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 ...

I'm looking for options to see if there are smart bulbs to replace standard 4' CCFL bulbs in a long row so that they could be independently turned on/off rather than having a full bank on a single ...

There is a quiet storm building on the horizon in LCD backlighting: The incumbent backlighting technology, the cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL), is about to experience a force that’s blowing into ...

Hi all. I've had two LCD screens die on me in the last month and as a newly minted EE I would like to repair them myself. The devices in question are a Viewsonic VA720 and an IBM T22. On each screen ...

CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...

Anyone that follows green technology will know that the LED or CCFL light bulbs are much more energy efficient than the traditional incandescent bulb is. Philips has announced a new green LED bulb ...

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 ...