Stressed liquid crystals and their application

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5936, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  West, John L ^a   Zhang, Ke ^a   Zhang, Matt ^a   Büyüanir, Ebru ^a   Glushchenko, Anatoliy ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering devices; Displays; Fast switching; Phase retardation; Stressed liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; HYSTERESIS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHASE SHIFT;

FAST SWITCHING; STRESSED LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 31744441527     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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