Bistable FLCOS devices for doubled-brightness micro-projectors

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 369-375

  O'Callaghan, Michael J ^a   Ferguson, Rachel ^a   Vohra, Rohini ^a   Thurmes, William ^a   Harant, Adam W ^a   Pecinovsky, Cory S ^a   Zhang, Yongqiang ^a   Yang, Su ^a   O'Neill, Matt ^a   Handschy, Mark A ^a  

^a Displaytech   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistable; Ferroelectric liquid crystal; FLCOS; LCOS; Micro projector; Obliquely deposited SiO2; Projection microdisplay

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; DUTY CYCLES; ELECTRICAL DRIVES; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; LIGHT OUTPUT; MICRODISPLAYS; OPTICAL OUTPUT;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

SILICON OXIDES;

EID: 70349482761     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/JSID17.4.369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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