Transflective liquid crystal displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-29

  Zhu, Xinyu ^b   Ge, Zhibing ^a,c   Wu, Thomas X ^a,c   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b,d,e  

^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

Reflectance; Reflection region; Reflective mode; Transflective liquid crystal display (LCD); Transmission region; Transmissive mode; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

COLOR BALANCE; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; REFLECTIVE REGION; TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; TRANSMISSION REGION; TRANSMISSIVE MODE; TRANSMITTANCE; VIEWING ANGLE;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; REFLECTION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 27744567428     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.852506     Document Type: Article

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