SUPERTWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS H. WDHLER, G. HAAS, M. FRITSCH, D.A. MLYNSKI Universitat Karlsruhe NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF THE ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS FOR PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION J. GRUPP ASULAB S.A., Neuchatel SOME DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SUPERTWISTED BIREFRINGENCE EFFECT (SBE) D.J. BROER, K. KONDO +, G.N. MOL Philips, Eindhoven, permanent: Hitachi Ltd., Japan PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION OF ORIENTED LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ACRYLATE MONOMERS

3 Vortrag R. KLUG, E. POETSCH, V. REIFFENRATH, G. WEBER E. Merck, Darmstadt STRUCTURE ACTIVITY CORRELATION OF NEW LIQUID CRYSTALS WITH POLAR ENDGROUPS A. HAUSER, Ch. SELBMANN, R. RETTIG, D. DEMUS Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUID CRYSTALLINE 5-n-HEXYL-2-(4-n-ALKYL0XYPHENYL)-PYRIMIDINES G. HEPPKE, D. LUTZSCH, F. OESTREICHER, G. SCHEROWSKY, P. SCHREIBER Technische Universitat, Berlin ODD-EVEN-VERHALTEN DER MOLECULAR TWISTING POWER MESOGENER MOLEKOLE MIT CHIRALER ALKYLMITTELGRUPPE 8 J. van der VEEN Philips, Eindhoven ASSOCIATION IN POLAR NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS D. BAUMAN 4r\ v Technische Universitat, Darmstadt; permanent: Hochschule Poznan THE INFLUENCE OF AZO-DYES ON THE NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL STABILIZATION

4 D. BAALSS, S. HESS Technische Universitat, Berlin ANISOTROPY OF THE VISCOSITY OF COMPLETELY ALIGNED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS: COMPARISON OF ANALYTICAL CALCULATIONS WITH COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS Vortrag: 11 H. DURRER, H. KNEPPE, F. SCHNEIDER 1 O Universitat Siegen ISOCHORIC ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS R. KIEFER, G. BAUR 4 q IAF Freiburg DILATOMETRIC STUDIES OF SOME SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS r+ H.-J. KERSTING, H. STEGEMEYER, W. KUCZYNSKI Universitat Paderborn, + Hochschule Poznan HELIXSTRUKTUREN IN INDUZIERTEN CHOLESTERISCHEN UND SMEKTISCHEN C*-PHASEN u P. POLLMANN, K. SCHULTE Universitat Paderborn A COMPARISON OF THE LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE TRANSITIONS CHOLESTERIC/SMECTIC-A AND CHOLESTERIC/SMECTIC-C* AT HIGH PRESSURE 15

5 T. GEELHAAR, C. ESCHER, E. BDHM E. Merck, Darmstadt ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY OF FERROELECTRIC SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS Vortrag 16 Ch. BAHR, G. HEPPKE, N.K. SHARMA dry Technische Universitat Berlin, + University of Jammu, Jammu Tawi ' * DIELECTRIC STUDIES OF THE SMECTIC C*-SMECTIC A TRANSITION OF A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL WITH HIGH SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATION Ch. BAHR, G. HEPPKE Technische Universitat Berlin ELECTROOPTIC EFFECT IN THE SMECTIC A PHASE OF A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL WITH HIGH SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATION 18 K. KONDO, Y. NAGAE, M. ISOGAI, T. KITAMURA, A. MUKOH Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki-ken THRESHOLD BEHAVIOR OF SURFACE STABILIZED FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS IN CONVENTIONAL THICKNESS CELLS 19 M. BALLAUFF MPI flir Polymerforschung, Mainz RIGID ROD POLYMERS WITH FLEXIBLE SIDE CHAINS: A NEW CLASS OF LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS 20

6 0. HERRMANN-SCHDNHERR +, J.H. WEND0RFF +, H. RINGSDORF ++ ; P. TSCHIRNER ++ + Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut, Darmstadt Vortrag: 21 Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz A NEW TYPE OF POLYMERIC MESOPHASE G. LATTERMANN Universitat Bayreuth NEW DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE COMPOUNDS 22 R. BIRENHEIDE, M. EICH, B.W. ENDRES, H. HIRSCHMANN, 0. HERRMANN-SCHUNHERR, J.H. WENDORFF Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut, Darmstadt LOW FREQUENCY RELAXATION PROCESSES IN LQIUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS 23 F.J. BORMUTH, W-HAASE Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt RELAXATION PROCESSES IN A LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER WITH LATERALLY FIXED SIDE GROUPS K. MOLLER, A. SCHLEICHER, E. OHMES, G. KOTHE Universitat Stuttgart PULSED DYNAMIC NMR OF FIBRES FROM THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS 25

7 M. VILFAN, V. RUTAR, S. ZUMER, G. LAHAJNAR, R. BLINC, J.W. DOANE ++ University of Ljubljana, + J. Stefan Institute and Physics Department, Kent State University, Kent NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL MICRODROPLETS STUDIED BY NUCLEAR SPIN RELAXATION Vortraq: 26 G. MELNIK, A. SAUPE Kent State University, Kent MICELLAR CHOLESTERIC STATES 27 H. FINKELMANN, E. JAHNS, B. LOHMANN, M. SCHAFHEUTLE Universitat Freiburg LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS - SHAPE OF MICELLES AND MOLECULAR GEOMETRY 28 W.H. de JEU FOM-Institute, Amsterdam ON THE MOLECULAR THEORY OF SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS 29 E. GOVERS, G. VERTOGEN University of Nijmegen THE MOLECULAR-STATISTICAL CALCULATION OF THE ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF UNIAXIAL NEMATICS 30

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