Rubbing alignment is widely used in display industry, Rubbing cause anisotropy in rubbed polyimide thin film influence the alignment of Liquid Crystal. The major part of this article is to analyze surface optical anisotropy of rubbed polyimide thin film. RAS signals and surface free energies of rubbed polyimide thin film with different rubbing strength are measured, and relationship between anisotropy of surface and rubbing strength is discussed. The mechanism of alignment can be understood by this work. Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy (RAS) has been used in Semiconductor as a tool to monitor crystal growth for many years. RAS is a non-contact and non-destructive measurement method. It only measures the difference of two orthogonal complex reflection signals and optical anisotropy of surface. It¡¦s very sensitive to the anisotropy of surface. In the current studies, RAS has been used to detect surface anisotropy of rubbed polymer. We measured the surface free energy of the rubbed polyimide thin films. It has been found that surface free energy is of anisotropy due to the application of mechanical rubbing to the polymer surface. Pretilt angle influences the alignment of liquid crystals. The molecule orientation of PI surface and anisotropy of rubbed PI surface effect pretilt angle¡CPretilt angles measured by pretilt angle measurement system compare with RAS signals. RAS signals, anisotropy of surface free energies, and pretilt angles are increasing with increasing rubbing strength.

Polyimide alignment layer is a very important liquid crystal alignment. The most well-known Liquid crystal display (LCD) alignment methods are homogeneous alignment and homeotropic alignment. This paper research uses different fluff depth and number of rubbing into polyimide,and changes the level of rubbing strength, to observe how electro-optical properties of vertical liquid crystal alignment changes with rubbing strength. By rubbing polyimide with different rubbing strength, this research uses two kind of negative liquid crystal (¡µ£`<0) as samples. This research finds that when rubbing strength increases, the contrast ratio tends to drop.However, the contrast ratio rises after certain level of rubbing strength is applied. Regarding the response time, this research finds that when rubbing strength increases, the response time tends to drop as well. However, the response time rises and falls irregularly after certain level of rubbing strength is applied.

Reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy is a non-contact technique for surface detection. which means through the optical reflection from surface of the substrate measured. Because of its high sensitivity, RAS is used for in real-time control of semiconductor epitaxy. On our study, RAS is used to study the surface characteristics of liquid crystal alignment layer. We used rubbing for polyimide film to achieve alignment purposes. The rubbing strength is determined by adjusting the pile impress and the number of rubbed. We found that the anisotropy spectroscopy will appear after rubbing. And the strength of RA signals changes with photon energy of the probe beam. The pretile angle of the liquid crystal sandwiched in between rubbed PI show certain degree correlation with RA strength. In addition, using surface free energy measurement to explore the relationship with pretilt angle and try to connect three of them. We also tried to measure the reflection signal from the sample back. We found the signal of sample back would decay in UV region and it may be a result of UV absorption in the substrate.