Alignment technologies

If the benefits of aligning technology and organizational design are so clear, why isn t it done We suggest that there are many reasons. 

Aligning Technological and Organizational Change, by Ann Majchrzak and Najmedin Meshkati... 

Some of the typical applications were already mentioned in the second section when the alignment methods were discussed. The practical example presented in the sequel illustrates some of the advantages of the newly emerging alignment technology it is a non-contact, hot alignment, semi-automatic (with full automation possibility) and dynamic. 

K. Takatoh, M. Hasegawa, M. Koden, N. Itoh, R. Hasegawa, M. Sakamoto, Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices (TaylOT Francis, New York, 2005)... 

From the early stages of LCD production in the 70s, only the rubbing method has been adopted for alignment technologies. The rubbing method is a simple, convenient, and low-cost, and it is considered unlikely that the rubbing method... 

In the sections on smectic liquid crystals, first the alignment and molecular orientation of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals (SSFLCs) are treated in detail. Next, the alignment technologies needed for the occurrence of bistability are detailed. Furthermore, liquid crystalline devices made of AFLC materials and the applications of FLC and AFLC materials to active matrix devices are discussed. 

Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices... 

The first half of the book deals with alignment technologies for nematic liquid crystals, and in the second half those for smectic liquid crystals are covered. Almost all commercially available LCDs use nematic liquid crystals, and so the first chapters provide information that is practical and useful. However, alignment of smectic liquid crystals with all their variations is a very fruitful area of study, and with developments that are possible in the future, a knowledge of smectic liquid crystal alignment could be even more important. It is therefore one of the key features of the book that the alignments for both smectic and nematic liquid crystals are presented. 

The authors have all worked in the LCD industry from the 1980s to the time of writing, in the following companies Sharp, IBM Japan and Toshiba. Their projects during these years were concerned with managing alignment technologies... 

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