Ultrawide-view liquid crystal displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-13

  Lu, Ruibo ^b   Zhu, Xinyu ^b   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b,d,e   Hong, Qi ^c   Wu, Thomas X ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d Society for Information Display   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced super view mode; Color shift; In plane switching; Liquid crystal displays (LCDs); Multidomain vertical alignment; Patterned vertical alignment; Phase compensation films; Wide viewing angle

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED-SUPER-VIEW MODE; COLOR SHIFT; IN-PLANE SWITCHING; MULTIDOMAIN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; PATTERNED VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; ULTRAWIDE-VIEW LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; WIDE ANGLE VIEWING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES; SWITCHING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 27744560274     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.852507     Document Type: Article

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