Design and synthesis of new ferroelectric liquid crystals. 9. An approach to creation of organic polymer thin films with controlled, stable polar orientation of functional groups

Journal Article · Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Journal of the American Chemical Society; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00203a036· OSTI ID:6711507

Walba, D M; Parmar, D S; Clark, N A ^[1]; Keller, P ^[2]; Wand, M D ^[3]

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1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (USA)
2. Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
3. Displaytech, Inc., Boulder, CO (USA)

For many microelectronic and optoelectronic applications, organic thin films with controlled, polar orientation of functional groups relative to a substrate surface hold great potential. Several possible solutions of this problem are currently under active investigation, including the growth of single crystal films, polar deposition of Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers, electrically poled polymer films, and self-assembled multilayers. In this communication, we describe a new approach for achieving designed organic thin films with thermodynamically stable, polar orientation of functional groups using ferroelectric liquid crystal polymers (FLCPs).

• OSTI ID: 6711507
• Journal Information: Journal of the American Chemical Society; (USA), Vol. 111:21; ISSN 0002-7863
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC
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PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS
DESIGN
SYNTHESIS
LIQUID CRYSTALS
CALCULATION METHODS
DATA ANALYSIS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MEASURING METHODS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
THIN FILMS
CRYSTALS
DATA
FILMS
FLUIDS
INFORMATION
LIQUIDS
NUMERICAL DATA
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