Late-news paper: Bistable ferroelectric liquid crystal pretilt and alignment direction on obliquely deposited SiO2 surfaces

Digest of Technical Papers - SID International Symposium

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1405-1408

  O'Callaghan, Michael J ^a   Ferguson, Rachel ^a   Massopust, Tom ^b  

^a Displaytech Inc   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain Clinical Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SILICA;

FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC PRETILT; PARALLEL ALIGNMENT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547957622     PISSN: 0097966X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2785577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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