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67.2: Fabrication of A Zero‐pretilt Liquid Crystal Cell using UV‐curable Polymer
Author(s) -
Oh SeungWon,
Park JunHee,
Yoon TaeHoon
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.10320
Subject(s) - rubbing , liquid crystal , materials science , fabrication , mesogen , polymer , planar , curing (chemistry) , monomer , liquid crystal display , composite material , optoelectronics , optics , liquid crystalline , medicine , alternative medicine , computer graphics (images) , physics , pathology , computer science
We propose a fabrication method for a zero‐pretilt nematic liquid crystal cell using UV‐curable polymer. The zero pretilt angle can be obtained by UV curing of reactive mesogen monomers mixed with planar alignment material while a vertical electric field is applied to a liquid crystal cell assembled after the rubbing process. We demonstrate that the pretilt angle of a nematic liquid crystal cell can be decreased to 0.082° by employing the proposed method.