A new effective model for the director distribution of a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 438-444

  Wang, Qian ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Director; Model; Simulated annealing; Twisted nematic liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DIRECTOR; MODEL; TWIST ANGLES; TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (TNLC);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 22844443474     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/8/016     Document Type: Article

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