A Novel Energy Recovery Sustaining Driver with Snubber Circuits for Plasma Display Panel

  • Chen, Jyh-Wei (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Lee, Chin-Yuan (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Lu, Chien-Hung (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Wang, Ssu-Hao (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Hsia, Yi-Feng (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Chang, Wei-Chun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University) ;
  • Mo, Chi-Neng (Electronic System Design Department, Multimedia Photonics Division, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), LTD.) ;
  • Liu, Chia-Lin (Electronic System Design Department, Multimedia Photonics Division, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), LTD.) ;
  • Yang, Sung-Tse (Electronic System Design Department, Multimedia Photonics Division, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), LTD.)
  • Published : 2005.07.19

Abstract

An energy recovery sustaining driver with zero current switching to reduce switching losses and EMI is presented in this paper. The driver with designed snubber circuits reduces ringing voltage significantly on PDP so that the voltage rating of MOSFETs can be lower as well to reduce the cost of switches.

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