Index

3D see Three-dimensional display

5CB (4’-n-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl)

80CB (p-n-octyloxy-p’-cyanobiphenyl)

Acer Computer Corporation

Acer Display Technology Corporation

Acer United Optronics Corporation (AUO)

Acer Peripheral Corporation

Acrylics

Action at a distance

Active layer

Active matrix

Adiabatic following

Advertising panels

Aether

All-Japan Electronics Show

Alt, Paul

Amazon Kindle

American Telegraph &Telephone (AT&T)

Amorphous silicon

Amorphous silicon thin film transistor (a-Si TFT)

Ampere, André-Marie

Ampere-Maxwell law

Ampere’s law

Analyzer

Anchoring, molecular

absent

conical

strong

weak

Anisotropic crystal

Anisotropy

dielectric (see Dielectric anisotropy)

diamagnetic

magnetic

negative

positive

APAPA (anisylidene para-aminophenylacetate)

Aperture ratio

a-plate

negative

positive

Apple Computer Corporation

Arima Computer Corporation

Aromatic compounds

Asada Atsushi

Asahi Glass Corporation

Asymmetric stress tensor

Atomic model (Bohr atom)

aufbau

conduction band

energy band

orbit

shell

sub-shell

valence band

AU Optronics Corporation

Automatic optical inspection (AOI)

Axially symmetric vertical alignment (ASV)

Axis of symmetry

Azoxy group

Back-channel etch

Backflow

Backlight

cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL)

dimming

laser

light emitting diode (LED)

unit (BLU)

Bardeen, John

Bartholinus, Erasmus

Beckman Instruments Corporation

Beijing city government

Beijing Eastern Electronics Corporation (BOE)

Beijing Olympics

Bell Labs

Bend elastic coefficient see Elasticity

Bend perpendicular molecular orientational mode

BenQ

Benzene ring

Bernoulli, Johann

Bethe, Hans ...

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