Abstract

Using the in situ measurements of the surface potential built across the evaporated liquid crystalline 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) films on metal electrodes with different work functions, we studied the cooperative molecular field effect (CMFE) that assists carrier injection from electrodes and the induced orientational reordering in evaporated liquid crystalline molecules on metals. The surface potential increased, and then became constant after the 5CB monomolecular layer was formed. It was shown that the CMFE accompanying orientational reordering accounts for the metal work function dependence of the surface potential. Finally, the orientational reordering is discussed in terms of the anchoring energy.

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