Abstract: Provided are an ion conductive resin fiber, an ion conductive hybrid membrane, a membrane electrode assembly and a fuel cell. The ion conductive resin fiber comprises an inner layer including an ion conductive resin; and an outer layer including an ion conductive resin having larger EW than the ion conductive resin of the inner layer, and surrounding the inner layer. The ion conductive resin fiber and the ion conductive hybrid membrane are excellent in ion conductivity, polar solvent stability and dimensional stability under low humidity conditions. The fuel cell manufactured using the same has advantages of stable operation and management of a system at ease, removal or reduction of components related to water management, and even in case of low relative humidity, operation at high temperature of 80° C. or higher.

Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-block copolymer, its producing method and an electrolyte membrane using the same. The multi-block copolymer includes a hydrophobic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 1; and a hydrophilic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 2. The multi-block copolymer is acidified, and can be used to an electrolyte membrane and a fuel cell. The use of the multi-block copolymer as an electrolyte membrane ensures excellent dimensional stability.

Abstract: A hybrid silencer in a fuel cell system includes an expansion chamber connected to a predetermined apparatus of the fuel cell system, where the expansion chamber reduces acoustic noise of a fluid discharged from the predetermined apparatus, a water-absorber disposed inside the expansion chamber, where the water-absorber absorbs a liquid component of a fluid which flows into the expansion chamber; and a perforated silencer which discharges the fluid from which the liquid component is removed by the water-absorber while reducing acoustic noise of the fluid discharged therefrom.

Abstract: A silencer installed in a fuel cell system includes a plurality of expansion chambers connected to a predetermined apparatus of the fuel cell system, wherein the plurality of expansion chambers serially reduces acoustic noise of air discharged from the predetermined apparatus and a resonator connected to an expansion chamber of the plurality of expansion chambers, wherein the resonator reduces acoustic noise received from the expansion chamber in another frequency band, which is different from a frequency band of the acoustic noise reduced by the plurality of expansion chambers, where one of the plurality of expansion chambers comprises an inlet pipe which receives air from the predetermined apparatus, another of the plurality of expansion chambers comprises an outlet pipe which discharges air flowed into the plurality of expansion chambers, and an intermediate pipe is disposed between the plurality of expansion chambers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-block copolymer, its producing method and an electrolyte membrane using the same. The multi-block copolymer includes a hydrophobic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 1; and a hydrophilic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 2. The multi-block copolymer is acidified, and can be used to an electrolyte membrane and a fuel cell. The use of the multi-block copolymer as an electrolyte membrane ensures excellent dimensional stability.

Abstract: A cathode for a fuel cell includes a gas diffusion layer contacting with a separator having a channel and a catalyst layer interposed between the gas diffusion layer and an electrolyte membrane. The catalyst layer of the cathode has two portions with different water-repelling properties, and a portion of the catalyst layer that does not face a channel has a higher water-repelling property than a portion that faces a channel. This cathode controls water-repelling property of the catalyst layer differently according to locations, so it is possible to keep an amount of moisture in an electrode in a suitable way and to restrain generation of flooding, thereby improving the performance of the cell.

Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate including a pixel region, the pixel region including a first domain at a lower side with respect to the gate line and a second domain at an upper side with respect to the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line; a thin film transistor in the pixel region and at a crossing portion of the gate and data lines; a plurality of first pixel electrodes in the first domain; a plurality of second pixel electrodes in the second domain, the plurality of first pixel electrodes and plurality of second pixel electrodes sharing the thin film transistor; a plurality of first common electrodes in the first domain and alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel electrodes; and a plurality of second common electrodes in the second domain and alternately arranged with the plurality of second pixel electrodes.

Abstract: An array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device comprising a common electrode over a third passivation layer substantially all over a substrate, the common electrode having first openings and second openings corresponding to a transmissive area and a reflective area, respectively, wherein the first openings are spaced apart from each other and are parallel to a data line, and the second openings are spaced apart from each other and are slant at a predetermined angle with respect to the data line, wherein first ends of the first openings overlap a second gate line, second ends of the first openings overlap the common line, first ends of the second openings overlap the common line, and second ends of the second openings overlap a first gate line.

