• Polymer Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.186-199
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• 2000

• Polymer Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.3-9
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.8-9
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• 2002

고분자 광도파로소자 기술은 광통신에 사용되는 광도파로소자들을 고분자를 이용하여 구현하는 기술로써, 실리카에 비하여 제조장비가 간소하기 때문에 제조단가를 줄일 수 있으며, 열광학효과가 10배정도 크기 때문에 동작전력을 1/10 이하로 줄일 수 있고, 소자제작공정이 40$0^{\circ}C$ 이하에서 이루어지기 때문에 다른 소자와의 집적이 유리한 점 등 다양한 장점이 있다. 또한 실리카와 달리 고분자는 실리콘뿐만 아니라 다양한 고분자 기판을 사용할 수 있기 때문에 고분자 기판의 열팽창계수와 도파로물질의 열광학계수를 잘 조합하면 온도의 변화에 따른 파장변화와 편광의존성을 근본적으로 해결할 수 있다. (중략)

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.253-259
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• 2002

The objective of this study is to obtain thermally stable and low optical loss polymers for optical waveguiding materials. The crosslinkable poly (maleimide-co-methacrylate)s were synthesized using a pentafluorophenylmaleimide (an optical loss reducer), two methacrylate derivatives (refractive index controllers), and a glycidylmethacrylate (a crosslinker). These copolymers exhibited good thermal stability and could be thermally crosslinked by heat treatment. The refractive indexes of the copolymers could be precisely controlled by the variation of comonomer feed ratio, which was in the range of 1.45 ~ 1.49. These copolymers had very low birefringence of $6{ imes}10^{-4}$ ~ $1{ imes}10^{-4}$. These copolymers were crosslinked by contact printing and then developed by wet etching to obtain high quality waveguide pattern.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.403-404
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• 2007

Compound eyes in nature present intriguing topics in physiological optics due to their unique optical scheme for imaging. For example, a bee's eye has thousands of integrated photonic units called ommatidia spherically arranged along a curvilinear surface so that each unit points in a different direction. The omni-directionally arranged ommatidium collects incident light with a narrow range of angular acceptance and independently contributes to the capability of wide field-of-view (FOV) detection. Artificial implementation of compound eyes has attracted a great deal of research interest because the wide FOV exhibits a huge potential for medical, industrial, and military applications. So far, imaging with a FOV over $90^{\circ}$ has been achieved only with fisheye lenses which rely on bulky and expensive multiple lenses and require stringent alignment. In this talk, we will discuss about the spherical 3D arrangement of the photonic structures of biologically inspired artificial compound eyes in a small form-factor to have and the functional and anatomical similiarity with natural compound eyes.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.223-227
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• 2002

Polymeric multi-mode optical waveguides were fabricated for parallel optical interconnection. Waveguide structures were molded by a Ni mold master using a hot embossing technique. The Ni mold master was manufactured by LIGA process. Multimode optical waveguides with a 48$\times$47 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$$^2$cross-section were produced by a simple two-step process. The propagation losses of the multimode waveguide measured at 0.85 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and 1.3 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ wavelengths were 0.38 dB/cm and 0.66 dB/cm, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.238-238
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• 2004

폴리머는 20세기 중반부터 그 사용량이 급격히 늘어나고 있고 또한 사용범위도 매우 광범위해진 중요한 재료이다. 석유화학공업의 발달과 더불어 초기의 고분자공업은 범용수지의 생산에 주로 의존하였으나 최근에는 용도가 다양해지고 기능화 되면서 소량, 고가의 기능성 고분자재료들이 많이 나타나고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.34-38
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• 2004

Hot embossing master is indispensable for the fabrication of polymeric optical waveguides using hot embossing technology. Sidewall roughness of silicon master is directly related to optical loss of optical waveguides In this paper, a silicon master was fabricated by using a deep-RIE process. Additionally, thermal oxidation followed by oxide removal was carried out to minimize etched Si sidewall roughness. Thermal oxidation and oxide removal were performed with $H_2O_2$ atmosphere at $1050^{\circ}C$ and $NH_4$F:HF=6:l BOE, respectively, for the oxide thickness of 400$\AA$, 1000$\AA$, 3000$\AA$, 4500$\AA$, 5600$\AA$ and 6200$\AA$. The sidewall roughness was characterized by SEM and SPM-AFH measurements. We found that the roughness was improved from 12nm (RMS) to 6nm (RMS) for the scalloped sidewall and from 162nm (RMS) to 39nm (RMS) for the vertical striation sidewall, respectively.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.997-1006
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• 2003

LICA technique evolved as a basic fabrication process fur micro-structure. The present report deals with the basic technological features in the sequence of the LIGA technique such as deep x-ray lithography(DXRL), electroplating, and moulding processes at Pohang Light Source (PLS). We designed 3-D structured master for fabrication of polymeric optical wavegude and manufactured polymeric optical wavegude with the same using hot embossing process. Polymeric optical waveguide could be produced with ${\pm}$ 1 $\mu\textrm{m}$ accuracy and good surface roughness.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.73-77
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• 2015

This paper presents integrated polymeric spectrometer module which offers compact size, easily-fabricated structure and low cost. The proposed spectrometer module includes the nano diffraction grating with non-uniform pitch and planar optical waveguide with concave mirror to be fabricated by UV imprint lithography. To increase the reflection efficiency, we designed the nano diffraction grating with triangular profiles. The polymeric planar spectrometer includes a spectral bandwidth of 700 nm, resolution of 10 nm and precision below 5 nm. This polymeric planar spectrometer is well-suited for sensor system.