• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2006

LCD-BLU (Liquid Crystal Display - Back Light Unit) is one of kernel parts of LCD unit and it consists of several optical sheets(such as prism, diffuser and protector sheets), LGP (Light Guiding Plate), light source (CCFL or LED) and mold frame. The LGP of LCD-BLU is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots with $50{\sim}200$ um in diameter on it by etching process. But the surface of the etched dots of LGP is very rough due to the characteristics of the etching process during the mold fabrication, so that its light loss is high along with the dispersion of light into the surface. Accordingly, there is a limit in raising the luminance of LCD-BLU. In order to overcome the limit of current etched dot patterned LGP, optical pattern design with 50um micro-lens was applied in the present study. The micro-lens pattern fabricated by modified LiGA with thermal reflow process was applied to the optical design of LGP. The attention was paid to the effects of different aspect ratio (i.e. $0.2{\sim}0.5$) of optical pattern conditions to the brightness distribution of BLU with micro-lens patterned LGP. Finally, high aspect ratio micro-lens patterned LGP showed superior results to the one made by low aspect ratio in average luminance.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1607-1610
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• 2007

The measurement technology of the electrical and optical properties of CCFL and EEFL for LCD-BLU is investigated. The lamp current and voltage are affected by the leakage of parasitic capacitance. The methods using the photometer and the integrating sphere are compared to determine the lamp efficiency.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.21-25
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• 2008

A CCFL which commonly used in the back light units for the LCD, possess very high brightness hence, was widely used as a line light source. However, the use of CCFL, caused for several environmental concerns since it contain highly toxic mercury, gradually replaced into a LED. But the LED is a spot light source, the dark area occurs in the surface of the back light units. In this paper, we proposed the lens that can convert the spot light into the line light and it can remove the dark area in the surface of the back light units. The lens is composed with the light condensation part and the light guiding part. The conditions obtained will be helpful to plan an optimum structure for such preparation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.211-212
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• 2008

정보가전기기들의 대형화 제품개발 및 생산에 따른 전력소모가 극대화 되어있는 현실에 에너지소비를 줄이기위한 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 그 중 LCD TV 분야는 전체 전력소비의 약 70% 이상이 Back-light에 의해 소비되므로 효율석인 Back-light 설계에 관한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 근래에 전통적인 CCFL 방식의 flack-light 구조에서 LED Back-light으로 점차 대체되어가고 있으며, 이러한 변화는 앞으로도 지속적으로 증가하기라 예상된다. 따라서, LED Hack-light의 효율적인 선력관기는 산업적 측면에서도 매우 주요한 부분이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문은 대형 TV의 에너지효율을 높이기위한 LED Rack-light 구성에 관한 요소들을 관계를 기술하고, 특히 Back-light 밝기제거를 통한 효율적인 전력관리를 실현위한 다채널 구동제어신호 생성에 관해 설명한다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2007

Field emission-back light unit (FE-BLU) was fabricated using carbon nanotube (CNT) emitter. Local dimming and local brightening techniques were achieved, which results in very high contrast ratio. In addition, the motion blur phenomenon, one of the serious problems of liquid crystal display (LCD) with cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL)-BLU, was removed from LCD-TV by using FE-BLU.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.14 no.3 s.75
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• pp.282-290
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• 2005

Nowadays, TFT-LCD is widely used as display unit of many digital devices. And, the backlight unit(BLU) is used as a light source of TFT-LCD module. In the backlight unit, the most important component is a light guide, which guides the input light to the TFT-LCD module uniformly. Recently, many researchers have focused on improving the efficiency of BLU by changing the design and structure of a light guide. In the present paper, a series of simulation was performed to find the optimal luminance distribution of emanated light from the given geometry as the first step. From the results of simulations for the light guide with given V-groove pattern, the emanated light from it is mostly affected by the groove angle. In the case of acute angle, about 74 degrees was found as optimal angle to satisfy the restrictions of angular luminance distribution, FWHM, the maximum luminance, etc. However, as far as the average luminance value was concerned, the case of 120 degrees(abtuse angle) was found to be the best while prism films were added to the BLU. As a next step the light guide samples of 74 and 120 degrees were manufactured by DSF method, which was recently proposed by the authors. Of course, most of design parameters were chosen by the aid of simulation results. Finally, the results of average luminance values were compared between the simulation and DSF molded samples.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.105-124
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• 2011

TFT-LCD consists of LCD panel on the top, circuit unit on the side and BLU on the bottom. The recent development issues of BLU-dependent TFT-LCD have been power consumption minimization, slimmerization and size maximization. As a result of this trend, LED is adopted as BLU instead of CCFL to increase brightness and to reduce thickness. In liquid crystal displays, the light efficiency is below 10% due to the loss of light in the path from a light source to an LCD panel and presence of absorptive polarizer. This low efficiency results in low brightness and high power consumption. One way to circumvent this situation is to use a reflective polarizer between backlight units and LCD panels. Since a nano-wire grid polarizer has been known as a reflective polarizer, an idea was proposed that it can be used for the enhancement of the brightness of LCD. The use of reflective polarizing film is increasing as edge type LED TV and 3D TV markets are growing. This study has been carried out to fabrication of the nano-wire grid polarizer(NWGP) and investigated the brightness enhancement of LCD through polarization recycling by placing a NWGP between an c and a backlight unit. NWGPs with a pitch of 200nm were fabricated using laser interference lithography and aluminum sputtering and wet etching. And The NWGP fabrication process was using by the UV imprinting and was applied to plastic PET film. In this case, the brightness of an LCD with NWGPs was 1.21 times higher than that without NWGPs due to polarization recycling.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.76-80
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• 2013

In this paper, a external electrode fluorescent lamp driving inverter for LCD backlight is designed. AC input from a lamp-driven system to process up to two inverter system for the existing configuration of power-efficient than the system as well as to increase the volume and weight reduction, Furthermore low-cost advantage. AC power input in order to drive EEFL stable and AC 85V ~ 265V power factor increase in the PFC Block can be used for running the Inverter Block EEFL and composed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1507-1509
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• 2005

LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) products is needed to have high reliability and are produced without harmful material. Because Substitution for CCFL of Light source used to Conventional backlight unit, research is going about product with LED of light source at present. In this experiment, We made the LED backlight unit with high quality for automotivenavigation. This backlight unit has center luminance of 6500 nit at15W power consumption. We adjusted chromaticity by using ten Blue LED and eight side emitting type White LEDs with high power LED from Lumileds company.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.204-205
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• 2006

기존의 3${\sim}$4mm 간격을 가진 냉음극 형광램프(CCFL)나 외부전극형광램프(EEFL)는 휘도의 균일성과 응답속도가 열등하기 때문에 42인치보다 큰 크기를 가지는 LCD TV에 적합하지 않다. 그래서 대면적 BLU(backlight unit)에 적합한 평면형광램프(FFL)에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 FFL의 발광 효율을 향샹시키기 위하여, 가스 혼합비를 변화시키면서, 2차원 유체코드를 이용한 수치해석을 통하여 방전효율에 영향을 미치는 요소가 Hg임을 확인 하였다.