Paek Sang-Hyon

The orientation of functional groups, side chains, and repeat units at the surface of a liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer (AL) polyimide was changed by rubbing with a cotton velvet cloth. It was discovered that rubbing induced polar functional groups and repeat units to reorient out-of-the-plane of the surface, and it made nonpolar aliphatic side chains partially reorient inward, toward the bulk of the film. The polar AL surface provided relatively small LC pretilt angles while polyimides with

A mechanistic picture of the effects of rubbing on polyimide alignment layer (AL) surfaces and nematic liquid crystal (LC) pretilt angles (ΘP), leading to establishing a mechanism of determination of ΘP’s, was proposed on the basis of the study of the change in surface polarity of a polyimide AL with the rubbing force and density, and the subsequent changes in the ΘP and the azimuthal anchoring energy. In the regime of relatively weak rubbing where inhomogeneous, patchy surface modification (the

Abstract Four different structure polyimide thin films based on 1,4‐phenylene diamine (PDA) and 4,4′‐oxydianiline (ODA) were synthesized by using two different dianhydrides, pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) and 3,3′,4,4′‐biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA), and their residual stress behavior and mechanical properties were investigated by using a thin film stress analyzer and nanoindentation method. The residual stress behavior and mechanical properties were correlated to the morphological

Due to their periodic helical structure, cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC) have a unique ability to selectively reflect visible light. CLC films reflecting a broad wavelength band were made by inducing a pitch gradient in CLC through a diffusion of small molecules and through a thermal diffusion between two CLC oligomer films with different pitch gradients.

The nature of the nematic liquid crystal (LC) alignment induced by the rubbed polyimide (PI) align¬ment layers (ALs) and the electro-optical (EO) properties of the LC cells are expected to depend on the chemical and physical features of the PI. By employing five pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA)-type PIs having different functionalities, we have studied the effects of the PI뭩 structure and chemistry on the align¬ment characteristics and the cell뭩 EO properties. Increasing the flexibility o

러빙에 의해 유도된 네마틱 액정의 배향 특성과 그 안정성이 액정-폴리이미드 계면 특성과 어떠한 관계가 있는지를 조사하였다. 합성된 5 종류의 폴리이미드 특성을 분석하고 폴리이미드 배향막에서의 액정 배향의 균일성, 선경사각, 정착 에너지, 그리고 열 안정성을 측정 조사하였다. 러빙된 폴리이미드는 강한 정착의 액정 배향을 유도하고 액정 배향의 특성과 안정성은 배향막 표면에서의 액정과 폴리이미드 간의 분자 차원의 상호작용에 의해 결정된다는 것을 확인하였다. 폴리이미드의 유연성의 증가는 이미드화를 촉진시키며 액정의 선경사각과 배향 안정성을 증대시킨다. 반면에, 폴리이미드의 플루오르화는 액정의 배향성 및 배향 안정성을 감소시키는 것으로 나타났다. 폴리이미드의 방향족과 지방족 고리 이무수물 구조에 따른 액정 배향의 특성과 안정성에는 뚜렷한 차이가 나타나지 않았다.

We have studied the effects of liquid environments on the measured adhesion of PMDA-ODA polyimide to a silicon substrate by the blister and peel tests. The debonding pattern and adhesion strength were very sensitive to the liquid. For example, introducing pure methanol at the crack tip caused stick-slip debonding, with a high debonding angle, and severe plastic deformation of the polyimide film in blister tests, and greatly increased the adhesion strength in the peel test. The effects were progr

This study demonstrated the use of a thermally crosslinked polyimide (PI) for the liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer of an LC display (LCD) cell. Polyamic acid was prepared using 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA) and 4,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene) diphthalic anhydride (6FDA). The 6FDA−ODA-based polyimide (PI) prepared by the thermal cyclic dehydration of the polyamic acid (PAA) was soluble in various polar solvents. After forming a thin film by mixing trifunctional epoxide [4-(oxiran-2-ylmethoxy)-N,N-bi

러빙공정에서는 러빙 시 공정변수와 배향막의 특성 그리고 러빙포의 물성이 중요한 변수로 작용한다. 이러한변수들은 러빙밀도(rubbing density)와 러빙력(rubbing force)에 의해서 결정되는 러빙된 정도(크기)를 통하여 배향막의 배향성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 러빙 변수 중 러빙포의 물성이 러빙밀도(길이)와 러빙력에 미치는 영향에 대하여 알아보기 위하여 다른 물성(파일 밀도, 강직도)을 가지는 러빙포를 이용하여 러빙효과(정도)를분석하였다. 러빙포의 파일 밀도가 커지고 강직도가 강할수록 러빙된 배향막의 이방성과 표면조도가 커졌으나 러빙효과의 형태는 서로 달랐다. 러빙포의 파일밀도는 러빙에 관여하는 파일의 수와 밀접한 관련이 되어 있어 러빙하는밀도(길이) 영향을 미치지만 강직도는 러빙밀도(길이)보다는 러빙력과 보다 밀접하게 관련성이 있었다.

Abstract The polar alignment layer (AL) surface provided relatively small liquid crystal (LC) pretilt angles while polyimides with long alkyl side chains gave relatively large LC pretilt angles. The results suggest that LC pretilt angles, in addition to an anchoring effect, are greatly affected by both electronic and steric interactions between LC molecules and a polyimide alignment layer surface. Rubbing with a cotton cloth induces functional groups, side chains, and repeat units at the surface