• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.475-480
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• 2004

One of the most important issues in AC PDP is the improvement of luminous efficiency. One possible method is to develop new sustain electrode shape showing high luminous efficiency. In this study, a new electrode shapehas a bridge is proposed in order to solve this problem. The experimental results show that the test panel with the suggested new electrode shape shows high luminance efficiency by 35.35% and low sustain voltage by 17V compared with the conventional structure.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.180-186
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• 2005

As a driving method of AC-PDP, Address-Display Separated(ADS) driving has been widely adopted for its simple architecture and low discharge failure rate. However, a high definition like a HDTV has defect of long addressing time by reason of a number of pixels. Priming effect isn't fully sustained because of long addressing time during the address period. Therefore, it has different wall charge and luminance of each addressing time in the sustain period. In this study, we suggest a new driving waveform on the address period to improve these defects. We applied a ramp waveform, instead of a square waveform, to an address period in ADS, for operating on the AC-PDP, which used the conventional gas [He-Ne-Xe]. When the ramp waveform is applied to the address period, we experimented for uniform wall charge and the improved luminance by sustained Priming effect at each addressing time in the sustain period.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.50-56
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• 2002

When the plasma panel is used as a display, frequent discharging are made to occur by alternatively charging each side of the panel to a critical voltage, which causes repeated gas discharges to occur. In this paper, an efficient sustain driver is proposed to achieve a faster rise-time in order to be suitable to widely used ADS driving method. The proposed circuit increases an operational margin up to 20 % compared with conventional approaches improving the recovery efficiency regardless of the variation of panel capacitance. Thanks to the increased operational margin, the brightness decrease problem can be solved without a limitation to sustain pulse width. The principle of operation, and features are illustrated, and verified on a 7.5 inch diagonal panel at 200 kHz operating frequency - based on experimental prototype.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.284-290
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• 2006

This study uses neon, xenon, and helium gas mixture microdischarge to determine the effects of priming particles on the neon emission characteristics in an alternate current plasma display panel (AC PDP). The infrared (823 nm) and neon emission (585 nm) intensities are measured and compared in the blue cells in the case of new discharge with priming particles or conventional discharge without priming particles, respectively. It is found that the priming particles can produce a plasma discharge effectively even under the weak electric field condition, thereby resulting in reducing the neon emission intensity remarkably without sacrificing the IR emission intensity. As a result, it is found that the Ne emission intensity is reduced by about 46.4 % but the blue visible emission intensity is increased by about 15.2 % when compared with the conventional discharge without priming particles.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.59-62
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• 1996

Plasma displays (PDP) as a large area wall-hanging display device are rabidly developed with flat CRT, TPT LCD and etc. Especially, AC Plasma Display Panels(AC PDPs) have the inherent memory function which is effective for large area displays. The memory function in AC PDPs is caused by the accumulation of the electrical charge on the protecting layer formed on the dielectric layer. This MgO protective layer prevents the dielectric layer from sputtering by ion in discharge plasma and also has the additional important roll in lowering the firing voltage due to the large secondary electron emission coefficient). Until now, the MgO Protective layer is mainly formed by E-Beam evaporation. With increasing the panel size, this process is difficult to attain cost reduction, and are not suitable for large quantity of production. To the contrary, the methode of shuttering are easy to apply on mass production and to enlarge the size of the panel and shows the superior adhesion and uniformity of thin film. In this study, we have prepared MgO protective layer on AC PDP Cell by reactive magnetron sputtering and studied the effect of MgO layer on the surface discharge characteristics of ac PDP.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2004

Recently the PDP is the most remarkable media for a next generation display device. In this paper, we proposed the PDP dedicated AC-DC converter using quasi resonant method because the PDP has a lot of power dissipation so we need to develope. The proposed converter using one transformer has soft switching and a advantage to lower voltage stress in switch and also is predicted to have high power efficiency, we proposed the principles and theory using the zero voltage switching and verified the validity through a experiment.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.145-147
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• 2002

다양한 정보와 동영상을 표시할 수 있는 멀티미디어 시대의 디스플레이 소자로서 Plasma Display Panel(PDP)은 특히 대형화면 분야에 유력한 표시장치로 각광을 받고 있다. 그러나 대화면의 벽걸이형 표시장치인 PDP가 널리 보급되기 위해서는 몇 가지 해결되어야 할 문제점들이 있다. 높은 소비전력과 화질의 향상, 그리고 높은 생산 가격 등의 문제점 중에서도 PDP 의 소비 전력을 낮추어야 하는 문제는 PDP의 보급을 위하여 가장 중요한 문제로 지적되고 있다. 새로운 유지 방전 구동 방식인 전하 제어 구동 방식은 기존의 구동 회로에 비해서 낮은 외부 공급전압을 사용함으로 사용되는 소자의 저가격화가 가능하며, 방전 시 소비되는 방전전류를 감소 시켜 소비전력을 낮추며 결과적으로 소비전력 대비 발광효율을 증대시키는 새로운 고효율 AC PDP 구동 방식이다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.65-65
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• 2002

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.267-273
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• 2003

The plasma display panel with the electrode structure of new discharge AND gate and its driving scheme were proposed and the driving system for experiment was developed. And operation of these discharge AND gate was verified by the experiment of PDP addressing with floating electrode. This discharge AND gate operated by the operation speed of 8$mutextrm{s}$ and the operation margin of 100V. The address operation margin of 10V also obtained. It was known to be able to control the discharge of the adjoining scan electrode accurately. Because proposed method uses the DC discharge the control of the discharge can be facilitated compared with conventional discharge AND gate. Moreover, because the input discharge and the output discharge of discharge gate are separate, the display discharge can be prevented from passing discharge gates. Therefore, it is possible to apply to the large screen plasma display panel. And the decrease of contrast ratio does not occur because the scanning discharge does not influence the picture quality.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.380-384
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• 2005

Plasma display panel (PDP) has a serious thermal problem, because the luminance efficiency of the conventional PDP is about 1.5 lm/W and it is less than $3{\sim}5$ lm/W of cathode ray tube (CRT). Thus there is a need for improving the luminance efficiency of the PDP There are several approaches to improve the luminance efficiency of the PDP and we adopt the driving PDP at high frequency range from 400 kHz up to over 700 kHz. Since a PDP is regarded as an equivalent inherent capacitance, many types of sustaining drivers have been proposed and widely used to recover the energy stored in the PDP. However, these circuits have some drawbacks for driving PDP at high frequency range. In this paper, we investigate the effect of the parasitic components of PDP itself and driver when the reactive energy of panel is recovered. Various drivers are classified and evaluated whether it is suitable for high frequency driver, and finally current-fed type with do input voltage biased is proposed. This driver overcomes the effect of parasitic component in panel and driver and fully achieves ZVS of all full-bridge switches and reduces the transition time of the panel polarity.