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Oxide semiconductor thin film transistors for next generation displays

  • Park, Jin-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.60.2-60.2
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    • 2012
  • 기술의 발전이 비약적으로 성장하면서, 소비자의 요구는 빠르게 변하고 있다. 전자 소자를 응용한 제품 시장은 매해를 거듭할 수록 빠른 속도로 성능을 향상시키고 있다. 이에 따라 디스플레이 시장에서 가장 큰 관심은 작은 화면에서도 높은 해상도를 요구하고, 수광형의 구동방식이 아닌 능동형 구동방식을 갖는 AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitted Diode)를 선호하고 있으며, 빠른 응답속도 기반을 갖는 표시소자를 요구하고 있다. 제품 생산자들의 고민은 기존의 비정질 실리콘 기반의 LCD (Liquid crystal display) 구동소자와 공정을 이용하여 소비자의 욕구에 접근하기가 점점 어려워지고 있다. 최근 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 하는 노력들중에서 산화물 반도체 재료와 이를 이용한 박막 트랜지스터 개발이 큰 관심을 갖고 있다. 최근 InGaZnO 산화물 반도체 재료는 기존의 비정질 실리콘 반도체 재료 보다 높은 전계 이동도(> $10cm^2/V.s$)를 보이고 있으며, 비정질 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터의 구조에서 산화물 반도체 재료의 대체만으로 효과가 보일 수 있어서 큰 연구가 진행되어져 왔다. 하지만, InGaZnO 산화물 박막 트랜지스터에 대한 소자를 AMOLED에 적용할 때, 기존의 LTPS (low temperature poly-slicon)에서는 발견되지 않았던 소자의 전계신뢰성과 이동도 한계가 문제로 제기되었다. 또한, Indium이라는 희소원소의 사용은 향후 공정 단가와 희소 물질에 대한 위협등에 의하여 새로운 산화물 반도체 재료에 대한 요구와 관심이 발생하고 있다. 본 발표에서는 기존의 산화물 반도체 재료에 대한 차세대 디스플레이인 AMOLED와 유연 디스플레이에 대한 응용 가능성을 발표할 예정이다. 또한 산화물 반도체 재료의 신뢰성 문제에 대한 해결방법으로 신규 산화물 반도체 재료에 대한 연구 방향과 indium-free 계열을 이용한 저원가 산화물 반도체 연구에 대하여 소개할 예정이다. 앞으로 산화물 반도체 재료에 대한 연구와 응용은 기존의 실리콘 반도체 틀을 벗어난 새로운 응용분야를 열어줄 수 있을 것으로 기대하고 있으며, 그 기대에 대한 몇가지 예를 통하여 재료와 소자의 응용 가능성을 논의할 예정이다.

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MTF Measuring Equipment of Optical System for LCD Substrate Inspection (LCD 기판 검사 광학계의 MTF 측정장치 제작)

  • Hong, Sung-Mok;Kim, Hee-Nam;Jo, Jae-Heung;Lee, Yun-Woo;Lee, Hoi-Youn;Yang, Ho-Soon;Lee, In-Won;Jung, Jin-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2007
  • We developed the equipment to measure the MTF(modulation transfer function) of an optical system for automatically inspecting the surface condition of an LCD substrate. We have made an object generator with USAF(United States Air Force) targets of three bar patterns and an integrating sphere, and an image analyzer with a 2 dimensional CCD(charge coupled device) and a relay lens. The MTF of the lens under test was obtained by correcting the measured CTF(contrast transfer function) which is the ratio of the contrast in the image of the USAF target to the contrast in the object. We have measured an optical system of F/13.65 (2.6x), the MTF are 30.6 % tangential plane and 26.1 % sagittal plane at 62.5 1p/mm.

