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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/JOSK.2015.19.3.260

Negative Liquid Crystal Cell with Parallel Patterned Electrodes for High Transmittance and Fast Switching  

Heo, Joon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
Choi, Tae-Hoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
Huh, Jae-Won (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
Yoon, Tae-Hoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Optical Society of Korea / v.19, no.3, 2015 , pp. 260-264 More about this Journal
Abstract
We propose a negative liquid crystal (n-LC) cell with parallel patterned electrodes for high transmittance and fast response. The proposed cell has higher transmittance and shorter response time than a conventional fringe-field switching cell using n-LCs, because the proposed cell does not have transmittance dips and does have a thinner LC layer.
Keywords
Fast switching; High transmittance; Wide viewing angle; Liquid crystal; In-plane switching mode;
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