Liquid crystal alignment on self-organized microwrinkles

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 0650011-0650013

  Ohzono, Takuya ^a   Monobe, Hirosato ^a   Shimizu, Yo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL ALIGNMENTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; OPTICAL RESPONSES;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 57649084570     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.1.065001     Document Type: Article

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