• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.168-172
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• 2014

A new sustain driving method is proposed to improve luminous efficiency by the generation of the self-erasing discharge during a sustain period in AC plasma display panel. As one subfield time in the conventional AC PDP is divided into the reset, address, and sustain period. Among them, as the square sustain waveform is alternately applied to the X and Y electrodes on the front plate during the sustain period, the plasma discharge for displaying the image is continuously produced. Meanwhile, in the conventional driving method, the address waveform applied to the A electrode on the rear plate is only driving during an address period and grounded during a sustain period. In this experiment, the negative pulse is applied to the A electrode at the latter part of the sustain pulse for improving the luminous efficiency producing the self-erasing discharge during the sustain period. The negative pulse on the A electrode can change from the space to the wall charge and induce the additional discharge by the accumulated wall charge when the voltages of three electrodes are grounded. As a result, the luminous efficiency will be measured with changes in the voltage level of the A electrode and the new driving method can be improved to the luminous efficiency about 32 % compared with the conventional driving method.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.511-514
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• 2004

ADS(Address Display period Separation) driving method has been considered to be the most appropriate driving technique for AC PDPs. However when the ADS driving method is applied to the high-resolution AC PDP, the required long addressing time often becomes a problem. In this paper, we present a new waveform for reducing the addressing time and for the stable addressing discharge. In this new waveform, a wall charge acceleration pulse is applied to the common electrode right after 80us scan time. In this way, the charge generated by the addressing discharge is accelerated to the electrodes. Experiments using the wall charge acceleration pulse showed that we could stably address an AC PDP with the scan pulses having pulse width of 1 us

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.61-64
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• 2002

The discharge characteristics of AC plasma display were investigated as a function of the voltage and the frequency of the pulses applied to the address electrode during sustain period. The maximum sustain voltage of display cell decreased with increasing the frequency of the pulses applied to the address electrode during sustain period. Applying the pulses to the address electrode resulted in improvement of luminance and luminous efficiency at the same time.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.2215_2216
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• 2009

As a driving method of AC PDP, address display separated (ADS) scheme has been widely used. In ADS method, a picture of one frame is divided into eight subfields. In this paper, the effect of sustain voltage stress have been studied with several parameters. The experimental results show that sustain pulses in the previous subfield work as the stress to address discharge in the current subfield. It is also shown that as the voltage of the sustain period in the previous subfield increases, the address time lag in the current subfield decrease slightly.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.105-108
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• 2003

A new high speed addressing method is proposed to reduce the addressing time below lus per line in AC PDP. In this method, the priming discharge is used to achieve a high speed addressing without adding an auxiliary electrode. Two different types of priming discharges were studied to achieve a high speed addressing and also reduce the inherent light output caused by the priming discharge in order to improve the contrast ratio characteristics. In the panel experiment, the addressing was successfully done with a lus address pulse width in the new method and the better contrast ratio was achieved in the Y-A priming rather than the Y-X priming case even though the reduction of the address period was smaller than that of the Y-X priming due to the extra address time for the priming discharges.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.05b
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• pp.103-107
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• 2000

The relationships between driving voltage and the wall charge distribution in the address period of surface discharge type AC Plasma Display Panel have been investigated. The quantity of wall charge on each electrode are detected simultaneously from the electrode current after applying only one addressing discharge pulse. The wall charge Qy on the scan electrode Y is nearly the sum of Qx on the address electrode X and Qz on the sustain electrode Z. The Qy increased with the driving voltage regardless of the kind of electrode, whereas the address time Td decreased, Qz and Qy are increased considerably with the blocking voltage Vz, whereas Qx is decreased. The increase rate of Qx, Qy and Qz for increase in Vz was $-13{\times}10^{-2}$ (pc/Vz), and $60{\times}10^{-2}$ (pc/Vz) and $70{\times}10^{-2}$(pc/Vz), respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.27-33
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• 2007

A novel priming discharge technique in which the ramp shaped priming pulse is superposed on the sustain period so that the entire plasma display panel (PDP) is discharged at the same time with a single drive circuit is proposed. From the experimental results, it is ascertained that the priming discharge is ignited only in a pixel in which sustain discharge does not occur and it has been understood that the priming pulse hardly influences the sustain discharge. Moreover, high-speed driving with address pulse widths of 0.7[${\mu}s$] was achieved and a wide address voltage margin of 40[V] was obtained by using the drive method applied the proposed priming discharge technique. In these results, full-HDTV PDP with 1080 horizontal scanning lines can be driven without decreasing the brightness and the possibility of the commercializing is also high because this technology is designed for using the commercialized driver IC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1315-1317
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• 2008

The plasma display panel is an image expression display using gas discharge. However gas discharge characteristics vary with temperature. Furthermore, the potential difference among three electrodes appears in sustain period due to external applied voltages. It affects to the wall charge state accumulated on the electrodes. This research aims at identifying that the discharge characteristics depend on the potential difference and temperature. The results show that the wall charge loss increases with increase of the number of applied pulse during sustain period and it severely appears at high temperature.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.12
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• pp.2189-2195
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a newly developed selective reset waveform of a ac PDP using the wide erase pulse technique with the control of address bias voltage. Although it is generally understood that the wide pulse erasing methode shows the narrow driving margin in an opposite discharge type ac PDP, we could obtain a moderate driving margin in a 3-electrode surface discharge type ac PDP. The obtained driving margin shows a strong dependency on the sustain voltage and the address bias voltage. The lower the sustain and the address bias voltage, the wider the driving margin. The pulse width of the proposed waveform is only $10{\mu}s$, which gives additional time to the sustain period, hence increases the brightness. The brightness and contrast ratio increase about 20% together comparing to the conventional ramp type selective reset waveform with the driving scheme of 10 subfield ADS method. The driving margin was measured with the line by line addressed pattern on the white test panel of 2inch diagonal size and the discharge gas was Ne+Xe4%, 400torr.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.14-20
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• 2006

The discharge characteristics for the reset period of sustain pulses of display discharge in address overlapped display driving methode is studied. It has been understood that the display discharge is strongly influenced of not only the wall charge but also the space charge from the experiment result. The first display discharge which comes out exactly after the rest periods strongly depends on the width of the reset period and as for the second display discharge, the dependancy of it is very low. Even if the first display discharge is a little insufficient if the wall charge is accumulated enough, the second display discharge can be stably induced. However, considering the influence of the space charge, it is preferable within the width of $30[{\mu}s}]$ of the reset period. When the rest period is up to $30[{\mu}s}]$, the uniform voltage operation margin of the display discharge of about 12[V] was obtained.