Title :
Annealing Effect on the Characteristics of Liquid Crystal Devices Containing Polymer Walls
Author :
Hwang, Shug June ; Shie, Meng Shiou ; Chen, Ren Long ; Yang, Chen Yu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. United Univ., Miaoli
fDate :
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, a novel method was proposed to fabricate a pure liquid crystal (LC) structure using the thermal annealing process, which successfully expel the residual monomers from the LC volume and considerably enhance optical properties of the polymer-wall LC devices. Using a series of experiments, the impact of annealing process on the purity of LC-rich domain and the electro-optic properties of a LC cell was evaluated. Based on the experimental results, the annealing technique is extremely potential for constructing the polymer wall LC cell in view of flexible display applications.
Keywords :
annealing; electro-optical devices; liquid crystal devices; optical polymers; electro-optic properties; liquid crystal devices; optical properties; polymer walls; residual monomers; thermal annealing; Annealing; Crystalline materials; Flexible manufacturing systems; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystal displays; Liquid crystal polymers; Manufacturing processes; Optical devices; Optical polymers; Ultraviolet sources; Liquid crystal; phase separation; photopolymerization; polymer wall;
Journal_Title :
Display Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JDT.2008.2004359
