Uniform liquid crystal alignment on metallic nanohole arrays by vapor-phase deposition of silane coupling agent

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 893-899

  Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsui, Takayuki ^b   Miura, Atsushi ^b   Ikeda, Naoki ^c   Ochiai, Masayuki ^c   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^c   Fujikawa, Hisayoshi ^b   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Rd Management Section   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; METALLIC NANOHOLE ARRAYS; NANOHOLE ARRAYS; NANOHOLES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SHOW THROUGH; SILANE COUPLING AGENT; SILANE-COUPLING AGENTS; SQUARE ARRAY; VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION;

ALIGNMENT; COUPLING AGENTS; METAMATERIALS; MONOLAYERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

VAPORS;

EID: 84863757860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000893     Document Type: Article

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