A NEW METHOD TO ALIGN LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES BY LINEAR PHOTO-POLYMERIZATION FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY
Liang Zhao-yan (梁兆颜)a, Fang Kun (方鲲)a, Xuan Li (宣丽)a, Huang Xi-min (黄锡珉)a, Ding Bao-quan (丁保全)b, Lu Ran (卢然)b, Zhao Ying-ying (赵英英)b
a Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics & Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130021, China; b Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
Abstract A new technique to uniformly align liquid crystal molecules is presented. The technique is based on producing an anisotropic surface on the glass substrate coated with photo-polymers by photo-polymerization of linear polarized UV-light. The orientation of liquid crystal molecules is governed by the direction of the polarized vector of UV-light. Using this method, we have studied the photo-polymer PSi-CM aligning LC 6710A molecules. The liquid crystal microscopic texture between crossed polarizers, optical retardation from liquid crystal layers and electro-optical properties of twisted nematic liquid crystal display cell are obtained, which was prepared with one side -photo-alignment and the other side-rebbed substrate.
Received: 26 April 2000
Revised: 08 July 2000
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
61.30.Cz
(Molecular and microscopic models and theories of liquid crystal structure)
Fund: Project supported by Jilin Province Developmental Plan Committee of Sciences and Technology (Grant No. 19990515).
Cite this article:
Liang Zhao-yan (梁兆颜), Fang Kun (方鲲), Xuan Li (宣丽), Huang Xi-min (黄锡珉), Ding Bao-quan (丁保全), Lu Ran (卢然), Zhao Ying-ying (赵英英) A NEW METHOD TO ALIGN LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES BY LINEAR PHOTO-POLYMERIZATION FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY 2000 Chinese Physics 9 837
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