• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.233-241
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• 2011

Currently, solar module is using the two methods such as a glass-filled method or a super-straight method. The common point of these methods is to use glass structure on the front of solar module. However, the reflectance of the solar module is high depending on the height of the incident sunlight due to the flat surface of the module front glass. Purposed to solve these problems, AG (anti-glare) structures were formed on the glass surface. Next is fabrication methods of AG structure. First, uneven structure made by micro blaster equipment was dipped in Hydro-fluidic acid (HF) acid. HF acid process was carried out to remove particles and to make high transmittance. The reflectance and transmittance of the anti-glare glass was compared to those of the bare glass. The reflectance of anti-glare glass decreased approximately 1% compared with bare glass. The transmittance of anti-glare glass was similar to bare glass. According to the sample angle, the difference of the reflectance between bare glass and the anti-glare glass was about 19%. Isc and efficiency value of anti-glare glass on bare solar cell appeared about 3.01 mA and 0.228% difference compared with bare glass. Anti-glare glass on textured solar cell appeared about 9.46 mA and 0.741% difference compared with bare glass. As a result, the role of anti-glare in the substrate is to reduces the loss of sunlight reflected from the surface. In this study, therefore, AG structure on the solar cell was used to improve the efficiency of solar cell.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1429-1431
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• 2006

We developed new anti-glare(AG) layer which has improved image quality and solved mechanical problems. Conventional silica-type AG has some restrictions related to sparkling, causing mechanical defects. The new anti-glare layer is designed with adjusted optical factors and polymer type. Therefore new anti-glare layer meets two main characteristics at once using unmatched optical property between scattering in material and surrounding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.417-419
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• 2011

태양전지 모듈은 back sheet, 후면 충진재, 태양전지 cell, 전면 충진재, 전면 보호유리의 구성으로 되어 있다. back sheet는 유리 또는 금속을 사용하는데 사용 재료에 따라 각각 유리봉입방식, 슈퍼스트레이트방식으로 구분된다[1]. 태양전지를 보호하기 위한 충진재는 빛의 투과율 저하가 적은 PVB(Poly Vinyl Butylo)나 내습성이 뛰어난 EVA(Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) 등이 주로 이용된다. 유리봉입방식과 슈퍼스트레이트 방식의 공통점은 모듈 전면에 투과율과 내?충격 강도가 좋은 강화 유리를 사용하는 것이다. 하지만 현재 모듈의 전면 유리는 평탄한 표면 때문에 태양고도가 낮을 때 상대적으로 반사율이 높은 단점을 가지고 있다[2]. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방안으로 표면 유리에 요철(anti-glare) 구조를 형성하면 평면 구조의 표면에서 반사되는 태양광이 일부 태양전지 내부로 재입사가 일어나게 되어 표면 반사율이 낮아지게 되고, 이로 인하여 태양전지의 효율이 증가하게 된다. 특히 이러한 효과는 태양고도가 낮아졌을 때 요철(anti-glare) 구조에 의한 반사율의 감소가 증가하기 때문에 평면 구조보다 요철(anti-glare) 구조의 태양전지 모듈 효율이 향상될 것이다. 본 논문에서는 요철(anti-glare) 구조를 만들기 위해서 유리와 평면 구조의 유리에서의 반사율과 투과율을 측정하여 비교 분석하였고, 특히 태양고도의 고도가 변할 때를 비교하기 위하여 반사율 및 투과율을 측정 할 때 입사광의 각도를 변화시켰다. 그리고 태양전지 cell 위에 요철(anti-glare) 구조의 유리와 평명 구조의 유리를 각각 위치시킨 후 태양전지 cell의 효율변화를 확인하였다. 이때 태양전지 cell의 표면은 이방성 식각 용액을 이용하여 역피라미드 구조의 텍스쳐링 태양전지 cell과 평면 구조의 태양전지 cell을 각각 사용하여 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.272-277
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• 2019

