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Anchoring of Liquid Crystals on Self-Organized Microwrinkles

Takuya OHZONO, Hirosato MONOBE, Yo SHIMIZU

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The self-organized microwrinkles can serve as a surface alignment layer to align nematic liquid crystals, which is primarily based on the groove mechanism. The azimuthal anchoring energy is discussed and estimated from the groove topography and the actual twist angle in the twisted nematic cell.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E92-C No.11 pp.1362-1365
Publication Date
2009/11/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E92.C.1362
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Electronic Displays)
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