Photoinduced alignment control of photoreactive side-chain polymer liquid crystal by linearly polarized ultraviolet light

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 935-937

  Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Tohei ^a   Ono, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PLASTIC FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VECTORS;

ALIGNMENT CONTROL; POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALLINE FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0033556937     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123414     Document Type: Article

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