A simple method for measuring the cell gap of a reflective twisted nematic LCD

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1863-1867

  Zhu, Xinyu ^a   Choi, Wing Kit ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell gap measurement; Reflective liquid crystal display

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER BEAMS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

REFLECTIVE TWISTED NEMATIC (RTN) LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0036866014     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2002.804718     Document Type: Article

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