Meet the editors

Dr. Morteza Sasani Ghamsari is a senior researcher in the Photonics and Quantum Technologies Research School of Iranian Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute. His research focuses on photonic materials including metamaterials, quantum dots, and plasmonic nanomaterials that can be used in a wide range of nanophotonics applications. His recent interests also include nano-bioimaging, 3D printing, nanostructures for tissue

engineering (ZnO, TiO2, etc.) and biomaterials including carbon, graphene, and diamond quantum dots. He is an editorial board member and reviewer for different international journals and has collaborated with local and international academics/ researchers on post-graduate research projects. He has edited four books and published four chapters and more than 105 articles in scientific journals and reviewed conference proceedings. His papers have been cited more than 2100 times with h-index 23 and i-10 index 41 (Google Scholar).

Dr. Irina Cârlescu received an MS in Ecological Catalysis in 2000 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2005. Her areas of research interest include synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals with applications in opto-electronics, azobenzene compounds, glycoconjugates and ferrocene derivatives. She is a reviewer for Liquid Crystals, *Crystals, Molecules and Medicinal Chemistry Research.* She is also co-author of twenty-seven articles in peer-re-

viewed journals, h-index = 8.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Irina Carlescu*

and Their Applications

Mesophase: A Review

**Section 2**

*and Kris Myny*

Aperture Ratios

*and In-Gon Bae*

*by Guanming Yuan and Zhengwei Cui*

**Preface III**

Liquid Crystals **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 79**

**Chapter 4 101**

Display Technology **121**

**Chapter 5 123**

**Chapter 6 143**

An Overview of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Composite Films

Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polyesteramides: Non-Viral Vectors

Preparation, Characterization, and Applications of Carbonaceous

*by Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Pawel Malinowski, Lynn Verschueren, Tung Huei Ke, Auke Jisk Kronemeijer, Jan Genoe, Wim Dehaene* 

*by Byoungchoo Park, Won Seok Lee, Seo Yeong Na, Jaewoo Park* 

Vertical-Type Organic Light-Emitting Transistors with High Effective

Introductory Chapter: Nematic Liquid Crystals

*by Anuja Katariya Jain and Rajendra R. Deshmukh*

*by Mercedes Pérez Méndez and José Fayos Alcañiz*

AMOLED Displays with In-Pixel Photodetector
