• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2002년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.475-478
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• 2002

VA-LCDs is widely used for recent LCD productions owing to good viewing angle and high contrast. To apply for VA-LCDs, we have synthesized novel homeotropic alignment materials, which all generated high pretilt angles ($9^{\circ}$). The thermal stabilities of them were observed by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Transmittances of the NLC cell used the new alignment material were not changed before and after thermal annealing at $120^{\circ}C$ for 24hrs. In this work, the synthesis and alignment properties of new homeotropic alignment materials will be reported.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.661-667
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• 2004

The control of tilt angle for nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with negative and positive dielectric anisotropy on the rubbed homeotropic polyimide (PI) using baking method by hot plate equipment was investigated. LC tilt angle decreased with increasing baking temperature and time. Especially, the low LC tilt angle of positive type NLC (Δ$\varepsilon$＞0) on the rubbed homeotropic PI surface by increasing temperature and time was measured. The tilt angle of positive type NLC(Δ$\varepsilon$＞0) is smaller than that of the negative type (Δ$\varepsilon$＞0) on rubbed PI with increasing baking temperature and time. We consider that the tilt angle of NLC is decreased due to increasing the steric interaction between horizon component of permittivity $\varepsilon$ = of NLC and the stress of polymer side chain by high temperature. As the increase of baking temperature, we obtain that AFM (atomic force microscope) image of rubbed PI surface using Hot-plate method has formed better solid micro-groove structure than oven method.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.16
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• pp.67-70
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• 2003

The control of tilt angle for nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with negative and positive dielectric anisotropy on the rubbed homeotropic polyimide (PI) using baking method by hot plate equipment was investigated. LC tilt angle decreased with increasing baking temperature and time. Especially, the low LC tilt angle of positive type NLC ($\Delta\varepsilon$ >0) on the rubbed homeotropic PI surface by increasing temperature and time was measured. The tilt angle of positive type NLC ($\Delta\varepsilon$ >0) is smaller than that of the negative type ($\Delta\varepsilon$ >0) on rubbed PI with increasing baking temperature and time. We consider that the tilt angle of NLC is decreased due to increasing the steric interaction between horizon component of permittivity $\varepsilon$ = of NLC and the stress of polymer side chain by high temperature.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.17
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• pp.583-585
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• 2004

In this paper, we synthesized a new photo-crosslinkable polyitaconimide containing cinnamoyl moiety by radical polymerization. Also, the NLC alignment capabilities on these photopolymer surfaces were studied. Good LC alignment with W exposure on the polyitaconimide surfaces can be obtained. A homogenous alignment using UV exposure on the polyitaconimide with 1-carbon chain cinnamoyl group and 4-carbon chain cinnamoly group can be obtained. However, the homeotripic alignment using UV exposure was observed on polyitaconimide with 6-carbon chain cinnamoyl. The LC aligning ability on the polyitaconimide depends on the side chain length of photopolymer.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.6-12
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• 2001

Formation of intensity gratings was studied with two s-polarized (s+s) configuration in polymer liquid crystals (PLCs) containing a photochromic moiety (azobenzene) and a mesogenic unit (tolane, T-AB; cyanobiphenyl, CB-AB) by photoinduced alignment of PLCs. Remarkable differences were observed between the two PLCs. T-AB showed a faster response to the change in the diffraction intensity than CB-AB. In T-AB, alignment change took place faster than that of CB-AB. By introducing the tolane unit at the side chain, we obtained a diffraction efficiency of 30 % in the Raman-Nath regime

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.274-278
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• 2003

New banana-shaped achiral compounds, 1,3-phenylene bis [4-{4-(alkenyloxy) phenyliminomethyl}benzoate]s were synthesized by varying the length of alkenyl group; their ferroelectric properties are described. The smectic mesophases, including a switchable chiral smectic C $(Sm\;C^*)$ phase, were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy and triangular wave method. The presence of vinyl groups at the terminals of linear side wings in the banana-shaped achiral molecules containing Schiff's base mesogen induced a decrease in melting temperature and formation of the switchable $(Sm\;C^*)$ phase in the melt. The smectic phases having the octenyloxy group such as $(CH_2)_6CH=CH_2$ showed ferroelctric switching, and their values of spontaneous polarization on reversal of an applied electric field were 120 nC/cm² (X=H) and 225 nC/ cm² (X=F), respectively. We could obtain ferroelectric phases by controlling the number of carbon atom in alkenyloxy chain of a bent-core molecule.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1367-1372
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• 2010

