Driving Characteristics of a High-Efficacy AC PDP With an Auxiliary Electrode

A new driving waveform was proposed in order to stabilize the driving characteristics of a high-efficacy AC plasma-display panel (PDP) with a coplanar gap of 200 mum and an auxiliary electrode. To stabilize the reset and address discharge, an erase pulse was applied to the auxiliary electrode instead of the sustain electrode after the sustain period. The write pulse was applied to the scan electrode, and a reset discharge was induced between the scan and auxiliary electrodes. As a result, the minimum address voltage could be reduced to a level similar to that achieved with a conventional ac PDP with a coplanar gap of 80 mum. Furthermore, the address-discharge time lag of the ac PDP with a coplanar gap of 200 mum was improved to a level that is comparable with that of the ac PDP with a coplanar gap of 80 mum.     

New reset waveform for the contrast ratio improvement of AC-PDP

We propose a new reset waveform for the improvement of contrast ratio. A square pulse is applied to the address electrode while the reset pulse ramps and before the discharge between the sustain electrodes occurs. The square pulse induces a discharge between the address electrode and the X electrode, and the induced wall charge between the sustain electrodes is opposite to the applied ramping voltage between the sustain electrodes. Thus, the next discharge between the sustain electrodes becomes weaker. The weaker discharge during the reset period lowers background luminance and improves contrast ratio. The experimental results show that the contrast ratio can be improved by 35/spl sim/58% using this method compared with the conventional ramp reset method.     

A New AC Plasma Display Panel With Auxiliary Electrode for High Luminous Efficacy

A new ac plasma display panel (PDP) for high luminous efficacy is proposed, and its characteristics are investigated. The new ac PDP has a coplanar gap of 200 mum and an auxiliary electrode located between the scan and common electrodes. The periodic pulses are applied to the auxiliary electrode during the sustain period, which plays the roles of enhancing the infrared emission and reducing the discharge current. The sustain voltage decreases with the increase of the auxiliary pulse voltage until 80 V. When the voltage of the pulse applied to the auxiliary electrode is 50 V, the luminous efficacy reaches its peak value and is approximately 8.7 lm/W obtained from the measurement of Ne + 20% Xe gas-mixture discharges in the green cells. The luminous efficacy of the new proposed test ac PDP with Ne + 13% Xe and Ne + 20% Xe gas mixtures is improved by 190% and 320%, respectively, compared to that of the conventional ac PDP with a Ne + 13% Xe gas mixture     

Improvement of luminance and luminous efficiency using addressvoltage pulse during sustain-period of AC-PDP

To improve the luminance and luminous efficiency of a surface-discharge alternate current plasma display panel (ac PDP), auxiliary voltage pulses were applied to the address electrode during a sustain-period. The luminance and luminous efficiency exhibited maximum values at an address voltage of 100 V and pulse width of 1 μs. An improved luminance of 21.4% and luminous efficiency of 24% were simultaneously obtained based on the proper adjustment of the widths and amplitudes of the address voltage pulse. Accordingly, the proper control of the amplitudes and pulse widths of the auxiliary address voltage during a sustain-period can improve both the luminance and the luminous efficiency in a surface-discharge ac PDP     

New Reset Waveform for a Large-Sustain-Gap Structure in an Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel

A new reset waveform for a large-sustain-gap structure in an ac plasma display panel is proposed. In the driving of a large-sustain-gap structure with a conventional ramp reset waveform, we cannot avoid the condition of an address electrode being a cathode, which causes lots of trouble in stabilizing the reset discharge. To resolve these problems, a square pulse instead of the conventional rising-ramp pulse is used. In order to stabilize the strong discharge in which the address electrode becomes a cathode, a priming discharge between the address (anode) and scan (cathode) electrodes is made prior to making a strong discharge between the address (cathode) and scan (anode) electrodes. With this scheme, a minimum address voltage of 60 V when the sustain gaps are 250 and 350 $muhbox{m}$, respectively, is obtained. However, the contrast ratio using the square reset pulse is lower than that using the conventional ramp pulse. To improve the contrast ratio, the reset waveforms in each subfield are replaced by selective erase waveforms except for the first subfield. In the case of nonselective reset waveform, the background luminance is 19.4 $ hbox{cd/m}^{2}$, whereas the background luminance of 2.4 $ hbox{cd/m}^{2}$ is obtained with selective reset waveform.      

The Operation Characteristics of an Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel With Si-Doped MgO Protecting Layer

In this paper, the operation characteristics of an ac plasma display panel (PDP) with Si-doped MgO protecting layer are investigated. The test panels are fabricated with the protecting layers of conventional MgO and Si-doped MgO, and the operation voltage margin, luminous efficacy, and address discharge time lag are observed. Even though the test panel with Si-doped MgO protecting layer showed lower operation voltages, higher luminous efficacy, and shorter statistical discharge time lag, its addressing discharge characteristics become deteriorated as the scanning time is increased from the end time of the reset period. The photon-induced surface conductivity increased by Si doping into MgO, and surface charges on the Si-doped MgO protecting layer showed faster decay characteristics compared to those on the conventional one. It is believed that the impurity doping into the protecting layer can improve the short-period characteristics of an ac PDP, but the long-term stability of surface charge retention is deteriorated.     

