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Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductor Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanojunction Devices

  • Lee, Gi-Seok;Lee, Rin;Seong, Myeong-Mo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.08a
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    • pp.261.1-261.1
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    • 2013
  • Well-aligned nanowire arrays can be used as building blocks for nanoscale device. Recently, we reported that well-aligned single-crystal organic nanowires has been created by using a direct printing method which is named liquid-bridge mediated nanotransfer molding (LB-nTM). Moreover, multi-layering nanostructures can be fabricated by repeating this printing process. As a result, it is possible to make simple and basic concept of heterojunction devices such as crossed nanowire devices. We fabricated crossed single-crystal organic nanowires nanojunction devices from 6,13-bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-PEN) and fullerene (C60) single-crystal nanowires using by direct printing method in solution process. Crossed TIPSPEN/ C60 single-crystal nanowires diode has rectifying behavior with on/off ratios of ~13. In addition, the device shows photodiode characteristics as well as rectification. Our study represent methodology of heterojunction devices using single-crystal nanowires, thereby provide a new direction of future nanoelectronics.

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Bistable Liquid Crystal Device Realized on Microscopic Orientational Pattern

  • Kim, Jong-Hyun;Yoneya, Makoto;Yokoyama, Hiroshi
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.187-190
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    • 2005
  • Alignment pattern of checkerboard was constructed by the stylus of atomic force microscope. Orientational bistability of the nematic liquid crystal was realized on that frustrated surface alignment. Macroscopic orientational switching between two perpendicular directions took place by an appropriate in-plane electric field. The threshold electric fields decreased in both switching directions as temperature increased. The focused laser heated up only the limited domains in the cell including a light-absorbing medium. Irradiating the laser concurrently with an appropriate electric field, we switched the selected unit domains in the alignment pattern. The switched domains maintained stably the switched direction without the disturbance from the exterior. Extending and repeating this process, we realized extremely fine devices of bistable switching.

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Numerical modeling of defects nucleation in the liquid crystal devices with inhomogeneous surface (액정 디스플레이 소자 내에서의 불균일한 표면에 의한 결점의 발생과 모델링)

  • Lee Gi-dong;Kang Bongsoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.1793-1798
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    • 2005
  • We model the nucleation and motion of defects in the liquid crystal display device with inhomogeneous surface by using fast Q-tensor method, which can calculate scalar order parameter S and nucleation of the defect in the liquid crystal director field. In order to model the defect, homeotropic aligned liquid crystal cell with step inhomogeneous electrode which has a height of $1{\mu}m$ is used. From the simulation, we can observe the nucleation and line of the defect from surface inhomogeneity and the experiment is performed for confirmation.

Fast Switching Polymer-Stabilized Bend Nematic Devices

  • Kim, Sang-Hwa;Chien, Liang-Chy
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.194-195
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    • 2002
  • We report a fast-switching polymer-stabilized bend nematic (PSBN) device. The morphology study reveal a templated polymer networks captures the orientation of the field deformed nematic host.

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Study on Liquid Crystal Displays Utilizing Kerr effect (액정의 Kerr 효과를 이용한 액정표시소자 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Su;Kang, Byeong-Gyun;Jung, Jun-Ho;Ha, Kyung-Su;Song, Eun-Gyoung;Yoon, Suk-In;Kim, Mi-Young;Lee, Myong-Hoon;Lee, Seung-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.295-296
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    • 2009
  • There are various application of liquid crystal materials to devices, especially, blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) and nano-structured liquid crystal mixture have been studied recently because BPs existing temperature range has been expanded by polymer-stabilization and liquid crystal has been confined in room which has certain coherence length so that their particular characters, such as fast response time and optically isotropic state at no electric field, could apply to advanced liquid crystal display devices. However, there is an crucial problem which is high operating voltage from low Kerr constant and limited electric field utilization using in-plain electric field. In this paper, we will analyze cell structure in the way of using electric field and show effective electric field utilization to reduce operating voltage.

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Dielectric and Electro-Optical Properties of Ceramic Nanoparticles Doped Liquid Crystals

  • Porov, Preeti;Chandel, Vishal Singh;Manohar, Rajiv
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2016
  • Liquid crystals are important materials because of their applications in display technology and many other scientific applications. Different mixtures of liquid crystals and their doped samples have gained interest because a single liquid crystal compound cannot fulfill all the required parameters for the display application. The doping can be accomplished with dyes, polymers, or composite nanoparticles among other substance. The addition of nanoparticles can modify the physical properties of the host liquid crystal and enhances the performance of electro-optical devices. The present study is focused on investigations of possible changes in dielectric and electro optical properties of liquid crystals caused by doping with ceramic nanoparticles. Including smaller nanoparticles were found to be better candidates for use in suppressing the unwanted ion effects in liquid crystal displays.

Optimized Design of Variable Viewing Angle Display Using Design of Experiment (실험계획법을 이용한 시야각 변환 디스플레이의 최적 설계)

  • Park, Ki-Jong;Kim, Tae-Hyeon;Park, Woo-Sang
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 2019
  • Non-emissive LCDs need a backlight, and have difficulty implementing wide viewing angles due to differences in phase retardation depending on the behavior of the liquid crystals. Although wide viewing angles are good characteristics for devices such as TVs, they are not good for mobile devices. In this paper, we propose ways to design diffusers with ELC lenses to achieve wide and narrow viewing angles depending on the circumstances. A study was conducted on optimizing the design of a liquid lens diffuser with the same light as that for an OLED, by extracting design factors that affect the performance of the diffuser and applying the Taguchi method to them.

Fundamental condition for the realization of maximal contrast and brightness in liquid crystal display device: II. Polychromatic case (액정표시소자에서 화면의 명암대비와 밝기를 극대화하는 기본조건: II. 다색광의 경우)

  • 양병관;김진승;노봉규
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.498-503
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    • 2003
  • We analyze the electro-optic polarization transmission characteristics of liquid crystal cells in the Poincare sphere representation. We determine fundamental conditions on maximizing of brightness and contrast ratio of liquid crystal display devices for polychromatic light by use of retardation films. For optimizing two colors, at least two properly designed retardation films are needed, and for three wavelengths, either it can be approximated to the two-color case or three retardation films are needed.

Design of a color control driver for liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS(Liquid Crystal On Silicon)를 위한 컬러 콘트롤 드라이버 설계)

  • 이범근;박남서;김재진
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose the hardware architecture of a scale converter which is to convert a variety range of scale into a target scale and a time sequential color control driver for LOCS (Liquid Crystal On Silicon) micro display devices which are considered advanced micro display technology in the next generation. The driver has been implemented and tested with ASIC chips.

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Application of Polymer Network Liquid Crystal to Mobile Display and its Electro-Optical Characteristics

  • Woo, Sung-Ho;Jeon, Chan-Wook;Yang, Kee-Jeong;Choi, Byeong-Dae;Rajesh, Kumar;Ahn, Byung-Chul
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.1473-1475
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    • 2006
  • The electro-optic properties of an active-matrix polymer network liquid crystal display (AM-PNLCD) with crossed polarizer films to improve its contrast ratio were evaluated. By using crossed polarizer films, it shows good contrast ratio as well as wide viewing angle and adequate response time at normal TFT-twisted nematic (TN) LCD driving voltage (2.8V).

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