Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlights are fast disappearing due to the more efficient and brighter LED swaggering onto the TV scene, but the Japanese company Sanken Electric claims its new ...

Even though LEDs are starting to be more widely used for backlighting liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, the vast majority of panels greater than 10 inches are still backlit using cold-cathode ...

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 ...

Shipments of flat panel TVs continue to outpace expectations as suppliers quickly ramp production to meet the growing demand. Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology has carved out a significant niche ...

The bulbs inside scanners (before transitioning to LED, anyway) were cold cathode fluorescent tubes that emit a fairly wide bandwidth of light. They were purpose-built to produce a very specific type ...

The LS530 from TAIYO YUDEN (U.S.A.) INC. is the latest addition to the company’s comprehensive line of compact dc-ac inverters for driving cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) in LCD backlighting ...

The cathode ray tube that until recent years served as the principal television and video display device generates its own light. The CRT's electron beam bombards electroluminescent phosphors, which ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are becoming a popular display technology for televisions. According to the research firm IDC (Framingham, Mass.), the ...

There's been a lot of talk over the past year about LED TVs and how exactly they differ to the current and previous crop of LCD TVs. The big misconception behind the technology is that it's an ...

Another broken LCD TV came [Steve DiRaddo’s] way. This one had a broken backlight that he wanted to fix. He scrapped his LCD light table in order use the inverter. The two televisions were not the ...