Cell gap and twist angle determinations of a reflective liquid crystal display

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2290-2293

  Wu, Shin Tson ^a   Xu, Gang ^b  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b InViso Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell gap measurement; Liquid crystal display; Twist angle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012191527     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.887010     Document Type: Article

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