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Since publication of the first edition of this book nine years ago, much has happened. Dominance of the CRT has been replaced by dominance of LCDs not only for computer monitors but also for television, control room and signage applications. The need for faster response, wider viewing angles, better colour rendition, thinner displays and lower energy consumption has motivated extraordinary developments, and this last decade has been one of unprecedented change. A fact known just to a few is that the first edition of this book was the Wiley-SID series’ best seller. I am therefore delighted that Ernst Lueder has agreed to write a third edition.

The following new sections have been added: fast blue phase materials, which have the sub-millisecond switching times required for 240Hz refresh rate TVs; multidomain VA cells for TV applications; the addressing requirements of VA cells to achieve TV speeds (which often requires parallel addressing); motion blur and its remedies and lastly, transfer techniques of TFTs fabricated at high temperature onto flexible substrates.

The sections on components for LCDs, flexographic printing, ink jet printing, surface properties for printing and cell building by lamination have been updated.

Thus the original purpose stated by Professor Lueder in his preface to the first edition – to condense into one volume all the basic information that is needed to understand the operation and the building of liquid crystal displays – will now be met by this third edition, which I am confident will see equal success.

Anthony Lowe Braishfield, UK, 2009