2), significantly more-even illumination uniformity, (mechanical) flexibility, thinner form-factor, etc. As EL lighting is emerging, its driver circuit design is commensurably nascent, particularly for large EL panels, e.g., the driver circuit for very large EL panels (>100m2) remains unreported. In this paper, we describe the peculiarities of the EL panel and our design of a driver, based on the traditional LDMOS process and on the emerging GaN-on-CMOS process, capable of driving a large 100m2 EL panel. We show that the emerging GaN-on-CMOS process is advantageous over the traditional LDMOS, particularly the 37% reduced power dissipation and hence the ensuing substantially reduced heat sink form factor.">
A driver circuit based on the emerging GaN-on-CMOS process for the emerging Electroluminescent panels (original) (raw)