High-transmittance in-plane-switching liquid-crystal displays using a positive-dielectric-anisotropy liquid crystal

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1031-1037

  Ge, Zhibing ^a   Zhu, Xinyu ^a   Wu, Thomas X ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fringe field switching; High tramsmittance; In plane switching; Liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CIVIL ENGINEERING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POWDERS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TURBULENT FLOW; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; FFS MODES; FIELD SWITCHING; FRINGE-FIELD SWITCHING; HIGH TRAMSMITTANCE; IN-PLANE SWITCHING; NEMATIC; NEW MODES; SWITCHING MECHANISMS; WIDE VIEWINGS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 41449108093     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2393027     Document Type: Article

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