Liquid crystal alignment on chemical nanopatterns: Control over azimuthal and polar alignment

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 438, Issue , 2005, Pages 55/[1619]-65/[1629]

  Scharf, Toralf ^a   Park, Sunggook ^b   Padeste, Celestino ^b   Schift, Helmut ^b   Basturk, Naci ^c   Grupp, Joachim ^c  

^a Institute of Microtechnology   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ASULAB   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical pattern; Liquid crystal alignment; Nanostructured surfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LITHOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILANES; SUBSTRATES;

CHEMICAL PATTERNS; COVERAGE RATIO; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644768127     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400590956054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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