• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.754-757
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• 2005

액정 디스플레이 (LCD: Liquid Crystal Display)의 광원은 주로 냉음극 방전램프 (CCFL: Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp)가 사용되고 있으며, 19인치급 이하의 LCD 백라이트 인버터의 램프 구동방식은 가장 일반적인 램프 구동방식인 H-L(High-Low) 방식을 채택하여 사용하고 있다. 그러나 21인치 이상의 중 ${\cdot}$ 대형 LCD 백라이트 인버터는 소형 LCD 에 비해 보다 높은 구동 전압 ${\cdot}$ 전류가 필요함에 따라 기존의 H-L(High-Low) 방식이 아닌 H-H(High-High) 방식 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대형 LCD 백라이트 인버터에 주로 사용되고 있는 H-H(High-High) 방식을 압전 인버터(Piezoelectric Inverter)에 적용하여 H-L(High-Low) 램프구동 방식과 비교 하였으며, H-H(High-High) 램프구동방식을 통한 멀티램프 구동과 효율, 휘도가 우수함을 검증하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1279-1282
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• 2009

The luminescence properties of a potential blue-emitting $RbBaPO_4:Eu^{2+}$ phosphor substituted with various metal ions have been investigated. The main emission wavelength of the phosphor samples was red-shifted by the substitution with K and Sr ions. The maximum peak intensity was obtained from the sample $Rb_{0.25}K_{0.75}Ba_{0.99}Eu_{0.01}PO_4$ which showed 144% relative intensity versus that of BAM:$Eu^{2+}$ phosphor under 254 nm excitation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1568-1569
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• 2007

TFT-LCD used in display area is not a light-emissive device itself but TFT-LCD can overcome through the employ of the backlight unit (BLU). BLU is very important device in TFT-LCD system. However, the old-fashion BLU of CCFL type is crucible to the health due to the contained material, mercury (Hg). Moreover, strong temperature dependency of lamp employed with Hg becomes the other disadvantage in practical usage. To solve these problems, Hg-Free lamp with strong thermal resistance property is required to displace the Hg lamp. We studied optical and electrical properties of Xe-Ne-He mixed gas that is dependent on change of mixed ratio and pressure. In our results, the designed lamp without the phosphorescent material has the lowest firing voltage at xe 50%(Ne:He=9:1).

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2008

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), LCP (Light Guide Plate), light source (CCFL or LED) and mold frame. The LGP of LCD-BLU is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots with $50-200{\mu}m$ in diameter on it by erosion method. But the surface of the erosion dots of LGP is very rough due to the characteristics of the erosion 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. Especially, the negative and positive micro-lens pattern fabricated by modified LiGA with thermal reflow process was applied to the optical design of LGP.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.553-555
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• 2008

현재 사용하고 있는 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) Backlight용 램프는 주로 CCFL(Cold Cathod Fluorescent Lamp)과 EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp)이 사용되고 있다. 하지만 이 램프는 수은을 사용하여 RoHS(the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment)규제가 점점 강화되면서 사용이 제한되고 있으며, 이에 따라 수은을 사용하지 않는 램프의 제작이 불가피해지고 있다. 또한 LCD TV는 CRT와 PDP와는 다른 LCD만의 Hold-type 특성과 LC(Liquid Crystal)의 응답속도로 인하여 Motion Blur현상이 나타나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 RoHS 규제를 만족시키는 무수은 면광원 램프를 구동하기 위한 인버터를 제안한다. 제안한 인버터는 포워드 방식을 사용하여 반도체 소자 및 자기 소자의 수를 줄여서 구동회로가 간단하다. 또한 면광원 램프를 세로방향으로 6블록으로 나누어 스캔구동을 하여 Motion Blur현상을 저감 시켰다. 끝으로 실험을 통하여 제안한 인버터의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 2006년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.504-507
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• 2006

현재 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)용 광원으로서 주로 냉음극 방전램프(CCFL : Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp)가 사용되고 있으며, 그 외 LED를 비롯해서 외부전극 방전램프(EEFL: External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp), 면광원(FFL : Flat Fluorescent Lamp), 전계 방출램프(FEL : Field Emission Lamp)등 다른 광원에 대한 적용도 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 멀티램프 구동이 유리하여 인버터 개수를 줄일 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있는 EEFL을 사용하였으며, 변압기의 자체 손실을 줄이고 소형화가 가능하며, 높은 승압 비를 갖는 압전 변압기를 병렬로 연결하여 멀티램프 구동이 가능하도록 하였다. 최적의 EEFL 구동회로를 구성하기 위해서 Push-Pull 타입의 압전 인버터를 설계하였으며, 설계된 인버터 회로에 대한 시뮬레이션 분석을 수행하고, 향후 여러 형태의 구동 방법을 적용하므로 서 압전 변압기로도 대화면 멀티 램프 구동용 인버터의 제작이 가능함을 제시하였다.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• 제14권3호
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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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• 제29권3호
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 한국소성가공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.75-76
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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), LCP (Light Guide Plate), light source (CCFL or LED) and mold frame. The LGP of LCD-BLU is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots with $50{\sim}200{\mu}m$ in diameter on it by erosion method. But the surface of the erosion dots of LGP is very rough due to the characteristics of the erosion 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 dot patterned LGP, optical pattern design with $50{\mu}m$ micro-lens was applied in the present study. Especially, the negative and positive 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 pattern conditions to the brightness distribution of BLU with micro-lens patterned LGP. Finally, negative micro-lens patterned LGP showed superior results to the one made by positive in average luminance.