Super-reflective color LCD with PDLC technology

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-136

  Minoura, Kiyoshi ^a   Mizushima, Shigeaki ^a   Asaoka, Yasushi ^a   Ihara, Ichiro ^a   Satoh, Eiji ^a   Fujiwara, Sayuri ^a   Itoh, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color image; Corner cube array; Electronic paper; Moving image; Polarizer free; Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC); Reflective LCD; Retro reflector

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; REFLECTION;

COLOR IMAGE; CORNER CUBE ARRAY; ELECTRONIC PAPER; MOVING IMAGE; POLARIZER-FREE; REFLECTIVE LCD; RETRO-REFLECTOR;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 54149088839     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2835019     Document Type: Article

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