Discotic liquid crystals (DLCs), which consist of disc-like molecules, are known to be able to form nematic and columnar mesophases through self-assembly. Because of the high electric charge mobility in one-dimension, DLCs are found to have uses in making electronic and photonic devices, such as organic light emitting diode, photovoltaic and molecular wires. In order to achieve better performance of these applications, it is essential to obtain the desired alignment of the DLCs.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the stacking of disk-like molecules and to control their alignment. The materials used in the present studies are HDBP-8 and LC10. In this thesis, we will show that the stack of disk-like molecules is strongly influenced by temperature. We will also discuss how the molecules stacking is influenced by surface free energy. The disk-like molecules tend to stack with face-on when the surface free energy of the substrates is high. On a surface with lower surface free energy, molecules tend to stack with edge-up. In the latter part of the research, substrates are specially treated to have different surface free energies, and molecular stack on these substrates is observed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0802107-095912 |
| Date | 02 August 2007 |
| Creators | Chiang, Cheng-Yan |
| Contributors | Shin-Jung Bai, Wen-jun Zheng, Mei-Ying Chang, Wen-Yao Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0802107-095912 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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