In this paper, a manufacturing method of an anti-glare cover glass on LCD for outdoor use is proposed. The main specification of cover glass is hardness and anti-glare. Hardness is achieved by using the tempered glass, and anti-glare(AG) film is laminated to meet anti-glare specification no the tempered glass. However, the AG film is difficult to maintain the AG performance continuously because the abrasion resistance of the PET film itself is as weak as about 3H. Therefore, a novel production procedure using screen printing method is proposed. The proposed coating is implemented by applying $ZnO-B_2O_3-SiO_2$ powder on glass surface and the glass is made with enhanced hardness through tempering process. In order to apply the ZBS powder uniformly on the glass surface, a screen printing process is used. The main parameters to be considered in screen printing are the oil concentration and mesh opening size. Because the amount of ZBS powder applied to the printing process is controlled by these two parameters, the correlativity is confirmed through the experiments. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the haze, surface roughness and transmittance are selected as the performance index and are compared with the AG film. As a result of comparison, it is verified that the transmittance of the proposed tempered glass is 83.1%, which is slightly lower than 89.5% of AG film, but the hardness is more than double to 7H.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2021

Anti-glare (AG) coating films are applied to various display fields such as liquid crystal displays, LED lighting, and touch panels. In this study, micrometer-sized silica particles were added as fillers in the UV-curable coating solutions to provide anti-glare effect. During this process, the effects of the particle size, content, stirring time, and mixing ratio of silica particles of different sizes were investigated on the haze values and visible light transmittance of the coating films. As a result, as the size of the silica particles increased and the content of the silica particles increased, the haze values increased, but the visible light transmittance decreased. On the other hand, the stirring time did not significantly affect the haze value and transmittance of coating films. In addition, as the mixing ratio of large-sized silica particles increased, the haze value increased, but on the contrary, the visible light transmittance decreased.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.133-137
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• 2016

The surface treatment of cover glass for conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cell is important to reduce reflectivity and to increase the incident light. In this work, random textured anti glare (RTAG) glass was prepared by wet surface coating method. Optical properties due to the changes of surface morphology of RTAG glass were compared and conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cell was researched. Grain size and changes of surface morphologies formed with surface etching time greatly affected optical transmittance and transmission haze. Current density (Jsc) were high at the condition when surface morphologies reflection haze were low and transmission haze were high. Jsc was $40.0mA/cm^2$ at glancing angle of $90^{\circ}$. Incidence light source was strongly influenced by surface treatment of cover glass at high incidence angle but was hardly affected light source at the low angle of incidence.

• Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.303-308
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• 2018

Currently hydrofluoric acid (HF) based glass etch method is widely used for anti-glare (AG) surface treatment since it can effectively alleviate the specular reflection problem with relatively low processing cost. However, due to the environmental regulation and safety problem, it is essential to develop alternative technology to replace this method. For this, in this paper, we propose sand blasting based AG surface treatment method for display glass. To characterize the sand blasting process, surface roughness, haze, surface durability, and flatness are considered as process outputs and central composite design (CCD) method and response surface model (RSM) method are applied to model each process output. Models for surface roughness and haze showed 96.44% and 97.24% of R-squared values, respectively and they can be applied to optimize AG surface treatment process for various haze level requirements of display industries.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.251-257
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• 2020

In order to quickly and clearly recognize characters or images through display glass, glare of the glass must be suppressed. In this study, we tried to reduce glare by analyzing changes in glass surface shape and optical properties through etching process. The etching process was performed as a function of concentrations of the etching solutions, BOE and HF. During the etching process, a compound containing F ion was generated on the surface of the glass, forming an irregular pattern in the form of a projection, and thus various optical properties of the glass were changed; reflectance of 2.5~4.6 %, haze of 4.5~6.6 %, transmittance of 77~92 %, and gloss of 82~107 GU. As a result, optimum etching condition was obtained to minimize the loss of other optical properties while suppressing glare of the glass.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.93-102
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• 2021

This paper describes the process of developing a concrete median barrier of SB4 grade with anti-glare function. The development section has a height and width of 1,270mm and 560mm, respectively. A wire mesh is placed in the center of the cross section to improve the protection performance. Collision analysis predicted that this section satisfies the strength and occupant protection performance, and that no damage to the barrier occurs. In the actual collision test, it was confirmed that this section satisfies the strength and occupant protection performance. However, damage was observed on two concrete barrier when the truck crashed. In order to improve the accuracy of the collision analysis of the concrete barrier in the future, it is considered that a study on the model development and continuous collision analysis method for domestic commercial vehicles should be carried out.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.135-135
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• 2005