Optically compensated circular polarizers for liquid crystal displays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13276-13286

  Lin, Chi Huang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; CONTRAST RATIO; HIGH TRANSMITTANCE; MATRIX METHODS; MOBILE DISPLAYS; MULTIDOMAIN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; OPTICAL COMPENSATION; OPTICALLY COMPENSATED;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION;

EID: 50049100923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013276     Document Type: Article

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