Embedded centrosymmetric multilayer stacks as complete-transmission quarter-wave and half-wave retarders under conditions of frustrated total internal reflection

SR Perla, RMA Azzam - JOSA A, 2007 - opg.optica.org
stack of two transparent materials, which is embedded in a high-index prism, can function as
a complete-transmission quarter-wave or half-wave retarder (QWR or … of the entire stack and …

Coatable Compensator for Flexible Display: Single-Layered Negative Dispersion Retarder Fabricated by Coating, Self-Assembling, and Polymerizing Host–Guest …

YJ Choi, WJ Yoon, G Bang, J Jeong… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… a sequential process of polymer stretching and multilayer stacking. Using cyclo-olefin and …
surrounded by an isotropic melt at 85 C and completely transforms to the isotropic state at 90 …

Compensating a twisted nematic liquid crystal display with matched wavelength dispersion retarders

EN Montbach, PJ Bos… - Japanese journal of …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
… Anisotropy can result in molecularly isotropic materials when … 3 layer retarder stack and by
the 4 layer retarder stack not … state and will therefore; result in some loss to the bright state of …

Super achromatic wide-angle quarter-wave plates using multi-twist retarders

L Li, MJ Escuti - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
… by stacks of different birefringent plates are too complicated with limited achromaticity and
wide-angle performance. The multi-twist retarders … Considering the state of art of largest FOV is …

Embedded multilayer thin film stacks as polarizing beam splitters and wave retarders operating under condition of frustrated total internal reflection

PS Reddy - 2007 - scholarworks.uno.edu
… Phase retarders are optical components that modify the state … the symmetry of the entire stack
which is itself embedded in a … All media are considered to be transparent, optically isotropic

Enhancement of viewing performance of new transflective in-plane switching liquid crystal displays using in-cell retarder (s)

O Itou, S Hirota, J Tanno, M Morimoto… - Japanese journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
states, can be classified into five structures according to the number of in-cell retarder(s) and
the stacking … Since the liquid crystal layer is outwardly optically isotropic, the contrast ratio is …

Multi-twist retarders for broadband polarization transformation

RK Komanduri, J Kim, KF Lawler… - Emerging Liquid …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… 3 in isotropic materials can be used to achieve the same … Traditionally, achromatic retarders
were created by stacking … linear to circular polarization states over a desired broadband …

Next‐generation mobile LCDs with in‐cell retarders

C Doornkamp, BMI Van der Zande… - Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… the same thickness as the stack of optical foils on the glass … As a result, a patterned retarder
with isotropic and nematic … low due to some light leakage in the black state [see Fig. 14(a)]…

Highly chromatic retardation via multi-twist liquid crystal films

KJ Hornburg, RK Komanduri, MJ Escuti - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
stacks of thick birefringent elements, he was able to generate achromatic retardation quarter-wave
(and other types of) retarders [3… While traditional diffraction gratings based on isotropic

Production scale deposition of multilayer film structures for birefringent optical components

MK Tilsch, K Hendrix, K Tan, D Shemo, R Bradley… - Thin Solid Films, 2007 - Elsevier
… But even a stack of thin isotropic layers has birefringent properties … depends on the polarization
state and orientation of the … single crystal retarders, often non-zero-order retarders are …