Two approaches to the luminance enhancement of backlighting units for LCDs

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-161

  Suzuki, Masaru ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^b SID ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d IBM   (United States)

^e Society for Information Display

^f Inst of Elec Engineers of Japan   (Japan)

^g Inst Image Info Television E   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BACKLIGHTS; LIGHT-COLLIMATING SHEETS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0033336595     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1984469     Document Type: Article

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