Photoalignment technology for liquid crystal displays: physics and application

Author

Chigrinov, V.G. ; Kwok, H.S. ; Takada, Hirokazu ; Takatsu, Haruyoshi

Author_Institution

Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2005

fDate

22-28 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

518

Abstract

This review briefly considers the physics and liquid crystal (LC) device applications of the novel photo-aligning technology. The review describes an introduction to the physical mechanisms of photo-aligning and presents a characterization of LC-surface interaction. This review also discusses the photo-aligning process of ferroelectric LC and the utilization of a high contrast photo-aligned wide-viewing angle vertical aligned nematic mode. The bistability of π-BTN based on asymmetric anchoring of the LC cell is investigated and new superthin photo-aligned polarizers are demonstrated for the first time.

Keywords

ferroelectric liquid crystals; liquid crystal displays; nematic liquid crystals; optical bistability; optical polarisers; π-BTN bistability; LC-surface interaction; asymmetric LC cell anchoring; ferroelectric LC; high contrast vertical aligned nematic mode; liquid crystal device applications; liquid crystal displays; photoaligned polarizers; photoaligned vertical aligned nematic mode; photoaligning physical mechanisms; photoalignment technology; superthin polarizers; wide-viewing angle vertical aligned nematic mode; Chemical technology; Ferroelectric materials; Hysteresis; Liquid crystal displays; Low voltage; Optical polarization; Physics; Polyimides; Polymer films; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9217-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548106

Filename

1548106