Optiva, Inc. has developed new technology for Thin Crystal Film (TCF) polarizers and retarders manufactured by deposition and drying of water-based lyotropic liquid crystal materials. An effective method to control and monitor two significant steps of this technology, a self-assembly into rod-like supramolecules in liquid material and its subsequent molecular alignment into TCF, is X-ray diffraction. There is direct correlation between X-ray data and the final optical characteristics of TCF polarizers and retarders and therefore its implementation into LCD applications.
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