Abstract: A wire grid polarizer includes a substrate, a wire grid layer which is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of wire patterns arranged with a predetermined interval, where gaps are defined between the wire patterns, and a passivation layer which is disposed on the wire grid layer and includes first passivation particles which cover a top portion of the gaps.

Abstract: A wire grid polarizer includes: a substrate; a wire grid layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of wire patterns arranged at regular intervals; and a passivation layer disposed on the substrate to cover the wire grid layer and including a material having a refractive index less than 1.4.

Abstract: There is provided a switching mode power supply having primary and secondary induction coils inductively coupled to each other and converting a voltage applied to the primary induction coil to supply the converted voltage to the secondary induction coil, the switching mode power supply including a power switching unit switching the voltage applied to the primary induction coil, a load information obtaining unit obtaining load information relating to a load connected to the secondary induction coil, a bias current controlling unit controlling a switching driving current based on the load information; and a driving unit driving the power switching unit based on the load information and the switching driving current.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a PFC control circuit, an active PFC circuit, and a PFC control method. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a PFC control circuit including: an inductor current sensing unit for sensing an inductor current of a PFC circuit; an output voltage feedback unit for outputting a feedback output signal; a sensing and feedback signal application unit for outputting a sensing voltage signal during switching duty on of the PFC circuit and adding the feedback output signal to the sensing voltage signal to output the added signal during switching duty off of the PFC circuit; and a PFC control unit for generating a comparison signal and generating a duty control signal from the comparison signal and a first reference signal to make variations due to an internal offset be removed or reduced is provided.

Abstract: A wire grid polarizer includes: a substrate; a wire grid layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of wire patterns arranged at regular intervals; and a passivation layer disposed on the substrate to cover the wire grid layer and including a material having a refractive index less than 1.4.

Abstract: A wire grid polarizer includes a substrate, a wire grid layer which is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of wire patterns arranged with a predetermined interval, where gaps are defined between the wire patterns, and a passivation layer which is disposed on the wire grid layer and includes first passivation particles which cover a top portion of the gaps.

Abstract: A method of preparing a nano-composite layer comprising superhydrophobic surfaces, the method comprising: providing a first roll and a second roll with a predetermined gap therebetween; rotating the first roll and the second roll in a direction towards each other, wherein a linear velocity of the first roll is greater than a linear velocity of the second roll; supplying a composition for the nano-composite layer to the predetermined gap to form a composition layer having a first thickness on a circumference of the first roll; adjusting the linear velocity of the first roll, the second roll, or both, such that the linear velocity of the second roll is greater than or equal to the linear velocity of the first roll to form the nano-composite layer; and separating the nano-composite layer from the first roll.

Abstract: There is provided a switching mode power supply having primary and secondary induction coils inductively coupled to each other and converting a voltage applied to the primary induction coil to supply the converted voltage to the secondary induction coil, the switching mode power supply including a power switching unit switching the voltage applied to the primary induction coil, a load information obtaining unit obtaining load information relating to a load connected to the secondary induction coil, a bias current controlling unit controlling a switching driving current based on the load information; and a driving unit driving the power switching unit based on the load information and the switching driving current.

Abstract: A method for allowing a mobile station to detect a Location Based Service-Reference Signal (LBS-RS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving LBS-RS setup information of at least one target cell participating in location measurement from a serving cell, acquiring a frequency offset value of the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information, and detecting the LBS-RS transmitted from the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information and the frequency offset value. In addition, the method further includes measuring a reception delay time of the detected LBS-RS, and transmitting a reception delay time to the serving cell.

Abstract: Provided is a nanowire memory including a source and a drain corresponding to the source, and a nano channel formed to connect the source to the drain. Here, the nano channel includes a nanowire electrically connecting the source to the drain according to voltages of the source and drain, and a nanodot formed on the nanowire and having a plurality of potentials capturing charges. Thus, the nanowire memory has a simple structure, thereby simplifying a process. It can generate multi current levels by adjusting several energy states using gates, operate as a volatile or non-volatile memory by adjusting the gates and the energy level, and include another gate configured to adjust the energy level, resulting in formation of a hybrid structure of volatile and non-volatile memories.

Abstract: A method for allowing a mobile station to detect a Location Based Service-Reference Signal (LBS-RS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving LBS-RS setup information of at least one target cell participating in location measurement from a serving cell, acquiring a frequency offset value of the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information, and detecting the LBS-RS transmitted from the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information and the frequency offset value. In addition, the method further includes measuring a reception delay time of the detected LBS-RS, and transmitting a reception delay time to the serving cell.

