Improvement of luminous efficiency through new cell structure and driving pulse

  • Ko, Sang-Woo (Department of Electronics and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Yang, Sung-Soo (Department of Electronics and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Chul (Department of Electronics and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Mukherjee, Sudeshna (Department of Electronics and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Koo (Department of Electronics and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2003.07.09

Abstract

We have suggested several plasma display panel (PDP) cell structures for high luminance and low power consumption by our two-and three-dimensional fluid simulation codes. Generally, to improve luminous efficiency and discharge efficiency, it is known that it is lucrative to use long discharge path and to form low electric field. However, the problems are how to implement them effectively in the small PDP cell. Therefore, unlike conventional model, we suggest Front Three Electrodes (FTE) model. In this model, we tried to make long and V-shaped discharge path by geometry changes and driving pulse variations. Consequently, from our simulation results based on the model above, luminous efficiency has improved about 2.6 times.

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