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mipmap

MIP Map

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“MIP map” is the name given to a collection of images to be used as surface textures when building, or rendering, a 2D representation of a 3D scene. The acronym “MIP” comes from the …

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Liquid Crystal (LC)

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Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are now so common that we take it for granted that people know what we are talking about when we use the phrase. But how many of us know what …

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Light Valve Amplifier/ILA

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Light Valve Amplifier (LVA) is a term used to describe a specific type of light valve developed by Hughes-JVC (Image Light Amplifier (ILA)). An LVA is a device which uses the limited brightness of …

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Light Valve

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A light valve (LV) is a form of optical switch which can be used to vary the amount of light which reaches a target (e.g. a screen) by deflecting the light from its path …

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LEP

LEP

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The Universal Display Corporation’s TOLED is based on small-molecule organic light emitting materials. Another of the high-profile OLED development companies, Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), is putting its faith in large-molecule, or polymer, organic light …

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Recruitment Agency Policy

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Because of the specialist nature of Meko’s business and of the roles within it, agencies often have difficulty in defining the positions and have rarely been able to find suitable candidates. For this reason, …

LED

LED

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One group of electro-luminescent (EL) devices is known as high-field ELs. The other main group is known as the Light Emitting Diodes, which is itself split into two groups consisting of those devices using …

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In-Plane Switching (IPS)

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If LCDs are ever to replace the CRT-based display, one of the major problems to be overcome is that of narrow viewing angles. Several solutions have been developed but the different approaches have met …

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High-Field Electro-Luminescents

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The basic electro-luminescent (EL) display is a sandwich consisting of an upper and a lower electrode sandwiching a material which gives off light when excited by high frequency. There are several different types of …

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Grating Light Valve (GLV)

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Sony’s licensing of Silicon Light Machine’s Grating Light Valve (GLV) technology means that it may not be too long before TI’s DMD loses its place as the only Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) to be used …

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FED

FED

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When Display Monitor began publication in 1994, one of the technologies being tipped as representing the future of flat panel displays was the FED or Field Emission Display. Similar in principle to a CRT, …

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Electro-Luminescence (EL)

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Elegant in their simiplicity, electro-luminescent displays offer the thinnest profile of any colour flat panel technology. The principle of EL displays is very simple. In construction they consist of an upper and lower substrate …

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