Optical and Functional Coatings for Flexible Displays

Flexible Flat Panel Displays

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 179-193

  Sousa, Matthew E ^a   Crawford, Gregory P ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesteric film polarizers; Color filters; Liquid crystal displays (LCDs); Optical film technologies; Reactive mesogen retarders; Thin crystal film polarizers; Thin film polarizers; Thin film retarders

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344433406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470870508.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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