Abstract: A method for providing the sustaining waveform to a selected discharge cell of a plasma display panel (PDP) is provided. First, a first pulse of a first voltage falls to a reference voltage is applied between sustain electrodes X and Y. Second, the voltage between electrodes X and Y remains at the reference voltage for a first period. Finally, a second pulse of a second voltage remains at the second voltage for a second period, and falls to the reference voltage is applied between sustain electrodes X and Y. The apparatus for providing the sustaining waveform to a selected discharge cell of a plasma display panel (PDP) includes a first energy recovery circuit, a second energy recovery circuit, a first capacitor and a first bi-directional switch, and a second capacitor and a second bi-directional switch. The first energy recovery circuit, which includes a first inductor and four switches, is connected to the first sustain electrode.

Abstract: A PDP has a front and back substrates with a space between them. Barrier ribs in the space define discharge space groups. Each group has first, second and third discharge spaces. Each discharge space has an upper and a lower opening. Air-locking ribs seal the lower opening of the first discharge space, the upper opening and lower openings of the second discharge space, and the upper opening of the third discharge space. A first wall and the adjacent air-locking ribs defines a first channel which is accessible through each of the upper openings of the first discharge spaces. A second wall and the adjacent air-locking ribs defines a second channel which is accessible through each of the lower openings of the third discharge spaces. First, second and third gases respectively fill the first, second and third discharge spaces to emit different colored light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display having an improved characteristic of viewing angle by modifying a pixel electrode and a common electrode construction respectively. In a liquid crystal display, upper and lower substrates are opposed to each other and spaced from each other by a predetermined distance. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the upper and the lower substrates. A pixel electrode is formed at a portion of an inner surface of the lower substrate corresponding to a pixel area, and the pixel electrode has an uneven surface including first convex portions and first concave portions. A common electrode is formed at a portion of an inner surface of the upper substrate corresponding to the pixel electrode, so as to form an electric field together with the pixel electrode. The common electrode has an uneven surface including second convex portions and second concave portions.

Abstract: Is disclosed a liquid crystal display having a gate bus line arranged in a first direction on a substrate, a data bus line arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction on the substrate, the data bus line defining a space for an unit pixel of the LCD together with the gate bus line, a counter electrode formed in the unit pixel space of the LCD and having at least three first part extended in the second direction, and a pixel electrode having at least two second parts, the second part extended between the first parts of the counter electrode and disposed in the second direction, the second part slanting to one side of adjacent first parts thereto, so that an intensity of an electric field at one portion of the unit pixel space is different at another portion of the unit pixel space. Accordingly, a color shift of the LCD is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a reflective plate having lightweight functioning as a substrate and a reflective LCD using the same.

Abstract: A combination display and storage device including a foldable display card having an outer surface and an inner surface, a removable support member constructed and arranged to display an item on the outer surface of the card, and a storage member supported within an interior section of the card member is disclosed. In an assembled position, the card is foldable about a median area, and the tail end is engaged with the upper end in order to form an interior section for receiving the removable storage member, such as a pouch. The display and storage device can be utilized to both display a product, such as an article of jewelry, on the outer surface to a consumer and can also thereafter be used to store the product in a convenient manner.

Abstract: Disclosed is a optically compensated splay mode liquid crystal display. The device includes: lower and upper substrates opposed with intervening a selected distance and having driving electrodes in their inner surfaces respectively and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the lower and the upper substrates and having a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, wherein no voltage is applied to the driving electrodes, the liquid crystal molecules are arranged in a bend state, and wherein a voltage above a critical voltage is applied to the driving electrodes, the liquid crystal molecules are arranged in a splay state which makes a symmetry of up and down with respect to a middle layer of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising: a lower substrate having a plurality of gate bus lines being parallel each other and data bus lines being parallel each other to define pixels together with the gate bus lines, a thin film transistor provided at each intersection of the data bus line and the gate bus line, a pixel electrode formed in the pixel and connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode formed in the pixel and forming electric field together with the pixel electrode; an upper substrate opposed to the lower substrate to be separated apart; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and homeotropic alignment layers formed on the lower substrate and the upper substrate; wherein, the pixel is divided into a plurality of electric field-formed spaces by the counter electrode and the pixel electrode, and the electric fields formed in the respective spaces are formed as diagonal lines with respect to the gate bus lines and the data bus lines thereb

