• Journal of Information Display
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.17-20
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• 2012

The current panels for liquid crystal display (LCD) TV sets are all characterized by pins placed on two sides. To manufacture one type of panel, a dedicated mask is needed, and the production line should be started once. Moreover, the whole panel needs to be removed if a dead pixel is found. If the panel, however, will first be fabricated with pins placed on four sides and then divided by a cross-cut into four equal-sized panels with pins placed on two sides, one set of masks can be used to manufacture two types of LCD panels, which was referred to by the authors as dual mode. In this paper, the concept of the dual mode and its differences from the conventional way of producing panels are introduced. Its advantages in boosting production efficiency, improving the product's good rate, and lowering the production cost are also described based on case studies. Of particular importance is the fact that the dual mode is very suitable for the trial production of very-large-area LCD TV sets.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.97-99
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• 2011

We report flexible, bistable cholesteric displays utilizing polyester (PET) substrates with printed internal black electrodes. The black electrodes consist of carbon ink dispersed in butyl carbitol using a patented roll-to-roll gravure-offset printing. A transparent conducting polymer printed on PET serves as the counter electrode. The electro-optic material is a chiral nematic mixture dispersed in a low-concentration polymer binder. The device can be switched between scattering (black) and reflective (vibrant green) states upon application of an electric pulse. The internal black electrode enhances the contrast of the display and simplifies the roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible displays.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.46-49
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• 1986

A 32x32 liquid crystal (LC) flat panel display using two-dimensional array of PMOS switches and capacitors is designed and fabricated. Standard PMOS process was followed to fabricate the switch and capacitor array on silicon wafer, on the top of which guest-host effect liquid crystal was wmployed as an electro-optical material for optical switching and liquid crystal display(LCD) with its external drive circuitry was basically successful. Remaining problems to be solved are improvement of contrast ratio, good surface alignment and uniformity.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1114-1117
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• 2004

We investigated the liquid crystal (LC) alignment phenomena using hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) thin films. For LC alignment, the surface of a-C:H thin films is treated with low energy ion beam. We investigated the relationship between the properties of a-C:H thin films and LC alignment phenomena.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.115-119
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• 2011

Optically isotropic liquid crystal (LC) mixture such as blue-phase LC and nanostructured LC composites exhibit the advantages of fast response time, high contrast ratio and wide-viewing angle due to the induced birefringence along the horizontal electric field. Utilizing this mixture, a novel single cell gap in-plane switching-type polymer-stabilized blue-phase transflective liquid crystal display by embedding the nanowire grid polarizer as a polarization-dependent reflective polarizer in the R region is proposed. This device can be used as a normal black mode without any quarter-wave plate or patterned in-cell phase retarder. Moreover, the transmittance is identical to the reflectance so that it will be suitable for single gamma driving. Detailed electro-optic performances, such as voltage-dependent light efficiency and viewing angle of the proposed device configuration, are investigated.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.1 s.18
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• pp.59-64
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• 2007

Non-contact transportation of a large-sized glass plate using air cushion for the vertical sputtering system of liquid crystal display (LCD) panel was considered. The objective of the study was to design an air pad unit which was composed of multiple injection and exhaust holes and mass flow supplying pipe. The gas was injected through multiple small holes to maintain the force for levitating glass plate. After hitting the plate, the air was vented through exhaust holes. Complex flow field and resulting pressure distribution on the glass surface were numerically studied to design the air injection pad. The exhaust hole size was varied to obtain evenly distributed pressure distribution at fixed diameter of the injection hole. Considering the force for levitating glass plate, the diameter of the exhaust hole of 30 to 40 times of the gas injection hole was recommended.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.77-83
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• 2011

The memory compression algorithm CCC-LCP (color-count-controlled local color palette) reduces flicker in the liquid crystal display (LCD) overdrive. Its compression ratio is 1:5.4 for 10-bit images, with a 33 dB PSNR peak signal-to-noise ratio and with five times flicker reduction compared with the block truncation coding. The authors' two-alternative forced choice subjective tests proposed two new soundness properties, the 'CMP harmlessness' and 'OD non-lost (or OD liveliness)', to clarify the functional interaction between the overdrive functionality OD and the compression functionality CMP. The tests verified that CCC-LCP is practically applicable (at a 1.2H viewing distance threshold) for 42" 37-ppi WXGA TVs.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1067-1070
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• 2005

A large size flat panel LCD-TV must fulfill different requirements than a desktop LCD-monitor: The contrast must be much larger, the viewing angle should be as wide as possible and the switching times must be shorter to allow moving pictures to be displayed naturally. The "Vertically Aligned" technology is most promising to realize such a product. LC-material development for this technology began at Merck about 10 years ago. New materials based on the 1,1,6,7-tetrafluoroindane skeleton were recently synthesized via ortho-metallation and intramolecular Heck cyclization followed by an oxidative fluorination procedure. The materials offer improved properties over liquid crystals currently employed in flat panel LCD-TVs.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.498-499
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• 2002

In In order to develop liquid crystal mixtures of high response time and high nematic-isotropic transition temperature ($T_{NI}$) for LCD-TV application, novel liquid crystal molecules with a fluoro-isothiocyanate moiety were synthesized. They showed remarkably high $T_{NI}$ over 200 $^{\circ}C$, wide mesophase range of 170 $^{\circ}C$, high dielectric anisotropy of 14 and high optical anisotropy of 0.19. New LC Mixtures of the high $T_{NI}$ ($85{\sim}100 ^{\circ}C$) and fast response time ($8{\sim}10ms$) were blended with the novel fluoro-isothiocyanate containing LC molecules, phenylcyclohexanes, bicyclohexanes and ester compounds. It was also studied on optimum pitch of liquid crystal for high speed twisted nematic LCD-TV applicaton. The LC mixtures show a fast speed of the below one frame rate in real 17" TV panel.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2002

In In order to develop liquid crystal mixtures of high response time and high nematic-isotropic transition temperature ($T_{NI}$) for LCD-TV application, novel liquid crystal molecules with a fluoroisothiocyanate moiety were synthesized. They showed remarkably high $T_{NI}$ over 200 $^{\circ}C$, wide mesophase range of 170 $^{\circ}C$, high dielectric anisotropy of 14 and high optical anisotropy of 0.19. New LC Mixtures of the high $T_{NI}$ (85${\sim}$100 $^{\circ}C$) and fast response time (8${\sim}$10ms) were blended with the novel fluoroisothiocyanate containing LC molecules, phenylcyclohexanes, bicyclohexanes and ester compounds. It was also studied on optimum pitch of liquid crystal for high speed twisted nematic LCD-TV applicaton. The LC mixtures show a fast speed of the below one frame rate in real 17" TV panel.