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Alignment Films for Liquid Crystal Devices

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In order to do research on liquid crystals, to fabricate liquid crystal devices, or to mass-produce liquid crystal displays (LCDs), it is necessary to orient the liquid crystalline molecules in a liquid crystalline cell, except some in a few cases. The reason is that most liquid crystalline molecules are either rod like or disc shaped, and they have the natural tendency to orient each other. However, it is necessary to actively orient such molecules on a substrate in a cell for many practical purposes.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Liquid Crystal Institute, Tokyo University of Science in Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan

    Shunsuke Kobayashi

  2. Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Kuroda

  3. Dai Nippon Techno Research Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Matsuo

  4. Display Materials Research Laboratories, JSR Corporation, Yokkaichi, Japan

    Michinori Nishikawa

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Kobayashi, S., Kuroda, K., Matsuo, M., Nishikawa, M. (2014). Alignment Films for Liquid Crystal Devices. In: Koide, N. (eds) The Liquid Crystal Display Story. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54859-1_3

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