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Electrical ballast

Known as: Dimming ballast, Choke ballast, Electrical ballasts 
An electrical ballast is a device intended to limit the amount of current in an electric circuit. A familiar and widely used example is the inductive… 
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A High-Power-Factor Single-Stage Single-Switch Electronic Ballast for Compact Fluorescent Lamps
A very high power factor electronic ballast that uses a single switch in the power circuit is proposed in this paper for compact… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Single-Stage Offline SEPIC Converter with Power Factor Correction to Drive High Brightness LEDs
An interleaved SEPIC converter with LED current dimmable and input power factor correction is proposed as a high performance… 
2007
2007
Acoustic-Resonance Characterization of Low-Wattage Metal–Halide Lamps
In this paper, a detailed study and experimentation on acoustic-resonances (AR) in low-wattage metal-halide lamps is presented… 
2007
2007
Integrated Zeta–Flyback Electronic Ballast to Supply High-Intensity Discharge Lamps
This paper proposes a metal halide lamp electronic ballast based on the integration of zeta and flyback converters, which are… 
2005
2005
Design and analysis of an IC-less self-oscillating series resonant inverter for dimmable electronic ballasts
This paper presents a low-cost solution of converting the popularly adopted nondimmable electronic ballast circuit for… 
2005
2005
An improved design procedure for LCC resonant filter of dimmable electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamps, based on lamp model
This paper presents an improved design methodology for the determination of the parameters used in the classical series-resonant… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Digital-dimming controller with current spikes elimination technique for LCD backlight electronic ballast
  • Chang-Hua Lin
  • Nineteenth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics…
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 24192587
A novel simple control method to improve the ignition behavior of cold cathode fluorescent lamp in digital-dimming mode is… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Very high-power-density CW operation of GaAs/AlGaAs microwave heterojunction bipolar transistors
Thermal instability of multi-emitter high-power microwave heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) was eliminated using a novel… 
Review
1985
Review
1985
Characteristics of Various F40 Fluorescent Systems at 60 Hz and High Frequency
Recent improvements in both lamp and ballast technologies have resulted in substantial performance gains for fluorescent lighting… 
1984
1984
High-voltage high-frequency class-E converter suitable for miniaturization
A 120 V mains driven class-E converter used as an electronic ballast for a 15 W fluorescent lamp is presented. The key element of… 
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