New Inorganic Vertical Alignment Material Suitable for Large Area LCD Panel

  • Rho, Soon-Joon (LC Technology Team, LCD R & D Center, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics Co, LTD.) ;
  • Hiroyuki, Kamiya (LC Technology Team, LCD R & D Center, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics Co, LTD.) ;
  • Jeon, Baek-Kyun (LC Technology Team, LCD R & D Center, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics Co, LTD.) ;
  • Kim, Kyeong-Hyeon (LC Technology Team, LCD R & D Center, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics Co, LTD.)
  • Published : 2005.07.19

Abstract

We investigated the liquid crystal (LC) alignment phenomena using a-C:H and a-C:F:H thin films. Homogeneous alignment is obtained using ion beam treated hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) thin films. Homeotropic alignment is obtained using F treated a-C:H thin films, namely, fluorinated amorphous carbon (a-C:F:H) thin films. We investigated the relationship between the surface properties of amorphous carbon based alignment layer and LC alignment phenomena.

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