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Nanostructuring the Polyimide Alignment Layer and Uniform Liquid Crystal Alignment by Solvent Assisted Micromolding (Solvent Assisted Micromolding을 이용한 Polyimide 나노구조 형성 및 이를 통한 균일 액정 배향)

  • Kim, Jongbok
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2019
  • The display that provides information to us through the visual sense is a very important information transmission means by intuitively transmitting information, and the liquid crystal display (LCD) is the most widely used information transmission display. In this paper, we studied solvent assisted micromolding as an alternative for the rubbing that is essential to align the liquid crystals in LCD and successfully aligned the liquid crystal molecules by constructing the nanostructures on conventional polyimide alignment layer. When generating the nanostructures on the polyimide film, there was a competitive correlation between the dissolution effect of the polymer by the solvent and the capillary effect of the polyimide molecules into the nanostructures of the mold depending on the process temperature. It was possible to form nanostructures with high step by deriving the optimum temperature. These nanostructures were able to align the liquid crystal molecules uniformly and demonstrated that they could form a desirable pretilt angle.

A study on liquid crystal-based electrical polarization control technology for polarized image monitoring device (편광 영상감시 장치를 위한 액정 기반 전기적 편광 조절 기술 연구)

  • Ahn, Hyeon-Sik;Lim, Seong-Min;Jang, Eun-Jeong;Choi, Yoonseuk
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.416-421
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    • 2022
  • In this study, we present a fully automated system that combines camera technology with liquid crystal technology to create a polarization camera capable of detecting the partial linear polarization of light reflected from an object. The use of twisted nematic (TN) liquid crystals that electro-optically modulate the polarization plane of light eliminates the need to mechanically rotate the polarizing filter in front of the camera lens. Images obtained using these techniques are imaged by computer software. In addition, liquid crystal panels have been produced in a square shape, but many camera lenses are usually round, and lighting or other driving units are installed around the lens, so space is optimized through the application of a circular liquid crystal display. Through the development of this technology, an electrically switchable and space-optimized liquid crystal polarizer is developed.

Heat Transfer Measurement Using a Transient Liquid Crystal Technique and Numerical Anlysis (과도액정기법을 이용한 열전달 측정 및 수치해석)

  • Hong Cheol-Hyun;Lee Ki-Baik;Yang Jang-Sik
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.68-77
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    • 2005
  • A transient liquid crystal technique has become one of the most effective ways in measuring the local heat transfer coefficients on the entire surface. The key Point of this technique is to convert the inlet flow temperature into an exponential temperature profile using a mesh heater. In order to verify the validity of this technique. the heat transfer characteristics on the wall surface by a pair of longitudinal vortices is investigated experimently and numerically. A standard ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ is used for the numerical analysis of turbulent flow field. It is found from experiment and numerical analysis that two peak values exist over the whole domain. as the longitudinal vortices move to the farther downstream. these peak values decrease and the dimensionless averaged Nusselt number with the lapse of time is maintained nearly at constant values. The experiment results obtained from the present experiment in terms of the transient liquid crystal technique are in good agreement with the numerical results. Therefore, the transient liquid crystal technique developed for the measurement of heat transfer coefficient is proved to be a valid method.

Determination of optical constants for cholesteric liquid crystal films by using transmittance and reflectance spectra (투과 및 반사 스펙트럼을 이용한 콜레스테릭 액정 필름의 광학 상수 결정)

  • 박종락;류기한
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2004
  • We have obtained optical constants for cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) films by fitting theoretical spectra of transmittance and reflectance with measured ones. Berreman's 4${\times}$4 matrix approach was used for the calculation of theoretical spectra. The fitting method was applied to three samples with different reflection bands and fitted results of refractive indices for CLC samples were compared with measured ones for a parallel-aligned LC sample. It was found that the two results were in fairly good agreement within the error of the fitted results for the three CLC samples.

Study on single gap transflective fringe-fields switching liquid crystal display using the liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy (유전율 이방성이 음인 액정을 이용한 FFS 모드의 단일 갭형 반투과형 액정 디스플레이 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Ho;Chin, Mi-Hyung;Lim, Young-Jin;Lee, Seung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.312-313
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    • 2008
  • A transflective liquid crystal displays associated with fringe field switching (FFS) mode of new concept is proposed. The device utilizes unique characteristic of the FFS mode in which the rotation angle of LC director is strongly dependent on electrode position in on state. We use the liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy. Also we are look for optimized electrode size and the optimization of pixel electrode width and distance between them, the LC director could rotate about $22.5^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$ depending on electrode positions. Consequently, we get high transmittance and high reflection on the optimized electrode condition. Respectively, a high image quality transflective display with single gap and single gamma characteristics realized.

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A Study on the Characteristic of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell by Three Dimensional Finite Element Method (3차원 유한요소법을 이용한 TN 모드 액정 셀 특성 분석 연구)

  • 정주식;윤상호;이철수;윤석인;원태영
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.39 no.12
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    • pp.1071-1079
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    • 2002
  • This paper reports a methodology and application lot calculating distribution of the director in a liquid crystal cell by a numerical technique. To calculate distribution of the director, we applied a three dimensional finite element method (FEM) and calculated the distributions of electric potential and director in the liquid crystal cell. We have considered the free-energy density in the bulk of liquid crystal cell and calculated the switching property by the Ericksen-Leslie equation and the Laplace equation. We have calculated the optical transmission with distribution of the director by Berreman's method and confirmed the threshold voltage and the response time.

