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

Yubing Guo; Miao Jiang; Chenhui Peng; Kai Sun; Oleg Yaroshchuk; Oleg Lavrentovich; Qi Huo Wei

doi:10.1002/adma.201506002

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

Yubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Oleg Lavrentovich, Qi Huo Wei^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2353-2358
Number of pages	6
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	28
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201506002
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

liquid crystals
photoalignments
plasmonic metamasks
topological defects

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