Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays (eBook)

Zhibing Ge, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA Dr Ge joined the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida in 2008 as a research scientist. His research interests include liquid crystal displays and laser beam steering technologies. Dr. Ge is a member of the IEEE and SID. He is a recipient of the 2006 IEEE LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award, 2007 Otto Lehmann Award and 2007 UCF Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dr Ge serves as an associate editor for Journal of Society for Information Display (JSID) on the LCD division. He has published 1 book chapter, over 20 journal papers and has 12 issued or pending patents. Shin-Tson Wu, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA Currently PREP Professor of Optics at the University of Central Florida. Professor Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID and SPIE. He is a recipient of the SPIE G. G. Stokes Award, SID Jan Rajchman Prize, UCF Distinguished Researcher Award, IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, SID Special Recognition Award, ERSO (Taiwan) Special Achievement Award and Hughes team achievement award. From 2004-2008, Professor Wu served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology. He has co-authored 5 books (4 with Wiley, 1 with world scientific press), 6 book chapters, over 300 journal papers and has more than 75 issued and pending patents. Several of his patents have been implemented in display and photonic devices.

Series Editor's Foreword.

About the Authors.

Preface.

1. Device Concept of Transflective Liquid Crystal
Displays.

1.1 Overview.

1.2 Polarizers.

1.3 LC Alignment.

1.4 Compensation Films.

1.5 Reflectors.

1.6 Backlight.

1.7 Summary.

References.

2. Device Physics and Modeling.

2.1 Overview.

2.2 Modeling of LC Directors.

2.3 Modeling of LC Optics.

2.4 Device Physics of Transflective LCDs.

2.5 Summary.

Appendix 2.A.

References.

3. Light Polarization and Wide Viewing Angle.

3.1 Poincaré Sphere for Light Polarization in LCDs.

3.2 Compensation of Linear Polarizers.

3.3 Compensation of Circular Polarizers.

3.4 Summary.

References.

4. Wide-view Transflective LCDs.

4.1 Overview.

4.2 Transflective LCD using MVA Mode.

4.3 Transflective LCD using IPS Mode.

4.4 Summary.

References.

5. Color Sequential Mobile LCDs.

5.1 Overview.

5.2 Color Sequential Driving Schemes.

5.3 Fast-response LC Modes.

5.4 Fast-response Transflective LCDs.

5.5 Summary.

References.

6. Technological Perspective.

6.1 Unique Role of Transflective LCDs.

6.2 Emerging Touch Panel Technology.

6.3 Summary.

References.

Index.

"The book can serve as a graduate text or a reference for display
engineers, scientists, developers, and technicians." (Book
News, September 2010)