Optical switching of nematic liquid crystal by means of photoresponsive polyimides as an alignment layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3458-3460

  Kim, Gi Heon ^a   Enomoto, Shintaro ^a   Kanazawa, Akihiko ^a   Shiono, Takeshi ^a   Ikeda, Tomiki ^a   Park, Lee Soon ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 0000514724     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.125295     Document Type: Article

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