Liquid Crystal Displays Addressing Schemes and Electro-Optical Effects

Revised and updated, the second edition of Liquid Crystal Displays contains two new chapters. There is a new chapter on TV displays with short response times including sections on motion blur and its reduction and shorter response times by special LC-materials; and a second new chapter on transflective displays including sections on the operation and examples of transflective displays as well as ferroelectric transflective displays. There is also an extended overview of displays with flexible substrates given, as well as significant new sections added which include the printing of layers for LCDs and the new manufacture of multidomains.Liquid Crystal Displays covers both the theoretical and practical aspects required by practitioners and researchers in the field, and features methods for designing improved Thin Film Transistors (TFTs), active matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs), Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) devices and light valves for projectors. The book also includes a complete set of design equations and rules for ferroelectric and other bistable displays for use in low power portable systems, as well as a discussion of both the electro-optical effects and the addressing schemes of LCDs, including analysis of their interdependence. The second edition of Liquid Crystal Displays will continue to add to the success of the first edition by allowing engineers and students alike to further discover how to save energy and enhance the performance of their displays.

Dr Ernst Lueder (retired), Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical Communications, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Now retired, Ernst Lueder was Professor at the Department of Electrical Communications and Director of the Institute of Network and Systems Theory at Stuttgart University until 1999. He also headed a research laboratory for the fabrication of flat panel displays. Professor Lueder is a Fellow of SID, and is also an IEEE Fellow. He has been awarded the order of merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since his retirement, he has written the first edition of Liquid Crystal Displays: Addressing Schemes and Electro-Optical Effects (Wiley, Mar 2001). He has also authored Bau Hybrider Mikroschaltungen (Springer-Verlag, 1977) and written over 200 papers on LCDs, network systems and theory and thin film sensors.