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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2019.12.1.72

Nanostructuring the Polyimide Alignment Layer and Uniform Liquid Crystal Alignment by Solvent Assisted Micromolding  

Kim, Jongbok (Materials Science and Engineeirng, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.12, no.1, 2019 , pp. 72-77 More about this Journal
Abstract
The display that provides information to us through the visual sense is a very important information transmission means by intuitively transmitting information, and the liquid crystal display (LCD) is the most widely used information transmission display. In this paper, we studied solvent assisted micromolding as an alternative for the rubbing that is essential to align the liquid crystals in LCD and successfully aligned the liquid crystal molecules by constructing the nanostructures on conventional polyimide alignment layer. When generating the nanostructures on the polyimide film, there was a competitive correlation between the dissolution effect of the polymer by the solvent and the capillary effect of the polyimide molecules into the nanostructures of the mold depending on the process temperature. It was possible to form nanostructures with high step by deriving the optimum temperature. These nanostructures were able to align the liquid crystal molecules uniformly and demonstrated that they could form a desirable pretilt angle.
Keywords
Liquid Crystal Alignment; Liquid Crystal Display; Nanopatterning; Solvent Assisted Micromolding; Soft Lithography;
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