Micro-contact printing method for patterning liquid crystal alignment layers
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Jung, Jong-Wook; Kim, Hak-Rin; Lee, You-Jin; Kim, Jae-Hoon
- Source
- Journal of Information Display; 2006, Vol. 7 Issue: 2 p12-15, 4p
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- Language
- ISSN
- 15980316; 21581606
We propose a patterning method of liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer for producing multi-domain LC structures. By controlling thermal conditions during micro-contact printing procedures and facilitating wetting properties of patterning materials, patterned LC orientation can be easily obtained on a bare ITO surface or other polymer films. The newly proposed patterning method is expected to be a very useful tool for fabricating multi-domain LC structures to enhance or design electro-optic properties of LC-based devices.