Thin liquid-crystal display backlight system with highly scattering optical transmission polymers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2001, Pages 6274-6280

  Yokoyama, Kazuaki ^b   Nagai, Michio ^a   Koike, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Enplas Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLYMERS;

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION POLYMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0001558612     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006274     Document Type: Article

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