Touch‐screen panel integrated into 12.1‐in. a‐Si:H TFT‐LCD

Abstract— A touch‐screen‐panel (TSP) embedded 12.1‐in. LCD employing a standard existing a‐Si:H TFT‐LCD process has been successfully developed. Compared with conventional external touch‐screen panels, which use additional components to detect touch events, the new internal TSP exhibits a clearer image and improved touch feeling, as well as increased sensing speed using discrete sensing lines to enable higher‐speed sensing functions including handwriting. The new internal digital switching TSP can be fabricated with low cost because it does not require any additional process steps compared to a standard a‐Si:H TFT‐LCD.     

Digital‐to‐analog converter with gamma correction on glass substrate for TFT‐panel applications

Abstract— Low‐temperature polysilicon (LTPS) technology has a tendency towards integrating all circuits on glass substrate. However, the poly‐Si TFTs suffered poor uniformity with large variations in the device characteristics due to a narrow laser process window for producing large‐grained poly‐Si TFTs. The device variation is a serious problem for circuit realization on the LCD panel, so how to design reliable on‐panel circuits is a challenge for system‐on‐panel (SOP) applications. In this work, a 6‐bit R‐string digital‐to‐analog converter (DAC) with gamma correction on glass substrate for TFT‐panel applications is proposed. The proposed circuit, which is composed of a folded R‐string circuit, a segmented digital decoder, and reordering of the decoding circuit, has been designed and fabricated in a 3‐μm LTPS technology. The area of the new proposed DAC circuit is effectively reduced to about one‐sixth compared to that of the conventional circuit for the same LTPS process.     

数字化背景下汽车仪表盘界面设计研究

目的研究汽车数字化仪表盘界面因素对驾驶员驾驶体验的作用和影响。方法分析现有汽车仪表盘的研究现状和问题,选取5个具有代表性的样本,从仪表盘样式、整体布局、信息架构、基本信息列表4个方面,同时搭配色彩比例、风格类型进行纵向与横向分析研究。结论通过对选取的5个样本的研究和分析,提出在数字化汽车仪表盘的设计过程中,遵循布局简洁、色彩准确、体验丰富的设计规律,具有重要的实践意义和价值。     

泡沫铝三明治板的研究与应用进展

泡沫铝三明治板(Aluminum foam sandwich,AFS)是基于泡沫铝材料开发的一类材料-结构一体化的先进多孔复合结构。AFS是交通运输、建筑以及航空航天等装备结构轻量化的重要材料,具有广阔的应用前景。概述了AFS的几类制备技术的基本原理和研究现状,着重分析了复合预制体制备、合金成分、AFS发泡成型工艺等关键环节中存在的理论和技术难点。介绍了AFS作为结构材料和功能材料的典型应用案例;最后总结提出了AFS材料研究和工程化技术开发的关键点与突破途径。     

Driving business performance: innovation complementarities and persistence patterns

Complementarities between technological and non-technological innovation are crucial determinants of firm performance. Although innovation complementarity has been extensively tested in the empirical literature, it has not been analysed in conjunction with innovation persistence. This fact is mainly due to the lack of data sets able to provide adequate longitudinal information. The capacities to develop market-oriented behaviour and introduce new organisational innovations, together with technological innovation, are the drivers of a firm’s productivity and profitability. We find that these activities complement technological innovation and that their impact is greater when they persist over time, thus introducing a more general concept of innovation persistence. We present an empirical model based on a large new panel of Italian manufacturing firms covering the period 2000–2012 which enables us to determine the precise impacts of a firm’s innovative attitude, in a broad definition that incorporates non-technological innovation and persistence, on its productivity and profitability.     