Abstract: A fluid controlling apparatus including an inlet through which a fluid is introduced, a channel portion connected to the inlet, an outlet that is connected to the channel portion and through which the fluid is discharged, and at least one fluid resisting portion disposed between the inlet and the outlet, as well as a filter and a biochip including the fluid controlling apparatus.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor positioned at the crossing of the gate line and the data line, a common line extending in parallel to the gate line, a common electrode connected to the common line and having common finger portions extending into the pixel region, and a pixel electrode connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor and having pixel finger portions extending into the pixel region and overlapping the common line.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic filter unit includes an inlet channel connected to a fluid chamber, into which a fluid including a target material is introduced, and a plurality of outlet channels connected to the fluid chamber, through which the fluid is discharged. A filtering method includes introducing a fluid including a target material into the hydrodynamic filter unit through the inlet channel, capturing the target material in the hydrodynamic filter unit, and discharging a remaining part of the fluid outside of the hydrodynamic filter unit through an outlet channel.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode transflective liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates; a gate line and a data line on an inner surface of the first substrate, the gate line and the data line crossing each other to define a pixel region; a common line parallel to the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines; a first passivation layer over the thin film transistor; a reflecting layer over the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer over the reflecting layer; a pixel electrode over the second passivation layer; a third passivation layer over the pixel electrode; a common electrode over the third passivation layer, the common electrode connected to the common line, the common electrode including a plurality of first openings along a first direction in the transmissive area and a plurality of second openings along a second direction different from the first direction in the reflective area; a color filter layer on an inner surface of the second subst

Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor capable of improving dynamic range by using an additional driver transistor. The CMOS image sensor according to the present invention has a pixel array which has a plurality of unit pixels each of which includes a photodiode and a fist transistor to act as a source follower buffer amplifier to amplify photogenerated charges accumulated in the photodiode. Also, the CMOS image sensor includes a second transistor for a buffer amplifier to amplify and output a gate input voltage in the unit pixel, wherein an output signal of the first transistor is applied to a gate of the second.

Abstract: An In-Plane Switching (IPS) mode LCD device is disclosed, to prevent the distortion of transverse electric field in a method of decreasing a line width of a common electrode overlapped with a pixel electrode, which includes intersecting gate and data lines that define a pixel region; thin film transistors at an intersection point of the gate and data lines; pixel electrodes formed in the pixel region and connected with a thin film transistor; and common electrodes arranged between the pixel electrodes of the pixel region; wherein, the outermost common electrode, formed adjacent to the data line, is partially overlapped with the pixel electrode, and the line width of the predetermined portion of the outermost common electrode overlapped with the pixel electrode is smaller than the remaining portions of the outermost common electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor capable of improving dynamic range by using an additional driver transistor. The CMOS image sensor according to the present invention has a pixel array which has a plurality of unit pixels each of which includes a photodiode and a fist transistor to act as a source follower buffer amplifier to amplify photogenerated charges accumulated in the photodiode. Also, the CMOS image sensor includes a second transistor for a buffer amplifier to amplify and output a gate input voltage in the unit pixel, wherein an output signal of the first transistor is applied to a gate of the second.

Abstract: An image sensor with decreased optical interference between adjacent pixels is provided. An image sensor, which is divided into a pixel region and a peripheral region, the image sensor including a photodiode formed in a substrate in the pixel region, first to Mth metal lines formed over the substrate in the pixel region, where M is a natural number greater than approximately 1, first to Nth metal lines formed over a substrate in the peripheral region, where N is a natural number greater than M, at least one layer of dummy metal lines formed over the Mth metal lines but formed not to overlap with the photodiode, and a microlens formed over the one layer of the dummy metal lines to overlap with the photodiode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region on a substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and including a first pixel portion which has a plurality of bent portions and first and second pixel protrusion portions protruding from the bent portions alternately in an opposing direction; and a common electrode in the pixel region and including first and second common portions between which the first pixel portion is located, and first and second common protrusion portions protruding from the first and second common portions, respectively, alternately in a direction toward the bent portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst used for the production of methacrylic acid by gas phase oxidation of methacrolein, more precisely a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst comprising the steps of preparing a slurry by adding metal precursors and ammonium salt to protonic acid Keggin-type heteropoly acid aqueous solution and stirring thereof; and drying, molding and firing the slurry to give a catalyst. The present invention provides a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst exhibiting high methacrolein conversion rate and methacrylic acid selectivity without pre-firing process by using high purity protonic acid Keggin-type heteropoly acid and ammonium salt.