• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.30-38
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• 1994

본고에서는 TFT LCD의 중요한 issue가 되고 있는 대형화와 full color 실현을 위해 저반사화 기술, 고개구율화 기술, 광시야각 기술 및 back light unit, color filter, 구동 IC등의 주요 핵심 부품 기술등의 최근 기술 동향 및 향후 나아갈 방향에 대하여 살펴보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2003

기존의 Monitor 대응 LCD 에서 TV 대응 LCD로의 개발에 있어서 특성 개선은 다각도로 진행되고 있으나, 무엇보다도 휘도 특성의 개선이 요구된다. TV 대응 LCD Panel 은 Monitor 대응 제품에 비해서 일반적으로 해상도가 낮으므로, 투과율면에서 장점은 있으나, 현재의 B/L 구조로는 만족할만한 성능을 낼 수 없는 상황이다. 고휘도 BL(Back Lignt)를 위해서 EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) 혹은 CCFL 의 복수 사용을 전제로 한 직하방식에 대한 개발 검토가 활발히 이루어지고 있으나, 직하방식에 의한 고휘도화는 램프수의 증가에 따른 인버터의 기구적, 전기적 사양의 증가를 필요로 하며, LCD Module전체의 두께가 증가되는 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 L-Shaped 램프를 적용하여 기본의 기구적인 사양 및 전기적인 사양을 유사하게 유지함과 동시에, 고휘도화를 실현하여 TV 대응 수준을 확보하였으며, lamp를 floating구동하여 램프편측 전압 500V를 사용하면서 655 nit의 휘도를 달성하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.166-169
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• 2007

In applying LCD to TV application, one of the most significant factors to be improved is image sticking on the moving picture. LCD is different from CRT in the sense that it's continuous passive device, which holds images in entire frame period, while impulse type device generate image in very short time. To reduce image sticking problem related to hold type display mode, we made an experiment to drive TN-LCD like CRT. We made articulate images by turn on-off backlight, and we realized the ratio of Back Light on-off time by counting between on time and off time for video signal input during 1 frame (16.7 ms). Conventional CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) cannot follow fast on-off speed, so we evaluated new fluorescent substances of light source to improve residual light characteristic of CCFL. We realized articulate image generation similar to CRT by CCFL blinking drive and TN-LCD overdriving. As a result, reduced image sticking phenomenon was validated by naked eye and response time measurement.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.371-377
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• 2006

Cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) show complex characteristics, which make it difficult to drive them in parallel. In this paper, a multi-lamp driving scheme is proposed to drive multiple lamps for LCD back light to reduce output current unbalance. This propose system is composed of parallel CCFLs, series transformers. The driving system adopts only one backlight inverter to drive multi cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL). Moreover the circuit introduces a multi-lamp driving transformer to reduce lamp-current imbalance. The validity of the proposed scheme is confirmed by the simulated and experimental results.

• 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.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.137
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• pp.18-21
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• 2009

달과 LCD의 공통점은? 둘 다 혼자 빛을 낼 수 없다는 것이다. 아름다운 달빛을 볼 수 있는 이유는 태양 덕분이고, 자체발광 기능이 없는 LCD는 광을 발생하는 BLU(Back Light Unit)가 있기 때문에 선명한 화면을 사용자에게 보여줄 수 있다. 특히 BLU 중에서도 광학필름은 발생한 빛의 손실을 최소화하면서 효율적으로 전달하는 핵심 부품이다. 이렇게 혼자서 빛을 낼 수 없는 LCD를 밝혀주는 '명품 조연 광학필름'으로 세계 시장에 뛰어든 미래나노텍 김철영 대표를 만나 �R다.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.10-18
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• 2017

In this paper, we designed and implemented a visible light identification(VLID) system consisting of a VLID reader and a tag which backscatters incident lights from the reader. A VLID tag sends its ID to the reader by switching an LCD shutter which is located on its surface. The VLID reader consists of six LEDs and a photodiode(PD). The LEDs emit visible light and a PD located in a center position of LEDs receives backscattered light from the VLID tag. A microcontroller and a commercial liquid crystal display(LCD) shutter for 3D-TV glasses are used to implement a VLID tag. Experiments were conducted to confirm VLID system performance. We successfully demonstrated experiments to send NRZ-OOK signal of 100 bps over a distance of 35 cm at daytime. Also, we suggested the theoretical maximum transmission rate and the various methods to enhance the separation distance between a VLID reader and a tag.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.73-77
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• 2003

The backlight unit(BLU) is used as a light source of TFT liquid-crystalline-display (TFT-LCD) module. In this backlight unit, one of important components is the light guide, which is usually made of transparent polymers. Currently the screen-printing method is mainly used for the light guide as a manufacturing process. However, it has limitation to the flexibility of three-dimensional optical design. In the present paper a new alternative manufacturing method for the light guide with low-cost is proposed. This manufacturing method is named as direct surface forming (DSF), which is very similar to the well-known hot embossing except for partial contact between mold and substrate. The results of this new manufacturing method are presented in terms of processing condition, dimensional accuracy, productivity, etc.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1530-1533
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• 2005

We investigated under-gate type carbon nanotube field emitter arrays (FEAs) for back light unit (BLU) in liquid crystal display (LCD). Gate oxide was formed by wet etching of ITO coated glass substrate instead of depositing $SiO_2$ on the glass substrate. Wet etching is easer and simpler than depositing and etching of thick gate oxide to isolate the gate metal from cathode electrode in triode. Field emission characteristic s of triode structure were measured. The maximum current density of 92.5 ${\mu}A/cm^2$ was when the gate and anode voltage was 95 and 2500 V, respectively at the anode-cathode spacing of 1500 ${\mu}m$.