• 한국광학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

최근 LED TV로 각광받고 있는 대형 LCD TV용 LED(Light Emitting Diode, 고체발광다이오드) 백라이트에 사용되는 도광판의 광구조를 최적화하여 LED에 의해 발생하는 휘점을 제거하고 조도균일도를 향상시키기 위한 시뮬레이션 연구를 진행하였다. 시뮬레이션 모델로 설정된 엣지형 백라이트는 LCD TV용으로 사용될 수 있는 두께 3 mm의 도광판, 측면에 배치된 세 개의 백색 LED와 램프 커버, 도광판의 하면에 배치된 반사 필름으로 구성되어 있다. 일반적인 엣지형 백라이트용 도광판과 같이 도광판의 입광면에 패턴이 형성되어 있지 않은 경우에는 도광판 상면의 조도균일도가 입광면과 LED 사이의 거리에 민감하게 의존하였다. 입광면과 LED 사이의 거리가 커질수록 조도균일도는 개선되다가 일정 거리 이상이 되면 개선이 둔화되는 경향성을 보였다. 반면에 도광판의 입광면에 렌티큘라(lenticular) 렌즈 배열이나 톱니모양(Serration)과 같은 미세 굴절 패턴을 형성하는 경우 LED가 입광면에 거의 붙어 있는 경우에도 패턴이 없는 경우에 비해 우수한 조도균일도를 보인다는 것을 알 수 있었고 조도균일도가 LED와 입광면 사이의 거리에 의존하는 정도가 줄어든다는 점도 확인하였다. 동일조건에서는 톱니모양 패턴이 렌티큘라 렌즈에 비해 우수한 조도균일도를 나타내었고 굴절률의 변화를 통해 추가적인 균일도 개선 효과를 얻을 수 있음도 확인하였다. 따라서 도광판의 입광면에 굴절 기능을 가지는 미세 패턴을 형성하고 그 광구조를 최적화하는 것은 LED에 의한 휘점 형성을 억제하고 LCD 측면의 비발광영역(베젤)을 줄이는데 있어서 매우 효과적인 방법이 될 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.1048-1052
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• 2008

Difficulties in developing process of Liquid Crystal Display(LCD) products such as frequent design modifications, various design requirements, and short-term development period bring on the need of integrated design approach that is efficient and easy to handle. Back Light Unit(BLU) of the LCD, which drastically affects the optical performance of LCD products, is divided into in-coupling part and out-coupling part. Serration of the in-coupling part flattens the light received from point light sources and dot pattern of the out-coupling part regularizes the light sent to screen. Therefore, the optical performance of a LCD product is largely influenced by the shape of serration and the arrangement of dot pattern. In this research, a new design approach which enables to improve the optical performance of LCD products and overcome the prementioned difficulties in developing process of LCD products is proposed. The shape of serration is parameterized to 3 parameters and out-coupling part is partitioned into 10 partitions to apply the optimization technique to this problem. 3 parameters for the shape of serration and densities of 10 partitions are used as design variables in the design optimization. Optical simulation tool named SPEOS is used to evaluate the optical performance of the LCD product. Since the optical simulation uses the random ray tracing technique, numerical noise may possibly be included in the simulation process. To solve the problem caused by numerical noise, the PQRSM which can stably find the solution of the noise problem is used in this research.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.71-75
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• 2006

In recent, various shapes of pattern in micron or nano scale are adapted in many applications due to their good mechanical or optical properties. Light guide panel (LGP) of the LCD is one of important applications for micro pattern and micro prism shape is one of the typical patterns. The size of the surface patterns in most applications is decreasing to the order of micron or even under micron. On the other hand, the area to be patterned keeps enlarging. These two trends in patterned products require tooling micro patterns on large surface, which has still many technical problems to be solved mainly due to pattern size and the tooling area. In this study, we fabricated prism shape of patterns using diamond cutting tool on some metal core and plastic core like PMMA. Some cutting conditions were investigated including cutting force, cutting depth and speed for different core materials.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2005년도 금형가공,미세가공,플라스틱가공 공동 심포지엄
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• pp.110-113
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• 2005

In recent, various shapes of pattern in micron or nano scale are adapted in many applications due to their good mechanical or optical properties. Light guide panel (LGP) of the LCD is one of important applications for micro pattern and micro prism shape is one of the typical patterns. Many applications have the patterns on their surface and the size of the pattern keep decreasing down to the order of micron or even under micron. On the other hand, the area to be patterned keeps enlarging. These two trends in patterned products require tooling micro patterns on large surface, which has still many technical problems to be solved mainly due to pattern size and the tooling area. In this study, we fabricate prism shape of patterns using diamond cutting tool on some metal core and plastic core like PMMA Some of cutting conditions are investigated including cutting force, cutting depth and speed for different core materials.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제30권8호
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• pp.957-964
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• 2006

As the requirement of LCD products which are large screen and have high brightness increases, the role of light guide panel (LGP) of which micro-features diffuse the light uniformly on surface is getting important. In general, there are many errors in machining like machine tool errors process error, setup error and etc. The amount of setup error in general machining is not so big in comparison with the others, so it is mostly neglected. But, especially in v-groove micromachining, setup error has a significant effect on micro-features. Low quality product and high cost are resulted from setup error. In v-groove micromachining, to confirm the effect of setup error, it is identified and then setup error synthesis model is derived from analysis of tool and workpiece setup. In addition, to predict the micro-features affected by setup error and enhance the production efficiency, the setup condition satisfying the tolerance of micro-features is geometrically analyzed and presented.