Backlight unit with double-surface light emission using a single micro-structured lightguide plate

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-387

  Käläntär, Kälil ^a   Matsumoto, Shingo ^a   Katoh, Tatsuya ^a   Mizuno, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a Nippon Leiz Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backlight unit; Double surface illumination system; Micro prism array; Micro reflector; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT REFLECTION; PRISMS; RAY TRACING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BACKLIGHT UNIT; DOUBLE SURFACE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS; MICRO-PRISM ARRAYS; MICRO-REFLECTORS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 10944270867     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1847736     Document Type: Article

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