• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.569-570
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• 2006

Effects of the evaporation rate of MgO films using electron beam were investigated on the MgO properties and the discharge characteristics of the plasma display panel (PDP). The evaporation rate was changed from $3{\AA}$/sec to $15{\AA}$/sec at a substrate temperature of $300^{\circ}C$. MgO properties such as crystal orientation, surface roughness, contact angle, and film structure were inspected using XPS, AFM, drop shape analysis and SEM. We also studied the relation between MgO properties and PDP discharging characteristics. The minimum firing voltage and maximum efficacy were obtained at evaporation rate of $5{\AA}$/sec. In the MgO film deposited at $5{\AA}$/sec, (200) orientation was most intensive and surface roughness was minimum.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.200-201
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• 2006

현재상용화 되어 있는 AC PDP는 Ne, Xe 혼합가스를 주로 사용한다. Xe gas의 비율이 높아짐에 따라 PDP의 휘도와 효율은 상승하지만 그와 동시에 방선 전압도 함께 상승하여 이 분야의 연구가 요구된다. 그래서 우리는 Ne gas를 버퍼 가스의 사용하괴 Xe gas를 0${\sim}$15%, Kr gas를 0${\sim}$50% 비율의 첨가하여 패널의 방전 개시 전압, 방선 유지 전압, 방선 마진, 휘도, 효율을 측정하였다. 그 결과 방선 개시 전압이 같고 효율이 각각 2.93[Im/w], 3.23[Im/w]인 Xe10%+Kr20%, Xe5%+Kr40%와 같은 최적의 3원 가스조합을 찾아내었다. 또한 Xe gas와 Kr gas의 합이 40%일 때 효율이 가장 좋아지는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.347-355
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• 2001

A heat transfer analysis in a ventilation chamber of Plasma Display Panel(PDP) has been conducted. The process requirement is to precisely follow prescribed temperature trajectory while maintaining temperature uniformity for each panel. Firstly, experiment in a test chamber has been carried out and the results are compared with the unsteady 3D numerical data. Reasonable agreement was found, which suggested that the employed numerical model had its credibility in actual PDP ventilation processes. On this ground, a tact-type heating/cooling system was analyzed. The panel temperature in the 40$^{\circ}C$ tact-type system was more uniform than that in the 80$^{\circ}C$ one. For improving the uniformity of panel temperature, relocation of ventilation head to the rear part and inlet flow control are required. Comparison of full simulation of a cart and simplified simulation of one panel indicates the optimized panel pitch can also be predicted.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.390-392
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• 2006

단일 서스테인 구동회로서 패널을 수평으로 이등 분할하고 직렬 연결하여 구동회로의 전류 스트레스를 저감하는 새로운 단일 에너지 회수 서스테인 구동회로를 제안한다. 기존의 단일 서스테인 구동회로는 +Vs 및 -Vs의 양극성 전원을 사용함에 따라 기존 구동회로에 비해 전류 스트레스는 그대로이면서 스위치 전압 스트레스가 두 배가 되어 회로 손실 및 발열이 높은 단점을 가지고 있다. 이를 개선하기 위해 제안하는 패널 분할 직렬 연결 단일 에너지 회수 서스테인 구동회로는 패널을 수평으로 이등 분할하고 하프 브리지 인버터를 각각 연결하여 구동 회로의 가스 방전 전류 및 패널 캐패시터의 변위 전류를 기존의 절반으로 줄여 스위치들의 전류 스트레스를 저감하게 된다. 또한 에너지 회수 회로는 능동소자로서 단 하나의 스위치와 단하나의 다이오드만을 사용하므로 그 구조가 단순하여 원가를 절감할 수 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.685-688
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• 2005

An efficient sustain driver and a useful reset circuit composition technique are proposed for plasma display panel drive. The proposed sustain driver uses a series resonance between an external inductor and a panel to recover the energy dissipated by a capacitive displacement current of PDP. It consists of four switching devices, an inductor, and external capacitors, which supply sustain voltage sources. Although the amplitude of an input voltage source is twice as high as that of conventional sustain drivers, average voltage stress imposed on power switching devices is nearly same in their values. Moreover, the input voltage source can be directly applied for the use of a reset voltage source. Owing to this scheme, the proposed sustain driver and the embedded reset circuit have a simple configuration. The operational principle and design example are given with theoretical analyses. The validity of the proposed drive system is verified through experiments using a prototype equipped with a 7.5-inch-diagonal AC plasma display panel.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.44-51
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• 2008

