Assembly of photopolymerizable discotic molecules on an aligned polyimide layer surface to form a negative retardation film with an oblique optical axis

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 718-725

  Ge, Jason J ^a   Hong, Seok Choel ^b   Tang, Benjamin Y ^a   Li, Christopher Y ^c   Zhang, Dong ^a   Bai, Feng ^a   Mansdorf, Bart ^a   Harris, Frank W ^a   Yang, Denke ^d   Shen, Yuen Ron ^b   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN BONDS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYIMIDES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

ALIGNED POLYIMIDE LAYER SURFACE; DISCOTIC MOLECULES; NEGATIVE RETARDATION FILM; OBLIQUE OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0141724913     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200304365     Document Type: Article

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