Pretilt angle effects on liquid crystal response time

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 280-283

  Nie, Xiangyi ^b   Xianyu, Haiqing ^b   Lu, Ruibo ^b   Wu, Thomas X ^a,b   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal (LC); Pretilt angle; Response time

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

LIQUID CRYSTAL DYNAMIC PROCESS; LIQUID CRYSTAL RESPONSE TIME; PRETILT ANGLES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34548106391     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2007.900926     Document Type: Article

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