High birefringence fluoro-terphenyls for thin-cell-gap TFT-LCDs

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 478-481

  Chen, Yuan ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Xianyu, Haiqing ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a   Liang, Xiao ^b   Tang, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

birefringence; dielectric anisotropy; fast response; Liquid crystals; thin cell gap; thin film transistor (TFT) display

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; FAST RESPONSE; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; HOST MIXTURES; LOW BIREFRINGENCE; TERPHENYLS; TFT-LCDS; THIN CELL GAP;

ANISOTROPY; BINARY MIXTURES; BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 79960915841     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2011.2150197     Document Type: Article

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