Electrically tunable wettability of liquid crystal/polymer composite films

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17591-17598

  Lin, Yi Hsin ^a   Ren, Hongwen ^b   Wu, Yung Hsun ^b   Wu, Shin Tson ^b   Zhao, Yue ^c   Fang, Jiyu ^c   Lin, Hung Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INK JET PRINTING; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULES; WETTING;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; IN-PLANE ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; SQUARED PULSE; TUNABLE WETTABILITIES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 55349113621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017591     Document Type: Article

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