Discharge Characteristics of a Flat Plasma Backlight with Long Electrode Gap

  • Li, Q. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Luo, Y. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Zheng, Y. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Yang, L. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Cui, Y. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Liu, J. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Zhang, Z. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center) ;
  • Tolner, H. (Display Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center)
  • Published : 2008.10.13

Abstract

The discharge characteristics of a flat plasma backlight with long electrode gap are investigated. The effect of operating voltage and repetition rate on brightness and luminance efficiency is investigated. A new high efficacy mode is found at low frequencies around 15-40 KHz; a lumen efficacy of 15.3 lm/W is achieved at a luminance of $2400\;cd/m^2$. In the high brightness mode, present at high voltage, we find a maximum luminance of $5900\;cd/m^2$ at 30KHz.

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