Reminiscences from a life with liquid crystals
Reminiscences from a life with liquid crystals
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DOI：
10.1080/026782998207523
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Gray, GW
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作者：
Gray, GW
作者回顾了近50年的科学生涯，主要是在液晶（LC）的研究，主要是在大学服务，后来在工业界进行了大约五年。在这篇评论中，英国LC研究的发展主要是通过其快速升级追溯开始于20世纪70年代初，并源于LC在电光显示器中的应用的发展，本身设置的过程中，作者自己发现的第一种材料，使生产的商业上可行的，长寿命的扭曲液晶显示器。作者在该领域的其他贡献进行了讨论，并扩大到目前的趋势和活动在该领域的一般性审查，与一些重点放在基础研究的威胁所构成的资金减少和目前的压力，研究人员大量从事短期，“创造财富”的项目。
The author looks back over a scientific career of almost 50 years spent mainly in research on liquid crystals (LCs) and carried out largely in University service and latterly for about five years in Industry. In this review, the development of UK LC research is traced mainly through its rapid escalation starting in the early 1970s and stemming from the development of applications for LCs in electro-optical displays, itself set on course by the author's own discovery of the first materials enabling the production of commercially viable, long life twisted nematic displays. The author's other contributions in the field are discussed and widened into a general review of current trends and activities in the field, with some emphasis being placed on threats to fundamental research posed by diminished funding and the current pressures on researchers to engage heavily in short term, 'wealth creating' projects.