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Electro-Optical Characteristics of the UV Aligned LCD Cell (UV 배향된 액정셀에서의 전기광학 특성)

  • Lee, Byung-Soon;Lee, Ho-Young
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.62 no.4
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    • pp.223-226
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we investigated the electro-optical(EO) characteristic of fringe-field switching(FFS) mode cell by the two kinds of ultraviolet(UV) alignment method on the organic thin film(polyimide: PI). The suitable organic layersfor FFS cell and the aligning capabilities of nematic liquid crystal(NLC) using the in-situ photoalignment method were studied Disclination is observed after conventional photoalignment method for 1h, and in-situ photoalignment method for 1h. Monodomain alignment of the NLC can be observed via in-situ photoalignment method for 2h and 3h. It is considered that NLC alignment is due to photo-depolymerization of the polymer with oblique non-polarized UV irradiation on PI surface. An unstable V-T curve of UV-aligned FFS-LCD with conventional photoalignment method can be achieved. However, a stable V-T curve of UV-aligned FFS-LCD with in-situ photoalignment method(1h), and V-T curve of UV-aligned FFS-LCD with in-situphotoalignment method was much stable comparing with that of other UV-aligned FFS-LCD's. As a result, more stable EO performanceof UV-aligned FFS-LCD with in-situphotoalignment method for 3h is obtained than that of the other UV-aligned FFS-LCD's.

Effective Interference Alignment for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaid in Multi-Cell Interference Network (다중셀 간섭 네트워크와 중첩된 D2D 통신을 위한 효과적인 간섭 정렬 기법)

  • Qu, Xin;Kang, Chung Gu
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39A no.3
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    • pp.161-163
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    • 2014
  • We consider the device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying multi-cell interference system, in which the cellular downlink (DL) resource is reused by K cells and two D2D transmission links within each cell. In this paper, it has been shown that the downlink intra-cell and inter-cell interference can be effectively handled by interference alignment (IA) technique, as long as the simultaneous D2D links are properly selected or power-controlled so that they may not incur interference to the base stations in the same and neighbor cells. In particular, we provides the IA technique that can achieve the theoretically maximum possible degree of freedom (DOF), demonstrating that a total of (K+1)M degrees of freedom (DOFs) can be achieved for K-cell interference system with two underlaying D2D links, where base stations, cellular UE's, and D2D UE's all have M transmit and receive antennas.

Symmetric-viewing liquid crystal display with alternating alignment layers in an inverse-twisted-nematic configuration

  • Na, Jun-Hee;Li, Hongmei;Park, Seung-Chul;Lee, Sin-Doo
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.191-194
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    • 2011
  • A symmetric-viewing inverse-twisted-nematic (ITN) liquid crystal display (LCD) with alternating alignment layers was developed using a stamping-assisted rubbing (SAR) technique. A patterned layer of a fluorinated acrylate polymer was transferred onto the first rubbed vertical-alignment layer prepared on a substrate by stamping. The fluorinated acrylate polymer provided a protective layer covering the first rubbed alignment layer during the second rubbing process, which promoted the vertical alignment of the LC molecules. The LC cell in the ITN geometry with two orthogonally rubbed alignment layers showed symmetric-viewing characteristics with fourfold symmetry. The SAR technique was shown to be a mask-free alignment method of producing multidomains for symmetric-viewing LCDs.

Stamping-assisted Fabrication Technique of the Bidirectional Alignment Layer for Wide-Viewing Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Koo, Kyung-Mo;Na, Jun-Hee;Kim, Yeun-Tae;Li, Hongmei;Lee, Sin-Doo
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.180-183
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    • 2009
  • A stamping-assisted rubbing technique for generating bidirectional alignment in the fabrication of wide-viewing twistednematic (TN) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) was developed. A patterned layer of a fluorinated acrylate polymer was transferred onto the first rubbed alignment layer prepared on a substrate by stamping. The fluorinated acrylate polymer provides a protective layer that covers the first alignment layer during the second rubbing process to facilitate the bidirectional alignment of the LC molecules. The LC cell in the twisted geometry with two bidirectional-alignment layers showed stable electro-optic properties and wide-viewing characteristics. The stamping-assisted rubbing technique serves as a mask-free alignment method of producing multidomains for wide-viewing LCDs.

Inorganic Salt Doped Soluble Polyimide Type Alignment Layer for Improving Panel Reliability and DC Image Sticking Properties

  • Lee, Tae-Rim;Roh, Seung-Kwang;Lim, Young-Nam;Kim, Kyeong-Jin;Shin, Hyun-Ho
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.672-676
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    • 2009
  • Polymide is widely used alignment material of recent commercial LCD panel structure. Generally, polyimide alignment material is classified soluble polyimide type and polyamic acid type with their main bond structure of solution state. specially, compared to polyamic acid alignment layer, soluble polyimide type alignment layer have excellent reliability during long term LCD driving cause of their high imidazation ratio(%), high voltage holding ratio(%) and low ion density. The other side, this type alignment materials has significant DC image stickicng side effect for using in-plane switching mode lcd structure cause of their slow DC discharging property. we applied inorganic salt to usual soluble polyimide type alignment layer and found out this technique had good DC image sticking property without any loss of reliability property in inplane switching LCD cell structure. This approach leads excellent DC image sticking property with maintaining high reliability property this approach confirmed improves an image sticking and a reliability simultaneously from the horizontality aligned LCD mode whose relatively bad image sticking property.

