Zigzag electrodes for suppressing the color shift of Kerr effect-based liquid crystal displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Rao, Linghui ^a   Ge, Zhibing ^a,b   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue phase (BP); Color shift; Fast response time; In plane switching; Kerr effect

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHASE; COLOR SHIFTS; FAST RESPONSE TIME; IN-PLANE SWITCHING; KERR EFFECTS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRODES; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

COLOR;

EID: 77950651311     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2009.2039463     Document Type: Article

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