• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.65-72
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• 2000

This paper presents the study of the tension control in a web transfer system. In this study the sliding mode controller is applied to a time-varying nonlinear mathematical model. The model was derived to consider the effects of changing the roll radius in tension variation during winding and unwinding. The uncertainty in modeling may be due to unmodelled dynamics, on variations in system model. Designed sliding mode controller made the system error always staying in the suggested surface from the beginning. Through this, system is maintained to be robust against a disturbance and uncertainty. To verify the designed controller has a good performance, various inputs such as desired velocity, step input, and trapezoidal input are applied. When the sliding mode controller was used, the system(the tension control) performance was improved comparing to the PID controller. The robustness of the controller with respect to an estimation error was verified through simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.327-331
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• 1997

This paper presents the non-linear modeling and design of a robust sliding mode controller for film transfer systems. The tension of a film is sensitive to the speed difference between a winder and an unwinder. The change of the roll-radius as well as the moment of inertia result in the film transfer system begin variable and non-linear. In designing the robust controller. Two major aims are considered. The first aim is hat the web transferring speed tracks at any given reference speed; the second one is that the tension of the film tracks at any given reference tension. To verify the control algorithm, a Simulink model was built and compared with a conventional PID controller. In a computer simulation study, the suggested robust sliding mode controller shows better performance than the PID controller a various control inputs.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.755-760
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• 2013

The dynamics of the winder roller of a roll-to-roll printing system for printed electronics is a time-varying system because of the variation of the winder roller radius owing to rewinding or unwinding of the web. Therefore, an adaptive control method considering the time-variant characteristics is required for precise tension control. In this study, the variable PID gain method is applied to the actual roll-to-roll system and verified by experiments for unwinder tension control. The required value of the winder roller radius for the application of the variable PID gain is estimated from the measurement of the winder tension and winder motor torque. The simulation results as well as experimental results show that the fixed PID gain control cannot stabilize the tension of the winder roller with varying winder roller radius. On the other hand, the variable PID gain method can control the tension of the winder roller regardless of the winder roller radius.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.461-466
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• 2007

There has been a great interest in printing technology as a low cost and mass production method for the application of printed electronics such as printed TFT, solar cell, RFID Tag, printed battery, and so on. In this study, apparatuses of gravure-offset printing are developed for fine line-width/gap printing and examining pattern distortion occurred in gravure-offset printing process. The fine line-width/gap pattern shows that it is possible to make around 20 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns. Pattern distortion is modeled, and the amount and shape of the distortion are calculated by using commercial FEM code. The roll-to-roll printing system under development consists of unwinder/rewinder, two printing units, one coating unit, drying units, guiding unit, vision system, and other auxiliary devices. For multi-layer printing, the system is designed to be capable of printing two different materials.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.64-64
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• 2008

연속공정이 가능한 Roll to Roll sputter system을 이용하여 플렉시블 indium tin oxide(ITO) 투명전극을 PET(polyethlyene terephthalate) 기판위에 성막하였다. 연속 성막공정을 위해 Roll to Roll sputter system에서의 unwinder roller와 rewinder roller를 이용한 servomotor의 rolling으로 기판의 움직임이 완벽히 제어되었으며, 외부 응력으로 부터의 안정성 및 성막 공정 시의 PET 기판의 열적 변형을 최소화하기 위한 접촉식 냉각방식의 cooling system을 main drum으로 사용하였다. 또한 고분자 기판과 투명전극 사이의 adhesion을 향상시키기 위한 전처리 공정으로 gridless linear ion beam source를 pretreatment system으로 구축하였다. 이렇게 제작된 Roll to Roll sputter system을 이용하여 PET 기판위에 연속공정을 통해 ITO 투명전극을 성막하였다. 성막된 플렉시블 ITO/PET 투명전극은 XRD, HREM, SEM 분석을 통하여 main drum의 cooling에 의해 완전한 비정질 구조를 나타내었음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 비록 Roll to Roll sputter system을 통하여 상온에서 성막 되었음에도 불구하고 최적화 된 조건에서 가시광선 영역 83.46 %의 높은 광투과도 값과 47.4 Ohm/square의 비교적 낮은 먼저항 값을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 Bending test 결과를 통하여 ion source의 전처리 공정으로 굽힘/평의 반복적 응력에 따른 전기적 특성 열화를 최소화 할 수 있음을 보였다. 최적화된 플렉시블 투명전극을 이용하여 P3HT:PCBM 기반의 플렉시블 유기태양전지를 제작하였으며, 제작된 유기태양전지로부터 1.88%의 power conversion efficiency (PCE)을 확보함으로써 플렉시블 유기태양전지 제작을 위한 ITO/PET 투명전극 성막 공법으로써 Roll to Roll sputter system의 적용가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.