基于FFT-OMP-DAMAS波束形成方法的汽车前围板隔声薄弱部位识别

为实现汽车前围板隔声薄弱部位的准确识别,文章提出了基于快速傅里叶变换(Fast Fourier Transform,FFT)和正交匹配追踪(Orthogonal Matching Pursuit,OMP)的反卷积(Deconvolution Approach for the Mapping of Acoustic Sourc‐es,DAMAS)波束形成方法(FFT-OMP-DAMAS)。该方法基于声源稀疏分布假设,利用正交匹配追踪思想求解反卷积问题,并进一步结合傅里叶变换和点扩散函数空间转移不变假设降低计算维度。在混响室-消声室内,分别利用延迟求和方法,DAMAS方法和FFT-OMP-DAMAS方法进行了某汽车前围板隔声薄弱部位识别试验,结果表明：FFTOMP-DAMAS方法能够有效抑制旁瓣和伪源,有效缩减主瓣宽度,从而准确识别汽车前围板隔声薄弱部位,且相较于传统的DAMAS方法,文中提出的FFT-OMP-DAMAS方法能获得更清晰的成像结果,计算效率有了明显提高。     

Digital time‐modulation pixel memory circuit in LTPS technology

Abstract— A digital time‐modulation pixel memory circuit on glass substrate has been designed and verified for a 3‐μm low‐temperature polysilicon (LTPS) technology. From the experimental results, the proposed circuit can generate 4‐bit digital codes and the corresponding inversion data with a time‐modulation technique. While the liquid‐crystal‐display (LCD) panel operates in the still mode, which means the same image is displayed on the panel, a data driver for an LCD panel is not required to provide the image data of the frame by the proposed pixel memory circuit. This pixel memory circuit can store the frame data and generate its corresponding inversion data to refresh a static image without activating the data driver circuit. Therefore, the power consumption of a data driver can be reduced in the LCD panel.     

AMOLED displays with transfer‐printed integrated circuits

Abstract— Small integrated circuits of crystalline silicon (chiplets) transfer‐printed onto a flat‐panel‐display substrate provide greatly improved electrical performance and uniformity in active‐matrix organic light‐emitting‐diode (OLED) displays. The integrated circuits are formed in high‐performance crystalline silicon using conventional photolithographic processes and then transfer‐printed onto a substrate using a stamp that transfers hundreds or thousands of chiplets at once. The chiplets are connected to an external controller and to pixel elements using conventional photolithographic substrate processing methods. Active‐matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays using transfer‐printed chiplets have good yields, excellent uniformity, and electrical performance and are thermally robust.     

Laser marking system for light guide panel using design of experiment and web-based prototyping

A light guide panel (LGP) is an element of the liquid crystal display (LCD) back light unit (BLU), which is used for display devices. In this study, the laser marking process is applied to the fabrication of light guide panels as the new fabrication process. In order to obtain a light guide panel which has high luminance and uniformity, four principal parameters such as power, scanning speed, ratio of line gap, and number of line were selected. A web-based design tool was developed to generate patterns of light guide panel via the network, and the tool may assist the designer to develop various prototype patterns. Topcon-BM7 was used for luminance measurement of each specimen with 100 mm×100 mm area. By Taguchi method, optimized levels of each parameter were found, and luminance of 3523 cd/cm² and uniformity of 92% were achieved using the laser machined BLU.     

Kinematics, pattern recognition, and motion control of mask-panel alignment system

Kinematics, pattern recognition, and motion control methods are investigated as an integrated approach for a mask-panel visual alignment system, which consists of the vision system to extract the mask-panel misalignment and the stage control system to compensate for it. First, a 4PPR alignment mechanism is considered and the inverse kinematic solution is found out to define the relationship between the mask-panel misalignment and the displacements of active joints. Then, a fast alignment mark recognition algorithm is proposed in terms of the geometric template matching (GTM), which is specific to simply shaped patterns but computationally much efficient compared with general correlation-based matchings. Finally, the kinematic solution and the developed vision algorithm are incorporated to implement a two-stage position-based visual servo, where both original fine images and reduced coarse ones are utilized together and the GTM plays a crucial role in achieving a near real-time visual feedback. Experimental results are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of the GTM-based two-stage alignment control.