Medical devices present special requirements for the backlight unit (BLU) of a liquid-crystal display. In all cases, the display needs to provide high-contrast, high-resolution images and data, as ...

[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 ...

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 ...

It's not just the low frequency - most LED-backlit displays have it around 200-250 Hz, like CCFL displays. But CCFL displays exhibit afterglow of the fluorescent coating between the pulses, which ...

After several decades of supremacy, CRT technology is now in the engineering graveyard—various flat-panel technologies blasted cathode ray tubes to display oblivion. Now that flat-panel displays are ...

The mass changeover from CCFL-backlit LCDs to LED-backlit ones is momentous for mobile computing. Not only does LED backlighting allow for improved battery life, it makes for a better-looking display ...

NEC has announced that later this month it will be launching a new LED backlit desktop computer monitor that’s both affordable and environmentally conscious. The display is called the AccuSync AS192WM ...

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