Comparison of the fluid simulation with experimental data of excited Xe species density in PDP cell

  • Yang, Sung-Soo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Ko, Sang-Woo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Chul (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Mukherjee, Sudeshna (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Koo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2003.07.09

Abstract

We have compared 2-D and 3-D fluid simulation results of alternating current plasma display panel (AC-PDP) cell with experimentally measured two kinds of excited Xe species $Xe^{\ast}(^{3}P_{1})$ and $Xe^{\ast}(^{3}P_{2})$ characteristics. Although direct experimental access and diagnostics of the discharge in a PDP cell is problematic due to the small cell size, some of experimental technologies have made it possible to diagnose the behavior of excited Xe species [1, 2]. The simulation shows the similar characteristics to the experimental results in the excited Xe species density distribution and the number of excited Xe atoms in anode and cathode region. In certain cases, we obtained the arch-shaped discharge path between two sustain electrodes due to the additional pulse applied to address electrode analogous to experiment. This long path discharge induced higher luminous and discharge efficiency compared to the standard case.

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