A novel feasible digital laser-blastering to fabricate a light-guide-plate of high luminance and efficiency for TV application

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 800-806

  Teng, Tun Chien ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backlight; display; illumination design; light emitting diodes (LEDs); microstructure fabrication

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR LUMINANCE; BACKLIGHT; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH LUMINANCES; ILLUMINATION DESIGN; MICROSTRUCTURE FABRICATION; PRINCIPLE MODELING; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISPLAY DEVICES; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINANCE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84885949760     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2013.2260321     Document Type: Article

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