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written by Bill Hammack
This site hosts a video that explains how a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen works. In the video, an engineer for the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign engineering department, tears apart a screen from an LCD screen computer, and explains what every part of the screen does as he puts it back together.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Modern Physics
- Condensed Matter
= Crystal Structure
- Informal Education
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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Record Creator: Metadata instance created October 29, 2012 by Zachary Davis
Record Updated: Oct 30, 2012 by Ed Lee
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March 18, 2011
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B. Hammack, (2011), WWW Document, (https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work).
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B. Hammack, How does an LCD display work? (2011), <https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work>.
APA Format
Hammack, B. (2011, March 18). How does an LCD display work?. Retrieved March 17, 2025, from https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work
Chicago Format
Hammack, Bill. How does an LCD display work?. March 18, 2011. https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work (accessed 17 March 2025).
MLA Format
Hammack, Bill. How does an LCD display work?. 2011. 18 Mar. 2011. 17 Mar. 2025 <https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work>.
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