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Liquid crystal alignment and EO performance of transcription-aligned TN-LCD (전사배향 TN-LCD의 액정배향 및 전기광학특성)

  • 서대식;김진호
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.1133-1138
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, we obtained the monodomain alignment of nematic liquid Crystal(NLC) in the cell fabricated by transcription alignment method on polyimide(PI) surface with side chain. It is considered that the LC alignment produced by the transcription alignment method is attributed to a memory effect of the NLC on PI surfaces. Also we observed that the generated pretilt angle of NLC is about $3.7^{\circ}$ with transcription alignment on PI surface. Next, we measured that the voltage-transmittance characteristics of transcription-aligned TN-LCD are almost same compared to rubbing-aligned TN-LCD. Also, we measured that the curve of transcription-aligned TN-LCD is less sharp than that of the rubbing-aligend TN-LCD in the decay time characteristics. It is considered that the response time characteristics of transcription-aligned TN-LCD are attributed to the weak anchoring strength between the LC molecules and the polymer surface.

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EO Characteristics in the Vertical Alignment (VA)-$\pi$ mode LCD Using the Tilt Angle Decrease Effect on the Blended Polymer (혼합된 polymer에서의 틸트 감소 효과를 이용한 VA-$\pi$ mode LCD의 전기광학 특성)

  • Lee, Kyung-Jun;Hwang, Jeoung-Yeon;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.05d
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    • pp.53-56
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    • 2003
  • Blending effects for generating a pretilt angle in nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with negative dielectric anisotropy on the blended polyimide (PI) of homeotropic and homogeneous alignment surface were studied. Also, we investigated the EO performances for the advanced VA-$\pi$ cell using this homeotropic blended PI surface. A many decrease of tilt angle on the polymer surface to blend homeotropic PI and homogeneous PI with side chain type was measured, and the tilt angle decreased as blended ratio and rubbing strength increase. The blended effects for generating a pretilt angle were clearly observed, and the many decrease of tilt angle can be achieved by using the blended PI surface. The electro-optical (EO) characteristics using the advanced VA-$\pi$ cell using the homeotropic blended PI surface than that of conventional VA cell can be improved. We suggest that the developed advanced VA-$\pi$ cell on a homeotropic blended PI surface is a promising technique for the achievement of a fast response time, and a high contrast ratio.

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A Study on Electro-Optical Characteristics of the Ion Beam Aligned FFS Cell on the Inorganic Thin Film (무기 박막을 이용한 이온빔 배향 FFS 셀의 전기광학특성에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jeoung-Yeon;Park, Chang-Joon;Jeong, Youn-Hak;Ahn, Han-Jin;Baik, Hong-Koo;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.94-97
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we investigate fringe-field switching (FFS) mode cell by the ion beam (IB) alignment method on the a-C:H thin film, to analyze electro-optical characteristics in this cell. We studied on the suitable inorganic thin film for fringe-field switching (FFS) cell and the aligning capabilities of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) using the new alignment material of a-C:H thin film An excellent voltage-transmittance (V-T) and response time curve of the IB-aligned FFS-LCD was observed with oblique IB exposure on the DLC thin films. Also, AC V-T hysteresis characteristics of the IB-aligned FFS-LCD with IB exposure on the DLC thin films is almost the same as that of the rubbing-aligned FFS cell on a polyimide (PI) surface.

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Degrees of Freedom of Multi-Cell MIMO Interference Broadcast Channels With Distributed Base Stations

  • Huang, Hongbing;Liu, Junyi;Zhang, Yi;Cai, Qing;Zhang, Bowei;Jiang, Fengwen
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.635-656
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we investigate the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a multi-cell multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference broadcast channel (IBC) with non-cooperation distributed base stations (BS), where each BS serves users of its corresponding cell. When all BSs simultaneously transmit their own signals over the same frequency band in the MIMO IBC, the edge users in each cell will suffer the inter-cell interference (ICI) and inter-user interference (IUI) signals. In order to eliminate the ICI and IUI signals, a distributed space time interference alignment (DSTIA) approach is proposed where each BS has only limited access to distributed moderately-delay channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). It is shown that the DSTIA scheme can obtain the appreciate DoF gains. In addition, the DoF upper bound is asymptotically achievable as the number of antenna at each BS increases. It is shown that the DSTIA method can get DoF gains over other interference alignment schemes with delayed CSIT in literature. Moreover, the DSTIA method can attain higher DoFs than the IA schemes with global CSIT for certain antenna configurations.

Fast Switching Properties of TN Cell With Graphene Quantum Dots (그라핀 양자점을 도핑한 TN 셀의 고속 스위칭 특성)

  • Kim, Dai-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.110-114
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    • 2014
  • In this study, we report the doping effect of graphene quantum dots (QDs) in nematic liquid crystal (NLC) system on rubbed polyimide (PI) surface. The good LC alignment and high thermal stability in QD-LC cell system on rubbed PI surfaces can be measured. Also, the low threshold voltage of QD-TN cell was observed about 2.77 V. The fast response time of 13.2 ms for QD-TN cell can be achieved. Finally, the good voltage holding ratio of QD-TN cell on rubbed PI surface was measured.