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Series Editor’s Foreword. |
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1.3 Display Specifications. |
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1.3.1 Resolution and Size. |
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1.3.2 Luminance and color saturation. |
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1.3.3 Contrast Ratio and Gray Scale. |
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1.3.4 Response speed and flicker. |
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1.4.2 Matrix Addressed Displays. |
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1.4.3 Field emission displays. |
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1.4.5 Liquid Crystal Displays. |
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1.4.6 Electroluminescent Displays. |
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1.4.7 Electromechanical Displays. |
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1.5 Microdisplay Evolution. |
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1.6 Microdisplay Applications. |
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1.6.1 Projection Displays. |
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1.6.3 Other Applications. |
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2.1.1 General Introduction. |
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2.1.2 Addressing Methods. |
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A Spatially segmented (or sub-pixelated) RGB system. |
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B Field sequential color (FSC) system. |
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C Scrolling color mechanism. |
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D Tree-microdisplay system. |
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2.15 Active Matrix Technologies. |
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2.16 LCOS The Early Days. |
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2.2.1 Characteristic Equations. |
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2.2.3 MOS Transistor Switches. |
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2.2.5 MOS Memory Circuits. |
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2.3 LCOS System Electronics Architecture. |
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2.3.1 Overview and Classification. |
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2.3.2 Interface and Support Architecture. |
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A Near to Eye System Example. |
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B Projection System Example. |
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2.3.3 Backplane Electronics. |
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A Backplane Architecture and Floorplan. |
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D Interfaces & Data Rates. |
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2.4 Analogue Pixel Drive Schemes for Analogue Electro-Optic Response. |
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2.4.1 Analogue Voltage Addressing. |
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2.4.2 DC Balanced Driving of Liquid Crystals. |
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A D.C. Balancing with Fixed Front Electrode Voltage. |
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B D.C. Balancing by Switching the Front Electrode Voltage. |
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2.4.3 DRAM-Style Analogue Pixel. |
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2.4.4 Frame Buffer Pixels for Analogue Drive. |
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2.5 Digital Electronic Drive Schemes for Analog Electro-Optical Response. |
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2.5.1 Nematic Liquid Crystal. |
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2.5.2 Fringe Field Effects with Digital Drive. |
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2.5.3 Response Time Considerations for Digital Drive. |
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2.6 Digital Pixel Drive Schemes for Binary Electro-Optical Response. |
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2.6.1 Single Pulse Width Modulation. |
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2.6.2 Binary Coded Pulse Coded Modulation (B-PWM). |
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2.6.3 B-PWM Pixel Circuits. |
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A Dram-Style Pixel Circuits. |
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C Frame Buffer and Other Circuits for Digital Drive. |
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2.6.4 Grayscale Contouring. |
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2.7 DMD Microdisplay Circuit. |
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2.8 OLED Microdisplay Circuits. |
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2.8.1 OLED Microdisplays System Overview. |
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2.8.2 OLED Pixel Circuits using TFTs. |
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2.8.3 OLED Microdisplay with Digital Addressing- Example. |
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2.8.4 OLED Microdisplay with Analogue Addressing- Example. |
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3 Silicon Backplane Technology. |
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3.2.2 MOS Transistor Structure. |
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3.2.3 MOS Integrated Circuit Structure. |
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3.2.4 CMOS Fabrication process. |
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3.3 CMOS for microdisplays. |
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3.3.2 Pixel Aperture Ratio. |
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3.3.4 High Voltage Structures. |
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3.3.5 LCoS Microdisplays. |
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3.4.1 Wafer flatness and surface metrology. |
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3.5 Surface planarization. |
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3.5.1 General Techniques. |
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3.5.2 Chemical Mechanical Polishing. |
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3.5.3 Damascene polishing. |
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3.12 Backplane technology for other microdisplays. |
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3.12.1 Transmissive LCoS. |
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3.12.2 MOEMS. |
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3.12.3 OLED CMOS. |
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3.13 Silicon Technology Roadmap. |
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3.14.3 Good dice per wafer. |
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3.14.4 Cost per good die. |
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4 Transmission Microdisplays Structure. |
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4.2 Thin film transistors. |
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4.4 Polysilicon microdisplay. |
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4.4.6 Recent Development. |
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5 Transmission Liquid Crystal Microdisplays. |
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5.2 TFT-LCD. |
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5.4 Twisted-Nematic Cells. |
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5.5 Vertically-Aligned Nematic (VAN) Cells. |
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5.5.2 Electro-Optic Effects. |
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A. Voltage-Dependent Transmittance. |
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A. Overdrive and undershoot effects. |
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5.6 Fringing Field Effect. |
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5.7 Liquid crystal ionic effects. |
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6 Reflective Liquid Crystal Microdisplays. |
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6.2 Normally Black Homeotropic Cell. |