유연한 곁사슬을 가지고 있는 copoly(ether-ether-ester)가 중축합반응에 의하여 합성되었다. 테트라클로로에탄 중에서 측정된 중합체의 고유점성도 값은 0.42~0.78 dl/g을 나타내었다. 합성된 고분자의 구조는 $^1H$-NMR과 FT-IR에 의하여 조사되었으며, 열적성질과 액정성은 DSC, TGA, POM, XRD에 의하여 측정되었다. 조사된 결과에 의하면 합성된 공중합체들은 모두 단독중합체보다 낮은 용융전이온도를 나타내었으며, 공중합체 내의 비페닐렌 단위의 함량이 60 mol %이상일 때 네마틱액정상이 관찰되었으며, 합성된 중합체의 액정성은 비페닐렌 함량에 의존하였다.

• 폴리머
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2009

셀룰로오스 트리[4-{4'-(니트로페닐아조)펜옥시카보닐}]알카노에이트들(NACEn, n=2$\sim$8,10, 유연격자 중의 메틸렌 단위들의 수)의 동족체들의 열방성 액정 특성을 검토하였다. 모든 동족체들은 단방성 네마틱 상들을 형성하였다. 액체 상에서 네마틱 상으로의 전이온도($T_{iN}$)는 n이 증가함에 따라 낮아지나 n이 7이상에서 거의 일정하게 되었다. $T_{iN}$에서의 엔트로피 변화와 n의 관계를 나타낸 그림 상에는 n=7에서 급격한 엔트로피의 감소가 관찰되었다. n=7에서 급격한 변화는 곁사슬 그룹의 배열의 차이에 의해 초래되는 것으로 생각된다. 용융온도($T_m$)와 $T_m$에서의 엔트로피 변화는 $T_{iN}$과 $T_{iN}$에서의 엔트로피 변화와 판이하게 뚜렷한 홀수-짝수 효과를 나타냈다. 이러한 사실은 네마틱 상과 결정 상에서의 곁사슬 그룹들의 평균적인 형태가 판이함을 시사한다. NACEn에서 관찰되는 네미틱상의 열적 안정성과 질서도는 아조벤젠 혹은 바이페닐 단위들을 곁사슬로 지닌 곁사슬형 그리고 복합형 액정 고분자 동족체들에 대해 보고된 결과들과 현저히 달랐다. 이들의 결과를 주사슬의 화학구조와 유연성, 주사슬과 곁사슬 그룹의 결합양식 그리고 반복단위당의 mesogenic 단위들의 수의 차이들의 견지에서 검토하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2000

Effects of alignment layers on pretilt nagle generation and electrical characteristics in nematic liquid crystal(NLC) by using photo-alignment techniques on polyimide PI) surface with side chain were studied. The generated pretilt angle of the NLC on rubbed PI surface with 1-layer is almost the same as that with the 2-layers. However, the generated pretilt angle of the NLC on photo-induced PI surface with 2-layers is larger than that with the 1-layer. The different mechanism of pretilt generation in NLC was observed on the rubbing and photo-alignment method. Therefore, the pretilt angle of the NLC on photo-induced PI surface is attributed to surface roughness due to photo-dissociation on the polymer with UV light irradiation on PI surface. We observed the same characteristics of voltage-transmittance (V-T) and response time for 1- and 2-layers on PI surface. Consequently, we sugest that the VHR of photo-aligned TN-LCD is higher than that of the rubbing-aligned TN-LCD.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.303-312
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• 2001

The fabrication of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels involves several thermal processes such as imidization of the alignment layer (AL) and annealing of the rubbed polyimide AL. The nature of these processes on the LC alignment, especially on the pretilt angle (Θ$\_$p/) has been systematically studied, employing various types of polyimide structures. The imidization effect depends on the nature of polyimid precursors; Θ$\^$p/ increases with the degree of the imidization for the main-chain type of ALs, due to the decrease in the surface polarity, but this relation is not applicable to the alkylated ones in which the steric effect at the AL surface by the aliphatic side chains is dominant. Annealing of the rubbed polyimide AL deteriorates its rubbing-induced molecular orientation and subsequently the overlying LC alignment, resulting in the decrease in Θ$\_$p/. Especially, annealing of the LC cell affects the LC-AL interaction as well as the AL orientation and thus its effect on LC alignment depends sensitively on the nature of LC-polyimide interface; aromatic moiety in the polyimide structure gives better thermal stability of LC alignment while fluorinated polyimide ALs induce the less stable alignment.