• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.151-156
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• 2012

Reflective polarizers can be used as luminance enhancement films for LCD backlights via the polarization recycling process. The optical performances of a wire grid polarizer (WGP) as a reflective polarizer adopted in edge-lit backlights were investigated by luminance evaluation and a time-domain simulation technique. The results were compared to those of a commercial dielectric multilayer film. The luminance gain factor of WGP was smaller than that of the multilayer film by 18%. This was attributed to a much larger internal loss of WGP due to light absorption by metal wires. The internal losses of both reflective polarizers and the polarization conversion efficiency of the backlight were obtained numerically based on a phenomenological model. The optical performances of WGP were optimized by using a time-domain simulation technique. The luminance gain increased and was found to become comparable to, but slightly less than the case of the dielectric multilayer film with decreasing line width.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.59.1-59.1
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• 2012

Organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with printable semiconductors are promising candidate devices for flexible active-matrix (AM) display applications. Yet, stable operation of actual display panels driven by OTFTs has seldom been reported up to date. Here, we demonstrate a flexible reflective type polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display, in which inkjet-printed OTFT arrays are used as driving elements with excellent areal uniformity in terms of device performance. As the active semiconductor, a novel, ambient processable conjugated copolymer was synthesized. The stability of the devices with respect to electrical bias stress was improved by applying a channel-passivation layer, which suppresses the environmental effects and hence reduces the density of trap states at the channel/dielectric interface. The combination of high performance and high stability OTFT devices enabled the successful realization of stable operating flexible color-displays by inkjet-printing.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.105-124
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• 2011

TFT-LCD consists of LCD panel on the top, circuit unit on the side and BLU on the bottom. The recent development issues of BLU-dependent TFT-LCD have been power consumption minimization, slimmerization and size maximization. As a result of this trend, LED is adopted as BLU instead of CCFL to increase brightness and to reduce thickness. In liquid crystal displays, the light efficiency is below 10% due to the loss of light in the path from a light source to an LCD panel and presence of absorptive polarizer. This low efficiency results in low brightness and high power consumption. One way to circumvent this situation is to use a reflective polarizer between backlight units and LCD panels. Since a nano-wire grid polarizer has been known as a reflective polarizer, an idea was proposed that it can be used for the enhancement of the brightness of LCD. The use of reflective polarizing film is increasing as edge type LED TV and 3D TV markets are growing. This study has been carried out to fabrication of the nano-wire grid polarizer(NWGP) and investigated the brightness enhancement of LCD through polarization recycling by placing a NWGP between an c and a backlight unit. NWGPs with a pitch of 200nm were fabricated using laser interference lithography and aluminum sputtering and wet etching. And The NWGP fabrication process was using by the UV imprinting and was applied to plastic PET film. In this case, the brightness of an LCD with NWGPs was 1.21 times higher than that without NWGPs due to polarization recycling.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.36-40
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• 1968

새로운 반사형 텔레비젼 디스푸레이를 소개한다. 이 방법에서는 선상의 액체결정의 다이나믹 스캣터링 모오드(Dynamic Scattering Mode, DSM)를 이용하며 주위가 밝은 곳에서도 볼 수 있다. 6∼12μm 두께의 액체결정은 뜯을 수 있는 음극선관 위에 와이어-모자의 훼이스 프레이트를 사용하는 전자속으로 실시간에 번지선택된다. 두가지 종류의 액체결정물질-Anasyliden Para-Amino Phenyl Acetate(APAPA)와 RCA 특유의 실온액체결정-을 시험했는데 동작온도(APAPA는 82°∼110℃이고 다른 것은 실온)를 제외하고는 비슷한 결과가 나왔다. 사방 3.1cm의 디스푸레이에서는 해상도가 적용 텔레비젼에 필요한 150line 보다 약간 떨여졌는데 그 원인은 액정결정 때문이 아니고 모자익의 구조에 의한 제한 때문이다. 더 나은 해상도를 얻으려면 디스푸레이를 좀더 크게하면 된다. 콘트라스트는 최적화(7.5:1)하지 않았다. 그러나 이 값을 정적인 디스푸레이에서 본 바와 같이 15∼20대 1로 개선하기 위해서는 몇가지의 기술을 사용할 수 있다. 이 디스푸레이 방법의 매력으로는 적당한 외부조명하에서는 약 ±45°의 넓은 관람각을 갖는데 있다고 하겠다. 액체결정내에서 DSM이 일어나도록 하는데 필요한 전류, 전압치들을 보면 평평한 텔레비젼 화면에 적합한 완전한 번지선택법에의 근사방법이 발견될 수 있으리라는 희망을 갖일 수 있다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.814-817
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• 2006