UV lamp systems have been used for cleaning of display panels of TFT LCD or Plasma Display Panel (PDP). However, the needs for high efficient cleaning and low cost made high voltage plasma cleaning techniques to be developed and to be improved. Dielectric-Barrier Discharges (DBDs), also referred to as barrier discharges or silent discharges have been exclusively related to ozone generation for a long time. In this paper, a 6kW high voltage plasma power supply system was developed for LCD cleaning. The 3-phase input voltage is rectified and then inverter system is used to make a high frequency pulse train, which is rectified after passing through a high-power transformer. Finally, hi-directional high voltage pulse switching circuits are used to generate the high voltage plasma. Some experimental results showed the usefulness of atmospheric plasma for LCD panel cleaning.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.176-183
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• 2002

Plasma Display Panel(PDP) is a type of flat panel display utilizing the light emission produced by gas discharge. Barrier Ribs of PDP separating each sub-pixel prevents optical and electrical crosstalks from adjacent sub-pixels. The mold for forming the barrier ribs has been newly researched to overcome the disadvantages of conventional manufacturing processes such as screen printing, sand-blasting and photosensitive glass methods. The mold for PDP barrier ribs have stripes of micro grooves transferring glass-material wall. In this paper , Stripes of grooves of which width 48$\mu$m, depth 124$\mu$m , pitch 274$\mu$m was acquired by machining of single crystal silicon with dicing saw blade. Maximum roughness of the bottom of the grooves was 59.6 nm Ra in grooving Si. Barrier ribs were farmed with silicone rubber mold, which is transferred from grooved Si forming hard mold. Silicone rubber mold has the elasticity, which enable to accommodate the waviness of lower glass plate of PDP. The methods assisted by the microwave and UV was adopted for reducing the forming time of glass paste.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.138-147
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• 2001

Alignment systems are frequently used under various semiconductor manufacturing environment. Particularly in PDP(Plasma Display Panel) manufacturing process, the alignment system is applied to the combining and sealing processes of the upper and lower glass panels of PDP, where these processes are performed in the vacuum chamber of high vacuum and high temperature. In this paper, the XYΘ-alignment stage is developed to align PDP panels. Because of high vacuum and high temperature environment, the alignment chamber has been designed to isolate the inner part of the alignment chamber from the outer environment of high vacuum and high temperature, in which every part of the alignment stage is inserted. As it is difficult to attach feedback sensors to the alignment stage in the alignment chamber, the alignment stage is implemented with the open loop algorithm, where the parallel link structure has been designed using step-motors and ball-screws for structural simplicity. The kinematic analysis is performed to drive the parallel link structure, based on the experiments of actuation-compensation of the alignment stage. For the error compensation, the hyperpatch model has been used to model the errors. From the experiments, the positional accuracy of the alignment stage can be improved significantly.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.481-488
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• 2001

The sustaining driver for color AC Plasma Display Panel should provide alternating high voltage pulses and recover the energy discharged from the intrinsic capacitance between the scanning and sustaining electrodes inside the panel In this paper a novel efficient energy recovery circuit employing boost-up function is proposed to achieve a faster rise-time and in order to obtain a stable sustain voltage The principle of operation. features simulated results and experiment results are illustrated and verified on a 7.5-inch-panel with 200［kHz］switch frequency.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.378-385
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• 2007

AC PDP has disadvantages that power consumption and sustain voltage are high. An energy recovery circuit for AC PDPs with reduced sustain voltage was proposed to solve these disadvantages. However, the circuit has disadvantage that the switching elements are performed hard switching at the start point of discharge and sustaining region. The reason is that the panel voltage is lower than sustain voltage at that point. In this paper, we propose the improved driving method that switching devices are operated with ZVS by using CIM(Current Infection Method) also at that point. CIM region is designed by theoretical circuit analysis. Finally, the validity of the proposed driving method is verified by the simulations and experimentation.