Liquid crystal microlens arrays with switchable positive and negative focal lengths

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 151-155

  Fan, Yun Hsing ^a,b   Ren, Hongwen ^a,b   Liang, Xiao ^a,b,c   Wang, Haiying ^a,b   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Society for Information Display   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; LC displays; Liquid crystal (LC) devices; Microlens arrays; Tunable focal length

Indexed keywords

DUAL FREQUENCY; LC DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MICROLENS ARRAYS; TUNABLE FOCAL LENGTH;

COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROLENSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SWITCHING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 27744598145     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.853268     Document Type: Article

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