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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Lawrence Livermore National Security, Llc, Livermore, CA (US);
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Eric B. Duoss, Danville, CA (US);
James Oakdale, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Nicholas Anthony Rodriguez, Austin, TX (US);
Hongtao Song, Austin, TX (US);
Richard Crawford, Austin, TX (US);
Carolyn Seepersad, Austin, TX (US);
Morgan Chen, Richardson, TX (US);
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Livermore, CA (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) system. The system in one example has a light source for generating unpolarized light, and an LCD screen arranged in a path of transmittance of the unpolarized light. First and second wire grid polarizers are arranged adjacent to the LCD screen and each have a plurality of nano-scale wires, with the first and second wire grid polarizers have differing polarizations. A pitch of each of the nano-scale wires is no larger than one-third a wavelength of the unpolarized light from the light source. The wire grid polarizers create, in connection with operation of the LCD screen, a 2D light mask suitable for initiating the polymerization of an optically curable material.