A black mask (BM) is a layer used to improve the display quality by suppressing light leakage. In general, the BM is formed by a photolithography process. In this study, a novel technique for the fabrication of a quasi-black mask (q-BM) is proposed; the q-BM was composed of vertical and hybrid orientation areas, patterned by a separation coating technique using an electro-spray deposition metho...

Learner-centred design (LCD) is a nebulous concept. It can range from attempts to design with the needs of the learner at the forefront, to involving the learner at various stages of the design process, sometimes throughout the whole process. In addition, learner-centred design involving children implies additional issues which do not present themselves when using an LCD approach with adults. I...

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713644168 Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on the Dynamics and Dielectric Heating of Nematic Liquid Crystals Sergij V. Shiyanovskii a; Andrii B. Golovin a; Ye Yin a; Oleg D. Lavrentovich a a Liquid Crystal Institute and Chem...

The warm rain process refers to the precipitation formation from warm clouds, which involves no ice phase through the whole process. Therefore, the entire cloud is below the freezing height all the time, unless cloud droplets are supercooled, so they remain in the liquid phase below the freezing temperature. This process is commonly observed in, but not limited to, tropical regions because of h...

Subject performance in reading characters on mobile phone liquid crystal displays was researched with the use of: (1) sentences without meaning, made from randomly ordered alphanumeric characters having 3 different sizes of characters and 4 different contrasts (n=78; age=39.9±17.6), (2) Japanese characters of 5 different sizes and 2 types of font (n=98; age=44.5±18.5), and (3) Japanese characte...

In this paper, we study the complementary dual codes in more general setting (which are called Galois LCD codes) by a uniform method. A necessary and sufficient condition for linear codes to be Galois LCD codes is determined, and constacyclic codes to be Galois LCD codes are characterized. Some illustrative examples which constacyclic codes are Galois LCD MDS codes are provided as well. In part...

Active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) is the most widely used display technology nowadays. Transparent display is one of the emerging technologies to provide people with more features such as displaying images on transparent substrates and simultaneously enabling people to see the scenery behind the panel. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) is a possible active matrix transparent di...