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      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2006.22.1.art00043_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20060101)2006:2L.485;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2006n2/splitsection43.xml</article-id>
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        <article-title>Behavior of Fine Particles Dependent on Cell Structures in Mobile Fine Particle Display Cells</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Takahashi</surname>
            <given-names>Taiju</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Shimoyama</surname>
            <given-names>Kazunori</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Saito</surname>
            <given-names>Susumu</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Toko</surname>
            <given-names>Yasuo</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2006</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2006</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>485</fpage>
      <lpage>488</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>A Mobile Fine Particle Display (MFPD) which was proposed in a first place by our group is based on the electrophoresis effect of fine particles in nematic liquid crystal that used as an anisotropic solvent. In the MFPD cell, the images are displayed due to control the amount of fine
 particles in a pixel area by an applied voltage. Since the displayed images are permanently memorized, the MFPD has a possibility to be utilized as an electronic paper.In the present stage, the contrast ratio obtained in MFPD is not sufficiently high enough, since MFPD needs an accumulation
 space of fine particles in a pixel. In this study, a three-layered structure is newly proposed to improve the contrast ratio of MFPD cells.</p>
      </abstract>
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