Generation of pretilt angles of liquid crystals on cinnamate-based photoalignment layer by a simple directional peel-off process

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23565-23575

  Lee, Jihye ^a   Lee, Seungwoo ^a   Jeong, Yong Cheol ^a   Cho, Kuk Young ^b   Park, Jung Ki ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Kongju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; PHOTOREACTIVITY;

CINNAMATES; CONTAMINATION PROBLEM; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR CHAINS; MULTIDOMAIN STRUCTURE; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PRE-TILT ANGLE; RUBBING PROCESS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

CINNAMATES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 73949137247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023565     Document Type: Article

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