Publisher's Synopsis
Reviews recent studies of X-ray scattering phenomena in liquid crystals, in particular their relationship to phase-transition physics. Also explored are the main approximations which are used to obtain structural information from the scattering spectre of liquid crystals and to determine the short-range order in the molecule arrangement.;Other titles in this series include "Non-Centrosymmetric Langmuir-Blodgett Films", "Excitons Bound to Impurities of 3d Elements in II-IV Compounds", and "The Dynamics of Planetary Rings and the Prediction of New Uranian Satellites/Theory of Photothermal and Photoacoustic Diagnostics of Semiconductor Structures".
