Fringing-field effects on high-resolution liquid crystal microdisplays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 304-313

  Fan Chiang, Kuan Hsu ^b,c   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,d,e,f   Chen, Shu Hsia ^b,g  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES INC   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Society for Information Display   (United States)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g Institute of Electro Optical Engineering   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beam propagation method (BPM); Fringing field effect; Liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS); Projection display

Indexed keywords

FRINGING-FIELD EFFECT; LIQUID-CRYSTAL-ON-SILICON (LCOS); PROJECTION DISPLAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHTING; POLYSILICON; SIMULATORS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 29344442171     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.858930     Document Type: Article

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