Photogeneration of high pretilt angles of nematic liquid crystals by azobenzene-containing polymer films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2438-2440

  Furumi, Seiichi ^a   Nakagawa, Masaru ^a   Morino, Shin'ya ^a   Ichimura, Kunihiro ^a   Ogasawara, Hidehiko ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 0001432569     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123873     Document Type: Article

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