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Alignment Properties of Liquid Crystals

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This entry begins by outlining the main types of liquid crystal surface alignment, and common device geometries, and then goes on to describe how both uniform and patterned surface alignment can be achieved via conventional techniques such as rubbing and photo-alignment. Finally, the entry concludes with information on bistable alignment, bulk alignment techniques (such as field alignment and polymer networks), and how to align non-nematic phases such as cholesterics and smectics.

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Abbreviations

ECB:

Electrically Controlled Birefringence

HAN:

Hybrid Aligned Nematic

IPS:

In-Plane Switching

LCD:

Liquid Crystal Display

OCB:

Optically Compensated Bend

TFTs:

Thin-Film-Transistors

TN:

Twisted Nematic

ULH:

Uniform Lying Helix

VAN:

Vertically Aligned Nematic

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  1. Sharp Laboratories of Europe Limited, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4GB, UK

    Lesley Parry Jones

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Texas, USA

    Mark Fihn

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Jones, L.P. (2012). Alignment Properties of Liquid Crystals. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_86

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