Characterization of an Acrylamide Based Photopolymer for Fabrication of Liquid Crystal Devices

Authors

Pavani Kotakonda, Technological University Dublin
Izabela Naydenova, Technological University DublinFollow
Suzanne Martin, Technological University DublinFollow
Vincent Toal, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Optics

Publication Details

Proceeding of International conference on Materials Energy and Design, DIT, 2006, 369-379.

Abstract

Photopolymers are increasingly interesting as new materials for the fabrication of electro optical liquid crystal devices. Photoinduced surface relief gratings in dry, self developing acrylamide based photopolymers can be used to align liquid crystals (LCs) as an alternative to the rubbing technique. These optically recorded surface relief patterns can be used to fabricate electro-optical switchable LC Bragg gratings. An investigation of the dependence of photoinduced surface relief gratings on recording intensity and thickness of the photopolymer layer is reported. The surface relief gratings were filled with E7 LCs and a switchable LC diffraction grating was fabricated.

Recommended Citation

Kotakonda, P. et al. (2006) Characterization of an Acrylamide Based Photopolymer for Fabrication of Liquid Crystal Devices. Proceeding of International conference on Materials Energy and Design, DIT, Dublin.

Funder

Technological University Dublin Scholarship Program