Optics Of Liquid Crystal Displays

Author : Pochi Yeh,Claire Gu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470181768

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Optics of Liquid Crystal Displays by Pochi Yeh,Claire Gu Pdf

NOW UPDATED—THE HIGHLY PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ANALYZING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS The subject of liquid crystal displays has vigorously evolved into an exciting interdisciplinary field of research and development, involving optics, materials, and electronics. Updated to reflect recent advances, the Second Edition of Optics of Liquid Crystal Displays now offers a broader, more comprehensive discussion on the fundamentals of display systems and teaches readers how to analyze and design new components and subsystems for LCDs. New features of this edition include: Discussion of the dynamics of molecular reorientation Expanded information of the method of Poincaré sphere in various optical components, including achromatic wave plates and compensators Neutral and negative Biaxial thin films for compensators Circular polarizers and anti-reflection coatings The introduction of wide field-of-view wave plates and filters Comprehensive coverage of VA-LCD and IPS-LCD Additional numerical examples This updated edition is intended as a textbook for students in electrical engineering and applied physics, as well as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the area of research and development of display technologies.

Author : Robert H. Chen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118084342

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Liquid Crystal Displays by Robert H. Chen Pdf

An unprecedented look into the basic physics, chemistry, and technology behind the LCD Most notably used for computer screens, televisions, and mobile phones, LCDs (liquid crystal displays) are a pervasive and increasingly indispensable part of our lives. Providing both an historical and a business-minded context, this extensive resource describes the unique scientific and engineering techniques used to create these beautiful, clever, and eminently useful devices. In this book, the history of the science and technology behind the LCD is described in a prelude to the development of the device, presenting a rational development theme and pinpointing innovations. The book begins with Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, and the ultimately profound realization that light is an electromagnetic wave and an electromagnetic wave is light. The power of mathematical physics thus was brought to bear upon the study of light, and particularly the polarization of light by material bodies, including liquid crystals. After a brief historical description of polarization, a physical interpretation provides substance to the mathematical concepts. Subsequent chapters cover: Thermodynamics for liquid crystals The Maier-Saupe mean field, phenomenological, static continuum, and dynamic continuum theories The transistor and integrated circuit Glass, panels, and modules The calculus of variations The active matrix Semiconductor fabrication The global LCD business Additionally, the book illustrates how mathematics, physics, and chemistry are put to practical use in the LCDs we use every day. By describing the science from an historical perspective and in practical terms in the context of a device very familiar to readers, the book presents an engaging and unique view of the technology for everyone from science students to engineers, product designers, and indeed anyone curious about LCDs. Series Editor: Anthony C. Lowe, The Lambent Consultancy, Braishfield, UK The Society for Information Display (SID) is an international society, which has the aim of encouraging the development of all aspects of the field of information display. Complementary to the aims of the society, the Wiley-SID series is intended to explain the latest developments in information display technology at a professional level. The broad scope of the series addresses all facets of information displays from technical aspects through systems and prototypes to standards and ergonomics.

Author : Ernst Lueder,Peter Knoll,Seung Hee Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119667919

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Liquid Crystal Displays by Ernst Lueder,Peter Knoll,Seung Hee Lee Pdf

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS THE NEW EDITION OF THE GOLD-STANDARD IN TEACHING AND REFERENCING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LCD TECHNOLOGIES This book presents an up-to-date view of modern LCD technology. Offering balanced coverage of all major aspects of the field, this comprehensive volume provides the theoretical and practical information required for the development and manufacture of high-performance, energy-efficient LCDs. The third edition incorporates new technologies and applications throughout. Several brand-new chapters discuss topics such as the application of Oxide TFTs and high mobility circuits, high-mobility TFT-semiconductors in LCD addressing, liquid crystal displays in automotive instrument clusters and touch-screen systems, and the use of ultra-high-resolution LCD panels in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) displays. This practical reference and guide: Provides a complete account of commercially relevant LCD technologies, including their physics, mathematical descriptions, and electronic addressing Features extensively revised and expanded information, including more than 150 pages of new material Includes the addition of Oxide Transistors and their increased mobilities, the advances of fringe field switching and an overview of automotive displays Presents quantitative results with full equation sets, their derivation, and tabular summaries of related information sets

Author : Dong Chin Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681174863

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Features of Liquid Crystal Display Materials and Processes by Dong Chin Sun Pdf

