Adjustable pretilt angle of nematic 4- n -pentyl- 4′ -cyanobiphenyl on self-assembled monolayers formed from organosilanes on square-wave grating silica surfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Chiou, Da Ren ^a   Yeh, Kuan Yu ^a   Chen, Li Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELASTOMERS; GLASS; MONOLAYERS; SILANES; SILICA; SOL-GELS; SQUARE WAVE GENERATORS;

CYANOBIPHENYL; ORGANOSILANES; PRETILT ANGLE; SQUARE-WAVE GRATING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33645504955     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2191472     Document Type: Article

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