Microrubbing technique to produce high pretilt multidomain liquid crystal alignment

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 230-232

  Varghese, Soney ^a   Crawford, Gregory P ^a   Bastiaansen, Cees W M ^a   De Boer, Dick K G ^a,b   Broer, Dirk J ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; POLYIMIDES; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DARK LINES; MICRORUBBING; MULTIDOMAIN ALIGNMENT; RUBBING PATTERNS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 3242884806     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1773375     Document Type: Article

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