10:50 〜 11:10
[LCT5-1(Invited)] A Personal View on Decades of Impact of Surface Studies in Liquid Crystal Display Engineering
surface phenomena, liquid crystal, alignment, molecular order
Liquid crystals as orientationally ordered fluids are extremely sensitive to the condition of their boundaries. The level interaction energies involved in the surface phenomena are orders of magnitude smaller than the surface tension of liquids. Using surfaces as an agent to control the structure of liquid crystals is old and has played a decisive role in LCD technologies. In this talk, I would like to...