• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.339-340
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• 2006

Recently, many researches have been done to improve optical performance of LCD-BLU(Back Light Unit). One of the most important parts in LCD-BLU is LGP(Light Guiding Plate). Micro-patterned LGP is known to have different optical characteristics depending on their shape, pattern density and size, etc. In the present study, a micro-optical patterned LGP mold was fabricated using LiGA process. The difference in the optical characteristics between positive and negative patterned LGP's was investigated by fixing the density, location and size of each pattern. It was found that the negative patterned LGP showed better optical characteristics than positive one.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.37-43
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• 2012

LED TV integration test unit are the equipment for testing LED BLU as LED BLU's operation, error check, AGING work. The previous test unit were inconvenient because it must change test unit in production line according to LCD's kind and size. This paper develops by integration style test unit that can accommodate various LED TV BLU model of 32 ~ 52 inch that is not one LED TV BLU model. We make that output current is various to dimension of 80 ~ 215 mA. We make functions that are LED BLU state check, Diming and heat occurrence mitigation. Also we develop firmware program and that the program can be upgraded and that can support new panel.

• 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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• 2007.08a
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.291-292
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.15-15
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• 2009

In many applications for display with LED, the thermal behavior of LED is most important issue in view of thermal management. The optical requirements of the displays for various applications make the designer to drive the LED at or over their on-design condition to achieve performances requested by users. In practical cases of large-sized TV with LED back light unit (BLU), the problem of increasing LED temperature can affect the reliability of LED itself and the optical performances of BLU as an assembly of LED. In this paper, the thermal management design of LED back light unit(BLU) for large-sized TV was performed

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.713-716
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• 2008

This paper presents an automatic back-light brightness control system for mobile displays. One of the most important factors in mobile display is the power consumption due to the limited and movable power source. More than 80% of power of the LCD display is consumed by LED bark-light unit (BLU). The target brightness also becomes higher because of its moving picture and high resolution image, so there are some side effects for not only excessive power consumption but also ergonomic inconvenience in dark environment. To prevent this discomfort and reduce power consumption, this paper proposes automatic brightness control (ABC) technique in mobile displays. Developed system contains TFT-LCD panel with built-in photo sensor, driver IC capable of controlling photo sensor, and BLU. Since the photo sensor array built in panel detects automatically outdoor ambient light intensity, the power of BLU in dark environment is reduced. Developed ABC system showed reduced power consumption of 50% in dark environment. We believe that the proposed system is very useful to control power of mobile TFT-LCD.

• 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.502-503
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 TFT-LCD(Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display)의 배경광원인 BLU(Back Light Unit)의 고효율화, 고품질화를 통한 원가 절감을 달성하기 위해 BLU의 대표적 핵심부품중에 하나인 프리즘 시트를 사용하지 않는 구조의 MNT용 BLU를 개발하는데 목적을 두었다. 고효율의 BLU를 만들기위하여 17인치 BLU의 도광판의 상, 하면에 Prism 형상을 구현하였으며, 광학적 시뮬레이션을 통하여 먼저 가능성을 검토하였고, UV에 반응하는 Resin을 경화시키는 방법을 이용하여 일반 도광판에 프리즘형상을 각인(Imprint)시키는 방법으로 실물을 재현하였다. 실험 결과 프리즘 시트를 사용하지 않는 구조의 MNT용 17인치 BLU에서 중심휘도 4,984nit, 균일도 70% 달성하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1339-1342
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• 2006

We focused on improving of the optical efficiency in the direct BLU. We could achieve the optical efficiency by reducing the thickness of BLU and processing the prism shapes on a reflection sheet. And we were able to reduce the Lamps.