Course Information
Course title
Liquid Crystal Display Technologies 
Semester
108-2 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE  GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING  
Instructor
WING-KIT CHOI 
Curriculum Number
OE5034 
Curriculum Identity Number
941 U0430 
Class
 
Credits
3.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Thursday 8,9,10(15:30~18:20) 
Remarks
The upper limit of the number of students: 24. 
 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

i) Reflective TFT-LCDs
ii) Transflective TFT-LCDs
iii) Wide-viewing-angle technologies
iv) Fast response time
v) Blue Phase Liquid Crystals (& Displays)
vi) Bistable Nematic LCDs
vii) Projection displays (e.g. LCoS) & Flexible Displays
viii) Low operation voltage
ix) (Optional) LCD Optics: 2x2 extended Jones Matrix, 4 x 4 Matrix, Poincare Sphere, etc 

Course Objective
This course is intended as an advanced course focusing on some of the latest & more advanced LCD technologies & principles. Students are required to have first taken the foundation course entitled “Introduction to Liquid Crystals”(OE5011), which is also given by the same instructor. 
Course Requirement
Prerequisite: “Introduction to Liquid crystals”(OE5011)

Grading: Homework 20%, Mid-term Exam 40%, Final Exam 40% 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
 
Designated reading
 
References
Textbook: i) ‘Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays’ by ST Wu and DK Yang, Wiley (2001)
ii) ‘Liquid Crystal Displays’ by Ernst Lueder, Wiley (2001)
iii) ‘Optics of Liquid Crystal Displays’ by P Yeh & C Gu, Wiley (1999) 
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