Liquid crystal display (LCD) is an electronic display device that operates by applying a varying electric voltage to a layer of liquid crystal, thereby inducing changes in its optical properties. LCDs are commonly used for portable electronic games, as viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders, in video projection systems, for electronic billboards, as monitors for computers, and in flatpanel televisions. A working LCD consists of several components: display glass, drive electronics, control electronics, mechanical package, and power supply. The display glass --between which the liquid crystals lie--is coated with row and column electrodes and has contact pads to connect drive electronics (electric current) to each row and column electrode. The drive electronics are integrated circuits that supply current to ""drive"" the row and column electrodes. The control electronics are also integrated circuits. They decode and interpret the incoming signals--from a laptop computer, for example--and send them to the drive electronics. The mechanical package is the frame that mounts the printed circuit boards for the drive and control electronics to the display glass.Features of Liquid Crystal Display Materials and Processes embraces advanced and revised contributions and covers theoretical modeling for optoelectronics and nonlinear optics, along with experimental methods, new schemes, new approach and explanation which extends the display technology for laser, semiconductor device technology, medicine, biotechnology, etc. Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) consist of liquid crystals that are activated by electric current. They are used most frequently to display one or more lines of alpha-numeric information in a variety of devices: fax machines, laptop computer screens, answering machine call counters, scientific instruments, portable compact disc players, clocks, and so forth. The most expensive and advanced type--active matrix displays--are even being used as screens for handheld color TVs. Eventually, they may be widely used for large screen, high-definition TVs. The innovative idea, approach, and facts described here will be profitable for the readers to find a sustainable solution in a fundamental study and in the industry.

Author : Deng-Ke Yang,Shin-Tson Wu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118752005

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Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices by Deng-Ke Yang,Shin-Tson Wu Pdf

Liquid Crystal Devices are crucial and ubiquitous components of an ever-increasing number of technologies. They are used in everything from cellular phones, eBook readers, GPS devices, computer monitors and automotive displays to projectors and TVs, to name but a few. This second edition continues to serve as an introductory guide to the fundamental properties of liquid crystals and their technical application, while explicating the recent advancements within LCD technology. This edition includes important new chapters on blue-phase display technology, advancements in LCD research significantly contributed to by the authors themselves. This title is of particular interest to engineers and researchers involved in display technology and graduate students involved in display technology research. Key features: Updated throughout to reflect the latest technical state-of-the-art in LCD research and development, including new chapters and material on topics such as the properties of blue-phase liquid crystal displays and 3D liquid crystal displays; Explains the link between the fundamental scientific principles behind liquid crystal technology and their application to photonic devices and displays, providing a thorough understanding of the physics, optics, electro-optics and material aspects of Liquid Crystal Devices; Revised material reflecting developments in LCD technology, including updates on optical modelling methods, transmissive LCDs and tunable liquid crystal photonic devices; Chapters conclude with detailed homework problems to further cement an understanding of the topic.

Author : Joseph A. Castellano
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812565841

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Liquid Gold by Joseph A. Castellano Pdf

This book traces the history of liquid crystal display (LCD)development from simple laboratory samples to the flat, thin LCDs thathave become an important part of everyday life, appearing intelevision screens, computers, cellular phones, as well as numerousother consumer and industrial products.

Author : Zhibing Ge,Shin-Tson Wu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470689064

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays by Zhibing Ge,Shin-Tson Wu Pdf

Sunlight readable transflective liquid crystal displays, used on devices from cell phones and portable media players, to GPS and even some desktop monitors, have become indispensable in our day-to-day lives. Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays is a methodical examination of this display technology, providing a useful reference to the fundamentals of the topic. Including thorough descriptions of the essential physics of transflective LCD technologies, the book also compares transflective LCD technology with alternatives, such as OLED displays, to enable display engineers to appropriately select the correct device for their particular application. Includes detailed descriptions of both pure transmissive and reflective LCDs, and the design considerations and performance of combining these into small mobile displays. Focuses on fundamental elements, such as double cell gap transflective LCDs, wide-viewing angle technology, light polarization and wide-view linear and circular polarizers, video rate display by colour sequential technologies, colour sciences and engineering, and backlights. Describes the latest LCD technologies, such as polymer-sustained surface alignment technology, and the possible trends which could be applied to transflective LCDs in the future. Its focus on the fundamentals of transflective liquid crystal displays makes this an ideal graduate text, while display engineers, scientists, developers and technicians working with this technology will also welcome this resource. The Society for Information Display (SID) is an international society, which has the aim of encouraging the development of all aspects of the field of information display. Complementary to the aims of the society, the Wiley-SID series is intended to explain the latest developments in information display technology at a professional level. The broad scope of the series addresses all facets of information displays from technical aspects through systems and prototypes to standards and ergonomics

Author : L Vicari
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000687477

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Optical Applications of Liquid Crystals by L Vicari Pdf

In recent years, there has been increasing activity in the research and design of optical systems based on liquid crystal (LC) science. Bringing together contributions from leading figures in industry and academia, Optical Applications of Liquid Crystals covers the range of existing applications as well as those in development. Unique in its thorou

Author : Sergio R. Restaino,Scott W. Teare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Liquid crystal devices
ISBN : 1628416610

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Introduction to Liquid Crystals for Optical Design and Engineering by Sergio R. Restaino,Scott W. Teare Pdf

Author : Willem den Boer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 008045576X

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Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays by Willem den Boer Pdf