$DeNO_{x}$ Performance of Activated Carbon Catalysts Regenerated by Surfactant Solution (계면활성제 수용액에 의해 재생된 활성탄 촉매의 탈질 성능)

  • Park, Hye-Min;Park, Young-Kwon;Jeon, Jong-Ki
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.739-744
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    • 2011
  • Activated carbon SCR(CSCR) catalyst that is used to remove $NO_x$ in exhaust gas including boron discharged from the production process of liquid crystal display(LCD) shows deactivation when boron is deposited to block the pores within the catalyst or to cover its active sites. The spent carbon catalyst is regenerated by washing with various surfactants, drying and calcination. For comparison of the physical and chemical properties before and after the regeneration with the variables, type of surfactants and calcination condition, element analysis by ICP, $N_{2}$ adsorption were conducted. $DeNO_{x}$ in SCR with $NH_3$ was carried out in a fixed bed reactor at $120^{\circ}C$. The activated carbon catalyst regenerated through washing with a non-ionic surfactant in $H_{2}O$ at $90^{\circ}C$ and calcination under $N_{2}$ gas at $550^{\circ}C$ shows similar level of surface area and $NO_x$ removal efficiency with those of fresh catalyst.

The User's Recognition for Smart Phone's Value In the Perspective of University Students (스마트폰 가치의 사용자 인식에 관한 연구 -대학생을 중심으로-)

  • Moon, Song-Chul;Ahn, Yeon-Sik
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2011
  • This research focus on the value of smart phones for university students in Korea, considering on the correlations between the main causes influencing intrinsic value(price attributes, function attributes), network value(learning effects attributes, externalities attributes) user satisfaction, and intentions of repurchase of the smart phones market in Korea. Through the statistical analyses on the 8 hypotheses from a research model, we found that intrinsic value and network value gave an attentive influence on user satisfaction and repurchase intention. Call charge and Liquid crystal display and Design of smart phone have an influenced user satisfaction and repurchase intention.

Optical Visual Cryptography using the Characteristics of Spatial Light Modulation (공간광변조 특성을 이용한 광비쥬얼 크립토그래피)

  • Yi, Sang-Yi;Wi, Sung-Min;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Yoo, Ji-Sang;Kim, Dong-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.202-207
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    • 2007
  • Optical visual cryptography (OVC) based on binary computer generated holograms (BCGH) is proposed. OVC used optics instead of human eyesight for decryption of visual cryptography (VC). As a result, it was possible to adapt cryptography to an optical system. However, it also had some difficulties because it did not overcome the existing problems of VC completely. This paper suggests a method of optical cryptography implementation based on the phase modulation characteristics of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The problems are evaluated by simulation. This system shows that the noise is reduced and resolution is improved compared with the conventional OVC.

A Study on the Fabrication of p-type poly-Si Thin Film Transistor (TFT) Using Sequential Lateral Solidification(SLS) (SLS 공정을 이용한 p-type poly-Si TFT 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yun-Jae;Park, Jeong-Ho;Kim, Dong-Hwan
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents the fabrication of polycrystalline thin film transistor(TFT) using sequential lateral solidification(SLS) of amorphous silicon. The fabricated SLS TFT showed high Performance suitable for active matrix liquid crystal display(AMLCD). The SLS process involves (1) a complete melting of selected area via irradiation through a patterned mask, and (2) a precisely controlled pulse translation of the sample with respect to the mask over a distance shorter than the super lateral growth(SLG) distance so that lateral growth extended over a number of iterative steps. The SLS experiment was performed with 550$\AA$ a-Si using 308nm XeCl laser having $2\mu\textrm{m}$ width. Irradiated laser energy density is 310mJ/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and pulse duration time was 25ns. The translation distance was 0.6$\mu$m/pulse, 0.8$\mu$m/pulse respectively. As a result, a directly solidified grain was obtained. Thin film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated on the poly-Si film made by SLS process. The characteristics of fabricated SLS p -type poly-Si TFT device with 2$\mu\textrm{m}$ channel width and 2$\mu\textrm{m}$ channel length showed the mobility of 115.5$\textrm{cm}^2$/V.s, the threshold voltage of -1.78V, subthreshold slope of 0.29V/dec, $I_{off}$ current of 7$\times$10$^{-l4}$A at $V_{DS}$ =-0.1V and $I_{on}$ / $I_{off}$ ratio of 2.4$\times$10$^{7}$ at $V_{DS}$ =-0.1V. As a result, SLS TFT showed superior characteristics to conventional poly-Si TFTs with identical geometry.y.y.y.

