• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.282-284
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• 2006

UV lamp systems have been used for cleaning of display pannels of TFT LCD or Plasma Display Pannel (PDP). However, the needs for high efficient cleaning and low cost made high voltage plasma cleaning techniques be developed and improved. In this paper, 3kW high voltage plasma power supply system was developed for LCD cleaning. The 3-phase input voltage is rectified and then inverter system is used to make a high frequency pulse train, which is rectified after passing through a high-power transformer. Finally, bi-directional high voltage pulse switching circuits are used to generate the high voltage plasma.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.3-9
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• 2009

Although Active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display has a better image quality in terms of viewing angle, contrast ratio, and response time than liquid crystal displays (LCDs), it still has some critical issues such as lifetime, residual images, and brightness non-uniformity due to non-uniformity in electrical characteristics of driving TFTs and IR drops on supplied power line. Among them, we improved irrecoverable residual images of AMOLED displays which is mainly related to the hysteresis characteristics of driving TFTs. We consider four kinds of surface treatment conditions before gate oxide deposition for improving hysteresis characteristics. We can reduce the hysteresis level of p-channel TFT to 0.23 V, interface trap states between the poly-Si layer and gate insulator to $3.11{\times}10^{11}cm^{-2}$, and output current variation of p-channel TFT to 3.65 % through the surface treatment using ultraviolet light and H2 plasma. Therefore, the recoverable residual image problem of AMOLED displays can be improved by surface treatment using ultraviolet light and $H_2$ plasma.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.948-951
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• 2005

New technology that reduces photolithography process steps from 4 to 3 in fabrication of TFT LCD is introduced. The core technology for 3mask-TFTs is the lift-off process [1], by which the PAS and PXL layer are formed simultaneously. To evaluate the stability of this lift-off process, outgases from photo resist on a substrate during ITO deposition and the quality of ITO film were analyzed and the conventional photo resist stripper machine which operates lift-off process was examined to see its ability to reduce particle problems of the machine. Through the development of total process and design for TFTs using this 3mask technology, panels in TN and IPS modes which exhibit same performances of a display using a conventional process were achieved. In addition, this process was already verified in the mass production line and now some products are being produced by the 3mask technology.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1639-1641
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• 2007

We have designed cost competitive pixel structures for high performance mobile PVA LCDs. These new structures significantly bring down the price by the use of a conventional polarizer for lowest possible cost. A 4.3" prototype based on these techniques was built, achieving the world's highest mobile display contrast ratio of 1200:1, while maintaining wide viewing angle with no loss of transmittance

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.438-440
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• 2005

At present, characteristic of high color reproduction for LCD TV is needed in Display market according to start mass production of LCD TV. Therefore development target for LCD is focused on improvement of color reproduction. The improving methods of high color reproduction are alteration of color Filter or Red, Green, Blue phosphor alteration of CCFL. But decrease of luminance and panel transmittance is caused by alteration of Color Filter. Accordingly, we completed LCD with high color reproduction by the most suitable emission spectrum of CCFL phosphor at panel with conventional color filter. In this experiment, we knew that LCD applied to CCFL with high color rendering characteristic had color reproduction range of 81% compared with NTSC in CIE color coordinate. According to increase of intensity peak and alteration of Red, Green, Blue phosphor spectrum, we made LCD with high color reproduction characteristic. In conclusion we achieved improvement of color reproduction ratio by alteration of CCFL phosphor without changing color filter.

• Information Display
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2013

지난 20년 동안 TFT-LCD의 화질은 급격하게 발전해 왔다. 특히 IPS와 VA의 기술경쟁을 통해 서로의 단점을 극복하려는 많은 연구가 수행돼왔다. 하지만 이제는 발광디스플레이의 출현으로 이제는 액정기술 간의 경쟁은 의미 없고 TFT-LCD의 화질/기능/비용면에서 발광디스플레이보다 우수해야 하는 당면 과제를 안고 있다. 현재 IPS기술은 FFS기술을 통해 한층 더 발전하였고 이제는 고화질 제품엔 FFS 채용이 기본화되고 있다. FFS 기술개발에 초기부터 참여하고 지금까지 FFS기술을 연구하고 있는 필자의 관점에서 보면 FFS는 1998년 발표이후 매 6년 마다 중대한 변화가 있었고 그 예가 2004년 히타치사 TV패널에 FFS기술 적용, 2010년 애플사 아이패드에 FFS 기술 채용이다. 현재 기술 흐름으로 볼 때 2016년 정도엔 FFS기술 + 산화물 반도체 + 광배향 기술을 적용한 FFS TV가 시장의 한 축이 되길 필자는 기대해본다. 마지막으로 필자의 경험을 바탕으로 평가한 각 기술들에 대해 다른 전문가들과 이견이 있을 수 있음을 인정하니 많은 양해 부탁드립니다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2004

In this paper we implemented the Real Time Contrast Enhancer for image quality enhancement of moving picture. Also we proposed adaptive contrast method that use mean and variance of input video signal. The Designed the contrast Enhancer is measured in comparison with conventional picture and interfaced to 30inch TFT LCD TV of the LG Electronics.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.953-960
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• 2007

To correctly detect muras, visual defects in TFT-LCD panels, image distortion occurring on the profess of capturing panels should be corrected. In general vision systems, there are several known methods to restore the observed image. However, the vignetting effect particularly shown only in panel images cannot be easily restored through traditional methods because it is combined with background non-uniformity due to the unique characteristic of panel. To increase the reliability of image restoration, the vignetting effect should be properly corrected after being separated from image background. Therefore, in this paper we present a new method to analyze and correct the vignetting effect of panel images using principal component analysis. Experimental results for a total of 175 test images showed that the average contrast error of the muras in the distorted images was reduced from 37% to 11% and the mura misidentification rate was decreased from 14.8% to 2.2% by image restoration.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.237-241
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• 2000

The structural, electrical and etching characteristics of Al alloy thin film with low impurity concentrations AlNd deposited by using do magnetron sputtering deposition are investigated for the applications as gate bus line in the TFt-LCD panel. And ITO thin film was deposited on AlNd, then the contact resistance was measured by Kelvin resistor. The deposited thin films show the decrease of resistivity and the increase of grain size after the RTA at $300^{\circ}C$ for 20 min. Moreover, the resistivity of AlNd does not show appreciable grain size dependence after RTA. It is concluded that the decrease of resistivity after RTA is due to the increase of grain size. The annealed AlNd is found to be hillock free. The etching profiles of AlNd was good and the minimun contact resistance was about $110\;{\mu\Omega}cm$. Calculation results reveal that the AlNd (2wt.%) thin film can be applicable to 25" SXGA class TFT-LCD panels.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.562-566
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• 2005

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) has firstly succeeded in mass production of OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) mode liquid crystal display panels which have excellent moving picture quality almost the same as CRT. We have newly developed 32 -inch diagonal HD ($1366{\times}768\;pixels$) panels using OCB mode and low temperature p-Si TFT (LTPS) array substrates. High performance of brightness of $600cd/m^2$ and contrast ratio of 600 : 1 was obtained by using pseudo-impulse driving method to insert a black period between continuous two frames, and also by using blinking backlight method. Furthermore, moving picture response time (MPRT) 6.5ms has been obtained by optimization of black insert driving and backlight blinking, without the great sacrifices of contrast ratio and luminance.