Stability of Coated Green Phosphors for Enhancing Picture Quality of PDP

  • Han, B.Y. (School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Kim, J.H. (School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Yoo, J.S. (School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Kim, Y.K. (Samsung SDI. Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Hur, Y.K. (Samsung SDI. Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Choi, C.K. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National of University of Technology)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

The picture quality of a plasma display panel is very sensitive to the phosphor characteristics such as luminescence, decay time, surface properties, and even longevity of phosphor material in itself. In our previous work, the discharging characteristics in green cell of PDP were demonstrated to be enhanced by coating $Zn_2SiO_4:Mn^{2+}$ phosphors with positively charged metal oxide such as MgO. Here, $Zn_2SiO_4:Mn^{2+}$ phosphors were coated by various metal oxides for examining the coating effect on the picture quality. Specially, longevity while fabricating the panel was investigated for panel application in this work. Also the effects of ion and electron bombardment on the phosphor surface will be discussed in this work.

Keywords