Characteristics of an address discharge time lag in terms of a wall voltage in an AC PDP

The characteristics of an address discharge have been investigated in terms of a wall voltage, which plays an important role in achieving a high-speed address discharge in an ac plasma display panel. The wall-voltage conditions generated in a reset period are a considerable factor to reduce the address-discharge time lag. Based on the experimental results, the reset driving scheme in which an address bias voltage is applied to the address electrode in a reset period is proposed to enhance the characteristics of an address-discharge time lag.     

Discharge physics of alternating current plasma display panels (PDPs)

In this paper, we describe the experimental techniques and numerical modeling approaches to understand the alternating current plasma display panel (ac PDP) discharge physics. Conventional ac PDP uses microscale dielectric barrier discharge, and the spatio-temporal visualization of discharge not only helps to understand the discharge dynamics, but also validates the models adopted in the computer simulation study of PDP cell. The experimental observations using optical spectroscopy and imaging method turned out to be very helpful especially for the understanding of discharge dynamics including gas reactions and wall charge formation. The numerical simulation shows good agreement with experimental observations which allows us to use the computer simulation to extract more useful information with more confidence. Some parametric study, such as the effects of the variations of cell pitches, address electrode width, barrier rib height, and geometrical structure, etc., on the luminous characteristics of PDP had been carried out and could now well be explained.     

A new driving waveform to improve dark room contrast ratio in acplasma display panel

A high dark room contrast ratio is necessary for realizing good image quality in ac plasma display panels (PDP). However, the conventional PDPs have low dark room contrast ratio because the background light mainly results from the reset discharges between the address, scan, and sustain electrodes in every subfield. In this study, a new driving method [improved waveform of contrast ratio (ICR)] is suggested to enhance the dark room contrast ratio. The principle of ICR is that the facing discharges during the reset period occur between the scan and address electrodes instead of surface discharges by applying almost the same voltage waveform as the scan voltage to the sustain electrode after the conventional first subfield. Moreover, the reset discharge occurs only for the cells that experienced sustain discharge in the preceding subfield after the first subfield. The dark room contrast ratio of ICR is improved more than 7× as compared to the conventional method     

对向型等离子体显示板放电特性分析

采用流体模型分析了对向型交流等离子体显示板(ACM PDP)的放电过程.通过模拟,获得了ACM PDP单元的Q-U曲线及电压转移曲线,同时还给出了放电延迟、电流脉冲宽度与放电电压的关系,所得结果符合实验测量数据.     

AC PDP多脉冲放电特性一维流体模型的数值分析

本文建立了ＡＣ ＰＤＰ单元放电的一维流体模型,对ＡＣ ＰＤＰ单元的多脉冲放电特性进行了数值分析,模型是基于对电子和离子输运的二元流体描述,包括各种粒子的连续性方程和简单的动量舆方程以及Ｐｏｉｓｓｏｎ方程和电路方程计算过程中,假定放电气体为Ｈｅ且处于局域平衡状态,各种粒子的反应几率设为Ｅ／Ｐ的函数,通过Ｂｌｏｔｚｍａｎｎ方程解出,模拟了在５０ｋＨｚ方民压驱动下发生在ＡＣ ＰＤＰ单元内的多脉冲放电行为     

High-speed driving method using bipolar scan waveform in AC plasma display panel

This paper proposes a new high-speed driving method using the bipolar scan waveform with a scan width of 1 /spl mu/s in an ac-plasma display panel. The bipolar scan waveform in an address period consists of a two-step pulse with two different polarities, i.e., a forward scan pulse with a negative polarity and reverse scan pulse with a positive polarity, which can produce two address discharges, including a primary address discharge for generating wall charges and secondary address discharge for accumulating wall charges. To produce the fast address discharge stably using the bipolar scan pulse during an address period, a new reset waveform is designed based on a V/sub t/ close curve analysis, and the address discharge characteristics examined under various reset and address waveforms. As a result of adopting the proposed driving method, a high-speed address with a scan width of 1 /spl mu/s is successfully obtained when using a checkered pattern on a 4-in test panel.     

Reset-while-address (RWA) driving scheme for high-speed address in AC plasma display panel with high Xe content

A new reset while-address (RWA) driving scheme for a single scan of an XGA grade (1024 /spl times/ 768) ac-plasma display panel (PDP) is proposed to improve the address discharge characteristics with a high Xe gas mixture (15%). To solve the conventional address problem of the gradual decrease in priming particles during an address period, the falling ramp waveform in the reset period is separated into two parts; the first part is applied at the beginning of the reset period and provides the priming particles during the first half of the address period, while the second part is applied in the middle of the address period to provide an additional supply of priming particles during the second half of the address period. As a result of adopting the proposed RWA driving scheme, address discharges were successfully produced within a 1.0-/spl mu/s pulsewidth due to the presence of priming particles throughout the address period.     

