Polarizer-free, electrically switchable and optically rewritable displays based on dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7088-7094

  Fuh, Andy Ying Guey ^a   Chen, Che Chang ^a   Liu, Cheng Kai ^a   Cheng, Ko Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

AC VOLTAGE; ADSORBED DYES; CONTRAST RATIO; DOPED DYES; DYE-DOPED POLYMER; OPTICAL TREATMENT; SCATTERING BACKGROUND; SWITCHING TIME;

POLYMERS;

COLORING AGENT; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLORING AGENTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA DISPLAY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 66549084222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007088     Document Type: Article

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