title: Nanoparticles-doped guest-host liquid crystal displays.
abstract: The technique, nanoparticles-induced vertical alignment (NIVA), was applied to fabricate a guest-host liquid crystal display (GH-LCD) without conventional alignment layers. The GH-LCD produced by NIVA exhibited a high reflectance of approximately 59% in the voltage-off state and a low threshold voltage of approximately 2.1 V(rms). NIVA is very suitable to be applied for fabricating a plastic LCD requiring a low temperature process, and a flexible timepiece by using NIVA was demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wen-Yu
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: Shie-Chang
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Jeng
authors.forename: Chia-Wei
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Yan-Rung
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chi-Chang
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Wei-Kuo
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Chin