Talk:Alignment layer

Orphan tag

This article just got created, so it's not surprising it's orphaned (no articles link to it) -- however, if someone wants to make it easier to find, it might be helpful to find the places in Liquid-crystal display and Twisted nematic field effect where they are discussed and link this article. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:06, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Managed to find a place to link it in LCD, although some links in nematic-field-effect might also be helpful. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Please see comments below about major issues with this stub. Ldm1954 (talk) 09:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: With just one source, and that from 2006, the notability and general quality of this article is highly dubious. Please improve quickly, or it would be better to move it back to draft until it is of Wikipedia quality.

Ldm1954 (talk) 09:26, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Added some additional and updated sources. I don't think that just because an article only has one source, that it's reasonable to assume it's not notable without at least looking around a bit for additional sources -- googling "alignment layer" seems to turn them up fairly quickly. Mrfoogles (talk) 18:35, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Merged in photoalignment

Many sources discussing alignment layers discuss photoalignment, and many sources discussing photoalignment discussing rubbing techniques. They are often compared to each other -- the article discussing photoalignment discusses rubbing, and a discussion of photoalignment has to be included in the general "alignment layers" article anyway. Therefore I merged photoalignment into the general article, which also helps in telling the history of alignment layers, a subject well-covered in the sources. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:32, 1 March 2025 (UTC)