Liquid crystal quenched orientational disorder at an AFM-scribed alignment surface

JS Pendery, TJ Atherton, M Nobili, RG Petschek… - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A polyimide substrate was scribed using the stylus of an atomic force microscope, then
covered with a nematic liquid crystal. The fiber from a near field scanning optical microscope …