• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2006년도 하계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.243-244
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• 2006

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.164-172
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• 2009

Recently, 2-dimensional flat light sources have been attracting much attention for its use in LCD backlight applications because of its high luminous efficiency and uniformity. A long-gap discharge, mercury-tree flat fluorescent lamp has been developed, which shows a high brightness ($>5000\;cd/m^2$) and high luminous efficacy (60 lm/W). Additionally, it has a wide operating margin and stable driving condition with the aid of an auxiliary electrode. For driving the lamp, a narrow pulse power to maintain the glow discharge state is required. Since there has been no research for this kind of lamp driving, this paper proposes a newly developed short-pulse, high-voltage lamp-driving scheme. The proposed lamp system uses a ballast with a coupled-inductor in order to raise the short pulse voltage up to the lamp ignition level and to obtain energy-recovery action during the glow discharge mode. The operation principles are presented and also the system performances such as the lighting efficiency, spatial and angular uniformities are evaluated by hardware experiments. The results show that the proposed lighting system is a good candidate for the next-generation of LCD backlight systems.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.271-278
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• 2003

Conventional backlight for liquid crystal display (LCD) uses mercury which leads to environmental pollution. In this study, characteristics of AC coplanar type mercury-free plasma flat lamp have been studied. Pollution-free Xe-He is adopted as a discharge gas system. Since the Xe gas has a lower efficiency in generating vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) than mercury, the improvement of luminance and luminous efficiency in the Xe gas system is very important. The electrode, dielectric, and phosphor layers constituting lamp are formed on the bottom glass by the screen printing method. The effects of pulse shape, on-time, and pulse frequency on the luminance and luminous efficiency have been examined. For Xe(5%)-He gas, the lamp exhibits higher efficiency with sharper pulse shape, higher peak voltage, and shorter pulse on-time (up to 2 $\mu\textrm{s}$). Higher efficiency and lower consumption of power were obtained at 30 kHz than at 60 kHz. The collision of ion to bottom electrodes is a dominant factor to raise the lamp temperature. Therefore the high voltage and low current discharge system is necessary for reduction of the lamp temperature as well as for enhancement of the luminous efficiency.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.600-603
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• 2000

Recently, Display devices have become important in the information-oriented society and flat display devices are greatly demanded. Liquid crystal display(LCD) represents one of the most promising devices for large size desk-top monitors, notebook PC and car navigation system. However LCD cannot give forth light itself and must have backlight system. The most popular backlighting system is composed of a lighting-guide plate and CCFL as a lighting source. The number of CCFL must increase up if the area of display is increased. So a new backlighting source with high luminance is needed for large LCDs. In this paper, we proposed a surface discharge FFL with the new electrode structure like the needle shaped electrode as the variation of cell structure to high luminance and low power consumption. In comparison with different electrode structure it has low discharge voltage and current and good optical characteristics. So it has better discharge characteristics than different surface discharge FFL and can be fungible for a backlight as a lighting source in LCDs.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2007년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.817-821
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• 2007

제한된 배터리를 가지고 있는 내장형 시스템에서 전력을 최소화하여 제한된 전력을 오랫동안 사용하는 기술은 중요한 문제로 인식되어 왔다. 최근 내장형 시스템은 대형 TFT-LCD와 터치스크린을 장착하면서 그에 따른 전력소비가 더 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 GUI에서 전력소모를 감소할 수 있는 방안인 프레임버퍼 모니터링을 연구하였다. 프레임버퍼 모니터링 기법은 화면의 퀄리티(Quality)를 보장하는 범위 내에서 Refresh-rate과 Backlight을 조절하여 LCD에서 전력 소모를 줄이는 방법이다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.432-432
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• 2007

We studied optical simulation method for ultra slim backlight system. We designed 0.7mm thickness light guide plate and combined 48 white color LEDs for 12 inch wide size TFT-LCD. We designed flat shape PMMA light guide plate with both side patterned. It have vertical prism shape on upper side and ellipse dot pattern on the other side. We targeted 4500 nit brightness and uniform emission characteristic without hot spot or dark area. At first, we designed uniform emission area with more high brightness in center area and then, debugged light entering hot spot zone and direction of outgoing light flux. Although it was designing step, we obtained good result with reverse prism optical sheet and it had good repeatability because it was based on the stamper method in injection process without laser engraving or micro groove engraving method.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.502-507
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• 2006

LCD의 대형화에 따라 백라이트용 냉음극 방전램프(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp)는 길어지고 있으며, 하나의 램프를 이용한 백라이트는 휘도의 한계가 있어 대형 디스플레이에서는 여러 개의 램프를 사용하여 필요한 휘도를 만들고 있다. 본 논문에서는 냉음극 방전램프 20개를 사용하는 42인치 LCD TV용 대형 백라이트 구동을 위한 인버터를 각각의 램프들이 입력조건에 대해 동일한 출력을 갖도록 설계하였다. 기존의 냉음극 방전램프의 구동방식인 하이-로우(H-L) 방식에서의 문제점을 보완하여 하이-하이(H-H) 방식을 채택하여 램프 좌우측의 휘도 차이를 개선하였다. 또한 램프간의 휘도 편차를 개선하기 위해 램프와 직렬로 커패시터를 연결하는 방식을 사용하였다. 제안된 시스템을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.779-782
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• 2004

Establishing and maintaining optimum lamp operating temperature is critically important in backlight systems for large area displays. The information presented in this paper is based upon work completed for a tiled 37.5" AM LCD, plus projections for a 37.5", 42" & 50" monolithic display. Due to the size of the units, a requirement for highly collimated light and a requirement for high brightness, >550 nits at the display surface, significant wattage is required which generates high heat levels in the backlight display assembly and potentially, at the display rear surface. Uniformity of illumination becomes an important element in the system design because of the large area involved.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1086-1089
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• 2006

We have developed 2.4" QVGA wide color gamut LCD module using RGB-LED backlight. The color gamut is achieved 100% of NTSC compared to 70% of NTSC when used with White-LED backlight. But RGB LED backlight is difficult to maintain its color balance since RGB LED is gradually degraded by the change of ambient temperature and a long term aging characteristic, etc. This paper describes a feasibility study of our optical feedback system developed for preventing such a color shift.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.1298-1306
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• 2016

휴대용 기기에서 사용 비중이 높은 디스플레이인 TFT-LCD에서는 백라이트가 소모 전력의 대부분을 차지하므로 백라이트의 세기를 줄이는 디밍 기법을 통한 전력 절감이 많이 시도되고 있으며, 이 때 일어나는 디스플레이 상 이미지의 밝기 저하로 인한 시각적 왜곡을 개선하는 이미지 보상 기법 연구가 동시에 진행되고 있다. 하지만 히스토그램 평활화와 같은 기존 이미지 보상 기법들은 인간 시각 만족도를 잘 충족하는 것에 한계점을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 명세화와 픽셀 보정의 결합을 통해 전력 절감과 함께 시각 만족도 개선 효과가 향상된 디밍 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 인간 시각을 만족하기 위해 탐색 알고리즘을 수행하므로, 빠른 이미지 처리를 위해 단순화한 계산을 통해 인간 시각 만족의 이미지를 얻어낼 수 있는 자동화 알고리즘을 포함한다. 실험 결과, 기존 백라이트 디밍에 비해 전력 절감 대비 높은 시각 만족도 개선을 보였다.