• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.515-518
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• 2005

In this paper, we report on our theoretical study on the effect of surface anchoring. Molecular dynamics as well as optical characteristics of PVA cell are computer-simulated with 3D-FEM numerical solver, TechWiz $LCD^{(R)}$. Although simulation parameters are the same except for the consideration of surface anchoring, the simulation reveals that optical transmittance is improved by more than 8% for the weak anchoring case with comparison to the strong anchoring case. Moreover, capacitance between pixel and common electrode is 7% lower for the strong anchoring than that for the weak anchoring. This implies that there exists an appreciable difference between the strong anchoring case and the weak anchoring case. It is very important to take the effect of surface anchoring into account in order to figure out the optical characteristics of an LCD cell more accurately.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2540-2543
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• 2008

Liquid crystal displays (LCD's) are continuously coated with some chemicals in the clean room of a factory. Spreading of these chemicals is causing serious problems both in controlling clean room quality as well as to the workers inside the factory. It is required to alleviate or properly control the offensive odor which is mainly composed of propylene glycol mono ethyl acetate, novolak resin and photo active compound. The control strategy employed is to bleed the offensive odor gas out the clean room. A full scale 3D CFD model was created with anisotropic porous media, chemical species transport with no volumetric reaction, and thermal diffusion with propane gas (tracer gas) to simulate the odor spreading. A segregated implicit solver with standard k-$\varepsilon$ model is employed. The detailed CFD analysis made it possible to develop an effective method of ventilating the coater room and optimizing their capacities.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.430-430
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• 2007

In general, polyimides (PIs) are used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) as alignment layer of liquid crystals (LCs). Up to date, the rubbing alignment technique has been widely used to align liquid crystals on the PI surface, which is suitable for mass-production of LCDs because of its simple process and high productivity. However, this method has some disadvantages. Rubbed PI surfaces include the debris left by the cloth and the generation of electrostatic charges during rubbing process. Therefore, rubbing-free techniques for LC alignment are strongly required in LCD technology. In this experiment, PI was uniformly coated on indium-tin-oxide electrode substrates to form LC alignment layers using a spin-coating method and the PI layers were subsequently imidized at 433 K for 1 h. The thickness of the PI layer was set at 50 nm. The LC alignment layer surfaces were exposed to an $Ar^+$ ion-beam under various ion-beam energies. The antiparallel cells and twisted-nematic (TN) cells for the measurement of pretile angle and electro-optical characteristics were fabricated with the cell gap of 60 and $5\;{\mu}m$, respectively. The LC cells were filled with nematic LC (NLC, MJ001929, Merck) and were assembled. The NLC alignment capability on ion-beam-treated PI was observed using photomicroscope and the pretilt angle of the NLC was measured by the crystal-rotation method at room temperature. Voltage-transmittance (V-T) and response time characteristics of the ion-beam irradiated TN cell were measured by a LCD evaluation system.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

디스플레이 특성화 방법, 예를 들어 gain-offset-gamma (GOG) 모델 혹은 S-curve 모델에서는 일반적으로 디스플레이가 두 가지의 기본적인 특성, 즉 채널 색도 일관성과 채널 독립성을 가지고 있다고 가정한다. 하지만, 모바일 LCD의 경우, 이러한 가정은 잘 적용되지 않는다. 따라서 기존의 디스플레이 특성화 방법을 모바일 디스플레이에 적용하기 위해서는 부분적인 수정이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 채널 색도 변화성의에 기인하여 나타나는 X, Y, Z 값의 전광 변환 함수의 차이를 고려하기 위해 각 채널당 X, Y, Z 값의 전광 변환 함수를 전부 모델링하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 채널 상호작용에 기인하여 나타나는 채널 사이의 충분하지 않은 가산성을 보상하기 위해 채널간 성분, 즉 cyan, magenta, yellow, gray에 대해서도 X, Y, Z 값의 전광변환 함수를 전부 모델링하여 이용한다. 실험을 통하여, 제안한 특성화 방법이 채널 색도 변화 또는 채널 의존성을 고려한 다른 특성화 방법에 비하여 모바일 디스플레이에서의 색 자극 값을 더욱 정확히 예측한다는 것을 보여 주었다.

• 폴리머
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.148-152
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• 2007

콜레스테릭 액정모노머를 이용하여 액정표시장치용 선택반사 칼라필터 원형을 개발하였다. 콜레스테릭 액정은 특정한 기판처리 조건에서 나선(helical twist) 구조를 갖는 액정으로서 피치와 비슷한 크기의 입사 파장을 반사시키는 독특한 선택반사의 광특성을 갖는다. 실험결과 R, G, B의 파장영역을 반사시키는 반구형으로 패턴된 콜레스테릭 반사 필름을 개발하여 그 반사파장의 피크 값을 살펴본 바, 시야각 방향 변화에 따라 적색, 녹색필름은 단파장쪽으로 반사파장 피크가 이동하였으며 청색의 경우 별다른 변화가 없었다. 포토리소그래피를 이용하여 포토레지스트(Photo-resist)를 thermal reflow방식으로 마이크로미터 크기의 반구형의 주기적인 패턴을 얻을 수 있었으며 그 위에 형성된 적색, 녹색, 청색의 필름은 패턴이 없는 경우에 비하여 시야각에 따른 반사파장의 변화가 적음을 육안을 통하여, 그리고 Lab좌표를 통해서 각각 정량적으로 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.421-421
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• 2006

