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Formation of High-Performance Polymer Walls in a Liquid Crystal Cell by Phase Separation of Fluorinated Polymer Mixture

  • Baek, Jong-In;Shin, Jong-Ba;Oh, Min-Cheol;Kim, Jae-Chang;Yoon, Tae-Boon
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we report the fabrication of high quality polymer walls by using a monomer containing fluorine (F-monomer). Polymer walls with no phase retardation were fabricated by using photo-polymerization induced anisotropic phase separation of the mixture composed of liquid crystal (LC) and F-monomer. Thanks to the immiscibility of fluoride, we could form high quality polymer walls with no light leakage. We measured electro-optic characteristics of a twisted-nematic (TN) LC cell whose polymer walls were fabricated by using the F-monomer, and the measurements were compared with that fabricated by using the monomer without fluorine.

New Techniques for Fabrication of Flexible Plastic LCD's

  • West, John.L.;Novotny, Grea R.;Fisch, Michael R.;Heinman, David
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.15-18
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    • 2001
  • We report simple techniques to manufacture low-powered, high-resolution, reflective cholesteric displays using flexible plastic substrates. We use wax transfer printing to replace photo-lithography and incorporate polymer walls to increase the mechanical strength and lifetime of the displays. These printing methods can easily be adapted to roll-to-roll production.

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Mechanism of a Spray Transport on Intake Manifold Walls (흡기매니폴드내 벽면으로의 연료수송)

  • Lee, G.Y.;Jeon, H.S.;Park, K.S.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 1996
  • Study on the mechanism of droplet transport and the droplet eddy diffusivity in the intake manifold of internal conbustion engine with carburetor has been carried out in this paper The theory and experiments were studied and performed respectively, to elucidate the mechanism and to measure typical rates of deposition, on the walls of a straight type intake manifold, of water droplets suspended in a turbulent air streams. Accordingly, the results are that Mechanism of a spray transport to the walls is caused by the fluctuation component of radial velocity. Deposition rate of a spray on the walls is mainly dependent upon air velocity and mean diameter of spray, and Droplet eddy diffusivity in the intake manifold is around $80\sim105cm^2/sec$.

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Flexible Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display Devices Using Thin Plastic Substrates Fastened by Polymer Walls and Networks

  • Sato, Hiroto;Fujikake, Hideo
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.305-308
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    • 2003
  • We fabricated a flexible ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) device containing polymer walls and networks which fix plastic film substrates. The device using 100-${\mu}m$-thick substrates could be bent in a radius of 7mm without disordering the FLC alignment. When sandwiched between polarizers a roll-up display with high-speed grayscale capability for moving-image displays was created.

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Single-Layer Color Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Lu, Shin-Ying;Lin, Yu-hui;Chien, Liang-Chy
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.982-985
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    • 2007
  • The authors report methods of fabrication singlelayer color cholesteric liquid crystal displays (CLCDs). A single-layer CLCD has been prepared from a polymerstabilized cholesteric liquid crystal. The unique feature of the polymer stabilization is in that the electrically switched colors preserve high reflectivity. A bistable single-layer CLCD has been prepared by the formation of polymer barrier walls and light-tuned cholesteric pitches to reflect blue, green and red color sub-pixels.

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Shaking table test of liquid storage tank with finite element analysis considering uplift effect

  • Zhou, Junwen;Zhao, Ming
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.77 no.3
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    • pp.369-381
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    • 2021
  • The seismic responses of elevated tanks considering liquid-structure interaction are presented under horizontal earthquake. The scaled model tank is fabricated to study the dynamic responses of anchored tank and newly designed uplift tank with replaced dampers. The natural frequencies for structural mode are obtained by modal analysis. The dynamic responses of tanks are completed by finite element method, which are compared with the results from experiment. The displacement parallel and perpendicular to the excitation direction are both gained as well as structural acceleration. The strain of tank walls and the axial strain of columns are also obtained afterwards. The seismic responses of liquid storage tank can be calculated by the finite element model effectively and the results match well with the one measured by experiment. The aim is to provide a new type of tank system with vertical constraint relaxed which leads to lower stress level. With the liquid volume increasing, the structural fundamental frequency has a great reduction and the one of uplift tank are even smaller. Compared with anchored tank, the displacement of uplift tank is magnified, the strain for tank walls and columns parallel to excitation direction reduces obviously, while the one perpendicular to earthquake direction increases a lot, but the values are still small. The stress level of new tank seems to be more even due to uplift effect. The new type of tank can realize recoverable function by replacing dampers after earthquake.

FTIR study of E7 liquid crystals confined to perfluorinated carboxylic acid treated cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes

  • Ha, Ki-Ryong;Ahn, Hee-Jun;Yoon, Sung-Kyoun;Lee, Dong-Ho;West, John L.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.369-372
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    • 2004
  • Orientation of E7 liquid crystals(LCs) confined to 200 nm-diameter cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes are investigated by FTIR dichroism techniques. The cavity walls of the confining pores are chemically modified with different perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PCA, $C_nF_{2n+1}$COOH, n=3, 4, 5, 6). From the FTIR spectra of PCA treated alumina Anodsic membranes, we found the salt formation between -COOH group of PCA and Anodisc membrane. From the FTIR spectra of LC filled Anodisc membranes, we found abrupt alignment direction change of LC molecules between n=4 and 5 for 1 mM PCA treated Anodisc membranes, from parallel to perpendicular direction to the cavity walls. But 5mM PCA treated Anodisc membranes, alignment direction of LC molecules changed between n=3 and n=4, from parallel to perpendicular direction.

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FTIR study of E7 liquid crystals confined to cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes

  • Ha, Ki-Ryong;Ahn, Hee-Jun;Jung, Kwang-Wook;Ahn, Won-Sool;West, John L.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.475-477
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    • 2003
  • Orientation of E7 liquid crystals (LCs) confined to 200 nm-diameter cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes are investigated by FTIR dichroism techniques. The cavity walls of the confining pores are chemically modified with different aliphatic acids ($C_nH_{2n+1}COOH$, n=5, 6, 7, 9). From the FTIR spectra of aliphatic acid treated alumina Anodsic membranes, we found the salt formation between -COOH group of aliphatic acid and Anodisc membrane. From the FTIR spectra of LC filled Anodisc membranes, we found abrupt alignment direction change of LC molecules between n=6 and 7 for 2% aliphatic acid treated Anodisc membranes, from parallel to perpendicular direction to the cavity walls. But 4% aliphatic acid treated Anodisc membranes, alignment direction of LC molecules changed between n=5 and n=6, from parallel to perpendicular direction. The same trend was observed for $^2H-NMR$ measurements.

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Switching characteristics of a pixel-isolated bistable twist-splay nematic liquid crystal cell

  • Song, Dong-Han;Lee, Seong-Ryong;Kim, Jae-Chang;Yoon, Tae-Hoon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.502-504
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    • 2009
  • We demonstrate a pixel-isolated bistable twist-splay namatic (PI-BTSN) liquid crystal (LC) cell which has two stable states of splay and ${\pi}$-twist. Each state is stabilized by a multi-dimensional anchoring effect of pixel-isolating polymer walls without any chiral additives. Polymer walls are formed around the pixel region by anisotropic phase separation between LCs and reactive mesogens. Switching between the two states is archived by using vertical and horizontal electric fields. The memory mode of the fabricated LC cell has shown infinity memory time.

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