[17a-K406-1~9] 12.3 Functional Materials and Novel Devices

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM JST(12:30 AM - 12:45 AM UTC)Presentation by Applicant for JSAP Young Scientists Presentation Award

[17a-K406-3] Pre-tilt patterning of liquid crystals using aligned polymer composite system and its electro-optical properties

〇Taiga Obayashi¹, Hiroshi Moritake¹, Yo Inoue¹ (1.NDA)

Keywords:

liquid crystal

Liquid crystal prisms (LC prisms) have been one of the promising technologies that enables non-mechanical beam steering. The LC prism can be demonstrated by patterning the pre-tilt angle of LC alignment and forming a single refractive index gradient. However, patterning of LC alignment in the polar angle direction remains challenging. In this study, we propose a novel method to realize patterning of the pre-tilt angle by embedding an aligned polymer structure in a LC cell.