Creation of Liquid Crystal Waveguides with Scanning Force Microscopy

Solid Surface Shape and the Alignment of an Adjacent Nematic Liquid Crystal

1972 • 867 citations

The mechanism of polymer alignment of liquid-crystal materials

1987 • 678 citations

Orientational Ordering of Polymers by Atomic Force Microscope Tip-Surface Interaction

1992 • 224 citations

Surface Anchoring of Liquid Crystal Molecules on Various Substrates

1983 • 138 citations

Submicrometer modification of polymer surfaces with a surface force microscope

1992 • 97 citations

The atomic force microscope used as a powerful tool for machining surfaces

1992 • 92 citations

Strongly non-linear optical ferroelectric liquid crystals for frequency doubling

1993 • 77 citations

Microwear processes of polymer surfaces

1993 • 55 citations

Micro-tribological evaluations of a polymer surface by atomic force microscopes

1992 • 43 citations

Atomic force microscopy using ZnO whisker tip

1992 • 38 citations

Detailed Morphology of Rubbed Alignment Layers and Surface Anchoring of Liquid Crystals

1993 • 30 citations

Special Issue: Communicating Physics to the Public

1990 • 21 citations

Efficient nonlinear optical ferroelectric liquid crystals for integrated optics devices

1994 • 10 citations