Image Restoration for Detecting Muras in TFT-LCD Panels (TFT-LCD 패널의 불량 검출을 위한 영상 복원)

  • Choi, Kyu-Nam;Yoo, Suk-I.
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.34 no.11
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    • pp.953-960
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    • 2007
  • To correctly detect muras, visual defects in TFT-LCD panels, image distortion occurring on the profess of capturing panels should be corrected. In general vision systems, there are several known methods to restore the observed image. However, the vignetting effect particularly shown only in panel images cannot be easily restored through traditional methods because it is combined with background non-uniformity due to the unique characteristic of panel. To increase the reliability of image restoration, the vignetting effect should be properly corrected after being separated from image background. Therefore, in this paper we present a new method to analyze and correct the vignetting effect of panel images using principal component analysis. Experimental results for a total of 175 test images showed that the average contrast error of the muras in the distorted images was reduced from 37% to 11% and the mura misidentification rate was decreased from 14.8% to 2.2% by image restoration.

A New Current-Balancing Multi-Channel LED Driver for a Large Screen LCD Backlight Unit (대화면 LCD Backlight를 위한 새로운 전류평형 다채널 LED 구동회로)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Cho, Sang-Ho;Roh, Chung-Wook;Hong, Sung-Soo;Han, Sang-Kyoo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2010
  • Recently, LCD TV using LED backlight has a great attention due to its low power consumption, slim construction, mercury free, wide color gamut and fast response. For the uniform brightness of the LCD panel, multi channel LEDs and DC/DC converter for each LED are required in conventional system. Therefore energy conversion efficiency is poor, the system size bulky and the cost of production high. To overcome these above mentioned drawbacks, a new current-balancing multi-channel LED driver is proposed in this paper. It can not only drive multi-channel LEDs with one DC/DC converter but also provide all LEDs with constant balanced current. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, its operation and performance are verified on a prototype for 46" LCD TV.

The characteristics of AlW thin film for TFT-LCD bus line (TFT-LCD bus line을 위한 Al-W 박막 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Dong-Sik Kim;Chong Ho Yi;Kwan Soo Chung
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.233-236
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    • 2000
  • The structural, electrical and chemical characteristics of Al alloy thin film with low impurity concentrations AlW deposited by using dc magnetron sputtering deposition are investigated for the applications as data bus line in the TFT-LCD panel. The deposited thin films show the decrease of resistivity and the increase of grain size after the RTA at $300^{\circ}C$ for 20 min.. Moreover, the resistivity of AlW does not show appreciable grain size dependence after RTA. It is concluded that the decrease of resistivity after RTA is due to the increase of grain size. The annealed AlW is found to be hillock free. And for investigating chemical attack in TFT-LCD etching processing the electric potential of AlW alloy for Ag/AgCl were investigated by cyclic voltammetry. When W wt.% of AlW alloy was higher than about 3%, the electric potential of AlW was more positive than ITO's. Therefore AlW alloy thin film can be propose to use for data bus line.

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The characteristics of AlNd thin film for TFT-LCD bus line (TFT-LCD bus line용 AlNd 박막 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Dong-Sik Kim;Sung Kwan Kwak;Kwan Soo Chung
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.237-241
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    • 2000
  • The structural, electrical and etching characteristics of Al alloy thin film with low impurity concentrations AlNd deposited by using do magnetron sputtering deposition are investigated for the applications as gate bus line in the TFt-LCD panel. And ITO thin film was deposited on AlNd, then the contact resistance was measured by Kelvin resistor. The deposited thin films show the decrease of resistivity and the increase of grain size after the RTA at $300^{\circ}C$ for 20 min. Moreover, the resistivity of AlNd does not show appreciable grain size dependence after RTA. It is concluded that the decrease of resistivity after RTA is due to the increase of grain size. The annealed AlNd is found to be hillock free. The etching profiles of AlNd was good and the minimun contact resistance was about $110\;{\mu\Omega}cm$. Calculation results reveal that the AlNd (2wt.%) thin film can be applicable to 25" SXGA class TFT-LCD panels.

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