Large, continuously controllable nematic pretilt from vertical orientation
- 15 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 79 (16) , 2543-2545
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1411983
Abstract
A polyimide that is designed to produce homeotropic liquid-crystal orientation is baked at high temperature and rubbed with a cotton cloth. It is found that the resulting pretilt angle of the liquid-crystal pentylcyanobiphenyl is continuously controllable from 0° to nearly 40°.Keywords
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