Atomic-beam alignment of inorganic materials for liquid-crystal displays

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6833, 2001, Pages 56-59

  Chaudhari, P ^a   Lacey, James ^a   Doyle, James ^a   Galligan, Eileen ^a   Lien, Shui Chi Alan ^a   Callegari, Alesandro ^a   Hougham, Gareth ^a   Lang, Norton D ^a   Andry, Paul S ^a   John, Richard ^a   Yang, Kei Hsuing ^a   Lu, Minhua ^a   Cai, Chen ^a   Speidell, James ^a   Purushothaman, Sampath ^a   Ritsko, John ^a   Samant, Mahesh ^b   Stöhr, Joachim ^b   Nakagawa, Yoshiki ^c   Katoh, Yoshimine ^c   Saitoh, Yukito ^c   Sakai, Kazumi ^c   Satoh, Hiroyuki ^c   Odahara, Shuichi ^c   Nakano, Hiroki ^c   Nakagaki, Johji ^c   Shiota, Yasuhiko ^c   more..

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ATOMIC BEAMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAMOND LIKE CARBON FILMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MANUFACTURE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; QUALITY CONTROL; SUBSTRATES;

INORGANIC MATERIALS; RUBBING TECHNIQUE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

CARBON; DIAMOND; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; FILM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0035799719     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075021     Document Type: Article

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