As lighting topologies have advanced, backlighting technologies have evolved to keep pace. At one time, cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) were the dominant technology for backlighting ...

[Ammon] repairs busted LCD monitors as a side hobby, so replacing burned out CCFLs and inverter circuits is something he can do in his sleep. One Dell monitor he received had him so perplexed, that he ...

Japan’s Sanken Electric has developed a new type of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlight for LCD TVs that’s as power-efficient as LED backlights but is supposedly up to 60% cheaper to ...

[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn’t have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter ...

The compact fluorescent tubes (CCFL) commonly used to backlight LCD panels have attracted the attention of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive because they contain mercury. Right ...

With industry players generally in agreement that LED backlighting will grow its role at the expense of traditional cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) solutions, LED makers from Taiwan project that ...

The penetration rate of LED backlighting in notebook PCs with may reach 15% this year as the cost difference between LED-based backlight units (BLUs) and those of cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs ...

Eric Franklin led the CNET Tech team as Editorial Director. A 20-plus-year industry veteran, Eric began his tech journey testing computers in the CNET Labs. When not at work he can usually be found at ...

To serve the steady migration from cold cathode florescent (CCFL) backlighting of LCD displays to LED backlights, TDK-Lambda has launched its new ALD Series of multi-output dc-dc backlight LED drivers ...

PARIS — A recent market research from DisplaySearch shows LED backlight costs are falling faster than conventional LCD backlights, with LED backlight unit for 40 inch full HD LCD TVs to reach USD 100 ...

DisplaySearch has just announced new study results that point to Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) becoming the dominant large-area TFT LCD backlight unit light source by 2011 with a 56 percent share.