• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.59-61
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• 2006

A circuit model simulating the electrical characteristics of EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) is proposed. The model is based on linear approximation that represents the equivalent resistance and capacitance as a function of power. Simulation waveforms and experimental results are presented to verify feasibility of the equivalent model.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.235-238
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• 2006

As the screen size of LCD TV increases, an external electrode fluorescent lamp (EEFL) has been suggested to be applicable as backlight source for LCD TV. Since the EEFL has non-linear characteristics, which makes the analysis and design complicated. In this paper, the characteristics of the EEFL are investigated and a full-bridge RLC series-resonant inverter is analyzed and designed for EEFL backlight of 32-inch LCD TV. Finally, the experimental results are shown to validate the analysis and design.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1058-1061
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• 2004

Recently, According to companies of TFT LCD are making large sized products more and more. In the vortex of Products with a monitor and LCD TV is applied in a technique of a high viewing angle(FFS, IPS, VA). Also, as a high luminance, high speed response time, high degree of a color purity, and so on are continuing to develop a high performance, it is necessary to improve a specific character of high luminance that apply to LCD TV as a LCD BLU. Because a LCD panel for TV usually has a lower resolution that compare to a monitor, the structure of present backlight system can't put out its power even though it has a merit in transmission. Therefore, the examination of improvement about the high luminance direct typed BLU for LCD TV that presupposes several uses of CCFL(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) or EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp)is actively being progressed. Although it is necessary to increase the number of lamps for applying high performance by the direct type, in this case, because we can design the character of luminance for adoption of high performance. We can satisfy with a level of luminance for LCD TV. Accordingly, we analyzed a change of the number of CCFL, mechanical and optical character to produce the direct typed backlight in 32inches spec. Consequently, we achieved luminance of 6597nit,which was including polarization film, and secured the standard for LCD TV.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.34-34
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• 2007

최근, LCD-TV의 대형화가 경쟁적으로 진행되고 있으며 대형 BLU를 제작하기 위해서는 백라이트의 직경을 대구경 화하고, 또한 고화질을 이루기 위하여 휘도특성을 개선시켜야 한다. 통상적으로 백라이트에 사용되는 고압방전은 환경이 증가할수록 휘도가 저하하는 특성을 나타내므로 대화면 LCD-TV를 개발하는데 문제점을 갖고 있다. 또한, LCD-TV 백라이트로 가장 많이 사용하는 CCFL은 병렬로 구동할 수 없어 다수의 트랜스포머가 필요하여 전체적인 BLU가격을 상승시키는 요인이 되고 있어 병렬구동이 가능한 EEFL을 백라이트로 사용하고자 하는 노력이 진행되고 있으나 CCFL에 비하여 휘도가 낮아 사용이 제한되고 있는 상황이다. 본 연구에서는 고휘도의 병력구동이 가능한 새로운 EEFL을 개발하였으며, 그 특성을 분석한 결과 기존 EEFL에 비하여 40%이상의 광효율을 증가시키고, 대구경에서 CCFL보다 2배 기존의 EEFL에 비하여 3배 이상의 휘도를 증가시킬 수 있으며, 동시에 병렬구동이 가능한 고휘도 외부전극램프를 개발하였다.