• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.1830-1833
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• 2000

The relationships between driving voltage and the wall charge distribution in the address period of surface discharge type AC Plasma Display Panel have been investigated. The quantity of wall charge on each electrode are detected simultaneously from the electrode current after applying only one addressing discharge pulse. The wall charge Qy on the scan electrode Y is nearly the sum of Qx on the address electrode X and Qz on the sustain electrode 2. The Qy increased with the driving voltage regardless of the kind of electrode, whereas the address time Td decreased, Qz and Qy are increased considerably with the blocking voltage Vz, whereas Qx is decreased. The increase rate of Qx, Qy and Qz for increase in Vz was $-13{\times}10^{-2}$(pc/Vz), and $60{\times}10^{-2}$(pc/Vz) and $70{\times}10^{-2}$(pc/Vz), respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1074-1077
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• 2003

우리는 AC-PDP에서 휘도와 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 Ne-Xe(4%)와 He(7)-Ne(3)-Xe(3%)에 소량의 Ar 또는 Kr를 첨가하여 최적의 페닝 방전가스 혼합비를 연구하였다. 우리는 이것을 증명하기 위해 효율과 Q-V 방법을 이용하여 벽전하를 계산하였으며, 2차원 시뮬레이션에서의 결과값과 비교하였다. 200 Torr 압력에서 He-Ne-Xe 또는 Ne-Xe에 소량의 Ar(0.01-0.1%) 또는 Kr(0.01-0.1%)을 첨가시켰을 때, 우리는 20% 이상의 휘도의 증가와 25% 이상의 효율 증가를 발견하였고, 또한 벽전하도 25% 이상의 증가를 보였다. 400 Torr 압력에서 He-Ne-Xe-Kr(0.005%)에 소량의 Ar(0.005-0.1%)를 첨가시켰을 때는 8% 이상의 휘도의 증가와 18% 이상의 효율 증가, 12% 이상의 벽전하 증가를 확인하였다. 결론적으로 이 결과는 He, Ne, Ar, Kr 사이에 추가적인 페닝효과가 휘도와 효율을 향상시켰다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1-5
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• 2000

Recently alternating-current Plasma Display Panel(AC-PDP) is in the spotlight as a digital television and high definition television. The panel structure widely adapted in commercial AC-PDP is three electrodes surface discharge type. At present time, the luminous efficiency is around 1lm/W, it should be a key factor for the commercialization. For the high luminous efficiency, the development of panel structure is necessary. At a given panel structure, a driving method should be optimized to get a sufficient luminous efficiency. The display image of AC-PDP could be realized by the repeated light emission from the discharge. Because most of discharge power is consumed in the sustaining period, the optimization of sustaining waveform is very important for the high luminous efficiency. ADS (Address and Display period Separated) driving method is commonly used. The average driving frequency of ADS driving method is ranged by several tens kilo of [kHz], however the actual frequency of sustaining period is in range of 100[kHz] to 200[kHz]. Based on this study, when the phosphor emits the visible light, it has a decay time of few milliseconds due to the material transfer to the phosphor to emit the visible light. Consequently the luminous efficiency decreases in proportion to the driving frequency. It is found that the luminous efficiency could be significantly improved by the low frequency sustaining driving method.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.142-146
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• 2007

Nowadays, itis inevitable trend to use high Xe gas contents for increase luminous efficiency and luminance in plasma display panel. However, the increase of Xe gas contents causes the driving voltage, although the brightness is increase. In this paper, we study the characteristics of electro optical according to Xe gas contents and gas pressure. Electro-optical characteristics were investigated by the discharge voltage, luminance and luminous efficacy measurements, respectively. With some increasing Xe gas contents and pressure, the electro-optical properties increased. However, the characteristics of electro-optical begin to be saturated, when too high increased Xe gas contents and pressure.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.631-634
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• 2002

