COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LIQUID CRYSTALS - II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PHY 5184 LIQUID CRYSTALS - II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HAKAN EPIK

Offered to

PHYSICS
PHYSICS

Course Objective

This course will provide an introduction to the fundamental properties of liquid crystals and liquid crystal devices.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   being able to understand the optical characteristics of liquid crystal
2   being able to design liquid crystal molecules with desired physical properties
3   being able to understand the configuration of the optical components in LCDs
4   being able to examine the physical knowledge to analyze a suitable experimental tecnique to solve liquid crystals problems
5   being able to understand the interaction with electric and magnetic fields.
6   being able to detail some key experimental techniques in relation to liquid crystals

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Flexibility Properties of Liquid Crystals
2 Applications of liquid crystal in spectroscopy
3 Infrared spectrocopy of liquid crystals
4 Nuclear magnetic resonance of liquid crystals
5 Liquid Crytal polimers
6 MID-TERM EXAM
7 Lyotropik Thermotropic Main Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers
8 Liquid crystalline Polymer
9 Liquid crytal display
10 Time Multiplexing LCD
11 TN-LCD s full color and rapid response grants
12 Liquid crystals optical frequency router
13 Nematic liquid crystal electro optical transfer function
14 Electro chemistry of nematic liquid crystal solutions
15 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

extbook(s): The physics of liquid crystals, P. G. De Gennes and J. Prost
Supplementary Book(s):
1. Liquid Crystals, H. Stegemeyer, Guest Ed.
2. Molecular Structure and the Properties of Liquid Crystals, G. W. Gray
3. Physical Properties of Liquid Crystalline Materials, W. H. De Jeu
4. Liquid crystals display, Ernst Lueder

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
3.Question-Answer
5.Home Work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Two midterm examination will be evaluated by examination technique
2. Final examination will be evaluated by examination technique

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is obligated to continue to at least 70% of lessons .
2. Every trial to copying will be finalized with disciplinary proceedings.
3. The instructor has right to make practical quizzes. The scores obtained from quizzes will be directly added to exam scores.
4. If the student don t make the homework and attend mid-terms, he does not access the final exam

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hakan.epik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

hakan.epik@deu.edu.tr

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 6 6
Preparation for Final Exam 1 12 12
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparing presentations 6 5 30
Preparing assignments 12 4 48
Mid-term 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 190

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.145
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555
LO.655