• Journal of Information Display
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

We demonstrated stability-enhanced liquid crystal (LC) displays using pixel-isolated LC mode in which LC molecules are isolated in pixel by horizontal polymer layer and vertical polymer wall. The device shows good electro-optic properties against external point or bending pressure due to the polymer structures. The polymer wall acts as supporting structure from mechanical pressure and prevents the cell gap from bending. Moreover, the polymer layer acts as an adhesive to ensure a tight attachment of the two substrates. We present herein various methods for producing polymer structures by using an anisotropic phase separation from LC and polymer composites or patterned micro-structures for stable flexible liquid crystal displays.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.168-171
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• 2013

A reflective flexible display was fabricated by placing a thermochromic pigment on a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate coated with an indium tin oxide (ITO) film, and its thermo-optical characteristics were investigated. The reflective thermochromic display showed good image quality with a reflectance of approximately 65%. As a flexible display, the display showed reliability without damage to the image even after the display was bent strongly. The reflective display cell exhibits continuously the gray level according to the temperature controlled by applied voltage. This low cost display is expected be used in outdoor poster applications where information needs to be presented clearly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.400.2-400.2
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• 2016

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been widely investigated as a next generation solar cell because of their simple structure and low manufacturing cost. To realize a commercially competitive technology of DSSCs, it is imperative to employ a technique to prepare nanocrystlline thin film on the flexible organic substrate, aiming at increasing the flexibility and reducing the weight as well as the overall device thickness of DSSCs. The key operation of glass-to-plastic substrates conversion is to prepare mesoporous TiO2 thin film at low temperature with a high surface area for dye adsorption and a high degree of crystallinity for fast transport of electrons. However, the electron transport in the TiO2 film synthesized at low temperature is very poor. So, in this study, TiO2 films synthesized at high temperature were transferred on the selective substrate. We fabricated DSSCs at low temperature using this method. So, we confirmed that the performance of DSSCs using TiO2 films synthesized at high temperature was improved.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.84-90
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• 2000

The importance of Virtual Manufacturing System is increasing in the area of developing new manufacturing processes, implementing automated workcells, designing plant facility layouts and workplace ergonomics. Virtual manufacturing system is a computer system that can generate the same information about manufacturing system structure, states, and behaviors as is observed in a real manufacturing. In this research, a virtual manufacturing system for flexible manufacturing cells (VFMC), (which is a useful tool for building Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), has been developed using object-oriented paradigm, and implemented with software QUEST/IGRIP. Three object models used in the system are the product model, the facility model, and the process model. The concrete behaviors of a flexible manufacturing cell are re[presented by the task-oriented description diagram, TIC. An example simulation is executed to evaluate applicability of the developed models, and to prove the potential value of virtual manufacturing paradigm.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2007

플렉서블 태양전지용 연성기판재에는 플라스틱재와 금속재가 있다. 기존의 연성기판인 플라스틱의 경우 열과, 내구성, 화학약품에 약하다는 단점이 있으며, 금속기판은 높은 생산원가, 박판화의 어려움 등의 문제를 안고 있다. 상업적으로 응용되거나 연구에 활용되는 플렉서블 기판재의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 가능성을 밝혀보기 위해 전주성형법으로 합금 금속 포일을 제조하여 상용 금속 기판재의 열팽창 거동과 비교해 보았다. 본 연구에서는 플렉서블 태양전지용으로 적용되거나 연구되고 있는 금속 기판 재료인 두께 50 ${\mu}m$인 Ti, Mo, Al 포일을 선택하여 열팽창거동을 조사하였고 이를 전주성형법으로 제조한 두께 10 ${\mu}m$인 Fe-40Ni, Fe-45Ni, Fe-52Ni 합금포일의 열팽창 거동과 비교 분석하였다. 금속 및 합금 포일의 열팽창 거동은 TMA 장비를 사용하여 조사하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.469-469
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• 2013

