Abstract
Surface wrinkling method is used to fabricate a 1-dimensional nanostructure. The structure is transferred to an ultraviolet cured polymer which is used as an alignment layer. The anisotropic geometry serves as a guide for aligning liquid crystal molecules uniformly without defects. The TN-LC cell showed a successful LC switching, with a response time of 20.5 ms, and a threshold voltage of 2.00 V. It also exhibited high thermal stability above 180°C. The proposed UV-cured polymers with 1-D nano wrinkle geometry can be a candidate for alternative alignment techniques, for advanced liquid crystal devices with high thermal budgets.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 18094-18101 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2019-11-0042).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics