LED backlight system with double-prism pattern

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1045-1051

  Funamoto, Akihiro ^a   Aoyama, Shigeru ^a  

^a OMRON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backlight system; Coupling pattern; Directivity; Double prism pattern; Light guide; Optical sheet

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT SIGNAL LIGHTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRISMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

BACKLIGHT SYSTEM; COUPLING PATTERN; DIRECTIVITY; DOUBLE-PRISM PATTERN; OPTICAL SHEET;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 34547920925     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2393029     Document Type: Article

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