Journal
JOURNAL OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 350-354Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2009.2021541
Keywords
Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO); liquid crystals (LCs); vertical alignment
Funding
- PPAEU-II
- National Science Council [NSC 96-2221-E-009-131-MY3]
- ATU program of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China
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Properties of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) film as a liquid crystal (LC) alignment material is studied. We deposit the transparent porous AAO film on glass with the diameter of the pores controlled between 17-65 nm. The liquid crystal can be aligned vertically against the substrate with the AAO film. The measured polar anchoring strength is about 1.5 x 10(-5) J/m(2), which is comparable to that of N,N-dimethyl-N-octadecyl-3-aminopropyl -trimethoxysilyl chloride (DMOAP) layer. AAO films with smaller pore diameters exhibit higher anchoring strengths. On the other hand, the uniformity of the pore array in the AAO films does not affect the alignment quality significantly.
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