| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form good alignment layers having excellent characteristics and to improve mass productivity in production. SOLUTION: A substrate 10 is set at a holder 12 and while this substrate is irradiated with an ion beam by an ion gun 16, SiO2 is evaporated by an evaporation source 14. At this time, the holder 12 may be rotated. The alignment layers consisting of SiO2 are diagonally deposited by evaporation on the substrate 10 under irradiation with the ions. After the alignment layers of a prescribed film thickness are formed, the alignment layers are subjected to a treatment to expose the alignment layers into the vapor of straight chain higher alcohol, for example, octadecanol, by which the alignment layers are subjected to an alignment treatment. As a result, alcohol films are adhered and formed on the alignment layers. Two sheets of the alignment treated substrates obtd. in such a manner are combined via spacers, by which a liquid crystal cell is constituted. |
