Photochemical manipulation of discotic liquid crystal alignment by a poly(vinyl cinnamate) thin film

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2689-2691

  Furumi, Seiichi ^a   Ichimura, Kunihiro ^a   Sata, Hiroaki ^b   Nishiura, Yosuke ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUJIFILM CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 0001744538     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1320017     Document Type: Article

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