Title :
Side-wall surface relief gratings for micro-structured liquid crystal alignment
Author :
Zhichao Ji;Xinzheng Zhang;Wei Li;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Jingjun Xu
Author_Institution :
The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, and TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
Abstract :
The nematic liquid crystal can be uniformly aligned via its contact to a side-wall of a polymer ribbon fabricated by the TPP-DLW process. The origin of the alignment is analyzed. The surface anchoring energy on the side-wall structures is measured.
Keywords :
"Polymers","Surface topography","Surface treatment","Substrates","Optical device fabrication","Optical films"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375812
