Tunable quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal pretilt angle based on competing alignment layers

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1373-1377

  Vanbrabant, Pieter J M ^a   Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Competing alignment layers; Liquid crystal alignment; Quasi homeotropic pretilt; Vertically aligned nematic (VAN) technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149120282     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290903274458     Document Type: Article

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