Liquid Crystal Mixtures of High Response Time and High $T_{NI}$ for LCD-TV Application

  • Ban, Byeong-Seob;Kim, Bong-Hee;Seo, Bong-Sung;Yun, Yong-Kuk;Sakong, Dong-Sik;Chung, Kyu-Ha;Kim, Yong-Bae
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.498-499
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    • 2002
  • In In order to develop liquid crystal mixtures of high response time and high nematic-isotropic transition temperature ($T_{NI}$) for LCD-TV application, novel liquid crystal molecules with a fluoro-isothiocyanate moiety were synthesized. They showed remarkably high $T_{NI}$ over 200 $^{\circ}C$, wide mesophase range of 170 $^{\circ}C$, high dielectric anisotropy of 14 and high optical anisotropy of 0.19. New LC Mixtures of the high $T_{NI}$ ($85{\sim}100 ^{\circ}C$) and fast response time ($8{\sim}10ms$) were blended with the novel fluoro-isothiocyanate containing LC molecules, phenylcyclohexanes, bicyclohexanes and ester compounds. It was also studied on optimum pitch of liquid crystal for high speed twisted nematic LCD-TV applicaton. The LC mixtures show a fast speed of the below one frame rate in real 17" TV panel.

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Liquid Crystal Mixtures of High Response Time and High $T_{NI}$ for LCD-TV Application

  • Ban, Byeong-Seob;Kim, Bong-Hee;Seo, Bong-Sung;Yun, Yong-Kuk;Sakong, Dong-Sik;Chung, Kyu-Ha;Kim, Yong-Bae
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.413-414
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    • 2002
  • In In order to develop liquid crystal mixtures of high response time and high nematic-isotropic transition temperature ($T_{NI}$) for LCD-TV application, novel liquid crystal molecules with a fluoroisothiocyanate moiety were synthesized. They showed remarkably high $T_{NI}$ over 200 $^{\circ}C$, wide mesophase range of 170 $^{\circ}C$, high dielectric anisotropy of 14 and high optical anisotropy of 0.19. New LC Mixtures of the high $T_{NI}$ (85${\sim}$100 $^{\circ}C$) and fast response time (8${\sim}$10ms) were blended with the novel fluoroisothiocyanate containing LC molecules, phenylcyclohexanes, bicyclohexanes and ester compounds. It was also studied on optimum pitch of liquid crystal for high speed twisted nematic LCD-TV applicaton. The LC mixtures show a fast speed of the below one frame rate in real 17" TV panel.

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Generation of Disclination Line Dependent on Liquid Crystal's Pretilt Angle in Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Devices (Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon 소자에서 액정의 프리틸트각에 따른 Disclination Line 발생)

  • 정태봉;오세태;이승희
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.322-329
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    • 2003
  • We have studied how surface pretilt angle affects generation of disclination line in liquid-crystal-on silicon cells for 45$^{\circ}$-twisted nematic (TN) and vertical alignment (VA) modes with pixel size of 15$\mu\textrm{m}$. Our studies show that when the pretilt angle is increased from 0$^{\circ}$to 3$^{\circ}$ in the 45$^{\circ}$-TN cell, the disclination line at left side of on-pixel becomes weak and is well suppressed with $\theta$$\_$p/=3$^{\circ}$ although the pixel size Is decreased. In the VA cell, when the pretilt angle is decreased from 89$^{\circ}$ to 86$^{\circ}$, the disclination line at right side of the on-pixel is suppressed well and even for a smaller pixel size, it does not exist when $\theta$$\_$p/=86$^{\circ}$. The results inform that the pretilt angle strongly affects the image quality of microdisplays.

Study for a Novel Fast Response time Liquid Crystal Operating Mode using Control of Tilt Angle for Nematic Liquid Crystal (네마틱 액정의 틸트 제어를 이용한 새로운 고속응답 액정 모드에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Hoon;Kang, Hyung-Ku;Hwang, Jeoung-Yeon;Bae, Yu-Han;Kim, Young-Hwan;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we have improved a novel fast response time liquid crystal operating mode using tilt angle in the unique condition by hot-plate equipment. The new control of tilt angle for nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with negative and positive dielectric anisotropy on the rubbed homeotropic polyimide (PI) using baking method by Hot-plate equipment was investigated. LC tilt angle decreased with increasing baking temperature and time. Especially, the low LC tilt angle of positive type NLC (${\Delta}n$>0) on the rubbed homeotropic PI surface by increasing temperature and time was measured. The EO characteristics of the high tilted OCB(HTOCB) mode using control of tilt angle on the homeotropic surface than that of conventional OCB cell can be improved. We suggest that the developed the HTOCB cell using control of tilt angle on the homeotropic surface is a promising technique for the achievement of a fast response time and a high contrast ratio.

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