Towards a polarized light-emitting backlight: Micro-structured anisotropic layers

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 10, Issue 3 SPEC., 2002, Pages 209-213

  Blom, S M P ^a   Huck, H P M ^a   Cornelissen, H J ^a   Greiner, H ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backlight; LCD; Liquid crystalline polymer; Polarized light; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACKLIGHT; MICRO OPTICAL STRUCTURES; RAY TRACING MODEL;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0036457944     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1827869     Document Type: Article

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