Abstract: Disclosed is a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display (LCD) in which the direction of a fringe field produced at one unit pixel is orthogonal to the direction of a fringe field produced at each of unit pixels adjacent to the one unit pixel. The disclosed fringe field switching mode LCD includes counter electrodes and pixel electrodes arranged on a back substrate to produce a fringe field having horizontal elements parallel to data bus lines at one unit pixel while producing a fringe field having horizontal elements parallel to gate bus lines at each of unit pixels longitudinally and laterally adjacent to the one unit pixel. In this LCD, the rubbing axis of a back horizontal alignment film defines an angle of ±45±10° with respect to each of the gate bus lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for forming a reflector of a reflective LCD capable of improving a viewing angle characteristic while simplifying a forming process, the method comprising the steps of: applying a photoresist film on an insulating substrate; dispersing a plurality of spacers over a surface of the photoresist film; curing the photoresist film; rubbing the spacers-dispersed and cured photoresist film, thereby removing the spacers; and performing a vapor deposition of a metal film having a high reflectivity on the photoresist film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, comprising: a plurality of gate lines being spaced in a selected distance; a plurality of data lines being spaced in a selected distance, the data lines where a data line driving signal is provided being crossed with the gate lines to define a plurality of R, G and B pixel regions, each of data lines being split into a pair of data lines; a plurality of R, G and B dots disposed in the R, G, and B pixel regions, respectively; and a plurality of switching devices disposed in the R, G, B pixel regions, each being connected to corresponding gate line and data line of a plurality of gate lines and data lines; wherein by the split data lines, each of the R, G and B pixel regions is divided into a plurality of R, G and B sub pixel regions; and each of the R, G and B dots includes a plurality of R, G and B subdots, each of R, G and B subdots being disposed in each of R, G and B sub pixel regions, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method thereof, having an existing box-like counter electrode connected to the source/drain electrode through a first contact hole in the gate insulating film and so is used as the pixel electrode, and the existing slit-shaped counter electrode is connected to the non-transparent metallic common bus line through a second contact hole in the gate insulating film and so becomes the counter electrode while maintaining the existing process layer structure as it is, so that even if a short circuit occurs between the gate bus line and the pixel electrode in the same layer due to the particle, degradation is limited to only one pixel, which results in enhancing of the process yield.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a liquid crystal display having an improved picture quality, high transmittance and high aperture ratio.

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-treatment apparatus for forming a plurality of photoresist-isolating walls on an organic electroluminescent panel. The surface-treatment apparatus has a photoresist-coating module, a prebaking unit, an exposure unit, a post-exposure surface treatment module with an alkaline atmosphere, a development module and a hard baking unit. The photoresist-coating module coats a photoresist layer on the surface of the organic electroluminescent panel. The prebaking unit bakes the photoresist layer on the organic electroluminescent panel by a heating plate and initially drives solvents from the photoresist layer. The exposure unit performs an UV exposure process on the photoresist layer after the prebaking. The post-exposure surface treatment module with an alkaline atmosphere bakes the photoresist layer by a heating plate after the exposure process, wherein the alkaline atmosphere surfacely terminates a self-catalyzed reaction of photo-acid ions of the photoresist layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reflective liquid crystal display having high transmittance and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed is an in plane switching (IPS) mode LCD device and method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fringe field switching liquid crystal display (FFS-LCD) and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can protect a cell region from ESD and improve a display area, is disclosed. A liquid liquid crystal display device according to the present invention, includes: a cell region arranged on the overall region of an array substrate; a gate line and a data line arranged in the shape of matrix on the cell region; an ESD protection part disposed at one side of a cross portion of the gate line and the data line, the ESD protection part protecting the gate line and the data line from ESD; and a thin film transistor disposed at the other side of the cross portion, the thin film transistor acting as a switching element.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transporting substrates in all organic light emitting diode (OLED) process is disclosed, which has a transferring chamber provided for transporting substrates between processing modules and the atmosphere condition therein is able to be adjusted to be the same as the processing module by an atmosphere conditioner unit. According to the present invention, the substrates are not contaminated by moisture and the process operation and the factory layout are more flexible. Moreover, the OLED yield is improved.

Abstract: There is disclosed an organic light-emitting device having at least one layer of light-emissive organic material arranged between first and second electrodes, one of the first and second electrodes being a multilayer structure, each layer of the multilayer structure being a DC magnetron sputtered layer. There is also disclosed an organic light-emitting device having two or more layers of light-emissive organic material arranged between first and second electrodes, an upper most layer of the organic material being more resistant to sputter deposition than an underlying layer of the organic material, and the electrode formed over the upper most layer of organic material being a sputtered layer. There is also disclosed methods for making such structures.