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Liquid crystals

Out of the groove

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Figure 1: Lining up a liquid crystal: molecular orientations for three different switching modes of a liquid-crystal display.

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van Haaren, J. Out of the groove. Nature 392, 331–333 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32771

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