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Order parameters of liquid crystal on the rubbing surfaces of alignment layers

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Liquid crystal (LC) alignment is most important in LC devices. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the LC scalar order parameters on the rubbed surface of an alignment layer. Careful measurement of dichroic infrared absorbance is performed. The result gives the evidence that the order parameter of LC just on the rubbed alignment film is only 1/3–1/2 that in the LC bulk.

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  1. Laboratory of Excited State Processes, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130021, Changchun, China

    Peng Zenghui, Yu Tao, Zhang Li & Ruan Shengping

  2. Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Tatsuo Uchida

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Xuan, L., Wu, R., Peng, Z. et al. Order parameters of liquid crystal on the rubbing surfaces of alignment layers. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 45, 654–660 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1360/02ye9074

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