Discharge Characteristics of Surface Discharge Type FFL for LCD Backlighting

LCD 백라이트용 면방전형 FFL의 방전 특성

  • Lim, M.S. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University) ;
  • Yun, S.H. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University) ;
  • Shin, Y.S. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University) ;
  • Jung, D.Y. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University) ;
  • Kwon, S.S. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University) ;
  • Lim, K.J. (Department of Electrical Eng., Chungbuk Nat'l University)
  • Published : 1999.07.19

Abstract

In this paper, we studied Surface Discharge Type Flat Fluorescent Lamp with High Luminance for LCD Backlighting, Liquid Crystal display(LCDs) demand the use of fluorescent lamp as the backlighting source. This lamp is Surface Discharge Type structure with a pair of Sodalime glass, insulator layer, phosphor layer, and Xe gas gap. In spite of its simple structure, the lamp has uniform and stable discharge over entire volume. Till now, we measured the current-voltage(V-I), Firing Voltage, Sustain Voltage for 0.5mm, 1mm electrode gap. In experiment result, long gap cell structure cause high firing voltage. The rising in firing voltage in long gap structure could not be explained by paschen's law because of non-uniform electric field.

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