• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.200-202
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• 2006

A impedance model simulating the electrical characteristics of the Electrodeless fluorescent lamp operated at high frequency is proposed. The model is constructed from a two parameter equation which is derived based on a set of two measurements. This is a readily constructed and computer simulator oriented model which is suitable for a preliminary design of electronic ballasts. Simulated and experimental results are used to verify the analytical discussions, and moreover, an electronic ballast design example using the proposed model is presented to further demonstrate ist applications.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2006년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.387-389
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• 2006

The LCD TV has many variable functions for consumer. Low temperature driving below minus 20 degree is also one of key functions. Since LCD is not self-luminance device, it is needed backlight system. Recently EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) widely substitutes for CCFL(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp). It is more cheaper, higher efficiency, and easy to drive parallel connection compared to CCFL. In this paper, several conditions for low temperature driving of EEFL are investigated and a new boost-half bridge inverter for low temperature driving is proposed. Mode analysis is described and experimental results is represented to verify validity of the proposed inverter.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2002년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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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.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.241-245
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• 2006

EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) for LCD displays are analyzed on electrical and optical characteristics by various electrode length. The electrodes of EEFL are coated at the outside of the glass tube. Brightness and efficiency of the EEFL are affected on lamp impedance characteristic. So, the experimental models are proposed for analysis and measurements of the brightness and efficiency of the lamps according to the electrode length. The sample of LCD backlight unit is used for these experiments, EEFL arrayed BLU of 32' for commercial TV display. The parameters of the experiments were quantised for simple result reading as the length of electrodes as 15, 23 and 30 mm. The inverter was designed and manufactured in the laboratory as the Full-Bridge switching inverter. The feature of the output were measured on voltages about 1000 - 1400V at the currents of 11 - 29 mA and the brightness $15,000\;cd/m^2-40,000\;cd/m^2$. The experiments have shown that the brightness are increased by increasing of the electrode lengths which have the lamp currents increased. But at an certain conditions, the brightness and efficiency were decreased because of unmatched between the inverter output and lamp impedance. The optimum applications of the EEFL BLU of 32' in this experiments have been shown to choose the parameters for driving frequencies of 100 kHz - 150 kHz, the brightness of $18,000-19,000\;cd/m^2$ and efficiencies of 40 - 45 lm/w.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.8
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• pp.428-428
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• 2007

In this study, It was studied about the luminance characteristics of 17inch direct-type back light using EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp). EEFI has a long life time because the electrode is installed outside of lamp. And it is produced low price than conventional CCFL. It does not need process of installing internal electrode. But EEFL technology has several problems such as difficulty of design driving inverter, and prevents leckage current along the skin of lamps. Therefore, by the optimizing of inverter properties, 7525 nit center luminance was acquired in almost same power consumption condition. It was almost same luminance in CCFL backlight unit. And it was operated stably in low operating temperature such as the value of $40^{\circ}C$, so that it was adopted in conventional LCD-TV application.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.587-593
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• 2006

외부전극 형광램프를 광원으로 하는 백라이트의 저항$(R_L)$과 전기용량(C), 그리고 인버터의 트랜스포머 인덕턴스(L)로 구성된 회로를 분석하였다. 램프의 저항과 전기용량은 램프에 흐르는 전류와 전압의 위상차 및 Q-V 그래프에서 결정된다. 32인치용 EEFL 램프 하나의 저항 값은 $66\;k\Omega$이고 전기용량은 21.61 pF이다. 20 개의 EEFL을 병렬 연결한 백라이트의 저항은 $3.3\;k\Omega$이고 전기용량은 402.1 pF이다. 램프 및 트랜스포머 회로에서 임피던스 매칭 주파수는 2 차 코일의 인덕턴스 $L_2$와 결합계수 k로 나타내며, $\omega_M=1/\sqrt{L_2C(1-k^2)}$ 이다. 램프 시스템의 전류와 전압은 임피던스 매칭 주파수에서 최대값을 갖는다. 이러한 해석 해의 결과는 실험 결과와 잘 일치한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2005년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.405-407
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• 2005

