Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays

Flexibility is the way of future. Human mind is moving towards nanosize, so as devices. Future generation displays is more about electronic papers made up of plastic substrates. But the technology involved in this is rather complicated. Non-contact methods are only the solutions for generating futur...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hegde, Gurumurthy, M. M., Yusoff, Chigrinov, V. G.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/1/SCI-005.pdf
id ump-5771
recordtype eprints
spelling ump-57712018-01-18T01:40:28Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/ Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays Hegde, Gurumurthy M. M., Yusoff Chigrinov, V. G. QD Chemistry Flexibility is the way of future. Human mind is moving towards nanosize, so as devices. Future generation displays is more about electronic papers made up of plastic substrates. But the technology involved in this is rather complicated. Non-contact methods are only the solutions for generating future displays. On the otherhand, the phenomenon of liquid crystal photoalignment became a subject of extensive research after the effect was discovered for the azobenzene units attached to a substrate and dispersed in a polymer matrix. Since then, huge variety of alignment materials has been developed for photonics related applications [1, 2]. Nevertheless, azo dye materials remain among the best candidates for technological application. The LC alignment produced by rubbing is not perfectly uniform, especially on a microscopic level. Because of this, alignment methods avoiding mechanical contact with the aligning substrates are being actively studied. Photoalignment is among the most promising candidates due to their non-contact nature, high uniformity, wide-range and smooth variation of the parameters of LC alignment. Here we report first time the novel concept of photo aligning the surface of liquid crystals by unpoalrized UV light. Till today, all alignment method reported uses linear poalrized light to alignm the moelcules but we used unpolarized UV light to align the molecules which is unique and quiet straight forward method for device application is concerned. The proposed method is completely different than the method obtained so far in the industry or any academia or research groups. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/1/SCI-005.pdf Hegde, Gurumurthy and M. M., Yusoff and Chigrinov, V. G. (2013) Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays. In: Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering & Technology (MUCET 2013), 3-4 December 2013 , Kuantan, Pahang. pp. 1-2..
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Local University
institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang
building UMP Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
language English
topic QD Chemistry
spellingShingle QD Chemistry
Hegde, Gurumurthy
M. M., Yusoff
Chigrinov, V. G.
Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
description Flexibility is the way of future. Human mind is moving towards nanosize, so as devices. Future generation displays is more about electronic papers made up of plastic substrates. But the technology involved in this is rather complicated. Non-contact methods are only the solutions for generating future displays. On the otherhand, the phenomenon of liquid crystal photoalignment became a subject of extensive research after the effect was discovered for the azobenzene units attached to a substrate and dispersed in a polymer matrix. Since then, huge variety of alignment materials has been developed for photonics related applications [1, 2]. Nevertheless, azo dye materials remain among the best candidates for technological application. The LC alignment produced by rubbing is not perfectly uniform, especially on a microscopic level. Because of this, alignment methods avoiding mechanical contact with the aligning substrates are being actively studied. Photoalignment is among the most promising candidates due to their non-contact nature, high uniformity, wide-range and smooth variation of the parameters of LC alignment. Here we report first time the novel concept of photo aligning the surface of liquid crystals by unpoalrized UV light. Till today, all alignment method reported uses linear poalrized light to alignm the moelcules but we used unpolarized UV light to align the molecules which is unique and quiet straight forward method for device application is concerned. The proposed method is completely different than the method obtained so far in the industry or any academia or research groups.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Hegde, Gurumurthy
M. M., Yusoff
Chigrinov, V. G.
author_facet Hegde, Gurumurthy
M. M., Yusoff
Chigrinov, V. G.
author_sort Hegde, Gurumurthy
title Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
title_short Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
title_full Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
title_fullStr Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
title_full_unstemmed Novel Concept of Aligning the Molecules for Electronic Paper Displays
title_sort novel concept of aligning the molecules for electronic paper displays
publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5771/1/SCI-005.pdf
first_indexed 2023-09-18T22:01:09Z
last_indexed 2023-09-18T22:01:09Z
_version_ 1777414407041581056