• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1457-1461
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• 2013

The effect of liquid crystal (LC) alignment on a homeotropic polyimide (PI) surface induced by ion beam (IB) irradiation and rubbing process was studied. LC alignment was not affected by IB irradiation with an exposure time of 10 s, and an IB irradiation with an exposure time of 60 s more effectively oriented the LCs on the PI layer than the rubbing process. It was assumed that the LC alignment depended on the C-O bonds created from the C=O bonds on the PI surface broken by IB irradiation after an exposure time of 60 s, which resulted in a strong surface energy that transformed the homeotropic LC alignment to homogeneous states.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2008

This paper investigates the effect of the electrode edge of a patterned vertical alignment (PVA) liquid crystal (LC) device on the viewing angle characteristics. In general, a transmissive LCD applies an LC layer with half-wave retardation for a bright state and with zero retardation for a dark state. The retardation of the LC layer would be distorted in each point, however, when a voltage is applied because of the non-uniform voltage distribution in the electrode edge effect. In this paper, the feasibility of the full effect of the electrode edge on the viewing angle property is considered, and the optical viewing angles of the VA LCD with a uniform half-wave LC layer and the PVA LCD with a practical non-uniform LC layer are compared.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.116-119
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• 1997

We investigated new type non-robbing liquid crystal (LC) alignment techniques in the cell with slanted non-polarized ultraviolet (UV) irradiation on polyimide (Pl) film. It is shown that the uniform alignment for nematic (N) LC is obtained by using slanted non-polarized UV irradiation on Pl surface. We successfully obtained that the pretilt ang1e of NLC is generated about 3 degree in the LC cells by using slanted non-polarized UV irradiation with 70 degree on Pl surface. We consider that the pretilt angle generation for NLC is attributed to interaction between the LC molecular and the PI surface. We conclude that the uniform LC alignment is attributed to anisotropic dispersion force effect due to photo depolymerization of polymer on Pl surface.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.264-268
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• 2002

Three types of polymer, a photoalignment material based N- (phenol)maleimide were synthesized and the liquid crystal (LC) aligning capabilities on the photopolymer layer were studied. A good LC alignment with UV exposure on the PMI5CA(N-(phenol)maleimide with 5-carbon chain cinnamoyl group) can be obtained. However, the LC alignment defects were observed on the PM13CA (N-(phenol)maleimide with 3-carbon chain cinnamoyl group) and PMIF (N-(phenyl)maleimide including fluoro cinnamoyl group). Also, the good LC alignment with UV exposure on the PM15CA surface was observed at until $150^{\circ}C$ of annealing temperature. The LC aligning ability on the photopolymer layer based N-(phenol)maleimide depends on the side chain length of photopolymer.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.965-967
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• 2001

전원 측 전압강하/상승 (Voltage sag/swell)을 보상하기 위한 동적전압보상기(Dynamic Voltage Restorer)등의 직렬 보상기에서 스위칭으로 인한 인버터 출력전압의 맥동(ripple)을 제거하기 위해 LC 필터가 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 LC 필터에서 커패시터의 전압을 상태 궤환을 이용하여 제어하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. LC 필터의 이산시간 상태 방정식을 구한 후, 궤환 이득값을 구하는 과정이 z-평면에서 이루어진다. 그리고, 제어기의 계산지연을 고려하여, 상태 관측기를 설계한다. 제안된 제어기는 기존 직렬보상기와 달리 전류 센서를 필요로 하지 않기 때문에 경제적인 이점을 가지게 된다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.12-15
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• 2006

We propose a patterning method of liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer for producing multi-domain LC structures. By controlling thermal conditions during micro-contact printing procedures and facilitating wetting properties of patterning materials, patterned LC orientation can be easily obtained on a bare ITO surface or other polymer films. The newly proposed patterning method is expected to be a very useful tool for fabricating multi-domain LC structures to enhance or design electro-optic properties of LC-based devices.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

We propose new fabrication methods of a pixel-isolated liquid crystal (LC) structure for flexible display applications. In the LC structure fabricated through the proposed method, the patterned interpixel walls for sustaining the cell thickness are supported by the solidified polymer layer through anisotropic phase separation of LC/polymer composite, causing the alignment of the LC molecules to have very good mechanical stability against external pressure. In addition, we show that such pixel-isolating walls can be made by the stamping method which can be applied to fabricate large size plastic LCDs by roll-to-roll processing.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.489-492
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• 2003

Photoalignment materials of PGMAcr, poly[3-(acryloyloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate] using an acrylate unit photopolymerized by a photo-initiator and PGMA4Ch, poly[3- (4-ehalconyloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate] using photodimerization by the chalcone group were synthesized. Also, the liquid crystal (LC) alignment capabilities on the photopolymer layers were studied. A good LC alignment with UV exposure on the PGMAcr surface can be obtained. However, LC alignment defects were observed on the PGMA4Ch surface. The LC alignment capability of the PGMAcr surface by the photoinitiator was better than that of the PGMA4Ch surface by the chalcone group which is a photosensitive moiety.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.902-908
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• 2002

Homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystal displays (LCDs) driven by in-plane or fringe field were known to exhibit wide viewing angle and appeared to be black in the off state. However, the existence of spacers inside the cell causes the deformation of the liquid crystal molecules. Such a deformation of the liquid crystal causes light-leakage in the dark state, which lowers contrast ratio of the display. We found that the light-leakage due to deformation of the LC director near the spacer mainly depends on the dielectric anisotropy and the ratio of elastic constants of the LC. In this paper, the mechanism on deformation of the LC near spacer is investigated by optical polarizing microscopy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.167-177
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 LC/MS 데이터로부터 동위 원소 패턴(isotope pattern)을 찾는 새로운 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 기존의 분석 방법에서는 LC/MS 데이터를 1차원적으로 분석하고 있기 때문에 2차원에서 적용할 수 있는 알고리즘을 적용하기가 어렵다. LC/MS 데이터를 2차원 영상으로 가시화해 본 결과, 하나의 동위 원소 패턴에 속하는 단일 동위 원소 피크(single isotope peak)는 모양, 크기와 같은 2차원 형태적 특징들도 유사함을 알 수 있다. 따라서, 기존의 방법들이 질량 스펙트럼과 같은 1차원 신호를 분석하는 것에 중점을 둔 것에 비해, 본 논문에서는 LC/MS 데이터를 2차원 신호 즉, 영상(image)으로 간주하고 영상 처리 방법과 객체 인식 방법을 적용하였다. 실험 결과 같은 동위 원소 패턴에 속하는 각각의 단일 동위원소 피크들 사이에 peak maxima position 뿐만 아니라 skewness, variance등도 유사였으며 이러한 유사도를 기반으로 동위 원소 패턴을 찾을 수 있었다.