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6.2.1 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.2.2 Pretilt Angle Effect. |
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6.2.4 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.2.5 Effect of Fringing on Image Quality. |
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6.3 Normally White Homogenous Cell. |
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6.3.1 Voltage Dependent Reflection. |
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6.3.3 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.5 Normally White 90o MTN Cell. |
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6.5.1 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.5.3 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.6 Normally White 63.6o MTN Cell. |
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6.6.1 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.6.3 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.7 Normally Black 63.6o TN Cell. |
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6.7.2 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.7.4 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.8 Normally White 60o MTN Cell. |
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6.9 Normally White 45o MTN Cell. |
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6.9.1 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.9.3 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.10 Normally Black 45o TN. |
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6.10.1 Voltage-dependent Reflectance. |
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6.10.3 Fringing Field Effect. |
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6.11 Finger-On-Plane Structure. |
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6.12 Scattering and Diffractive Microdisplays. |
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6.12.1 Polymer Dispersed Nematics. |
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6.13 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals. |
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6.13.1 Surface Stabilized FLC. |
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7.2.2 Liquid crystal alignment layer. |
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7.3.1 Active matrix substrate. |
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7.3.2 Transparent counter electrode. |
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7.3.4 Liquid crystal seal. |
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7.4.1 Wafer-scale assembly. |
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7.4.2 Seal and spacer application. |
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7.4.5 Cell filling and plug. |
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7.5.3 Specification Tests. |
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8 Micromechanical Devices. |
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8.1.1 Electrostatic deflection. |
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8.2 Digital Mirror Device. |
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8.2.4 Operation and throughput efficiency. |
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8.2.5 Diffraction Efficiency and Contrast Ratio. |
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8.3 Piezoelectric Micromirror. |
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8.3.1 Structure and Operation. |
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8.4.1 Operation and performance. |
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8.4.2 Fabrication and testing. |
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8.5 Interference modulation. |
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9 Emissive Microdisplays. |
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9.1.1 Background to Organic Electronics & Displays. |
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C Electron-hole Recombination. |
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D Organic Light Emitting Diode. |
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9.2 Organic Emissive Materials. |
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9.2.2 Small Molecule OLED (SMOLED). |
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9.2.4 Phosphorescent OLED. |
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9.2.6 Example Performance Data. |
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9.3 Device Construction & Manufacture. |
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9.3.1 SMOLED. |
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9.3.2 PHOLED. |
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9.3.3 P-OLED. |
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9.3.4 PIN OLED. |
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9.3.5 Encapsulation and Packaging. |
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9.3.6 Display Efficiency. |
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9.4 Device Characteristics. |
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9.4.1 D.C Characteristics. |
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9.5.1 Patterned RGB Color Filter. |
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9.5.2 Patterned RGBW Color Filter. |
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9.5.3 Patterned Red and Green Color Converter. |
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9.5.4 Patterned RGB OLED layers. |
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9.5.5 Stacked RGB Emitting Layers (R/G/B). |
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9.6.1 General Properties of OLED Microdisplays. |
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9.6.2 Small Molecule OLED (SMOLED) on Silicon Devices. |
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9.6.3 Polymer OLED Microdisplays. |
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9.7 Other Emissive Microdisplays. |
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9.7.1 Inorganic Electroluminescent Microdisplays. |
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9.7.2 Gallium Nitride Microemitter Arrays. |
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9.7.3 Porous Silicon Microdisplays. |
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10.3 Laser and LED sources. |
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10.5.1 Absorbing polarizer. |
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10.5.2 Polarizing Beamsplitter. |
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10.5.3 Wire grid polarizers. |
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10.5.4 Polarization conversion. |
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10.5.5 Optical compensation. |
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10.6.1 Field sequential color. |
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10.6.2 Color scrolling systems. |
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10.6.3 RGB pixel systems. |
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10.7 Schlieren projector. |
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10.9 Projector Performance. |
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11.2.3 Compound Magnification. |
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11.2.4 Catadioptric System. |
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11.4 Microdisplay Factors. |
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11.7 Head mounted displays. |
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11.7.1 General Considerations. |
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11.8 Free-surface prisms. |
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11.9 Eyewear-based displays. |
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11.10 Light-guide System. |
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11.10.1 Reflective Array. |
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11.10.2 Diffractive Array. |
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11.11 Wide field of view. |
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11.11.1 Single Microdisplay. |
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11.11.2 Tiled Microdisplays. |
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11.12 Portable Equipment. |
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