Planar alignment of columnar discotic liquid crystals by isotropic phase dewetting on chemically patterned surfaces

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 914-920

  Bramble, Jonathan P ^a   Tate, Daniel J ^a   Revill, Derek J ^c   Sheikh, Khizar H ^a   Henderson, James R ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Zeng, Xiangbing ^b   Ungar, Goran ^b,c   Bushby, Richard J ^a   Evans, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ANGLE; COLUMNAR PHASE; COLUMNAR PHASIS; DE-WETTING; DEEP UV; DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; ISOTROPIC PHASE; MICRO CONTACT PRINTING; NOVEL METHODS; ORGANOSILANES; PATTERNED SURFACE; PHTHALOCYANINE DERIVATIVES; PLANAR ALIGNMENT; PLANAR ORIENTATION; POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; SAMS; TRIPHENYLENE DERIVATIVES;

COMPRESSED AIR MOTORS; CRYSTALS; DROP FORMATION; ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77950196946     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200902140     Document Type: Article

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