Eliminating the temperature effect of piezoelectric transformer in backlight electronic ballast by applying the digital phase-locked-loop technique

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1024-1031

  Lin, Chang Hua ^a   Lu, Ying ^a   Chiu, Huang Jen ^b   Ou, Chung Lun ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backlight; Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL); Digital phase locked loop (DPLL); Electronic ballast; Piezoelectric transformer (PT)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BACKLIGHT SYSTEM; COLD CATHODE FLUORESCENT LAMP (CCFL); ELECTRONIC BALLAST; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 34247109619     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.892733     Document Type: Article

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