Alignment of liquid crystals on stepped and passivated silicon templates prepared in ultrahigh vacuum

Langmuir

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 6731-6738

  Lay, Erin H ^a   Kirakosian, A ^a   Lin, J L ^a   Petrovykh, D Y ^a   Crain, J N ^a   Himpsel, F J ^a   Shah, Rahul R ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PASSIVATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM;

SILICON TEMPLATES; ULTRAHIGH VACCUM (UHV);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034249666     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la000002x     Document Type: Article

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