High-Resolution and High-Throughput Plasmonic Photopatterning of Complex Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals

A plasmonic photopatterning technique is proposed and demonstrated for aligning the molecular orientation in liquid crystals (LCs) in patterns with designer complexity. Using plasmonic metamasks in which target molecular directors are encoded, LC alignments of arbitrary planar patterns can be achiev...

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Published inAdvanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 2353 - 2358
Main Authors Guo, Yubing, Jiang, Miao, Peng, Chenhui, Sun, Kai, Yaroshchuk, Oleg, Lavrentovich, Oleg, Wei, Qi-Huo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Blackwell Publishing Ltd 23.03.2016
Subjects
Alignment
Complexity
Liquid crystals
Orientation
photoalignments
plasmonic metamasks
Plasmonics
Spatial resolution
topological defects
plasmonic metamasks
liquid crystals
topological defects
photoalignments
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Summary:A plasmonic photopatterning technique is proposed and demonstrated for aligning the molecular orientation in liquid crystals (LCs) in patterns with designer complexity. Using plasmonic metamasks in which target molecular directors are encoded, LC alignments of arbitrary planar patterns can be achieved in a repeatable and scalable fashion withunprecedentedly high spatial resolution and high throughput.
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ISSN:0935-9648
1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201506002