A New Driving Scheme for Reduction of Addressing time and its Dispersion in AC PDP

  • Lee, Sung-Hyun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Hyun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Park, Cha-Soo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Park, Chung-Hoo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Ryu, Jae-Hwa (PDP Business Operation, LG Electronics Inc)
  • Published : 2001.06.24

Abstract

The conditions of the wall charges and priming particles in a unit discharge cell in AC PDP seriously affect the addressing discharge characteristics in the driving method with ramped setup pulse. Moreover, the discharge conditions at the end of the scan line may be different from the first scan line because of the difference of about 1ms address time. Consequently, the addressing time and its dispersion may be different for any two discharge cells that lead to misfiring and the increase in the total addressing time. In order to improve the addressing time and its dispersion, we have applied different addressing voltage at each cell such as progressively increase pulse voltage instead of constant one. As a result, the addressing time and its dispersion of all cells were improved by about 30% compared with the conventional driving method.

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