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Yubing Guo1, Miao Jiang1, Chenhui Peng1
1Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|January 23, 2016
Abstract:
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.