In this paper we report the influence of rubbing direction and electrode distance to the voltage dependent transmittance in in-plane switching (IPS) mode. Moreover, we applied this to a transflective IPS cell to realize a single gamma characteristics both in the transmissive part and the reflective part..

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.49-51
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• 2006

A new data line reduction driving method was developed for high pixel density LCoS microdisplays. Its pixel structures and its corresponding gate line waveform were proposed, too. This idea can fulfill the increasing demand for higher resolution LCoS. In this method, no additional AC power is dissipated, and no more horizontal line time is needed. So this method can be applied to the high resolution microdisplay devices. It prefers being applied to the reflective liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays because of the pixel structure asymmetry and PMOS transistor switches used.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.142-143
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• 2001

Cell gap은 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)의 중요한 파라미터들 중의 하나이다. cell gap이 LCD의 광학적인 성능에 영향을 주기 때문에 정확한 cell gap 측정방법은 제조공정을 향상시키는데 중요하다 특히 최근 고속 영상 디스플레이를 제공할 수 있는 장점 때문에 낮은 cell gap의 LCD가 요구되고 있는 시장 추세에 따라 낮은 cell gap을 측정할 수 있는 기술이 요구되고 있다. LCD의 cell gap 측정 방법들 가운데 가장 보편화되어 있는 것으로 회전편광자법(rotating polarizer method)[1, 2]과 위상보상법(phase compensation method)[3,4]을 들 수 있는데 낮은 셀갭을 정확히 측정하기가 어려우며 주기적인 해가 발생한다는 단점이 있다. (중략)

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.98-105
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• 2000

The projectors using liquid crystal display(LCD) have faults such as low optical efficiency, low brightness and even heat generation. To solve these problems reflective-type spatial light modulators based on MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) technology have emerged. Digital Micromirror DeviceTM(DMDTM), which was already developed by Texas Instruments Inc., and Thin-film Micromirror ArrayTM(TMATM), which has been recently developed by Daewoo Electronics Co., are the representative examples. The display using TMATM has particularly much higher optical efficiency than other projectors. But the micromirrors manufactured by semiconductor processes have inevitable distortion because of the limitations of the manufacturing processes, so that the distortions of their surfaces have great influence on the optical efficiency of the projector. This study investigated the effects of mirror flatness on the optical performance, including the optical efficiency, of the TMATM projector. That is to say, as a part of the efforts to enhance the performance of the TMATM projector, how much influence the form errors of a micromirror surface exert on the optical efficiency and the modulation of gray scale of the projector were analyzed through a pertinent modeling and simulations.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.256-261
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• 2013

Power conversion efficiency of the red and green phosphors was measured and analyzed. Two different samples of phosphors of thickness 50 ${\mu}m$ were prepared: one was the phosphor layer coated on the transparent substrate and the other was prepared on the reflective substrate. The 445 nm blue laser diode beam was used as the exciting beam. The conversion efficiencies of the red and green phosphor layers were 41.4% and 46%, respectively. The quantum efficiencies of the red and green phosphors were 60.4% and 53.5%, respectively.