Order parameters of liquid crystal on the rubbing surfaces of alignment layers

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作者
Xuan, L
Wu, RN
Peng, ZH
Yu, T
Zhang, L
Ruan, SP [1 ]
Uchida, T
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[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Changchun Inst Phys, Lab Excited State Proc, Inst Opt Fine Mech & Phys, Changchun 130021, Peoples R China
[2] Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Dept Elect, Sendai, Miyagi 980, Japan
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SCIENCE IN CHINA SERIES E-TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES | 2002年 / 45卷 / 06期
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liquid crystal; rubbed surface; alignment layer; order parameters;
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Liquid crystal (LC) alignment is most important in LC devices. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the LC scalar order parameters on the rubbed surface of an alignment layer. Careful measurement of dichroic infrared absorbance is performed. The result gives the evidence that the order parameter of LC just on the rubbed alignment film is only 1/3-1/2 that in the LC bulk.
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