• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2012

Lagrangian relaxation is the most widely adopted method for solving unit commitment (UC) problems. It consists of two steps: dual optimization and primal feasible solution construction. The dual optimization step is crucial in determining the overall performance of the solution. This paper intends to evaluate two dual optimization methods - one based on subgradient (SG) and the other based on the cutting plane. Large-scale UC problems with hundreds of thousands of variables and constraints have been generated for evaluation purposes. It is found that the evaluated SG method yields very promising results.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.600-603
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• 2009

The liquid crystal device with switchable dynamic mode and memory mode has been investigated and developed. The proposed device reveals splay, ${\pi}$ twist and bend states by selective switching among them. In the dynamic mode, this device is operated in the bend state which exhibits the wide view angle and fast response time properties due to the self-compensated bend structure and flow accelerated fast response time. In the memory mode, the permanent memory characteristics in the splay and ${\pi}$ twist sates are obtained, respectively. The switching mechanisms of the tristate device are also proposed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1148-1151
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• 2009

A self-designed, written in labview, Organic Light-Emitting Diode junction temperature measuring program was used to calculate the internal junction temperature for devices during operation, and an infrared thermometer was used to measure the backside temperature of the device substrate, to discuss the effects of the junction and substrate temperature difference to the characteristics of the device.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.710-712
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• 2007

The effects of stress on the IZO/PC substrate and the electro-optical properties of a flexible LCD with microstructure in bending were investigated. It showed that the IZO/PC substrate and the periodic cross spacers are good enough to be employed in the application of the ECB or polarization rotation LC mode.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2007

Two new cell structures for optical compensated bend were proposed. There are two groups of slit electrodes, which are driven by two different signals corresponding to the entire electrode as common electrode. The transmittance was enhanced without increasing the response time and light leakage. Compared with the traditional OCB mode, the increment of the transmittance of each kind is about 90% and 30%.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.496-498
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• 2007

This paper reports our observation that the addition of nanoparticles in the negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal (LC) cell can exhibit the properties of vertical alignment without using alignment layers. The electro-optical properties of this nanoparticles-induced vertical alignment in the LC cell are very similar to the conventional homeotropic LC cell with alignment layers. This technique can be used to fabricate a flexible LC display demanding low temperature process

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2007

Advanced-MVA(A-MVA) for LCD-TV application was proposed to yield high performance LCD-TV. By utilizing Additional Refresh Technology(ART), which has 2-TFTs but with single source and gate line only. The A-MVA can yield low color washout, fast response, and optimized brightness. AMVA has become the promising solution of advanced LCDTV panels for mass-production.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.73-75
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• 2007

Micro-cell LC film and polymer network liquid crystal (PNLC) film by using continuous compatible process have been developed . A high-contrast micro-cell LC film has a strong potential as a high-performance flexible device. PNLC film has the low driving voltage. Both films show the characteristics of lightness, thinness and mechanical stability.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.669-682
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• 2011

A Chebyshev spectral method (CSM) for the dynamic analysis of non-uniform Timoshenko beams under various boundary conditions and concentrated masses at their ends is proposed. The matrix-based Chebyshev spectral approach was used to construct the spectral differentiation matrix of the governing differential operator and its boundary conditions. A matrix condensation approach is crucially presented to impose boundary conditions involving the homogeneous Cauchy conditions and boundary conditions containing eigenvalues. By taking advantage of the standard powerful algorithms for solving matrix eigenvalue and generalized eigenvalue problems that are embodied in the MATLAB commands, chebfun and eigs, the modal parameters of non-uniform Timoshenko beams under various boundary conditions can be obtained from the eigensolutions of the corresponding linear differential operators. Some numerical examples are presented to compare the results herein with those obtained elsewhere, and to illustrate the accuracy and effectiveness of this method.

• Advances in environmental research
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.191-199
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• 2012

A kinetic study of the transesterification of soybean oil was conducted using microwaves under various temperatures, power densities, and reaction times. Results show that power density affects the kinetics and yield. The biodiesel yield increased with increasing microwave power density. The non-thermal effects of microwave irradiation on transesterification reactions were evaluated at a constant reaction temperature ($65^{\circ}C$) and power density (0.204 $Wg^{-1}$). Microwave irradiation was found to increase the reaction rates by 3.52-7.06 fold.