New properties and applications of rewritable azo-dye photoalignment

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 927-931

  Muravsky, Alexander ^a   Murauski, Anatoli ^a   Chigrinov, Vladimir ^a   Kwok, Hoi Sing ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Azo dye; Electronic paper; Hydrogen bonds; ORW; Photoalignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AMPLIFICATION; ANISOTROPY; AZO DYES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AZIMUTHAL ANCHORING ENERGIES; AZO DYE; ELECTRONIC PAPER; ELECTRONIC PAPERS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENTS; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; NEW MATERIALS; OPTICAL-; ORW; PERIODIC CHANGES; PHOTO ALIGNMENTS; PHOTOALIGNMENT; PHOTOINDUCED ANISOTROPIES; REWRITABLE; TILT ANGLES; UV LIGHTS; VISIBLE LIGHTS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCES;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

EID: 55349115052     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2976652     Document Type: Article

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