Photo-alignment and photo-patterning of monomeric and polymeric liquid crystals renders a plethora of new birefringent optical elements and improved LCDs possible. Linearly photo-polymerization (LPP) is shown to enable photo-alignment of multi-domain VAN-LCDs with very broad field of view. Moreover, novel LPP-aligned thin-film stacks of polymeric liquid crystals with controllable spatial uniaxiality, non-absorbing, bright interference color filters, photo-structured polarizers, positive and negative optical retarders and wide-view films are presented.
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