Analytical solutions for uniaxial-film-compensated wide-view liquid crystal displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-20

  Zhu, Xinyu ^b   Ge, Zhibing ^a,c   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d Society for Information Display   (United States)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Film compensation; Fringe field switching (FFS); In plane switching (IPS); Liquid crystal display (LCD); Multi domain vertical alignment (MVA); Patterned vertical alignment (PVA); Wide viewing angle (WVA)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FILM COMPENSATION; FRINGE-FIELD SWITCHING (FFS); IN-PLANE SWITCHING (IPS); MULTI-DOMAIN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT (MVA); PATTERNED VERTICAL ALIGNMENT (PVA); WIDE VIEWING ANGLE (WVA);

ALIGNMENT; FILMS; SWITCHING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 33244482288     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2005.863599     Document Type: Article

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