Alignment of liquid crystals with periodic submicron structures ablated in polymeric and indium tin oxide surfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2553-2555

  Behdani, M ^a,b,c   Keshmiri, S H ^b   Soria, S ^d   Bader, M A ^d   Ihlemann, J ^d   Marowsky, G ^d   Rasing, Th ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

^d LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LASERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SUBMICRON STRUCTURES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038560952     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1565703     Document Type: Article

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