New technique of aligning liquid crystals on surfaces
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 29 (11) , 691-692
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88928
Abstract
A new evaporation procedure for preparing the surfaces of liquid crystal cells is described. It causes the liquid crystal to align uniformly, but with a small tilt bias. This is the optimum configuration for the important field effect display devices. The exact dependence of the orientation on processing parameters and the stability of the surfaces to high temperatures are described.Keywords
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