• Journal of Information Display
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.45-48
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• 2010

A direct-lit liquid crystal display that does not use color filters is proposed. A backlight unit that employs compartmentalized RGB LED and lenticular-lens arrays is used instead of color filters to direct the RGB LED lights into the RGB subpixels. The color-filterless LED backlight design, simulation, and experiment results are presented.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.76-78
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• 2009

A liquid crystal display that does not use color filters is proposed. A backlight unit that employs compartmentalized RGB LED arrays and a lenticular lens array is used instead of the color filters in order to direct RGB LED lights into the RGB subpixels. A design of color-filterless LED backlight and experimental results are presented.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.165-169
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• 2007

The light guide plate (LGP) of LCD-BLU (Liquid Crystal Display-Back Light Unit) is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots by etching process. However, the surface of those etched dots of LGP is very rough due to the characteristics of etching process, so that its light loss is relatively high due to the dispersion of light. Accordingly, there is a limit in raising the luminance of LCD-BLU. In order to overcome the limit of current etched-dot patterned LGP, micro-lens pattern was tested to investigate the possibility of replacing etched pattern in the present study. The micro-lens pattern fabricated by the modified LiGA with thermal reflow process was applied to the optical design of LGP. The attention was paid to the effects of different optical pattern type (i.e. etched dot, micro-lens). Finally, the micro-lens patterned LGP showed better optical qualities than the one made by the etched-dot patterned LGP in luminance.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.274-275
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• 2009

An integral imaging system resorting to multiple birefringence lens arrays using Jones Matrix was analyzed and implemented. Each birefringence lens array was produced by placing a liquid crystal layer on a conventional lens array. Its depth of field was proved to be extended theoretically.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.171-176
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• 2007

LCD-BLU (Liquid Crystal Display-Back Light Unit) of medium size is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots with $50{\sim}300\;{\mu}m$ in diameter by etching process and V-grove shape with $50\;{\mu}m$ in height by mechanical cutting process. However, the surface of the etched dots is very rough due to the characteristics of the etching process and V-cutting needs rather high cost. Instead of existing optical pattern made by etching and mechanical cutting, 3-dimensional continuous micro-lens of $200\;{\mu}m$ in diameter was applied in the present study. The continuous micro-lens pattern fabricated by modified LIGA with thermal reflow process was tested to this new optical design of LGP. The manufacturing process using LIGA-reflow is made up of three stages as follows: (i) the stage of lithography, (ii) the stage of thermal reflow process and (iii) the stage of electroplating. The continuous micro-lens patterned LGP was fabricated with injection molding and its test results showed the possibility of commercial use in the future.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.528-530
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a new and practical method for achieving real-time wavefront measurement, dramatically increasing the resolution, dynamic range of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and improving the wavefront reconstruction quality. In proposal method, a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) for the generation of an array of Fresnel microlenses is use instead of the static microlens array of the conventional Shack-Hartmann type sensor. An off-axis holographic microlens array is designed instead of the normal microlens array to increase the effective array and then the dynamic range. The focus properties of the off-axis lens are studied.

• 정보저장시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.151-152
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• 2005

Blu-ray 디스크에서는 NA=0.85 의 높은 개구수를 채용함으로써 디스크 보호층의 두께 변동에 따른 구면수차 발생량이 매우 커지는 문제가 발생하게 된다. 따라서 디스크 두께 공차 $3{\mu}m$에서 Blu-ray 시스템의 수차 발생 허용수준을 초과한다. 그리고 Multi-layer 디스크의 경우 각 층의 간격이 $25{\mu}m$ 정도의 간격을 두고 배치되어 있어 기록층 사이에서 발생하는 구면수차의 보정이 필요하며, 종래의 기술은 보상범위가 $3{\mu}m$로 한정되어 사용이 불가능하며 또한 대물렌즈 조립공차가 엄격히 관리되어야 하는 문제점을 안고 있었다. 본 연구에서는 액정렌즈에 의한 구면수차 보정으로 이러한 문제점들을 해결하고자 하였다. 액정렌즈는 오목렌즈 액정소자와 볼록렌즈 액정소자로 구성되며 픽업 광학계 내에 조합하여 설계함으로써 Multi-layer 디스크의 두께 변동에 따라 발생하는 구면수차를 보정하고 대물렌즈 조립공차 문제를 해결할 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.173-181
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• 2002

The principle of an illumination system including fly-eyes lenses for a liquid crystal display (LCD) projector with 3-panels was presented and its optical system was designed by using the OSLO (premium edition 6.1) optical system design program. Two panels of the illumination system are well aligned for so that the illumination path length is the same, and the third panel has a longer pass length than the others. The two illumination types with the same or different illumination path lengths were derived by using the paraxial ray design method. Refraction powers and positions of each lens were analytically determined by the method, and the damped least square method was utilized to obtain the optimized uniform illumination system.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.620-622
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• 2009

We demonstrated a liquid crystal display (LCD) mode with a single polarizer based on the array of a switchable microlens consisting of a circular stop mask and its complementary open mask. The focused beam passed through the open mask and thus the bright state was obtained, while the defocused beam was blocked by the stop mask and the complementary open mask. It is expected that our single-polarizer LCD mode is applicable to low cost displays.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.60-63
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• 2011

BLU(back light unit) is one of kernel parts of LCD(liquid crystal display) unit. New 3-D micro-lens pattern for LGP(light guide plate), one of the most important parts of LCD-BLU, had been researched. Instead of dot pattern made by chemical etching or laser ablation, SCS(slanted curved surface) micro-lens pattern was designed with optical CAE simulation. This study introduce the method of design using optical CAE simulation for SCS micro-lens, the new fabrication method of micro-mold with SCS micro-lens pattern.