How to Use liquid crystal in a Sentence

liquid crystal

noun
  • In another test, the cells were used to run a liquid crystal display.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2019
  • These panels require some kind of backlight to shine white light through the liquid crystal array.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Tiny amounts of liquid crystal material are placed in the cells and the sheets are aligned and glued together.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Squeeze the membrane just a little bit, and the lipids condense into a highly aligned liquid crystal.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The medicine is in a liquid crystal form that releases gradually over time.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The robot is made from liquid crystal elastomers, which use heat in the surroundings to power movement.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
  • Because liquid crystal displays have a backlight, the background doesn’t become black.
    — Benj Edwards and Jose Zagal, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
  • With the smectic liquid crystals used in this new smart glass, an electrical voltage has a different result.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2016
  • In the new study, the researchers coupled chiral liquid crystals with fluorescent dyes that emitted red, green, or blue light.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Shining a specific light on the samples makes the liquid crystals move in repeating patterns.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The liquid crystal is made in sophisticated factories that can cost billions to build.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • Instead of using liquid crystal pixels, the chip had little mirrors, and the angle of mirrors can be altered.
    — Benj Edwards and Jose Zagal, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
  • The robot is built mainly from liquid crystal elastomers, a rubber-like material that changes shape when exposed to light.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And just as a wood plank is strongest along its grain, a liquid crystal’s response to stimuli depends on its symmetry and orientation.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In a liquid-crystal display, for example, light shines from behind a set of electrodes with a layer of liquid crystals between them.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2021
  • But no need to worry, because the window is made of a special liquid crystal that can be darkened and lightened at the flick of a switch, for more or less light transmission.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Zhang isn’t ready to call his creation a liquid crystal, however, and hesitates to suggest an application.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
  • That’s because, just like the engine’s oil and the battery’s electrolyte, molecules in liquid crystals slow down when the temperatures drop.
    — David Muller, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2018
  • For those reasons, it was eventually supplanted by liquid crystals and other techniques.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2016
  • The researchers say the new metasurfaces can replace the liquid crystal layer in LCD displays.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2023
  • According to the researchers, the grasshopper-like material is composed of three elastomer layers and liquid crystals.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The pixel voltages are set well before the liquid crystals have finished rotating, meaning that additional pixels do not add time to set bit values.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
  • The panel is an LCD (short for liquid crystal display) sheet that can produce images when electricity flows through it.
    — PCMAG, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Batteries stop working, adhesives stop sticking and LCD screens go black as their liquid crystal freezes solid.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This length of liquid crystal actually consists of three separate screens, a large one in front of the driver, a giant one in the center, and a smaller one in front of the passenger.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The tint comes by way of a liquid crystal lens layer, which can be – from an observer's perspective – more or less transparent, depending on an electrical current.
    — New Atlas, 10 July 2024
  • In panels like this, the liquid crystals aren’t twisted, but instead run parallel to the panel, in a horizontal orientation.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • By using self-organizing materials like liquid crystals, scientists can create stable, swirling light in a much simpler and scalable way.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The team integrated a very thin layer of actuators made of liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) at strategic points in the soft skin.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Use in anti-counterfeiting measures In this new study, researchers placed a liquid crystal solution between two pieces of glass coated with dye molecules.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025

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