Abstract: A three-dimensional mounted assembly includes a molded body, a plurality of electronic parts sealed with the molded body, a plurality of interconnections electrically connected to the electronic parts and sealed with the molded body wherein part of at least one of the interconnections is exposed on a first side of the molded body and at least another one of the interconnections is exposed on a second side of the molded body differing from the first side.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a high-resolution variable optical delay line comprises an optical switch, such as an optical micromechanical mirror switch, and an array of delay fiber paths. Each delay fiber path in the array comprises a region where the fiber is curved differently from the other fibers in the region and a reflector. Each fiber path advantageously comprises other regions where the fiber is essentially parallel to the other fibers in the region. Each fiber is curved differently from the others in order that the fiber paths each provide a different delay.

Abstract: An optically compensatory polarizer has a polarizer and an optically compensating film. The polarizer includes an absorption type polarizing element and transparent protective layers provided on opposite sides of the absorption type polarizing element, each of the transparent protective layers exhibiting an in-plane retardation of not larger than 10 nm and a thicknesswise retardation in a range of from 30 to 70 nm. The optically compensating film is laminated on one or each of opposite surfaces of the polarizer so that a slow axis of each optically compensating film crosses an absorption axis of the polarizer perpendicularly, and exhibits an in-plane retardation in a range of from 80 to 200 nm and Nz=(nx?nz)/(nx?ny) in a range of from ?0.2 to 0.2 and nx and ny satisfy the relation nx>ny.

Abstract: A reflector has protuberances and recesses in each pixel region. The distances between the respective peaks of each two adjacent protuberances in the pixel region are distributed in the range from 5 ?m to 15 ?m. The incidence of peak distances within the range of ±0.5 ?m from the most frequent peak distance ranges from 40% to 80%, and the area of regular reflection surfaces of the reflector tilted at angles of 4.5° or less to the principal surface of a substrate in the pixel region accounts for 35% or less of the area of the pixel region.

Abstract: Techniques and systems for controlling an optical switch array based on local and global optical monitoring and feedback controls. Each optical switch element includes a local optical monitoring mechanism to form a local feedback control to lock the switch element at a desired orientation. The global optical monitoring is used to adjust at least one switch element in the path of the signal beam to maintain an overall alignment.

Abstract: Optoelectronic transceiver modules having photoemitter and photodetector arrays spaced from each other are interfaced to a single optical fiber ribbon having evenly spaced optical fibers.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a 1×N optical switch having a switching component, an input, and a plurality of outputs formed in a single substrate. The switching component includes a pair of mirrors which are operated such that by changing the position of at least one of the mirrors, the output of the switch changes.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate for a liquid crystal display is provided with a gate line assembly, a data line assembly, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes. Each pixel electrode has an opening pattern. A color filter substrate faces the thin film transistor array substrate while bearing color filters, a black matrix, and a common electrode. The common electrode has an opening pattern. The opening patterns of the pixel and the common electrodes partition the pixel region into a plurality of upper and lower domains and a plurality of left and right domains. The volume occupied by the upper and lower domains is established to be larger than the volume occupied by the left and right domains.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region within a unit pixel, the present invention disposes an optical reflection layer having an almost rectangular planar shape as extended in the unit pixel elongate direction at substantially a central portion midway between two neighboring signal electrodes, defines almost rectangular regions between the optical reflection layer and two signal electrodes adjacent thereto as the transmissive display region in the unit pixel, and forms a pixel electrode at a level spaced from that of the optical reflection layer by a dielectric film so as to cover the entire surface of the unit pixel, so that power consumption of the liquid crystal display device is reduced while image quality thereof is improved.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes forming a gate insulator on a gate line and a gate electrode formed on a substrate. A data line, source and drain electrodes are formed on an ohmic contact layer formed on an active layer on the gate insulator. A first passivation layer made of a first material is deposited on the data line, source and drain electrodes. A second passivation layer made of a second material is deposited on the first passivation layer. The second passivation layer is patterned, thereby forming a first drain contact hole exposing the first passivation layer over the drain electrode. A reflector is formed on the second passivation layer, the reflector having a first transmissive hole The first passivation layer is patterned thereby forming a second drain contact hole exposing the drain electrode. The second drain contact hole corresponds to the first drain contact hole.

