Improvement in photo-alignment efficiency of azobenzene-containing polyimide films

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 518, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 729-734

  Usami, Kiyoaki ^a   Sakamoto, Kenji ^b   Tamura, Norio ^c   Sugimura, Akihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c CHISSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

In plane anisotropy; Liquid crystal; Photo induced alignment; Photo isomerization; Polyimide containing azobenzene in the backbone structure

Indexed keywords

BACKBONE STRUCTURES; DIANHYDRIDES; ETHER LINKAGES; FREE ROTATION; IN-PLANE ANISOTROPY; OXYDIPHTHALIC ANHYDRIDES; PARALLEL BONDS; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTO-INDUCED ALIGNMENT; PI FILM; POLYIMIDE FILM; POLYMER CHAINS; PYROMELLITIC DIANHYDRIDE;

AMINES; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ETHERS; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYIMIDES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70349873209     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2009.07.079     Document Type: Article

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