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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.319

Cost-Effective Single Switch Multi-Channel LED Driver  

Hwang, Sang-Soo (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kookmin University)
Hwang, Won-Sun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kookmin University)
Han, Sang-Kyoo (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kookmin University)
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Journal of Power Electronics / v.15, no.2, 2015 , pp. 319-326 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a cost-effective single switch multi-channel LED (light emitting diode) driver is proposed. While conventional LED drivers require as many non-isolated DC/DC converters as the number of LED channels, the proposed LED driver needs only one power switch and several balancing capacitors instead of expensive non-isolated DC/DC converters. Therefore, the proposed driver features a simpler structure, with a lower cost and a higher efficiency. Because its power switch can be turned off under the zero current switching condition, it has very desirable advantages such as improved electromagnetic interference characteristics and high efficiency. Moreover, it uses only a small number of DC blocking capacitors with no additional active devices for the current balancing of multi-channel LEDs. As a result, the proposed driver exhibits high reliability and is cost effective. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, a theoretical analysis is performed, and design considerations and experimental results obtained from a prototype that is applicable to a 46" LED-TV are presented.
Keywords
Current balancing; Multi-channel LED driver;
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