Wide-view and broadband circular polarizers for transflective liquid crystal displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-138

  Ge, Zhibing ^a,b   Jiao, Meizi ^b   Lu, Ruibo ^b   Wu, Thomas X ^a,c   Wu, Shin Tson ^a,b   Li, Wang Yang ^d   Wei, Chung Kuang ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broadband; Circular polarizer; Liquid crystal display (LCD); Transflective; Wide viewing angle

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; POWDERS; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; LIGHT LEAKAGE; LINEAR POLARIZER (LP); TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (TR LCD); TRANSMISSIVE MODES; VIEWING ANGLES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 44649094513     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2008.920178     Document Type: Article

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