Solvent-Assisted Soft-Lithographic Patterning of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer Film by Flow Control through Patterned Channels

  • Park, Chang-Sub (Department of Sensor and Display Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Park, Kyung-Woo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kang, Shin-Won (Department of Sensor and Display Engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kwak, Gi-Seop (Department of Polymer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Hak-Rin (Department of Sensor and Display Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2009.10.12

Abstract

We demonstrated a solvent-assisted soft-lithographic patterning method for producing patterned structure and patterned ordering with lyotropic liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) film. Experimental results showed that the liquid crystalline ordering of lyotropic film could be controlled by shearing effects of the fluidic solvent though the patterned mold channels. In this work, two types of lyotropic LCPs were used to investigate the effects of the alkyl chain length of the lyotropic LCP on producing liquid crystalline ordering through the solvent-assisted fluidic patterning.

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