• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.18 no.6 s.91
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• pp.49-56
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• 2006

Surface treatment using UV irradiation was carried out to improve optical properties of polarizing films. The effects of UV energy of the UV-treated PVA films were investigated by measuring reflectance, surface roughness, contact angles, ESCA, and ATR. Reflectance decreased at wavelength of 450 nm or less and surface roughness increased with increasing UV energy. Water contact angle increased in the irradiated PVA films and surface energy decreased with increase in w energy. An analysis showed that the OH groups were broken and some new groups were introduced such as C=C and C=O bonds together with increased $O_{1s}/C_{1s}$, resulting in the observed surface modification effect. Surface modified PVA polarizing films showed improvement in light transmittance of polarizing films at high wavelength region without deteriorating polarization efficiency, which was not affected by UV irradiation sequence during manufacturing processes such as coloring and drawing.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.458-466
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• 2011

In the mixed system of supercritical carbon dioxide/organic solvents, poly(vinyl alcohol)(PVA) film of high degree of hydrolysis could be dyed with a dichroic dye of C. I. direct black 22(DB22) and as a result, high durability was obtained. Especially, as a dye dispersant in a supercritical fluid phase, a mixed solvent system of ethylene glycol: dimethyl sulfoxide=4 : 6 weight ratio was investigated. Then the optimum pressure for dyeing could be reduced down to 200 bar. Using this supercritical fluid system, the maximum dyeing appeared as the transmittance of less than 1% and the waste amount was reduced to the level of 1/10. After 500% drawing of this PVA film, both the polarizing efficiency of 94% and the single piece transmittance of 30% were obtained. The limitation of DB22 and further improvements were also discussed.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.241-248
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• 2009

We suggest a new method to determine the off-alignment error of the composite film, together with in-plane($R_{in}$) and out-of-plane retardation($R_{th}$) of the compensation film, simultaneously. The composite film consists of a polarizing film and a compensation film for improvement of viewing angle of a liquid crystal display. We regarded the compensation film as o-plate with its optic axis along an arbitrary direction. By using an extended Jones matrix method, the polarization characteristics of the composite film are examined. The calculated Fourier constants, ($\alpha$, $\beta$) curves of the composite film as the azimuth angle is varied at the incident angles of $0^{\circ}$ and $50^{\circ}$, respectively, are used to determine the axis misalignment, the tilt angle and the azimuth angle of the compensation film by adopting the linear regressional analysis technique. Since this method can be applied for the inspection of the composite film even after laminating the polarizing film and the compensation film, it will be useful for simplifying the manufacturing process and reducing the production cost of liquid crystal display panels.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.131-139
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• 1995

In order to improve transmittance and response properties, various compositions of light controllable films were prepared by phase separation method. The optical and response properties were measured with the variation of PMMA/suspension ratio and block copolymer/light polarizing particles. According to the increase of the PMMA/suspension ratio, the separated droplets of suspension were interconnected in the film. Decay time was 2.6 sec when PMMA/suspension ratio was 0.5 : 1 and ΔT(difference of the transmittance at OFF/ON states) was reduced with increasing of the ratio of PMMA/suspension. On block copolymer/light polarizing particles ratio variation, the highest transmittance of the film was 67.4% when its ratio was 0.6 : 1 and decay time was varied from 2.15 to 46.6 sec as block copolymer content increased 0.2 : 1 to 1 : 1.

• Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.131-136
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• 2012

In this study, commercial poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) film was dyed with reactive dichroic dyes under mild conditions using organic solvents in stead of strong basic aqueous solution. After drawing of 500% of this PVA film, the polarizing efficiency and the single piece transmittance were measured. The degree of saponification of the commercialized PVA film was determined by using NMR and FT-IR spectromety. The commercial PVA film, with ca. 100% of the degree of saponification determined by NMR spectrometry, was dyed with the reactive dichroic dyes, which have 3,5-dichloro-2,4,6-triazine moiety. As a result, we found that the PVA film dyed with the reactive congo red showed relatively good polarization efficiency, and the PVA film dyed with the reactive direct black 22 exhibited relatively good single piece transmittance.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.337-341
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• 2011

To expand the viewing angle of vertical alignment liquid crystal display (VA-LCD), a wide-band compensation film has been newly developed. VA-LCD needs a retardation film with improved oblique viewing property. The retardation film for VA-LCD has been fabricated by solvent casting and subsequent drawing triacetylcellulose (TAC) containing optical additives. Here, optical birefringence and wavelength dispersion of the retardation film strongly depend on the chemical structures of optical additives. Utilizing quantum mechanical computation, the polarizing anisotropy of retardation film was calculated with respect to additives. It is also realized that the wavelength dispersion of polarizing anisotropy depends on the type and location of substituent to the selected main isomer. When two propionates are substituted to the meta position of the selected main isomer, the wavelength dispersion of polarizing anisotropy shows the most gentle slop, which is well matched with the experimental results. The most gentle slop of wavelength dispersion means that the viewing angle characteristics of LCD are less influenced according to the wavelength of light source of LCD, and it's possible to make better image quality than the present level.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1739-1741
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• 2007

A 3D projection display using stacked screens to display the near and far images, respectively, is developed. The front screen is made of a scattering polarizer film, and the far image on the rear screen is clearly visible through it. The image is perceived as three-dimensional, and no eyestrain is suffered.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2004

Polarizers with high polarizing efficiency and other advanced optical films based on Lyotropic Dichroic Dyes have been developed for LCD and other applications. The developed optical films reveal both rod-like chromophores structure in a case of positive, or O-films and disc-like one for negative, or E-film.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.18-23
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• 2019

The image projected onto the screen of the floating hologram is no more than a two-dimensional image. Although it creates an illusion that an object appears to float in space as it moves around while showing its different parts. This paper has proposed a novel method of floating 3D hologram display to view stereoscopic three-dimensional images without putting on glasses. The system is comprised of a sharkstooth scrim screen, projector, polarizing filter for the projector, and a polarizing film to block the image projected from the sham screen. As part of the polarization characteristics, the background image and the front object have completely been separated from each other with the stereoscopic 3D effect successfully implemented by the binocular disparity caused by the distance between the two screens.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.55-61
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed and implemented defect detection methods of polarized film with half-wave phase retardation plates. We investigated the principles of phase retardation compensation and optical principle of half-wave phase retardation plates. We analyzed of samples of polarized film with half-wave phase retardation plates. The optical defect detection methods are proposed and the performance is validated with experiments.