Alignment of liquid crystal by patterned isotropic surfaces

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 364, Issue , 2001, Pages 519-528

  Lee, Baek Woon ^a   Sagong, Dongsik ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alignment; Elastic anisotropy; Flexoelectricity; Isotropic; Patterned surface; Self assembled monolayer

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144450554     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250108025022     Document Type: Article

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