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50μm급 마이크로렌즈 적용 2인치 휴대폰 LCD-BLU 금형 개발 : 광학패턴의 세장비 영향

A Study on the Fabrication Method of Mold for 2 inch LCD-BLU by 50μm Microlens : Effect of Different Aspect Ratio

  • 김종선 (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀) ;
  • 고영배 (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀) ;
  • 민인기 (단국대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 유재원 (단국대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 허영무 (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀) ;
  • 윤경환 (단국대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 황철진 (한국생산기술연구원 정밀금형팀)
  • 발행 : 2007.02.01

초록

LCD-BLU(Liquid Crystal Display - Back Light Unit) consists of several optical sheets: LGP(Light Guiding Plate), light source and mold frame. The LGP of LCD-BLU is usually manufactured by etching process and forming numerous dots with $50{\mu}m$ in diameter on the surface. But the surface roughness of LGP with etched dots is very high, so there is much loss of light. In order to overcome the limit of current etched dot patterned LGP, optical pattern design with microlens of $50{\mu}m$ diameter was applied in the present study. The microlens pattern fabricated by modified LiGA with thermal reflow process was applied to the optical design of LGP and optical simulation was carried out to know tendency of microlens patterned LGP simultaneously. The attention was paid to the effects of different aspect ratio(i.e. $0.2\sim0.5$) of optical pattern conditions to the brightness distribution of BLU with microlens patterned LGP. Finally, high aspect ratio microlens patterned LGP showed superior results to the one made by low aspect ratio in average luminance.

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