Abstract: Provided are three-dimensional (3D) nanodevices including 3D nanostructures. The 3D nanodevice includes at least one nanostructure, each nanostructure including an oscillation portion floating over a substrate and support portions for supporting both lengthwise end portions of the oscillation portion, supports disposed on the substrate to support the support portions of each of the nanostructures, at least one controller disposed at an upper portion of the substrate, a lower portion of the substrate, or both the upper and lower portions of the substrate to control each of the nanostructures, and a sensing unit disposed on each of the oscillation portions to sense an externally supplied adsorption material. Thus, unlike in a typical planar device, generation of impurities between a nanodevice and a substrate can be reduced, and mechanical vibration can be caused.

Abstract: There are provided a user interface apparatus and method using a two-dimensional (2D) image sensor capable of setting an object for an interface from a user image detected by the 2D image sensor and performing a user input accordingly. The user interface apparatus includes: a two-dimensional (2D) image sensor; and a user interface unit detecting a movement of a user captured by the 2D image sensor, setting the detected movement as an object, and outputting the movement of the object detected by the 2D image sensor to a system in which the user intends to establish an interface.

Abstract: There are provided a coordinates detecting device for detecting coordinates of an event generated in a region of interest, and a display apparatus, a security apparatus and an electronic blackboard including the same. The coordinates detecting device provided on at least one side of a touch panel having a preset region of interest surrounded by a frame having a predetermined length, includes: a voltage generator providing a preset driving voltage; an acoustic wave to voltage converter receiving the driving voltage from the voltage generator, to thereby generate a predetermined ultrasonic wave, and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected from the region of interest to convert the received ultrasonic wave to a corresponding voltage level; and a calculator calculating a position from which the ultrasonic wave is reflected according to the voltage level converted from the acoustic wave to voltage converter.

Abstract: A method for optimization in an RFID location recognition system is developed to use in a blueprint in which an optimum location for installing an RFID reader is determined for using a blueprint so as to improve location recognition. The method includes the steps of inputting a blueprint and dividing a location recognition unit space from the blueprint; establishing a building interior space analysis model and an interior radio propagation space analysis model and deriving a building spatial significance and a radio propagation spatial significance; analyzing correlation between a building space and a radio propagation space and deriving a correlation coefficient; and defining an objective function for determining a location of a RFID reader based on the building spatial significance, the radio propagation spatial significance, and the correlation coefficient between the building space and the radio propagation space and performing optimization.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling auto exposure (AE) that is used in digital imaging devices. The apparatus controlling the luminance of an image being outputted from an image sensor by controlling exposure time and analog gain of the image sensor includes: a luminance operation unit operating and outputting a mean luminance of the image outputted from the image sensor; a shutter index determination unit comparing a predetermined target luminance with the mean luminance of the outputted image and determining a shutter index in different manners according to the magnitude of the difference between the target luminance and the mean luminance of the outputted image; and an exposure time/analog gain determination unit generating exposure time and analog gain corresponding to the shutter index determined in the shutter index determination unit and applying the generated exposure time and analog gain to the image sensor.

Abstract: A distance measurement module includes: an image pickup lens capturing an image of a subject; a light source unit disposed to be adjacent to the image pickup lens and irradiating reference light to the subject; a light receiving unit extracting image information of the subject and distance information to the subject upon receiving light which is reflected from the subject and made incident through the image pickup lens; and a calculation unit calculating the distance to the subject by using a phase difference between the reference light and the reflected light.

Abstract: Provided are a gas storage structure and a gas storage apparatus including the gas storage structure. The gas storage structure includes a gas storage part including an opening thereon and an entrance control part disposed on the opening and including a gate.

Abstract: An antenna device and a portable terminal having the antenna device are disclosed. As an antenna device installed in a portable terminal in which a solar cell module or a display module is installed, the antenna device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can include a case, which has a housing part formed therein, a transparent protective window, which covers the housing part and allows a ray of light to pass through, and an antenna pattern, which is formed on the transparent protective window.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. The CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array, a frame memory, and an analog-to-digital converter. The pixel array includes N unit pixels for converting optical signals, caused by light, into electric signals. The frame memory eliminates offset voltage included in reset voltage and signal voltage transmitted from the pixel array and internal offset voltage, and performs Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) on the reset voltage and the signal voltage. The analog-to-digital converter converts an analog signal, transmitted from the frame memory, into a digital signal.