• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.689-699
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• 2016

As the demand for LCD increases, the importance of inspection equipment for improving the efficiency of LCD production is continuously emphasized. The pattern inspection apparatus is one that detects minute defects of pattern quickly using optical equipment such as line scan camera. This pattern inspection apparatus makes a decision on whether a pixel is a defect or not using a single threshold value in order to meet constraint of real time inspection. However, a method that uses an adaptive thresholding scheme with different threshold values according to characteristics of each region in a pattern can greatly improve the performance of defect detection. To apply this adaptive thresholding scheme it has to be known that a certain pixel to be inspected belongs to which region. Therefore, this paper proposes a region matching algorithm that recognizes the region of each pixel to be inspected. The proposed algorithm is based on the pattern matching scheme with the consideration of real time constraint of machine vision and implemented through GPGPU in order to be applied to a practical system. Simulation results show that the proposed method not only satisfies the requirement for processing time of practical system but also improves the performance of defect detection.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1383-1385
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• 2009

This paper suggests that testing method and equipment structure to detect potential failures of LCD cells. LCD Cell Aging Tester is the unique process to detect failures related with ASG circuits. This system consists of four components that is Aging chamber, work table, probe contact unit, and pattern generator. The key factor of the concept is temperature aging and HVS driving. Complicated combination of test parameters including voltage, temperature and frequency provided practical burn-in conditions eligible for prediction of mass production.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.68-77
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• 2003

TFT-LCD 모니터 및 TV의 핵심부품인 TFT/Color Filter를 제조하는 공장라인에서 제품의 품질에 중요한 역할을 하는 것은 유리기판에 TFT와 Color Filter을 형성시키는 노광공정(Exposure)이다. 이러한 TFT/Color Filter를 생산하는 공정내에서 노광기는 핵심기술이므로 진동에 대하여 엄격하게 관리되어지고 있다. 그리고, TV 및 TFT-LCD 모니터의 크기가 큰 것을 사용자의 요구로 TFT/Color Filter 생산 공장은 세대가 거듭될수록 사용되어지는 유리기판의 크기도 따라서 커지고 있다. 이러한 유리기판의 크기 증가는 공정라인에서 진동에 더욱더 취약해지는 결과를 초래하므로 보다 엄격하게 진동관리가 필요하게 된다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 기존 세대인 1～5세대 TFT-LCD 공장 현장에서 노광기의 진동실태를 수집하여 파악하고 Maker에서 제시하는 자료와 비교/평가하고, 문제점을 확인한다. 이를 기초로 수정/보완되어야 할 사항을 검토하며, 차세대인 6∼7세대 노광기에 대한 진동저감 대책을 위한 시스템을 설계하는 절차서에 대한 예를 들었으며, 최적의 진동저감 대책에 대한 설계안의 방향을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.535-542
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• 2008

This paper presents a high efficiency half-bridge DC-DC converter for an LED backlight drive system of LCD module inspection equipment. The proposed converter improves the converter efficiency using characteristics of the asymmetrical half-bridge converter and the self-driven synchronous rectifier, and thus improves the total efficiency of the LED backlight drive system. The synchronous rectifier applied to the proposed converter is the new topological synchronous rectifier, which changes slightly the transformer structure and the synchronous switch connection in the asymmetrical half-bridge converter with a conventional self-driven synchronous rectifier. Since the proposed converter utilizes the transformer leakage inductor as its resonant inductor, its structure is simplified. The proposed converter well operates under the universal DC input voltage ($250{\sim}380V$). The operational principle and a design example for a 100W prototype are discussed in detail, respectively. Experimental results are shown for the designed prototype converter under universal DC input voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.432-433
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• 2006

Electro-optical (EO) characteristics of twisted nematic (TN) - liquid crystal display (LCD) on the NDLC thin film using obliquely ion beam (IB) exposure as new ion beam (IB) type system (DuoPIGatrion ion source). A good uniform alignment of the nematic liquid crystal (NLC) alignment with the ion beam exposure on the NDLC thin film was observed. In addition, it can be achieved the good EO properties of the ion-beam-aligned TN-cell on polyimide surface ; the stable VT curve in the ion-beam-aligned TN cell on the NDLC thin film with ion beam exposure using new type IB equipment was obtained. and the fast response time in the ion-beam-aligned TN cell on the NDLC thin film with ion beam exposure using new type IB equipment was obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.247-251
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• 2004

최근 정밀장비의 진동허용규제치 및 동강성허용규제치는 제작사가 사용자에게 반드시 제출해야 하는 하나의 사양으로 정착되고 있지만, 대부분 국내외의 장비 제작자가 제시하는 진동허용규제치는 부정확할 뿐만 아니라 통일된 양식을 갖추고 있지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 장비제작사에서 제시하는 동하중에 의한 기준과 진동측정을 통한 평가 동하중에 따른 기준으로 노광기의 기초에서 진동허용규제치를 만족시키기 위한 건물의 요구 이너턴스를 평가하여 차세대 노광기에 대한 정량적인 동강성규제치를 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.195-201
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• 2004

In design stage of high precision manufacture/inspect ion FAB building, it is necessary to investigate the vibration allowable limits of high precision equipment and to study a structure dynamic characteristics of C/R and Sub-structure in order to provide a structure vibration environment to satisfy thess allowable limits. The aim of this study is to investigate the dynamic characteristics of PC-Type mock-up structures designed for next TFT LCD FAB through vibration measurement and analysis procedure, therefore, to provide a proper dynamic structure design for high precision manufacture/inspection work process, which satisfy thess allowable limits.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.116-119
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 LCD 공정에 사용되는 ball spacer를 전해 연마(Electro-Polishing, EP) 처리된 스테인리스(stainless)관 내부에서 마찰대전으로 하전시켜 하전량을 측정하는 하전 메커니즘과 하전 특성을 관찰하였다. Ball spacer의 농도를 일정하게 하고, 유입하는 공기의 유량을 201pm, 301pm으로 변화시키면서 실험하였다. 유입되는 공기의 유량은 일정하게 하여 ball spacer의 농도를 분진공급장치(dust feeder)를 통해 변화시키면서 하전수를 측정하였다. 이 때 측정결과는 EP 처리된 스테인리스관에 유입되는 공기의 유량이 증가했을 때, 하전이 더 많이 되는 것을 보여주었다. 또한 일정한 공기의 유량에서 주입되는 ball spacer의 농도가 증가했을 때 입자당 하전수가 증가하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.31-38
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• 2009

To improve the image quality and lower the power consumption of the mobile applications, it is the one of the best candidate to control the backlight unit of the LCD module with ambient light. Ambient light sensor and readout circuit were integrated in LCD panel for the mobile applications, and we designed them with LTPS TFT. We proposed noble start-up correction in order to correct the variation of the photo sensors in each panel. We used time-to-digital method for converting photo current to digital data. To effectively merge time-to-digital method with start-up correction, we proposed noble dual slope correction method. The entire readout circuit was designed and estimated with LTPS TFT process. The readout circuit has very simple and stable structure and timing, so it is suitable for LTPS TFT process. The readout circuit can correct the variation of the photo sensors without an additional equipment, and it outputs the 4-levels digital data per decade for input luminance that has a dynamic range of 60dB. The readout rate is 100 times/sec, and the linearity error for digital conversion is less than 18%.