Designing liquid crystal alignment surfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kitson, S C ^a   Edwards, E G ^a   Geisow, A D ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MULTIDOMAIN ALIGNMENT; TILTED STRUCTURES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 39749190271     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2884266     Document Type: Article

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