Reflective and transflective liquid crystal displays for low-power mobile applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5936, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Kim, Jinyool ^b   Yu, Chang Jae ^b   Kim, Dong Woo ^b   Lee, Sin Doo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

LCD; Mobile displays; Reflective LCD; Transflective LCD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

REFLECTIVE LCD; TRANSFLECTIVE LCD;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 31744450676     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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