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The study of surface optical anisotropy of polyimide liquid crystal alignment layers by means of reflection anisotropy spectroscopy

Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) is a non-destructive optical technique which can be used to measure the surface properties of sample. We use the technique to detect the optical anisotropy of rubbed polyimide thin film.
Atomic force microscopy study of rubbed polyimide showed that rubbing produced microgrooves on the surface of the polyimide thin films, and the surface roughness of the polymer thin films increased slightly with the rubbing strength. Reflection anisotropy signals have been found to be generated on the surface of polyimide thin film on completion of mechanical rubbing, and will increase with an increase in the rubbing strength. We also tried to find out the correlation between RA strength of the polyimide alignment layer and pretilt angle of liquid crystal at the rubbed polyimide films.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0721109-094203
Date21 July 2009
CreatorsChen, Chao-yi
ContributorsTsung-hsien Lin, Chi-huang Lin, Mei-ying Chang, Wen-jun Zheng
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0721109-094203
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