Effect of Polyimide on the Liquid Crystal Alignment for the Photo-Alignment Layers of Coumarin based Photopolymer/Polyimide Blends

  • Sung, Shi-Joon (Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Cho, Ki-Yun (Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Park, Jung-Ki (Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2002.08.21

Abstract

We prepared the blend alignment layers made from coumarin based photopolymer and polyimides for liquid crystal(LC) alignment using linearly polarized ultraviolet(UV) exposure. The alignment properties of LC were found to depend on the type of polyimide in the blend alignment layers. The degree of photereaction of polyimide was important factor for LC alignment direction on the blend alignment layers.

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