• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.416-418
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• 2008

Cost effective and high efficiency energy recovery circuit (ERC) using an address voltage source is proposed. Different from prior ERC, the proposed circuit uses a voltage source to charge a panel and a current source to discharge the panel. As a result, it can be achieved zero voltage switching (ZVS) of switches in H-bridge inverter and zero current switching (ZCS) of switches of the ERC. Moreover, the proposed ERC can obtain high efficiency, high performance and the decrease of the cost and the size.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.179-184
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• 2014

The discharge characteristics of an open dielectric structure were investigated, especially such as a firing voltage and related wall voltage, compared with conventional panel structure based on the Vt close curve measurement in AC plasma display panel. While the front panel of the conventional structure in AC plasma display panel was composed of the glass, electrodes, and dielectric, the open dielectric structure could easily produce the discharge between the scan and the sustain electrodes by erasing the dielectric layer between two electrodes. As the open dielectric structure differ from the conventional structure, various problems were produced when driving with the conventional driving waveform. Especially, due to the changes in the discharge firing characteristics of the open dielectric structure between the scan and the sustain electrodes on the front panel, the conventional reset waveform including the address waveform needed to be modified. In this study, the Vt close curves were measured to compare the discharge firing voltages on three electrodes in the conventional and open dielectric structure and based on the Vt close curve analysis, the modified driving waveform suitable for the open dielectric structure was proposed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.1555-1558
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• 2008

Various approaches were undertaken by major PDP makers in order to improve the luminous efficacy of the plasma discharge cells. There have been many reports that state that using a high Xe content PDP is one of the most promising key technologies available to improve the luminous efficacy. In the case of the higher Xe content panel, the higher address and sustain voltage were needed to drive the panel under the same reset condition. In this study, a variety of Xe content panels were investigated in order to examine wall voltage transfer behaviors. The transferred wall voltage status after addressing discharge at the same driving condition was analyzed by comparing Vt close curve of high and low Xe content panels. Through this analysis of Vt close curve difference, the driving waveform of a high Xe panel was quantitatively adjusted Under the same address voltage condition, results showed that the amount of the transferred wall voltage and Vt close curve after addressing discharge was matched for the first sustain discharge. Taking these results into consideration, we conclude that the driving waveform for different Xe content panels could be designed for the desired addressing discharge condition and the wall voltage state of the cell could be quantitatively controlled and measured through these approaches.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.925-928
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• 2006

With the high sustain frequency at 250 kHz, a three-dimensional diagnostics of excited xenon atoms was investigated by the emission and absorption microscopic spectroscopy for plasma display panels, spatiotemporally. As a typical feature of the emissions, a broad discharge peak was observed on the temporal cathode and a sharp one was monitored on the anode, at the high frequency. However, the discharge starts from the cathode edge, actually, that is a discharge space on the floated address (or data) electrode. Spatially, the dense emission and absorption peak were observed in the discharge space between the sustain electrodes gap. Overall, the microdischarge at high sustain frequency showed priming dominant characteristics.

• 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.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.39-44
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• 2001

The conditions of the wall charges and priming particles in a unit discharge cell in AC PDP seriously affect the addressing discharge characteristics in the driving method with ramped setup pulse. Moreover, the discharge conditions at the end of the scan line may be different from the first scan line because of the difference of about 1ms address time. Consequently, the addressing time and its dispersion may be different for any two discharge cells that lead to misfiring and the increase in the total addressing time. In order to improve the addressing time and its dispersion, we have applied different addressing voltage at each cell such as progressively increase pulse voltage instead of constant one. As a result, the addressing time and its dispersion of all cells were improved by about 30% compared with the conventional driving method.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.25-29
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• 2006

By the voltage threshold (Vt) close-curve measurement method, the changes in the discharge characteristics such as a firing voltage and IR emission among the three electrodes were examined relative to the low or high panel temperature ranging from -10 to $80^{\circ}$. The variation in the panel temperature was found significantly influence the surface discharge between the MgO surfaces rather than the plate gap discharge between the MgO and phosphor layers. Based on this experimental observation, a modified reset waveform that alleviates the surface discharge during a ramp-up and -down period was deeloped. By adopting the proposed reset waveform, a stable address discharge could be obtained irrespective of the panel temperature variation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.1834-1836
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• 2000

In this paper, we investigated the relationship between the position of bus electrode and address time in ac PDP of 50in. XGA resolution. When the bus electrode was placed at distance 140${\mu}m$ from discharge gap, address time was the least.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2007

• 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.