Abstract
A new electrode configuration was proposed to improve
the performance of color ac plasma display panels (PDPs). ITO electrodes on
the front plate of a PDP were used as auxiliary sustain electrodes, which
were electrically isolated from the metal electrodes by a dielectric isolation
layer. When this type of PDP operates, the sustain voltage waveforms are only
applied to the metal electrodes, so the ITO electrodes always lie in floating
potentials. By numerical simulation, the microdischarge process in a PDP cell
with floating auxiliary electrodes was analyzed, and the influence of the
insulation layer thickness on the cell electrical parameters was investigated.
It was found that a discharge in the cell was firstly generated at the narrow
gap between a pair of floating electrodes, and then it grew into a long-path
discharge including a positive column region between a pair of metal electrodes.
Two 12-inch test panels having this floating-electrode-type cell structure
were fabricated, together with two other test panels as references having
a conventional cell structure and a regular long-gap cell structure, respectively,
and their electrical and optical characteristics were measured and compared
to each other. The results indicate that the PDP with floating electrodes
can achieve a high luminance and a high luminous efficacy at a relatively
low sustain voltage.
© 2013 IEEE
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