Abstract: An automatically aligned liquid crystal display comprises an upper and a lower substrates, at least one polarizer, at least one serial retardation films and a uniformly distributed and vertically or near-vertically aligned liquid crystal layer. The substrates have respectively a common electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer thereon. One of the electrode layers is transparent and the other is a layer of automatically aligned diffusing reflective or partially reflective devices. The device is formed on a single substrate. The automatically aligned liquid crystal display of the invention has different bump structures formed in the pixel region, around the boundary of the pixel region, at a contact hole near the pixel center, or around the boundary of the pixel region and the transparent area. The reflective or partially reflective liquid crystal display of the invention forms multiple domains with good properties of a very high contrast ratio and a wider viewing angle.

Abstract: An antireflection film is disclosed, comprising a transparent support having thereon a low refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.35 to 1.49 and containing a hydrolysate of an organosilane or a partial condensate thereof, a compound capable of generating a reaction accelerator under light, and a fluorine-containing polymer. This antireflection film has high antireflection performance and excellent resistance against fouling and scratching and can be produced at a low cost.

Abstract: A transflective display device having a single cell gap in which a liquid crystal molecule has at least two pretilt angles. A transparent electrode is formed on the inner surface of the lower substrate, and a reflective electrode is formed on a portion of the transparent electrode, such that a reflective region is over the reflective electrode and a transmissive region is over the transparent electrode, which is not covered by the reflective electrode. The pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule in the reflective region is different from the pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecule in the transmissive region, the reflective region and the transmissive region have the same phase retardation, and the light path through the reflective region is twice the light path passing through the transmissive region.

Abstract: An optical fiber having an elevated threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering is provided. The optical fiber includes a core and a cladding surrounding the core with both the core and the cladding designed to guide optical waves through the core while anti-guiding acoustic waves. Moreover, the optical fiber includes other features to alter the mode profile of the acoustic waves and/or to further promote their lateral radiation. For example, the optical fiber can include an irregular coating to alter the mode profile of the acoustic waves. In another example, the optical fiber can include a quarter wave layer surrounding the cladding to promote the lateral radiation of the acoustic waves. In order to further alter the mode profile of the acoustic waves, the cladding can also have a lateral thickness that varies irregularly in a lengthwise direction.

Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A high aperture ratio emissive tiled display comprised of a plurality of tiles including a substrate with discrete layers of integrated drive circuits, thin film transistors, circuit conductor layer and light-emitting pixel array wherein all the electronic circuitry is contained under the pixel array. Vertical interconnects are made between the drive circuits, circuits and pixel electrodes, as necessary, and can include vertical interconnections through the substrate. Large flat panel displays including at least two of said tiles are aligned to maintain pixel pitch from one tile to another to produce a seamless image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal cell having contiguous to a surface of a constraint thereof one or more compensator layers, each containing a transparent amorphous polymeric birefringent material having an out-of plane birefringence more negative than ?0.005. The invention also provides a liquid crystal display and a process for making such a cell.

Abstract: A transaction card having machine readable information and a visible display comprising: a card body; machine readable information on the card body; and a flexible display affixed to the card body for displaying information related to the machine readable information, the display including a pressure-insensitive polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal material having a first planar reflective state and a second transparent focal conic state, which is responsive to an applied voltage to display information wherein said information persists when the voltage is removed, and an array of conductors connected to the display for applying selected voltages from an external display driver to the display to change the state of the display.

Abstract: An optical amplifier comprises a doped fiber core and a cladding layer surrounding the core. The mode field diameter of the fiber is greater than 8 ?m and the refractive index difference between the core and the cladding layer is selected such that the cut-off wavelength at which the fiber becomes single mode lies in the range 1000-1550 nm. This amplifier uses a large made field diameter fiber, which reduces the intensity for a specified output power. This results in reduced filtering of the low frequency components of the signal. The refractive index difference between the core and cladding is selected such that the fiber is multi-mode at 980 nm, which enables bend performance to be improved.

Abstract: When a phototimer unit is used for exposure control, a deterioration in a S/N ratio occurs, and optimal exposure cannot be performed due to a deviation from a proper image sensing position and the like. Therefore, there is provided a radiation image sensing apparatus comprising an X-ray image sensing panel which is capable of non-destructive reading and adapted to sense an object image by allowing radiation from an X-ray source to pass through an object, and a control circuit adapted to perform control to stop emission of radiation from the X-ray source on the basis of a signal obtained from the X-ray image sensing panel by non-destructive reading in the image sensing operation.