Reflective color STN-LCD with a single polarizer and double retardation films

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-140

  Fujita, S ^b,c   Yamaguchi, H ^a,b   Mizuno, H ^b   Ohtani, T ^b   Sekime, T ^b   Hatanaka, T ^b   Ogawa, T ^b  

^a SID ^*

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED BIREFRINGENCE (ECB); REFLECTIVE COLOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS (LCD); RETARDATION FILMS; SUPER-TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0033284064     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1985283     Document Type: Article

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