POLICRYPS switchable holographic grating: A promising grating electro-optical pixel for high resolution display application

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-51

  Caputo, Roberto ^a,c   De Sio, Luciano ^a   Veltri, Alessandro ^a   Sukhov, Andrey V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High resolution display; Holographic grating; Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

FILMS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POLYMERS;

GRATING ELECTRO-OPTICAL PIXEL; HIGH RESOLUTION DISPLAY; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; KOGELNIK-LIKE MODELS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33244477017     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.864156     Document Type: Article

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