Review of operating principle and performance of polarizer-free reflective liquid-crystal displays

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-124

  Yang, Deng Ke ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesteric display; Flexible display; Liquid crystal display; PDLC; PSCT; Reflective display

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

CHOLESTERIC DISPLAY; FLEXIBLE DISPLAY; PDLC; PSCT; REFLECTIVE DISPLAY;

POWDERS;

EID: 54249167185     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2835017     Document Type: Review

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