脉冲气体激光器磁压缩放电电路的仿真

为了降低用于脉冲气体激光器的全固态磁压缩放电电路的放电延时抖动,采用PSPICE软件对全固态磁压缩激励电路进行仿真分析,完成了对充电、磁开关复位以及整个放电过程的初步模拟。模拟结果显示,初始储能电容电压1V的波动会引起放电时间5ns~10ns的抖动,抖动时间随着充电电压的升高而降低;通过采用特制的两级耦合复位回路来降低放电延时抖动,该复位电路可将放电抖动从微秒量级降低到纳秒量级。结果表明,降低抖动的关键因素在于充电过程中高频交流纹波经复位电路耦合将磁芯复位到一稳定状态,使磁开关、可饱和脉冲变压器的工作状态更加稳定。建立的仿真模型,对低放电抖动的脉冲放电激励电路设计可提供参考。     

Solid-phase epitaxy of amorphous silicon films by in situ postannealing using RPCVD

A temperature model of the phase change memory (PCM) cell having Ge₂Sb₂Te₅ (GST) layer has been proposed and demonstrated based on a thermal physical model and electrical characteristics. Calculating the radius of PCM cell with different reset voltage pulse based on the voltage-current curves by the temperature equation, the crystalline fraction can be got. It is found that the crystalline fraction and temperature of active region increase with the reset voltage pulse increasing. The experimental results are consistent with the simulation results.     

An advanced sustaining technology for plasma display panel using voltage-balancing method

A cost-effective plasma display panel (PDP) sustainer employing current injection method (CIM) for energy recovery is proposed. Using a voltage-balancing technique, driver cost can be reduced by about 20%-30% compared with that of the conventional H-bridge driver by using low-voltage switches. The energy recovery performance can be improved by the current that is built up before the energy recovery operation. This buildup current is utilized to change the polarity of the panel electrode and provides additional variable to determine pulse slopes. Experimental results show that the voltage stress of switches connected in series is identically clamped to sustain voltage during sustain operation and that light is emitted more stably by independent control of the rising and falling slopes using CIM. Therefore, the proposed sustainer is expected to be suitable for a low-cost PDP sustaining driver requiring stable discharge characteristics.     

荫罩式等离子体复合放电驱动波形的研究

提出了一种适合三电极荫罩式PDP结构的新型高效复合放电驱动波形.采用二维流体模型研究了三电极荫罩式PDP结构复合放电驱动波形的放电过程,分析了空间电位、壁电荷及带电粒子分布的演变情况.讨论了复合放电驱动波形维持期寻址电极电压对放电特性的影响,计算了维持期真空紫外辐射功耗、放电效率的变化趋势以及电子平均浓度随时间的变化关系,并与传统表面放电驱动波形比较.结果表明复合放电驱动波形在响应频率、放电强度和放电效率等方面均优于传统表面放电驱动波形.     

交流等离子体显示器驱动方法的改进

对三电极表面放电交流等离子体显示器驱动方法的物理过程进行了详细的分析，根据其放电原理对常规的寻址与显示分离驱动方法的准备期波形进行了改进。实验结果表明，改进的驱动方法不仅简化了驱动电路，降低了寻址电极驱动芯片的耐压值和功耗，而且增强了显示图像的对比度，降低了驱动电路的成本。     

复合形法在PDP计算机仿真中的应用

采用复合形算法建立数学模型,以PDP三维模拟仿真软件为基础,以PDP放电效率为目标函数,以扫描电极宽度、氙气比例、气体压强和驱动电压为搜索变量,进行最优化设计来提高单元的放电效率.模拟结果表明:搜索变量坐标为(80,15,498,230)时,即扫描电极宽度、氙气比例、气体压强及维持电压分别为80 μm、15%、6.6×104Pa和230 V时,对应的放电效率取得最大值11.0%,比搜索变量坐标为(160,5,310,210)初始复合形时的放电效率提高一倍多,且真空紫外辐射能量也比初始复合形时增加79%.模拟结果表明采用复合形算法可以得出影响PDP放电性能的各因素的最优化组合,使PDP单元的放电效率和放电强度都大幅提高.     

Resonant pole inverter to drive the data electrodes of AC plasma display panel

This paper proposes the use of a resonant pole inverter (RPI) as the control circuit to drive the data electrodes of an ac plasma display panel (PDP). This new application of RPI simplifies the circuit design by using fewer components, and has lower power losses than conventional driver circuits. The circuit employs two resonant MOSFETs and zero-voltage-switching technique to generate an asymmetric pulse train with moderate rising and falling time to drive the data electrodes of a PDP. The circuit also recovers the reactive energy from the PDP, like conventional energy recovery circuits. Power losses are further reduced by adding a dc offset voltage to the pulse train. The power consumptions of different driving circuits are assessed. The proposed circuit is tested on a dual-scan 42-in SVGA ac plasma display panel and is found to be practical.