A high-efficiency display based on a telescopic pixel design

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 492-495

  Pyayt, Anna L ^a,b   Starkweather, Gary K ^a   Sinclair, Michael J ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; FAST RESPONSE TIME; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; OPAQUE SUBSTRATES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSMISSIVE DISPLAYS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

PIXELS;

EID: 48849100908     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.133     Document Type: Article

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