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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2015
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., Orlando, FL (US);
Nelson V. Tabirian, Winter Park, FL (US);
Sarik R. Nersisyan, Winter Park, FL (US);
Brian R. Kimball, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Diane M. Steeves, Franklin, MA (US);
Rafael O Vergara, Winter Park, FL (US);
Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., Orlando, FL (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal polymer film includes providing a support substrate having a surface having a shape arranged to define a form of a liquid crystal polymer film to be fabricated; applying a layer of a photoaligning material over the surface of the support substrate, the photoaligning material having an absorption band; exposing the layer of photoaligning material to a light having a linear polarization and the light comprising a wavelength within the absorption band to convert the layer of photoaligning material into a layer of photoaligned material; applying a layer of a polymerizable liquid crystal over the layer of photoaligned material; performing photopolymerization of the layer of polymerizable liquid crystal to form a liquid crystal polymer film; applying a solvent to the layer of photoaligned material, the solvent formulated to dissolve the photoaligned material to thereby release the liquid crystal polymer film from the support substrate; and removing the liquid crystal polymer film from the support substrate.