Address Discharge Simulation of Additional Pulse Application to Common Electrode in AC PDP

Abstract

The address discharge simulation and the light waveform are investigated when the additional pulses are applied to the common electrode during an address period in AC plasma display panel. The wall charges in a cell are accumulated on three electrodes during a reset period and those are utilized to produce the address discharge triggering in addition to the externally applied voltage between the scan and address electrodes during an address period. As the accumulated wall charges should be utilized on the overall electrodes to improve the address discharge triggering, the additional pulses are applied to the common sustain electrodes when the scan and address pulses are driven. In this study, the Xe 3P2 energy state to generate the vacuum ultraviolet are simulated when the scan and address pulses on two electrode are applied including the additional pulses on the common electrodes. In addition, the address discharge light waveforms in the conventional and the proposed driving method are measured and compared.