Liquid Crystals Materials and Devices：VOLUME559

Contains papers from an April 1999 meeting, emphasizing areas of research including polymer-dispersed liquid crystal technology, twisted smetic materials and applications, non-traditional LC materials and applications, and liquid crystal composite technology. Many papers describe approaches in the use of holography to imprint information into liquid crystal materials, such as the fabrication of switchable, permanent grating by photo-curing using a spatially periodic light exposure, the creation of a space-charge field by imaging light on a cured film containing dye-filled LC domains, and the trans-cis isomerization mechanisms of a LC-based dye to induce local topographic and refractive index differences. The editor is affiliated with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)