Soft-lithography for preparing patterned liquid crystal orientations

  • Kim, Hak-Rin (Research of Institue Display, Hanyang University) ;
  • Jung, Jong-Wook (Department of Information Display, Hanyang University) ;
  • Shin, Min-Soo (Department of Information Display, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Myung-Eun (Department of Information Display, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, You-Jin (Department of Information Display, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Hoon (Research of Institue Display, Hanyang University, Department of Information Display, Hanyang University, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

We demonstrate novel soft-lithographic techniques for preparing patterned liquid crystal (LC) orientations at an alignment layer. By controlling patterning conditions such as wetting property and operating temperature depending on polymeric materials, multi-directional or modified LC alignment conditions can be simply achieved.

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