Design considerations for a backlight with switchable viewing angles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6338, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fujieda, Ichiro ^a   Takagi, Yoshihiko ^a   Rahadian, Fanny ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backlight; Liquid crystal; Viewing angle

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PRODUCT DESIGN;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; PERIODIC PHASE DISTRIBUTION; VIEWING ANGLE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 33751083116     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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