The role of the supervisor. Although a dissertation is an opportunity for you to work independently, you will usually be allocated a member of academic staff as a supervisor. Supervisors are there to help you shape your ideas and give you advice on how to conduct the research for your dissertation.
The TN device consists of the twisted nematic liquid crystal confined between two glass substrates with homogeneous planar orientation: the orientation of the director n on one substrate is rotated by 90 o with respect to n on another substrate.
spindle. 1. a pin tapered at one end or both ends, or something with this shape. 2. the thin, tapering figure occurring during metaphase of cell division, composed of microtubules radiating from the centrioles and connecting to the chromosomes at their centromeres. Called also mitotic spindle. 3. muscle spindle. mitotic spindle spindle (def. 2).