Chin. Phys. Lett.  2007, Vol. 24 Issue (10): 2906-2909    DOI:
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Near-Field Birefringence Response of Liquid Crystal Molecules in Thickness Direction of Liquid Crystal Thin Film Orientated by Shear Force
Jing QIN;Norihiro UMEDA
Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8588, Japan
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Jing QIN, Norihiro UMEDA 2007 Chin. Phys. Lett. 24 2906-2909
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Abstract Information of molecular orientation in nematic liquid crystal (LC) is attractive and important for applications in the field of display devices. We demonstrate a novel method using a birefringence scanning near-field optical microscope (Bi-SNOM) with a probe which is inserted into the LC thin film to detect the molecular orientation from its birefringence responses in the thickness direction of the LC thin film. The probe is laterally vibrated when going forward into the LC thin film, and the retardation and azimuth angle are recorded as the probe going down. Firstly, the thickness of the LC thin film is measured by the shear force detection. Since the shear force acts as a stimulation to reorientate the LC molecules above the substrate surface, we can detect the molecular orientation caused by a polyimide alignment
substrate and the effect to molecular orientation caused by vibration of fibre probe. As a result, the orientation profiling of the LC film in depth direction is obtained in both the cases that the direction of probe vibrating is vertical/parallel to the rubbing direction of the alignment film.
Furthermore, the thickness of completely orientated layers just above the substrate surface can also be obtained by either vibrating probe or no-vibrating probe. Ultimately, the LC thin film can be modelled in thickness direction from all the results using this method.
Keywords: 61.30.Gd      42.81.Gs      42.25.Lc      07.79.Fc     
Received: 01 August 2007      Published: 20 September 2007
PACS:  61.30.Gd (Orientational order of liquid crystals; electric and magnetic field effects on order)  
  42.81.Gs (Birefringence, polarization)  
  42.25.Lc (Birefringence)  
  07.79.Fc (Near-field scanning optical microscopes)  
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