High pretilt four-domain twisted nematic liquid crystal display by microrubbing: Process, characterization, and optical simulation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Varghese, Soney ^a   Crawford, Gregory P ^a   Bastiaansen, Cees W M ^a   De Boer, Dick K G ^b   Broer, Dirk J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST RATIO; MICRORUBBING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; VIEWING ANGLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; GLASS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYIMIDES; VACUUM;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 20444432704     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1854203     Document Type: Article

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