• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2003년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.263-265
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• 2003

Stressed liquid crystals, SLCs, consist of a lowdensity polymer network dispersed in a nematic host. We induced stress by shearing the material. Alignment layers are not required because the liquid crystal director uniformly aligns along the direction of shear. The shearing stress also eliminates light scattering and results in sub-millisecond switching speeds, making them good candidates for video display applications.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2020

We investigated light extraction film based on polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) for application in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). At least 30 seconds of direct UV irradiation process for curing PDLC film on a bottom-emitting OLEDs was successfully achieved without damage on the intrinsic properties of the OLED. We demonstrated that high haze and transmittance can be tuned simultaneously by controlling the UV curing time. By adding PDLC as an external layer without any additional treatment, the light scattering and extraction is increased. Consequently, a PDLC scattering film with 89.8% and 59.9 of total transmittance and haze respectively, achieved about 16% of light intensity enhancement from integrating sphere measurement.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.753-761
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• 2014

We propose a two-step UV irradiation procedure to fabricate polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films by lamination. During the first UV treatment, before lamination, the UV-curable monomers coated on one film substrate are solidified through photo-polymerization as the phase separation between the liquid crystals and the monomers. Introducing an adhesion-enhancement layer on the other plastic substrate and controlling the UV irradiation conditions ensure that UV-induced cross-linkable functional groups remain on the surfaces of the photo-polymerized layers. Thereby, the adhesion stability between the top and bottom films is much improved during a second (post-lamination) UV treatment by further UV-induced cross-linking at the interface. Because the adhesion-enhancement and PDLC layers prepared by the bar-coating process are solidified before lamination, the PDLC droplet distribution and the cell gap between the two plastic substrates remain uniform under the lamination pressure. This ensures that the voltage-controlled light transmittance is uniform across the entire sample.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.155-165
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• 2006

The present article describes the experimental and theoretical observations on the formation of holographic, polymer-dispersed, liquid crystals and electrically switchable, photonic crystals. A phase diagram of the starting mixture of nematic liquid crystal and photo-reactive triacrylate monomer was established by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and cloud point measurement. Photolithographic patterns were imprinted on the starting mixture of LC/triacrylate via multi-beam interference. A similar study was extended to a dendrimer/photocurative mixture as well as to a single component system (tetra-acrylate). Theoretical modeling and numerical simulation were carried out based on the combination of Flory-Huggins free energy of mixing and Maier-Saupe free energy of nematic ordering. The combined free energy densities were incorporated into the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (Model C) equations coupled with the photopolymerization rate equation to elucidate the spatio-temporal structure growth. The 2-D photonic structures thus simulated were consistent with the experimental observations. Furthermore, 3-D simulation was performed to guide the fabrication of assorted photonic crystals under various beam-geometries. Electro-optical performance such as diffraction efficiency was evaluated during the pattern photopolymerization process and also as a function of driving voltage.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.784-787
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• 2006

We have developed a RGB polymer dispersed liquid crystal film (RGB PDLC). To obtain the color display, color pigments are mixed in the prepolymer. We have presented an electro-optical performance of our cell and analyzed the electro optical properties for varying LC/ pre-polymer ratio and polymer type.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2003

다기능성 아크릴레이트 단량체와 네마틱 액정 등을 혼합한 홀로그래픽 고분자 분산 액정 박막을 제작하고 액정의 농도와 피부에서 인가한 교류 전기장 등에 대한 실시간 회절효율을 측정하였다. WPDLC 박막에 기록된 홀로그램은 적절한 교류 전기장의 on/off에 의해 가역적으로 소거와 재생이 가능함을 보였다. 이러한 전기광학 특성을 이용하여 30 cm와 40 cm의 이중초점을 갖는 홀로그램 렌즈를 제작하였다.

• 한국고분자학회지:고분자과학과기술
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.738-749
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• 1996

• 폴리머
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.298-304
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• 2004

유전율 이방성이 음인 액정과 UV 경화용 단량체를 사용해 초기에 투명한 상태인 고분자 분산형 액정 (PDLC)셀을 제작하였고 그 셀의 전기 광학 특성을 연구하였다. 액정과 단량체의 비율이 70/30 wt%, 2$0^{\circ}C$의 노광 온도, 198㎽/$\textrm{cm}^2$ 의 노광 세기에서 만들어진 셀이 명암 대비율이 가장 우수하였다. 이 조건에서 만들어진 초기에 투명한 상태를 나타내는 고분자 분산형 액정 셀은 종래 PDLC 셀과 달리 액정들이 초기에 수직 배향막에 의해 기판에 수직으로 서게 되고 노광에 의해 중합된 고분자는 액정의 배열에 영향을 크게 미치지 않아 전압 인가 전에는 입사 된 빛이 통과하게 된다. 전압인가 시에는 전기장에 액정들이 기판에 수직 방향으로 누우면서 고분자와 액정의 굴절을 차이를 만들어내고 이는 입사된 빛을 산란시킨다. 또한 이러한 초기에 투명한 상태를 나타내는 PDLC 셀은 기존의 초기에 산란을 일으키는 PDLC 셀보다 우수한 시야각 특성을 보여주었다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 1999년도 제16회 광학 및 양자전자 학술발표회Proceedings of 16th Optics and Quantum Electronics Conference, 1999
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• pp.154-155
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• 1999

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1394-1397
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• 2006

Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) films, of which the liquid crystal has negative dielectric anisotropy, were prepared from the phase separation between MJ001317 and a variety of compositions of resins by common polymerization induced phase separation method. In this work, the effects of resin compositions have been systematically investigated and it was found that the morphology and size of droplet, which is closely related to electro-optic properties, mainly depend on the rate of polymerization and cross-linking density for each resin composition. The reverse mode PDLC films from this newly developed formulation containing TPGDA/EHA/HMPPO showed the good off-state transmittance, contrast ratio (19/1), and relatively low driving voltage(10V).