电子与通信技术专业英语UnitⅡ－11 2014.1.3.pptx

;;;;;;;;;A liquid crystal display (as shown in Fig.11-1) is a thin, flat electronic visual display that uses the light modulating properties of Liquid Crystals (LCs). LCs do not emit light directly.; 一个液晶显示器(LCD)是一个薄的、扁平的电子视觉显示器,采用液晶的光调制性能。液晶不直接发光。;One feature of liquid crystals is that they’re affected by electric current. A particular sort of nematic liquid crystal, called Twisted Nematics (TN), is naturally twisted. Applying an electric current to these liquid crystals will untwist them to varying degrees, depending on the current’s voltage.; 液晶的一个特点是液晶容易受电流影响，一种特殊的向列液晶，称扭曲向列，本身是扭曲的，在这种液晶中有电流流过时，液晶根据所加的电压改变其扭曲程度。;There’s far more to building an LCD than simply creating a sheet of liquid crystals. The combination of four facts makes LCD possible (as Fig.11-2). ? Light can be polarized. ? Liquid crystals can transmit and change polarized light. ? The structure of liquid crystals can be changed by electric current. ? There are transparent substances that can conduct electricity. An LCD is a device that uses these four facts in a surprising way!;并不是简单地铺一层液晶就可以做成LCD，做成一个LCD要结合以下4点： 偏振光的产生。 液晶可以传输和改变偏振光。 液晶的结构可以用电流来改变。 有可以导电的透明物质。 LCD就是奇妙地结合了这4种技术的产品!; But just what are these things called liquid crystals? The name liquid crystal sounds like a contradiction. We think of a crystal as a solid material like quartz, usually as hard as rock, and a liquid is obviously different. How could any material combine the two?; 但这些被称为液晶的东西是什么？液晶这个名字听起来好像很矛盾。我们认为，一个水晶是像石英一样的固体物质，通常硬如石头，而液体显然是不同的。如何合并两种材料？; We learned in school that there are three common states of matter: solid, liquid or gaseous.?Solids?act the way they do because their molecules always maintain their orientation and stay in the same position with respect to one another. The molecules in?liquids?are just the opposite: They can change their orientation and move anywhere in the liquid. But there are some substances that can exist in an odd state that is sort of like a liquid and sort of like a solid. When they are