The light and energy-efficiency of classical liquid crystal displays is notoriously poor due to the use of absorption-based linear polarisers and colour filters. For instance, the light efficiency of PVAL polarisers is typically between 40 and 45 % and the colour filters have a typical efficiency below 35 % which results in a total light and energy-efficiency of the display below 10 %. In the past, a variety of polarizers were developed with an enhanced efficiency in generating linearly polarized light. Typically, these polarizers are based on the polarisationselective reflection, scattering or refraction of light i.e. one polarisation direction of light is directly transmitted to the LCD/viewer and the other polarization direction of light is depolarised and recycled which results in a typical efficiency for generating linearly polarized light of 70-85 %. Also, special colour filters have been proposed based on chiral-nematic reactive mesogens which increase the efficiency of generating colour. Despite the enormous progress in this field, a need persists for improved methods for generating polarized light and colour based on low cost optical components with a high efficiency. Here, the use of holographic phase gratings is reported for the generation of polarized light and colour. The phase grating are recorded in a photopolymer which is coated onto a backor frontlight for LCDs. Typically the recording is performed in the transmisson mode or in the waveguiding mode and slanted phase gratings are generated with their refractive index modulation at an angle between 20o and 45o with the normal of the substrate. It is shown that phase gratings with a high refractive index modulation and a high efficiency can be generated by a proper selection of the photopolymer and illumination conditions. These phase gratings coupleout linearly polarized light with a high contrast (> 100) and the light is directed directly to the LCD/viewer without the need for redirection foils. Dependent on the type of phase grating, the different colours are coupled-out at a slightly different angle which potentially increases the efficiency of classical colour filters. Moreover, the phase gratings are completely transparent in direct view which opens the possibility to use them in frontlights for LCDs. Holographic polarization gratings posses a periodic pattern in the polarization state of light (and not in the intensity of light). A periodic pattern in the polarization direction of linearly polarized light is obtained upon interference of two circularly polarized laser beams. In the second part of the lecture, it is shown that these periodic polarization patterns can be recorded in a linear photo-polymerizable polymer (LPP) and that such an alignment layer induces a period rotation in the director of (reactive and non-reactive) liquid crystals. By a proper design, optical components can be produced with only first order diffraction and with a very high efficiency (>0.98). It is shown that these diffraction gratings are potentially useful in projection displays with a high brightness and energy efficiency

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.794-798
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• 2016

A polymer-stabilized vertical alignment (PS-VA) mode with fishbone-shaped pixel electrode structure is mainly used in large-sized liquid crystal displays (LCDs) owing to its advantages such as wide viewing angle, good transmittance and fast response time. One drawback of this mode is a main bone electrode, which crosses in the center of a pixel. It causes the transmittance to decrease badly because LCs cannot be reoriented in this region, and thus, it is particularly unfavorable in an ultra-high-definition LCD. Here, we propose an innovative structure with the main bone electrode relocated to the edge area in a pixel, and investigate how this reverse directed fishbone-shaped pixel electrode structure affects electro-optic characteristics. The proposed structure shows enhanced electro-optic performance, such as the higher transmittance and the faster response time than the conventional VA mode with fishbone-shaped pixel electrode structure.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권8C호
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• pp.598-604
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 프레임 보간을 수행하여 영상 끌림 현상(motion blur)을 줄이기 위해 적용되는 프레임 차이 기반의 적응형 확장 블록을 이용한 움직임 추정을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 상관도 높은 주변 블록의 픽셀 정보를 이용하여 움직임 추정을 수행하기 때문에 정확한 움직임 벡터를 추출할 수 있고, 프레임 차이를 이용하여 연산할 블록과 연산하지 않을 블록을 구분함으로써 연산량을 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 기존외 방법들보다 적은 연산량으로 정확한 움직임 벡터를 찾는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2010

In this paper, light-emitting-diode (LED) backlight driving circuits and dimming method for medium-sized and large liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are proposed. The double loop control method, the intelligent-phase-shifted PWM dimming method, the fast-switching current regulator, and the current matching techniques are proposed to improve not only the current regulation characteristics and the power efficiency but also the current matching characteristics and the transient response of the LED current. The brightness of the backlight using the proposed local dimming method was determined from the histogram of the local block to reduce the power consumption of the backlight without image distortion. The measured maximum power efficiency of the LED backlight driving circuit for medium-sized LCDs was 90%, and the simulation results showed an 88% maximum power efficiency of the LED backlight driving circuit for large LCDs. The maximum backlight power-saving ratio of the proposed dimming method was 41.7% in the simulation with a high-contrast image. The experiment and simulation results showed that the performance of LEDs as LCD backlight units (BLUs) improved with the proposed circuits and method.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1125-1128
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• 2002

Tantalum pentoxide (Ta$_2$O$\sub$5/) is a candidate for use in metal-insulator-metal diode in switching devices for active-matrix liquid-crystal displays. The MIM diode with very low threshold voltage and perfect symmetry was fabricated. High quality Ta$_2$O$\sub$5/ thin films were obtained by using an anodizing method. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope observations, auger electron spectroscopy, ellipsometry measurements, and electrical measurements, such as current - voltage(I-V) measurements were performed to investigate Ta$_2$O$\sub$5/ films and their reliability and indicated that the obtained TaOx thin films were reliable Ta$_2$O$\sub$5/ films for the applications. Furthermore, in this paper, we discuss the effects of top-electrode metals and annealing conditions. The conduction mechanism of the leakage current and the symmetry characteristics related to the Schottky emission and Poole-Frankel effect are also discussed using the results of electrical measurements and conduction barrier theory.