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Mechanism of Orientation of Liquid Crystal Molecules for Polarized UV-exposed Polyimide Alignment Layers  

김일형 (계명대학교 화학공학과)
김욱수 (계명대학교 화학공학과)
하기룡 (계명대학교 화학공학과)
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Polymer(Korea) / v.26, no.2, 2002 , pp. 209-217 More about this Journal
Abstract
We studied the mechanism of orientation of polyimide molecules which were irradiated by polarized UU (PUV) using polarized Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy, According to the measured UV spectra, we found PI films mainly absorb UV light less than 350 nm wavelength, therefore, UV light less than 360 nm induces photochemical reaction of PI. PUV irradiation of PI films caused decrease of all peak intensities in the FT-IR spectra. except the newly formed broad peak at $3244 cm^{-1}$, due to degradation of the PI molecules. The remaining PI molecules after photo-degradation showed predominantly perpendicular molecular orientation to the irradiated PUV polarization direction, due to the preferential degradation of PI molecules parallel to irradiated PUV polarization direction. However the rubbing of PI films induced reorientation of the PI molecules parallel to the rubbing direction. We also investigated the alignment of the liquid crystal by rubbing or PUV irradiation. Liquid crystals align perpendicular to the PUV polarization direction and parallel to the rubbing direction.
Keywords
polyimide; polarized UV; liquid crystal; FT-IR; orientation;
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