• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.904-909
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• 2019

$100^{\circ}C$에 소성한 인듐 아연 산화막 (IZO)을 이온빔 처리하여, 균일할 수평 액정 배향을 구현하였다. 유리 기판 위에 코팅된 IZO 박막을 $100^{\circ}C$에 소성하고 액정 배향 기술로 이온빔을 사용하였다. 이것을 이용하여 얻어진 액정 배향의 특성을 분석하기 위해서, 편광 현미경과 결정 회전법을 사용하였다. 또한 이온빔 처리된 IZO 박막을 이용하여 만든 액정 셀이 높은 품질의 액정 소자에 충분한 열적 안정성을 가진다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 그리고 전계방출 주사 전자 현미경을 이용하여 이온빔의 IZO 박막의 표면에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이것을 통하여 이온빔이 IZO 박막 표면의 거칠기를 변화시키고, 액정 배향에 영향을 준다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 마지막으로 IZO 박막으로 제작한 액정 셀의 전기-광학 특성을 측정하였다. 그리고 이것이 기존에 사용되는 러빙법 처리된 폴리이미드 박막으로 제작한 액정 셀보다 뛰어난 특성을 가진다는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 액정 고정 에너지를 측정하여 이것이 균일한 액정 배향을 구현하기 위한 적합한 특성을 가진다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2022

The field of liquid crystal display (LCD) is constantly in the spotlight and the process of depositing an alignment layer in the LCD manufacturing process is very important to obtain excellent performance such as low-power driving and high-speed response to improve LCD performance. Therefore, research on liquid crystal (LC) alignment is being actively conducted. When manufacturing LCD, it is necessary to consider the effect of the alignment layer thickness as one of the factors affecting various LCD performances. In addition, previous studies confirmed the LC alignment characteristics correlate with the rotation speed in the spin coating process. Therefore, the electro-optical properties of the LCD were investigated by manufacturing a polyimide alignment layer by varying the rotation speed in the spin coating process in this study. It was confirmed that the thickness of the polyimide alignment layer was controlled according to the spin coating conditions. The average transmittances of anti-parallel LC cells at the spin coating speed of 2,500 rpm and 3,000 rpm are about 60%, which indicates that the LC cell has relatively higher performance. At the spin coating speed of 3,000 rpm, the voltage-transmittance curve of twisted nematic (TN) LC cell was below 1.5 V, which means that the TN LC cell operated at a low power. In addition, high-speed operating characteristics were confirmed with a response time of less than 30 ms. From these derived data, we confirmed that the ideal spin coating speed is 3,000 rpm. And these results provide an optimized polyimide alignment layer process when considering enhanced future LCD manufacturing.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.306-309
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• 2007

PXLM(Phosphor based x-ray light modulator) has a combined structure by phosphor, photoconductor, and liquid crystal and it can realize x-ray image of high resolution in clinical diagnosis area. In this study, we fabricated a photoconductor and investigated electrical and optical properties to confirm application possibility of radiator detector of PXLM structure. As photoconductor, amorphous selenium(a-Se), which is used most in DR(Digital radiography) of direct conversion method, was used and for formation of thin film, it was formed as $20{\mu}m-thick$ by using thermal vacuum evaporation system. For a produced a-Se film, through XRD(X-ray diffraction) and SEM(Scanning electron microscope), we investigated that amorphous structure was uniformly established and through optical measurement, for visible light of 40 $0\sim630nm$, it had absorption efficiency of 95 % and more. After fabricated a-Se film on the top of ITP substrate, hybrid structure was manufactured through forming $Gd_2O_3:Eu$ phosphor of $270{\mu}m-thick$ on the bottom of the substrate. As the result to confirm electrical property of the manufactured hybrid structure, in the case of appling $10V/{\mu}m$, leakage current of $2.5nA/cm^2$ and x-ray sensitivity of $7.31nC/cm^2/mR$ were investigated. Finally, we manufactured PXLM structure combined with hybrid structure and liquid crystal cell of TN(Twisted nematic) mode and then, investigated T-V(Transmission vs. voltage) curve of external light source for induced x-ray energy. PXLM structure showed a similar optical response with T-V curve that common TN mode liquid crystal cell showed according to electric field increase and in appling $50\sim100V$, it showed linear transmission efficiency of $12\sim18%$. This result suggested an application possibility of PXLM structure as radiation detector.