Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-378

  Yang, Deng Ke ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/0470032030     Document Type: Book

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