Plasma Display Panel의 기술은 급격하게 발전하고 있지만, 여전히 몇 가지 문제를 해결하기 위해 다각적인 접근이 이루어지고 있다. 동화상의 윤곽제거, 광 대비 향상을 통한 화질의 개선, 신뢰도 및 전력 효율을 개선하는 등의 문제가 여기에 해당되며 그 중에서도 특히, 전력 효율을 향상시키기 위해서는 PDP의 발광효율을 높이는 것과 함께 기체방전과는 직접적인 관련이 없이 구동과정에서 발생하게 되는 불필요한 전력 소모를 최소화하여야한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 전력소모를 최소화하기 위한 새로운 형태의 고효율 에너지 회수 회로를 제안하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 동작을 확인하였다 그리고 제안하는 회로를 실제 7.5 인치 패널에 연결하고, 200 (kHz)에서 실험하여 제안한 에너지 회수 회로의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.205-213
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• 2006

A cost-effective magnetic-coupled AC-PDP sustain driver with low switching loss is proposed. The transformer reduces current stress in the energy recovery switches which affects circuit cost and reliability. The turns-ratio can be used to adjust the sustain pulse slopes which affect gas discharge uniformity. Dividing the recovery paths prevents abrupt changes in the output capacitance and thereby switching losses of the recovery switches is reduced. In addition, the proposed circuit has a more simple structure because it does not use the recovery path diodes which also afford a large recovery current. By reducing the current stress and device count in the energy recovery circuit, the proposed driver may have decreased circuit cost and improved circuit reliability.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.27-33
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• 2002

This paper proposes a method to drive an AC plasma display panel(PDP) with a significantly improved contrast ratio. In the proposed method, during the first sub-field of one frame, all PDP cells are reset by the ramp waveform, and during the other sub-fields, only the cells turned on in the previous sub-field are reset. No light is emitted during the reset period of every sub-field except the first sub-field. For a 10-bit picture, the luminance of the dark level for the proposed method is 10 times lower than that for the conventional method, in which the ramp waveform for the reset is used in every sub-field. Accordingly, the contrast ratio for the proposed method is 10 times higher than that for the conventional method. For the 10-bit picture, the measured contrast ratio was about 3080:1 for the proposed method and about 285:1 for the conventional method, resulting in 10.8 times increase in the contrast ratio. This result shows that the proposed method can realize an image with high contrast ratio.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.208-209
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• 2006

플라즈마 디스플레이 패널(Plasma Display Panel PDP)의 구동은 리셋, 어드레싱 및 써스테인 구동으로 나뉘어진다. 써스테인 기간동안 원하는 영상을 표현하기 위해서는 어드레싱이 필요하며, 효과적인 어드레싱을 위해서는 리셋이 필수적으로 요구된다. 그러나 이 리셋은 적지 않은 시간을 필요로 하며 배경광을 발생시켜 명암비를 저하시키는 영향을 가져온다. 본 논문에서는 배경광의 발생을 최소화하며 효과적인 어드레싱을 위한 초기화를 효과적으로 달성하고 이 초기화에 소요되는 시간이 기존의 리셋 방식에 비하여 절반 정도인 새로운 리셋 구동 방식을 제시한다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.949-952
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• 2006

We have measured the excited Xe atoms density in the $1s_5$ metastable states by laser absorption spectroscopy in accordance with various barrier ribs. In this experiment, the average density of one cell in the panel with stripe barrier rib has been measured to be $1.8{\times}10^{12}cm^{-3}$. The panel with close type barrier rib has been measured to be $5.1{\times}10^{12}cm^{-3}$.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 1999

The relationships between discharge characteristics and sustain electrode shape are studied in AC PDP by calculating the electric field and measuring discharge voltage, luminance and current. The maximum electric field is obtained for the triangle shape electrode. It is 1.8 times larger than uniform electric field type. It has been shown thatthe firing voltage is largely affected by the degree of electric field concentration. But, as the difference of the maximum and minimum value of electric field in a cell increases, the luminance and luminance efficiency decrease. And, the charge variation during discharge is proportional to the area of electrode.