Plastic optical touch panels for large-scale flexible display

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4734-4739

  Cheon, Beom Jun ^a   Kim, Jun Whee ^a   Oh, Min Cheol ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; CONTACT FORCES; DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; GUIDED MODES; INDEX-MATCHING; OUTPUT INTENSITY; OUTPUT POWER; TOUCH PANELS;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TOUCH; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PLASTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84874518473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004734     Document Type: Article

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