Diffraction and fringing field effects in small pixel liquid crystal devices with homeotropic alignment

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Vanbrabant, Pieter J M ^a   Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Willman, Eero ^b   Fernandez, F Anibal ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DYNAMIC; CRYSTAL PROPERTIES; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; ELECTRO-OPTICS; FRINGING FIELD EFFECTS; FRINGING FIELDS; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; INCIDENT LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MICRODISPLAYS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PIXEL DIMENSION; PIXEL SIZE; STRUCTURE FEATURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENTS; VARIABLE ORDER; VECTOR BEAM PROPAGATION;

ALIGNMENT; DIFFRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PIXELS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 78149440495     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3499279     Document Type: Article

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