Effects of Cell Structure on the Contrast Ratio in AC PDP

  • Park, Chung-Hoo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Moon, Young-Seop (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Hyun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Goon-Ho (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Hyun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Ho-Jun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Published : 2002.08.21

Abstract

Luminance and contrast ratio is one of the most fundamental and important parameters of plasma display panel. Understanding the effects of cell design parameters on the display and background luminance is inevitable for improving the contrast ratio. We report the experimental results on the relationships between cell parameters and contrast ratio of the ac PDP driven by ADS scheme. It was found that the contrast ratio is the most significantly affected by rib height and optimum range of the rib height simultaneously affects the facing discharge during the reset periods, diffusion loss of plasma and shadowing of the visible light emitted from phosphor.

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