Development and application of less-mercury flat fluorescent lamps for backlights and general lighting

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 759-764

  Koo, Horng Show ^a   Chang, Chih Hung James ^a   Cho, Nam Kwon ^a   Lee, Jae Hong ^a  

^a MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backlight module; Flat fluorescent lamp; LCD reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING FIXTURES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LUMINESCENCE; MERCURY (METAL); RELIABILITY;

BACKLIGHT MODULE; BACKLIGHT MODULES; FLAT FLUORESCENT LAMP; FLAT FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LCD RELIABILITY; LIGHTING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL DESIGNS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES;

LIGHTING;

EID: 54149096296     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2953483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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