Continuous liquid crystal pretilt control through textured substrates

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5556-5558

  Lee, Fuk Kay ^a   Zhang, Baoshe ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a   Kwok, Hoi Sing ^a   Tsui, Ophelia K C ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; SUBSTRATES;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELASTIC ENERGY; POLYIMIDE LAYERS; SURFACE POTENTIALS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 12844262980     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1833552     Document Type: Article

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