Liquid crystal alignment on replicated nanostructured surfaces

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 412, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Scharf, Toralf ^a   Shlayen, Anatoly ^a   Gernez, Cyrille ^b   Basturk, Naci ^b   Grupp, Joachim ^b  

^a Institute of Microtechnology   (Switzerland)

^b ASULAB   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Displays; Liquid crystal alignment; Nanostruotures; Replication

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FABRICATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TOPOLOGY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; REPLICATION; SPINNING SPEED;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 12844273705     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400490439743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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