• 한국재료학회지
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.804-809
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• 1999

테오스(TEOS)를 출발물질로 사용하여 건조조절제(DCCA;Dying Control Chemical Additives)를 첨가하지 않고, 솔-젤 법을 이용하여 Si(001) 단결정 기판 위에 실리카 박막을 제조하였다. 박막은 스핀 코팅 방법으로 테오스 =1 몰, 염산=0.05몰의 조건하에 메탄올, 증류수의 첨가량을 변화시키면서 젤화 완료시간, 박막의 두께, 균열 발생 여부, 박막의 결정성 등을 조사하였다. 그 결과 솔의 제화 완료시간은 메탄올 첨가량이 8몰일 때 가장 긴 640시간이었다. 코팅된 박막의 두께는 메탄올 첨가량이 많아질수록 감소하였다. 소결은 승온 속도$0.6^{\circ}C$/min으로 $500^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 행하였으며, 메탄올 첨가량이 0.8몰, 2몰일 때는 표면에서 균열이 발생하여 worm-like grain 구조를 가졌고, 메탄올 4몰인 경우에는 국부적으로 균열이 발생하였으나, 메탄올 양이 8몰 이상에서는 균열이 발생하지 않았다. 즉, 솔-젤 공정에서 균열 방지를 위해 첨가되는 건조조절제(DMF)를 첨가하지 않고도 용매인 메탄올과 증류수 혼합비를 조절, 표면장력을 제어함으로써 균열없는 박막을 제조하였다.

• 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.