As the screen size of LCD increases, EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) has been suggested to be applicable as backlight source for LCD . Since the electrodes of EEFL are outside of the tube, EEFL enhances the lifetime compared with CCFL(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp), and a single inverter can drive multiple EEFL tubes of which luminance is uniform Therefore, a compact design can be realized and the cost of EEFL application would be much lower than that of CCFL. Moreover, EEFL inverter has higher efficiency per unit power than CCFL inverter. In this paper, a complementary full-bridge PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) inverter was designed for 32-inch LCD TV backlight which has 20 EEFL tubes and adapted two different driving methods to the EEFL inverter. The validity of this study is confirmed from the experimental results.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 디스플레이 광소자분야
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• pp.169-172
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• 2003

기존의 Monitor 대응 LCD 에서 TV 대응 LCD로의 개발에 있어서 특성 개선은 다각도로 진행되고 있으나, 무엇보다도 휘도 특성의 개선이 요구된다. TV 대응 LCD Panel 은 Monitor 대응 제품에 비해서 일반적으로 해상도가 낮으므로, 투과율면에서 장점은 있으나, 현재의 B/L 구조로는 만족할만한 성능을 낼 수 없는 상황이다. 고휘도 BL(Back Lignt)를 위해서 EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) 혹은 CCFL 의 복수 사용을 전제로 한 직하방식에 대한 개발 검토가 활발히 이루어지고 있으나, 직하방식에 의한 고휘도화는 램프수의 증가에 따른 인버터의 기구적, 전기적 사양의 증가를 필요로 하며, LCD Module전체의 두께가 증가되는 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 L-Shaped 램프를 적용하여 기본의 기구적인 사양 및 전기적인 사양을 유사하게 유지함과 동시에, 고휘도화를 실현하여 TV 대응 수준을 확보하였으며, lamp를 floating구동하여 램프편측 전압 500V를 사용하면서 655 nit의 휘도를 달성하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2006년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.409-412
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• 2006

EEFL can be driven by square wave driving method. A square wave is applied directly to both ends of EEFL by cascaded multi-stage full-bridge inverter. The various current shapes of lamp are achieved by various inductors between lamp and inverter. In this paper, it is newly investigated that the area of current directly influences the luminance. Furthermore, the 3-level square wave is considered to drive EEFL with self-discharge characteristics. The highest luminance efficiency is achieved by properly controlling the rate of self-discharge usage.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.424-432
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• 2007

32인치 WXGA급 (해상도 1366$\times$768) LCD-TV용 백라이트를 구성하는 외부전극 형광램프 및 각 광학 부품들에 대한 휘도 특성을 조사하고, 광학시트들의 빛의 투과율을 계측하였다. 12등식과 18 등식의 백라이트에 대한 휘도 특성을 조사하였다. 휘도 균일도는 12등식 백라이트에서도 85 %의 휘도 균일도를 갖지만, 광학 부품들의 휘도 값과 백라이트의 효율은 18 등식의 백라이트에 비하여 낮다. 외부전극 형광램프 12 등식과 18 등식의 백라이트에 대하여 램프의 휘도를 100 %로 규격화하면, 확산판, 확산시트, 프리즘시트 (BEF) 및 편광시트 (DBEF)의 상대 휘도는 램프의 휘도 값과 무관하게 정량화된다. 광학 부품의 상대 휘도 값은 12등식은 18등식보다 낮다. 백라이트의 휘도 100 %에 대한 액정 패널의 투과도는 DBEF와 BEF를 사용한백라이트는 7.14 %, DBEF만을 사용하면 6.12 %, 그리고 BEF만을 사용하면 3.21 %이다. 본 실험에서 얻어진 광학 부품들의 상대 휘도의 정량화 데이터와 액정의 투과도는 백라이트 설계를 위한 기초 자료이다.