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New Flexible Applications Using $Reflex^{TM}$ Display Technology

  • Khan, Asad;Davis, Donald J.;Ernst, Todd;Marhefka, Duane;Miller, Nick;Montbach, Erica;Pishnyak, Oleg;Schneider, Tod;Doane, J.W.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.167-170
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    • 2008
  • $Reflex^{TM}$ display technology based on bistable, reflective, and flexible Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays is being developed and mass produced for new and non-traditional applications. These applications allow for personalization of mobile devices, very low cost display systems, and more. This display technology, its status, and new applications are discussed in this paper.

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Mechanical Stability of Plastic LCDs with Bistable Chiral-Splay Nematic LC Mode

  • Kim, Yi-Jun;Min, Kwan-Sik;Park, Sang-Hyun;Kwon, Soon-Bum;Jhun, Chul-Gyu;Kim, Jea-Chang
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.846-849
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    • 2006
  • We made plastic LCDs with Bistable Chiral-Splay Nematic (BCSN) LC mode for several types of spacers and investigated mechanical stability of them. The plastic BCSN LCDs used adhesive bead spacers have sufficient LC alignment stability against the mechanical shock and bending stress.

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INTERACTIVE DYNAMICS IN A BISTABLE ATTRACTION-REPULSION CHEMOTAXIS SYSTEM

  • Ham, YoonMee;Lee, Sang-Gu
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.215-233
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    • 2016
  • We consider a bistable attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system in one dimension. The study in this paper asserts that conditions for chemotactic coefficients for attraction and repulsion to show existence of stationary solutions and Hopf bifurcation in the interfacial problem as the bifurcation parameters vary are obtained analytically.

Development of Low Anchoring Strength Liquid Crystal Mixtures for Bistable Nematic Displays

  • Stoenescu, D.;Lamarque-Forget, S.;Joly, S.;Dubois, J.C.;Martinot-Lagarde, Ph.;Dozov, I.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.97-100
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    • 2005
  • The recent Bistable Nematic ($BiNem{(R)}$) LCD technology presents long term bistability, high level passive matrix multiplexing and high optical quality. The BiNem device, based on anchoring breaking, needs specific low anchoring strength materials - alignment layers and liquid crystal mixtures. We present here our approach to develop nematic mixtures with wide enough temperature range and low zenithal anchoring energy.

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Transition Rates in a Bistable System Driven by Singular External Forces

  • Cheol-Ju Kim;Dong Jae Lee
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 1993
  • A noise-induced transition is presented for a bistable system subjected to a multiplicative random force, which is singular at the unstable state. The stationary probability distribution is obtained from the Fokker-Planck equation and the effects of the singularity is analyzed. On the basis of noise-induced phase transition with Gaussian white noise, the relaxation time and the transition rate of the system are evaluated up to the first order correction of D. In the parameter region v < l, the transition rates decrease as the exponent v goes to 1 and as the coefficient of the linear term of the kinetic equation increases.

Electro-optical Characteristics of the Dual-frequency Bistable Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell with Pixel-isolating Polymer Wall (폴리머 격벽에 의해 화소고립된 구조의 이중주파수 쌍안정 네마틱 액정셀의 전기광학 특성)

  • Lee, Seong-Ryong;Lee, Joong-Ha;Shin, Jae-Hoon;Song, Dong-Han;Yoon, Tae-Hoon;Kim, Jae-Chang
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.161-168
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    • 2008
  • We propose a novel bistable nematic liquid crystal cell, which has a dual-frequency liquid crystal material and pixel-isolating polymer wall formed by an anisotropic phase separation of a mixture of liquid crystals and UV-curable pre-polymers. The proposed cell has two stable states of left- and right-handed ${\pi}$-twist. The switching between the two states is achieved by using a sequential waveform of low and high frequencies. A transmissive bistable liquid crystal display is designed, which achieves high contrast ratio by using the proposed cell and optical films.

Nonvolatile Flexible Bistable Organic Memory (BOM) Device with Au nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in a Conducting poly N-vinylcarbazole (PVK) Colloids Hybrid

  • Son, Dong-Ick;Kwon, Byoung-Wook;Park, Dong-Hee;Yang, Jeong-Do;Choi, Won-Kook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.440-440
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    • 2011
  • We report on the non-volatile memory characteristics of a bistable organic memory (BOM) device with Au nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in a conducting poly N-vinylcarbazole (PVK) colloids hybrid layer deposited on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images show the Au nanoparticles distributed isotropically around the surface of a PVK colloid. The average induced charge on Au nanoparticles, estimated using the C-V hysteresis curve, was large, as much as 5 holes/NP at a sweeping voltage of ${\pm}3$ V. The maximum ON/OFF ratio of the current bistability in the BOM devices was as large as $1{\times}105$. The cycling endurance tests of the ON/OFF switching exhibited a high endurance of above $1.5{\times}105$ cycles and a high ON/OFF ratio of ~105 could be achieved consistently even after quite a long retention time of more than $1{\times}106$ s.

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DEVELOPMENT OF RPS TRIP LOGIC BASED ON PLD TECHNOLOGY

  • Choi, Jong-Gyun;Lee, Dong-Young
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.697-708
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    • 2012
  • The majority of instrumentation and control (I&C) systems in today's nuclear power plants (NPPs) are based on analog technology. Thus, most existing I&C systems now face obsolescence problems. Existing NPPs have difficulty in repairing and replacing devices and boards during maintenance because manufacturers no longer produce the analog devices and boards used in the implemented I&C systems. Therefore, existing NPPs are replacing the obsolete analog I&C systems with advanced digital systems. New NPPs are also adopting digital I&C systems because the economic efficiencies and usability of the systems are higher than the analog I&C systems. Digital I&C systems are based on two technologies: a microprocessor based system in which software programs manage the required functions and a programmable logic device (PLD) based system in which programmable logic devices, such as field programmable gate arrays, manage the required functions. PLD based systems provide higher levels of performance compared with microprocessor based systems because PLD systems can process the data in parallel while microprocessor based systems process the data sequentially. In this research, a bistable trip logic in a reactor protection system (RPS) was developed using very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language (VHDL), which is a hardware description language used in electronic design to describe the behavior of the digital system. Functional verifications were also performed in order to verify that the bistable trip logic was designed correctly and satisfied the required specifications. For the functional verification, a random testing technique was adopted to generate test inputs for the bistable trip logic.