Pretilt study of double-layer alignment film (DLAF)

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1191-1197

  Zhang, Ke ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Twieg, Robert J ^a   Auman, Brian C ^b   Bos, Philip J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DuPont Electronic Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Double layer alignment film; Liquid crystal display; Pretilt; Sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049098186     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290802444103     Document Type: Article

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