• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1725-1728
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• 2006

Flat fluorescent lamp(FFL) is used as a light source for LCD TV backlight and is composed of many discharge channels but each channel may not be turned on simultatneouly especially at cold temperature. The simultaneous start of each lamp channels of FFL was accomplished by driving FFL with specially designed voltage and currnet waveforms without sacrificing the inverter efficency.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.46-50
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• 2003

Characteristic properties of backlight arraying external electrode fluorescent lamps has been investigated indriving with a square wave from switch inverters. In the backlight of 17 inch-diagonal with 12 lamps, the efficiency of 65-70 1m/W with the luminance of 5,000-10,000 cd/$\textrm m^2$ has been achieved in the frequency range 40-80 kHz where the higher frequency provides the lower operating voltage in the range 1.0-2.0 kV. In the frequency above 80 kHz, a stable and an uniform luminance in the backlight panel can not be achieved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.28-33
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• 2003

The piezoelectric transformer converters electrical energy into mechanical energy, It is high efficiency and small size transformer for high output voltage. The piezoelectric transformer operates the resonance frequency and the output voltage waveform is close to sine wave. Therefore, it is suitable for driving the LCD backlight in the notebook computer. In this paper, we discussed about the inverter which os driving piezoelectric transformer by generating sine wave through LC resonance after converting input DC voltage to the gate signal of FET. As the result of experiments, it was showed that the resonance frequency and voltage gain of the piezoelectric transformer was proportional to the load variation, and voltage gain was independent of the input voltage variation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2009

A new high performance and low cost unified power system is proposed through investigating conventional Power-Integrated Drive(PID) system and Power-Separated Drive(PSD) system applied to LCD TV. Since the proposed system consists of two stage, namely power and inverter stage it features high efficiency and cost effectiveness. To satisfy the safety standard of the High voltage transformer, 1:1 transformer is employed between inverter and high voltage transformer. Moreover, to ensure the Zero Voltage Switching(ZVS) of all power switches and the Pulse Count Modulation(PCM) method is employed, which controls the number of pulse at the fixed frequency and fixed duty cycle. Therefore, it features high efficiency, improved heat generation, cost effectiveness and good EMI performance including no additional current balancing coil. To confirm the validity of proposed system, comparison of conventional system, verification of experimental results are presented.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.843-848
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• 2006

This paper explains the design and fabrication of an inverter for LCD backlight using a multilayer piezoelectric transformer. That inverter is operated by the burst dimming method whose dimming signal is controlled by the duty ratio of rectangular switching signal to a PWM controller. The brightness of CCFL's are investigated according to the various dimming signals, and when those CCFL's are turned on, the temperature distributions on the piezoelectric transformer and circuit components of the inverter are also investigated by a thermo-camera.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.835-837
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• 2002

The 17" Backlight Unit (BLU) employing twelve EEFLs (External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) has been developed for LCD-TV The characteristics of the EEFL BLU without dual brightness enhancement film (DBEF) were equivalent to those of CCFL (Cold cathode Fluorescent Lamp) BLU employing eight CCFLs with DBEF. Luminance, power consumption and uniformity were 12,000nits, 32watt and 80%, respectively. The inverter of EEFL Backlight Unit is composed of 2 transformers and driven by the sinusoidal waveform.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.577-583
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• 2004

Optimal parameters were selected to design an inverter circuit that drives a cold cathode fluorescent lamp for LCD backlight using a piezoelectric transformer and it was verified by an experiment. In this paper, the applied inverter topologies are a push-pull type and a half-bridge type, and the dimming control methods of these drive system were used a analog control method and a burst control method each other. When change a control voltage from 2.5V to 4.5V in the analog control method, the brightness 0-100% was seen in current 1-6 mA. And, the input/output efficiency were obtained 90.3%. Also, the control performance of 1-6 mA was seen in duty ratio 5-50% in the burst control method, and the input/output efficiency of the designed inverter got 82.1%.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.52-59
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• 2010

The conventional CCFL (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) inverter used in the backlight unit for LCD-TV, composed of the three power stage, can degrade the whole power conversion efficiency. In this paper, a novel scheme to drive the CCFL, composed only of the two power stage without using a dc/dc power stage, is proposed to enhance the whole power conversion efficiency. By adopting the proposed "4-in-1 Transformer", the current balance and the simultaneous ignition among the four CCFL lamp are assured with the one inverter circuit. The proposed scheme features the simple circuit structure, which can save the volume and the cost in the LCD backlight unit. Design considerations are discussed and design procedures are derived. Experimental results of the proposed scheme for 40" LCD-TV are presented to confirm the theoretical analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1199-1201
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• 2002

Today, the ceramic transformer becomes widely used for the TFT LCD backlight inverter system thanks to its high efficiency and small size. In this paper, a high efficient inverter system for cold cathode flourescent lamp (CCFL) including PLL controller for tuning the PWM frequency to the frequency that the efficiency of the inverter system becomes maximum is proposed. The control IC implementing this feature will be released by Interpion Co. Ltd. in May 2002.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.206-209
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• 2006

At present, the cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) using mercury lamp has been generally used far liquid crystal backlight source of personal computer and car navigation and so on. This kind of lamp is more excellent on luminance performance and cost. However, the requirements of liquid crystal backlight due to a light source without mercury have been strongly increased from a viewpoint of the actual influence on environmental preservation and environmental recycling. As fluorescent lamp without mercury, Dielectric Barrier Discharge based rare gas fluorescent lamp (DBD-FL) using xenon (Xe) gas has been studied so far. This DBD lamp has no influence on the human body and environmental recycle. Its operating life is long because electrode is out. In this paper, the simulation and experimental results of soft switching high frequency inverter with reverse blocking single switch as a high frequency power supply circuit for DBD-FL using Xe gas are comparatively evaluated and discussed from a practical point of view.