Abstract:
A refrigerator includes an ice maker to make pieces of ice and an ice storage bin to receive the pieces of ice made by the ice maker. A plurality of blades is rotatably disposed at a bottom portion of the ice storage bin and an ice separating device to separate clumped pieces of ice discharged from the ice maker is disposed in the ice storage bin between the ice maker and the plurality of blades, where the ice separating device is disposed on at least a rear wall, a front wall, or a side wall of the ice storage bin.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device according to an embodiment includes a liquid crystal panel; a first polarization plate on the liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel; and a quantum rod sheet disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit.
Abstract:
Provided is a plasma reactor for removal of contaminants, which is installed between a process chamber and a vacuum pump and removes contaminants emitted from a process chamber. The plasma reactor includes: at least one dielectric body that forms a plasma generation space therein; a ground electrode connected to at least one end of the dielectric body; and at least one driving electrode fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the dielectric body, and connected to an AC power supply unit to receive an AC driving voltage. The ground electrode has a non-uniform diameter along the lengthwise direction of the plasma reactor.
Abstract:
A display driver generates a respective charge pumping signal and respective driving signals synchronized to a respective same clock signal for each of the CPU and video interface modes. Because such respective signals are synchronized to a respective same clock signal, the noise superimposed on the driving signals applied on a display panel is regular and uniform across the whole display panel, for each of the CPU and video interface modes. Accordingly, affects of such regular noise are advantageously not noticeable to the human eye, for both the video and CPU interface modes of operation.
Abstract:
The embodiment is to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of detecting malfunctions. The liquid crystal display device includes pixels configured to be connected to scan lines and data lines, data pads electrically connected to the data lines, a data integrated circuit supplying data signals to the data lines through the data pads, first data transistors coupled to the data pads, and second data transistors coupled to the data lines. The first data transistors are disposed on the data integrated circuit and the second data transistors are separated from the data integrated circuit.
Abstract:
A driving apparatus for a display device includes: a signal controller that generates a pre-clock signal, a charge sharing control signal and a scanning start signal; a clock signal generator that generates a clock signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage based on the pre-clock signal and the charge sharing control signal; and a gate driver that generates gate signals based on the scanning start signal and the clock signal, where the clock signal generator includes: a voltage generator that generates a third voltage; and a clock generator that receives one of the first to third voltages in response to the pre-clock signal and the charge sharing control signal, and outputs an output signal based on the one of the first to third voltages as the clock signal, where the third voltage is lower than the first voltage and higher than the second voltage.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device including graphene, a gate insulating layer may be formed between a gate electrode and a graphene layer, and an interlayer insulating layer may be formed under a portion of the graphene layer under which the gate insulating layer is not formed. The gate insulating layer may include a material that has higher dielectric permittivity than the interlayer insulating layer.
Abstract:
Method for producing a probe for atomic force microscopy with a silicon nitride cantilever and an integrated single crystal silicon tetrahedral tip with high resonant frequencies and low spring constants intended for high speed AFM imaging.
Abstract:
A mobile terminal is provided having a memory, a display, a wireless communication unit having a first module to receive a first broadcast signal and a second module to receive a second broadcast signal, and a controller to control the wireless communication unit, wherein when a signal strength of the first broadcast signal received by the first module is less than a first signal strength, the controller to control the second module to receive the second broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal is buffered in the memory while the display displays content corresponding to the first broadcast signal received by the first module.
Abstract:
A method of detecting an amount of ice stored in a storage bin made by an ice maker of a refrigerator, the method comprises applying heat to the ice detecting sensor of the ice maker, detecting an amount stored in the storage bin, and controlling heat application according to the detected amount. The ice maker has an ice detecting sensor attached thereto. A sensor heater provides the heat.