• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.197-199
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• 2005

The Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) are widely used to illuminate the liquid crystal display(LCD). Ballasts are required for CCFL because the lamp need high starting voltage and behave negative dynamic resistant characteristics in the desired region of operation. Dimming methods of CCFL are used to pulse frequency modulation(PFM) or pulse width modulation(PWM). In this paper, CCFL driving and control circuit is designed by half-bridge type series and parallel resonant inverter that variable frequency modulation method to control the output voltage current. The validity of this study is confirmed from the simulation and experimental results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.38-45
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• 2009

Recently, LCD Backlight Unit is being replaced from cold cathode fluorescent lamp(CCFL) to external electrode fluorescent lamp(EEFL) because the EEFL has high energy efficiency and long life. Also, it can reduce energy consumption and weight. So far, external electrode ring for EEFL is produced by sheet metal press forming process. Therefore it had low precision and much material loss. To solve these problems, Multi-Forming process that has five step forming process was invented. However, low productivity is another barrier. Product speed that is controlled by the rotational speed cannot be increased due to the unsatisfied design specification. The reason is that the gap between rolled two edge parts of the sheet plate is tightly inspected. Regarding this factor, the understanding of forming behavior to each process is inevitable. This paper describes the CAE analysis of the multi-forming process by PAM-STAMP.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.167-177
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• 2012

Cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) are used to provide lighting for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). This paper presents a set of guidelines for measurement characterization and design to reduce the power consumption of CCFL LCD backlight inverters and panel electronics. The proposed methods aim to reduce the backlight power consumption by fine-tuning a back-light inverter for a specific LCD, using several methods. First, the authors describe their power measurement methodology; and next, they identify different areas for tuning a backlight inverter for a given display. The experiment results showed that power savings can range from 50 to 200mW if the backlight inverter is properly tuned. This paper also proposes an optimized configuration for light-emitting device (LED) panels to reduce power loss by selecting a LED with a specific input voltage and number of cells to help minimize power loss.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1208-1210
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• 2004

The Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL) are widely used to illuminate the liquid crystal displays(LCD) used in many battery powered instrument. This paper presents analysis of fly-back converter for universal-line applications($90\sim265Vac$) and half-bridge type resonant inverter for CCFL drive for stable characteristic and life improvement of fluorescent lamp operation frequency is higher than resonant frequency for safe operation. The validity of this study was confirmed from the simulation and experiential result.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.7-10
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• 2001

A new possibility of our atmospheric cold plasma torch has been examined on the surface treatment of an air-exposed vulcanized rubber compound. The plasma treatment effect was evaluated by the bondability with another rubber compound using a polyurethane adhesive. The adhesion property was improved by the treatment with plasma containing oxygen radicals. The oxygen radical generation from the plasma was verified and its efficiency was found to be dependent on the cathode material.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.268-270
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• 2007

LCD Backlight 구동 응용을 위한 새로운 인버터 회로 Topology인 Dual Active Clamp Forward (ACF) Inverter를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 LCD의 광원 역할을 하는 냉음극 형광램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp, CCFL) 구동을 위한 회로로서, 넓은 입력 범위 및 부하 범위에서도 영 전압 스위칭 동작을 보장하며, 출력 AC 전류의 대칭성을 보장한다. 더욱이 기존 Symmetric Phase Shift Full Bridge방식은 특허 우선순위가 있는 방법으로써, Dual ACF Inverter를 사용할 경우 특허 Royalty 부담을 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 회로의 동작원리에 대한 타당성을 이론적 분석 및 모의실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.150-152
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• 2007

LCD Backlight 구동 응용을 위한 새로운 인버터 회로 Topology인 Modified Half Bridge Inverter를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 LCD의 광원 역할을 하는 냉음극 형광램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp, CCFL) 구동을 위한 회로로서, 제안된 회로는 주 스위치의 동작 시비율이 낮을 때도 보조 스위치를 이용하여 환류 구간을 형성함으로써 주스위치의 영 전압 스위칭 동작을 보장할 수 있다. 제안된 회로의 동작원리를 설명하고, 타당성을 Simulation 및 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.166-168
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• 2007

본 논문은 LCD backlight 인버터의 Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp(CCFL)를 구동하기 위해 승압 기능과 전류 평형 효과를 동시에 갖는 트랜스포머에서 부피 및 원가 저감 효과를 갖는 새로운 구조의 트랜스포머를 제안하였다. 제안된 트랜스포머의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 실제 40인치 LCD backlight 인버터에 적용하여 실험을 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.190-192
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• 2007

LCD TV의 대형화에 따라 하나의 백라이트용 냉음극 방전램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp ; CCFL)를 이용한 백라이트는 휘도의 한계가 있어 대형 디스플레이에서는 여러 개의 램프를 사용하여 필요한 휘도를 만들고 있다. 본 논문에서는 냉음극 방전램프 16개를 사용하는 42인치 LCD TV용 대형 백라이트 구동을 위한 인버터의 트랜스포머를 각기 다른 램프의 특성에 대해 동일한 관 전류 출력을 갖도록 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.844-847
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• 2008

The photo leakage currents of a conventional hydrogenated amorphous silicon(a-Si:H) thin film transistor(TFT) were investigated and analyzed in case of illumination from various light sources such as halogen lamp, cold cathode fluorescent lamp(CCFL) backlight, and white light emitting diode(LED) backlight. The photo leakage characteristics showed the apparent differences in the leakage level and in the $I_{on}/I_{off}$ ratio in spite of the similar luminances of light sources. This leakage level is expected to be related to the wavelength of the lowest intensity peak from the spectral characteristics of light sources.