• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.37-42
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• 2003

Development of light sources has been constantly grown after incandescent lamps had been invented by Thomas Edison. Recently, the eletrodeless lamp is introduced as a new light source of a high efficacy and long life. But, despite of such advantages, luminaires of electrodeless lamps are not widely used. It is necessary to develope the design of the luminaire together with light source development. In this paper, design algorithm of the luminaire that is adaptable to electrodeless lamp and use Genetic Algorithm as a optimization method to find luminous intensity distribution required is introduced.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1410-1412
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• 2005

A novel dimming algorithm for the electronic ballast of the electrodeless lamp is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on the burst dimming method and controls the duty ratio for the two switches of the electronic ballast by pulse width modulated signal. The preposed algorithm was implemented by a fully digital circuit using EPLD device. To verify the validity of the proposed algorithm, the implemented control circuit was applied to the electronic ballast for a 100W electrodeless fluorescent lamp. As a result, the wide illumination dimming range from 5% to 100% was obtained.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.65-67
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• 2003

This paper describes a design of power supply for electrodeless lamp system to be easy to control electric power widely keeping the high power factor. Proposed system is composed of power factor correction(PFC) circuit, half bridge(HB) inverter, high voltage transformer, full wave rectifier to supply dc number kV's magnetron(MGT) anode voltage in the second of high voltage transformer and magnetron. It was confirmed that the proposed circuits can correct the 99.8[%] power factor and control input power of the magnetron up to 33.3[%] linearly by adjusting of pulse frequency of the inverter through the experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2003

Comparing to the conventional power systems, PV(photovoltaic) outdoor lighting system applications are evaluated as the most economical application. In this paper, we installed two PV lighting systems, which uses LPS(low pressure sodium) and electrodeless lame as their loads, and applied a computer-based data acquisition system using the Labview program for monitering purpose and effective operations, considering battery life time Also, we observed the generated power from the solar array, and energy losses comparing to its installed capacity. Because most PV system performance procedures have looked at the performance of the individual components and have deficiency of addressing how the integrated system works, we confirmed the decrease possibility of the solar amy capacity after analyzing the performance of the installed PV lighting systems.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.285-288
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• 2004

Recently, the RF inductive discharge or inductively coupled plasma(ICP) continues to attract growing attention as an effective plasma source in many industrial applications, the best known of which are plasma processing and lighting technology. To the point of lighting sources, the electrodeless fluorescent lamps utilizing an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) have been objects of interest and research during the last decades, mainly because of their potential for extremely long life, high lamp efficacies, rapid power switching response. The electrodeless fluorescent lamp that is dealt with in this work comprises a bulb filled with rare gas and amalgam of vaporizable metal and has a coil provided with a winding around the ferrite. Current through a coil produces a magnetic field in the discharge space The changing magnetic flux then produces an azimuthal electric field E around the coil, according to Faraday's laws of magnetic induction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2004

The advantage of ring-shaped electrodeless fluorescent lamp is the removal of internal electrodes and heating filaments that are a light-limiting factor of conventional fluorescent lamps. Therefore, the life time of ring-shaped electrodeless fluorescent lamps is substantially higher than that of conventional fluorescent lamps and last up to 60,000 hours and is intended as a high efficacy replacement for the incandescent reflector lamp in many applications. In this paper, maxwell 3D finite element analysis program(Ansoft) was used to obtain electromagnetic properties associated with the coil and nearby structures. The electromagnetic emitting properties were presented by 3D simulation software operated at 250[kHz] and some specific conditions

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.220-223
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• 2004

Inductively coupled plasma is commonly used for electrodeless lamp due to its ease of plasma generation. Optical characteristics significantly depend on the RF power and gas pressure of the plasma. This paper describes the measurement of luminance as a function of RF power and gas pressure with a goal of finding optimal operating conditions of the electrodeless lamp. The gas pressure was varied from 10[mTorr] to 300[mTorr] or 500[mTorr] and the RF power was varied from 10[W] to 200[W]. It was found that the luminance tends to be decreased when argon and neon pressure is increased, and the luminance is increased as RF power is increased. It was also found that the luminance per unit RF power is high when the argon and neon pressure is low and when the RF power is in the range of $30[W]{\sim}40[W]$ or 10[W].

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07e
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• pp.1708-1710
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• 1998

In this study, several experiment is executed to analyze properties of Electrodeless Discharge Lamp using H-Discharge. 1. The operating frequency of this lamp is $2.45{\sim}2.65$[MHz] 2. The color of light is mild-white. And, it is shifted in the direction of red in low temperature. 3. In ambient temperature under $10^{\circ}C$, luminous efficiency is decreased precipitously. Therefore, research for improvement discharge-characteristic in low temperature need. 4. Discharge-characteristic stable between $160{\sim}240$[V]. And, luminous output is inverse proportion to coil-voltage. 5. When input-voltage is decreased continuously unstable section exist.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.141-148
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• 2004

In this paper, we have investigated the inductive voltages, currents, frequencies of output line of electrodeless fluorescent lamp system as an surge is supplied and have analyzed the surge characteristics as an phase alteration of input voltage with an surge suppling. A result os measurement is that the inductive over-voltages(H-PE, N-PE) on output line of electrodeles fluorescent lamp system showed more high than inductive overvoltages of H(hot)-N(neutral) line. Therefore, designer of system will lay emphasis on an protective circuit with considening an overvoltage(H-PE, N-PE) or phase of input voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.150-152
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• 2004

In recent, there have been several developments in lamp technology that promise savings in electrical power consumption and improved quality of the lighting space. The electrodeless fluorescent lamp is intended as a high efficacy replacement for the incandescent reflector lamp in many applications. In this paper, electron temperature and electron density were measured in a radio-frequency inductively coupled plasma using a Langmuir probe method for emission characteristics. Measurement was conducted in an Ne discharge for pressure from 10 [mTorr] and input RF power 100 [W] to 150 [W]. As for the electron density, a electron temperature was more distinguished for a emission characteristic. The results of ideal may contribute to systematic understanding of a electrodeless fluorescent lamps of emission characteristics.