Flexible display는 미래의 평판디스플레이 시장으로 꼽히고 있는 대표적인 분야이다. PET, PEN, PI 등의 polymer substrate는 접거나 구부리는 형태로 변형이 가능하기 때문에 차세대 기술로 평가되어지는 Flexible display, Solar cell, OLED 등 다방면에 응용이 가능하다. 또한 ITO는 지금까지 개발된 재료 중에서 가장 투명하고 전기가 잘 통하며, 생산성도 좋기 때문에 이것을 투명전극의 재료로 사용한다. 디스플레이에 사용되는 투명 전도막의 경우, 가시광 영역에서의 투과 및 반사와 같은 광학적 특성은 중요한 요소 중의 하나이다. 투명 전도막의 광흡수, 반사 및 투과즉성은 박막 내에 존재하는 전공밴드의 전자, 자유전자, polar optical phonon 등의 빛과의 반응에 의해 결정된다고 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 저온 증착된 ITO 박막의 광학적 특성을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 모색하고 기계적, 화학적 특성을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.291-292
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• 2005

Comparing with conventional STN-LCD, a good electro-optical characteristics were observed on the STN-LCDs of low cell gap using liquid crystals that have large refractive indices. Especially, A stable voltage-transmittance(V-T) curve of the plastic STN-LCD was measured and fast response time characteristics were obtained. We suggested that fast response STN-LCD is promising technique in the flexible display of small size because it has lots of advantages such as low cost, simple manufacture process comparing with other modes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.22 no.50
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• pp.351-362
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• 1999

버퍼는 생산시스템에서 시스템내의 기계고장, 프로세스시간의 변화, 그리고 부품들의 이동경로의 복잡성 등과 같은 요인들로 인해 발생 가능한 blocking현상과 starving현상을 감소시키는데 사용되고 있다. 유연 생산시스템(Flexible Manufacturing System)에서는 버퍼의 단위당 비용이 높아 시스템내의 총 버퍼 크기는 제한적이어서, 적절한 버퍼 관리를 통해 시스템 효율성을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 버퍼의 특성을 분석하고 AGVS(Automated Guided Vehicle System)을 사용하는 다중셀방식의 FMS(multi-cell Flexible Manufacturing Systems) 환경에서의 버퍼관리와 관련된 기존 연구들을 검토하고, 새로운 개념의 가상시스템버퍼를 소개한다.

• 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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• 2005.07a
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• pp.489-492
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• 2005

We report new polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal (PSFLC) cells with mechanical stability which is achievable by introducing photospacers in the cells. It was found that the mechanical st ability of the PSFLC cell was effected by introduction of photo spacers. We analyzed the dependence of mechanical stability and memory property on the density of photospacers in the PSFLC cell. The stability and memory properties of PSFLC Cells depending on photospacer density are discussed. 1. Introduction Recently, flexible displays have attracted much attention because they have remarkable advantages: thinner, lighter, non-breakable and conformable features. Flexible displays have various potential applications such as e-book and e-paper displays utilizing the distinct features. E-book and E-paper displays demand very low power consumption, so that bistable memory liquid crystal modes are required in case of flexible plastic LCDs for those application. Three kinds of memory LC modes have been developed; bistable nematic, bistable cholesteric and bistable FLC. Among them SSFLC as one of bistable FLC has big advantages such as low driving voltage, wide view angle and fast response time, SSFLC cells are, however, very weak against mechanical shock. Polymer stabilized FLC (PSFLC) has been developed to overcome the poor mechanical stability of SSFLC. PSFLC was known to have network structure that FLCs are oriented with smectic layer ordering in polymer network. The polymer network stabilizes the FLC orientation, which leads to improvement of mechanical stability of PSFLCD. A lot of studies have been done for the application of PSFLC to flexible $LCDs.^{[1{\sim}12]}$ However, it should be noted that PSFLC does not have sufficient mechanical stability for the particular applications such as smart card LCD, where LCD is highly bendable.Bead spacer was mainly used to maintain cell gap of conventional PSFLCDs. But the spacer density of it is not locally uniform in the cell, so that it is generally difficult that the PSFLCDs with bead spacers show sufficient mechanical stability. In order to more improve the mechanical stability of PSFLCDs, we introduced photospacers into PSFLCDs. In this paper, we describe the improvement of mechanical stability by introducing photospacers into PSFLCDs.