Flexible and reflective polarizer-free liquid crystal displays using dye-doped liquid crystal gels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6911, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lin, Yi Hsin ^a   Yang, Jhih Ming ^a   Jeng, Shie Chang ^b   Lin, Yan Rung ^b   Liao, Chi Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flexible display; Guest host; Liquid crystal; Polarizer free

Indexed keywords

DYES; GELS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING;

FLEXIBLE DISPLAY; GUEST-HOST; POLARIZER-FREE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 43249102383     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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