Application of Taguchi Method in Light-Emitting Diode Backlight Design for Wide Color Gamut Displays

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 323-330

  Lin, Chi Feng ^a   Yang, Po Hua ^a   Wu, Chih Cheng ^b   Kuo, Tsung Yuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Color mixing; light emitting diode (LED) backlight; optical microstructure; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020236     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: 15589323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2009.2023606     Document Type: Article

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