Active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) are the preferred choice when thin, low power, high quality, and lightweight flat panel displays are required. Here is the definitive guide to the theory and applications of AMLCDs. Contemporary portable communication and computing devices need high image quality, light weight, thin, and low power flat panel displays. The answer to this need is the color active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD). The rides of AMLCD technology over less than two decades to undisputed dominance as a flat panel display has been breathtaking, and designers of portable devices need a thorough understanding of the theory and applications of AMLCDs. Willem den Boer, a holder of over 30 patents in imaging technologies, has created this guide to AMLCD theory, operating principles, addressing methods, driver circuits, application circuits, and alternate flat display technologies (including active matrix flat panel image sensors). Numerous design and applications examples illustrate key points and make them relevant to real-world engineering tasks. Need more information on Mobile Displays, go to: http://www.insightmedia.info/newsletters.php#mdr · Systematically discusses the principles of liquid crystal displays and active matrix addressing. · Describes methods of enhancing AMLCD image quality. · Extensive coverage of AMLCD manufacturing techniques. · Thorough examination of performance characteristics and specifications of AMLCDs.

Author : Sergio R. Restaino,Scott W. Teare
Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Liquid crystal devices
ISBN : 1628418079

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Introduction to Liquid Crystals for Optical Design and Engineering by Sergio R. Restaino,Scott W. Teare Pdf

Devices based on liquid crystals have become the mainstay of display technology used in mobile devices, vehicles, computer systems, and almost any other opportunity for information display imaginable. The aim of this book is to provide the optics community a liquid crystals primer that focuses on the optical components made from these fascinating materials. The book provides a functional overview of liquid crystal devices, their history, and their applications so that readers are prepared for more advanced texts and can continue to grow their abilities in this field. While it is not meant to be a complete mathematical treatise on the basics and applications of liquid crystals, the book does fill in some of the technical gaps, in particular in the area of adaptive optics applications.

Author : E. Kaneko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012452960

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Liquid Crystal TV Displays by E. Kaneko Pdf

'Kaneko's work in the best manner is filling a gap in the present literature and will be a standard reference source for all people interested in LCD's.' Crystal Research and Technology, 1988

Author : William C. O'Mara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781489926999

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Liquid Crystal Flat Panel Displays by William C. O'Mara Pdf

We live in the silicon age, and the quintessential item that defines our world is the computer. Silicon chips power the computer as well as many other products for work and leisure, such as calculators, radios, and televisions. In the forty years since the transistor was invented, the solid state revolution has affected the lives of almost everyone in the world. Based on silicon, solid state devices and integrated circuits have revolutionized electronics, data processing, communica tions, and the like. The computer, especially the personal computer, would be impossible without silicon devices. Only one computer was ever built using vacuum tubes, and the tubes had to be constantly replaced because they generated too much heat and burned out. Silicon devices allowed for reliable switching operations in arrays of hundreds and thousands of discrete devices. As a result, the very substantial industrial base that existed for producing vacuum tubes disappeared -with one exception. That exception is, of course, the CRT, which is evident in televisions, computer displays, and a host of other information display terminals. Until recently, there was nothing that could take its place, and it seemed that the CRT would remain as the electronic medium for all except the simplest displays. The CRT is about to go the way of the other vacuum tubes. It's dead, but doesn't know it yet.

Author : Dmitry A. Yakovlev,Vladimir G. Chigrinov,Hoi-Sing Kwok
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118706732

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Modeling and Optimization of LCD Optical Performance by Dmitry A. Yakovlev,Vladimir G. Chigrinov,Hoi-Sing Kwok Pdf

Focusing on polarization matrix optics in many forms, this book includes coverage of a wide range of methods which have been applied to LCD modeling, ranging from the simple Jones matrix method to elaborate and high accuracy algorithms suitable for off-axis optics. Researchers and scientists are constantly striving for improved performance, faster response times, wide viewing angles, improved colour in liquid crystal display development, and with this comes the need to model LCD devices effectively. The authors have significant experience in dealing with the problems related to the practical application of liquid crystals, in particular their optical performance. Key features: Explores analytical solutions and approximations to important cases in the matrix treatment of different LC layer configurations, and the application of these results to improve the computational method Provides the analysis of accuracies of the different approaches discussed in the book Explains the development of the Eigenwave Jones matrix method which offers a path to improved accuracy compared to Jones matrix and extended Jones matrix formalisms, while achieving significant improvement in computational speed and versatility compared to full 4x4 matrix methods Includes a companion website hosting the authors' program library LMOPTICS (FORTRAN 90), a collection of routines for calculating the optical characteristics of stratified media, the use of which allows for the easy implementation of the methods described in this book. The website also contains a set of sample programs (source codes) using LMOPTICS, which exemplify the application of these methods in different situations

Author : Toralf Scharf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470074367

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Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers by Toralf Scharf Pdf

Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers deals with the linear optics of birefringent materials, such as liquid crystals and polymers, and surveys light propagation in such media with special attention to applications. It is unique in treating light propagation in micro- and nanostructured birefringent optical elements, such as lenses and gratings composed of birefringent materials, as well as the spatial varying anisotropic structures often found in miniaturized liquid crystal devices.