Over the last several years, small color LCD displays have been integrated into an ever-broadening range of products. Color displays, once considered a luxury in cell phones, are now a standard ...

All so-called LED TVs are really just LCD TVs that use LEDs for their backlight. This backlight creates the light that allows the LCD to create an image. However, there are multiple ways these LED ...

Maxim Integrated Products and National Semiconductor have developed LED driver families to address the key drawbacks in conventional white-LED backlighting for small LCD viewscreens. Maxim Integrated ...

San Jose, Calif. — The FAN5336 high-frequency integrated boost converter from Fairchild Semiconductor allows designers to achieve 87% system efficiency, low EMI and board-space savings, in a range of ...

There is an ongoing effort to replace conventional CCFL backlighting in large-area (40-in. or greater) LCD TVs with LED backlighting. The benefits LEDs provide include improved color gamut, adjustable ...

[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 ...

Diodes has introduced a boost converter that can supply constant voltage or constant current to drive backlights, with a dimming ratio of 100:1. Called AL3353, it has an input voltage of 9V to 40V – ...

AU Optronics Corp., the world’s third-largest maker of LCD screens, is aiming most of its research dollars at LED technology for its sharper contrasts and brighter colors, an executive at the company ...

Nearly every LCD TV on the market has a problem: uniformity. Certain areas of the screen are going to be brighter than other areas. On dark scenes, this can be visible and sometimes distracting. OK, ...