Areal Selective 2-bit Dimming of Mercury-free Flat Fluorescent Lamp for LCD Backlight

  • Jung, Jae-Chul (Plasma Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Ju-Kwang (Plasma Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Seo, In-Woo (Plasma Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Oh, Byung-Joo (Plasma Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Joong-Kyun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Hankyung University) ;
  • Whang, Ki-Woong (Plasma Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

We proposed a new Mercury-free Flat Fluorescent Lamp (MFFL) for LCD backlight which shows a wide, stable operating voltage margin, high luminance and efficiency. In this paper, we expanded the single cell with 4 inch diagonal size into the multi-cell for the large size LCD-TV backlight application, examined its operating characteristics and proposed a driving scheme for 2-bit areal selective dimming control.

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