• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.494-501
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• 2006

In this paper, a novel energy recovery circuit for AC PDPs(Plasma Display Panels) with reduced sustain voltage is proposed to improve the performance of conventional circuits such as TERES(TEchnology of REciprocal Sustainer). In the TERES circuit, the sustain voltage is the half of general sustaining driver for AC PDPs, however, there is no energy recovery circuit. In the proposed circuit, the efficiency is heightened by installing in energy recovery circuit and the loss of switching device is reduced by performing the zero voltage switching or zero current switching. Although the energy recovery circuit is added, the number of active switching elements of the proposed circuit is the same as that of the TERES circuit. The operations of the proposed circuit are analyzed for each mode and its validity is verified by the simulations and experimentation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.615-619
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• 2007

MgO layer plays an important role for plasma display panels (PDPs). In this experiment, ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) methode was uesed to deposit a MgO thin film and the assisting oxygen ion beam energy was varied from 100 eV to 500 eV. In order to investigate the relationship between the secondary electron emission and the defect levels of the MgO layer, we measured the cathodoluminescence (CL) spectra of the MgO thin films, and we analyzed the CL peak intensity and peak transition. The results showed that the assisting ion beam energy played an important role in the peak intensity and the peak transition of the CL spectrum. The properties of MgO thin film were also analyzed using XRD and SEM, these results showed the assisting ion beam energy had direct effect on characteristics of MgO thin film.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.56-61
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• 2000

We present a fast inspection method of machine vision for in-line quality assurance of liquid crystal displays(LCD) and plasma display panels(PDP). The method incorporates an optical spatial filter in the Fourier plane of the imaging optics to block the normal periodic pattern, extracting only defects real time without relying on intensive software image process. Special emphasis is on designing a collimated white light source to provide high degree of spatial coherence for effective real time Fourier transform. At the same time, a low level of temporal coherence is attained to improve defect detection capabilities by avoiding undesirable coherent noises. Experimental results show that the proposed inspection method offers a detection accuracy of 15% tolerance, which is sufficient for industrial applications.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.886-889
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• 2006

Twin Auxiliary Electrodes were applied to the counter sustain electrode structure plasma display panels for the improvement of luminous efficiency. In advanced, we investigated the spatiotemporal behaviors of excited $Xe^{\ast\ast}(2p)$ atoms in that structure unit cell with various applied voltage conditions for the auxiliary electrodes. The near-IR emissions were observed by an ICCD camera combined with narrow band pass filter. As a partial result, the intensity of IR emissions and the response time were improved with the proposed twin auxiliary electrodes.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1199-1202
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• 2005

Inside of working PDP, there exist highly reactive conditions in the gap between two glass panels. MgO film and phosphor have been investigated as a function of discharge, also phosphor and sealing frits have been investigated as a function of temperature. Changes of impurity generation of MgO, phosphor and sealing fits were measured by using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and quadropole mass spectroscopy (XPS) and quadropole mass spectrometer (QMS). Impurities such as CO, $CO_2$, OH and $H_2O$ were increased during discharge and heating treatment. Gaseous impurities such as carbon compounds and water deteriorated the characteristics of PDP operation during of lifetime. So metal is used to remove the impurities of phosphor and sealing frits during hearting, the result that the quantity of the impurities such as carbon monoxide and water was reduced.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1269-1272
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• 2005

We propose a simple and efficient driving algorithm to reduce Dynamic False Contour(DFC) in Plasma Display Panels(PDPs) by using both accumulation and combination of light emission periods. Although the accumulative way of light emission in sustain period is regarded as more effective than combinational way to reduce DFC, it takes much addressing time to express high gray-scale. Therefore, we combine accumulative and combinational light emission methods to reduce DFC. In the proposed method, one TV field (16.7ms) is composed of four combinational subfields for expressing small gray scales and fifteen accumulative subfields for large gray scales. In addition, we use some Graphic Signal Processing(GSP) algorithm to get more natural images by reducing DFC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.554-557
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• 2002

In this paper, PDP driving circuit is designed to show the pattern of still-image with ADS (Address Display Separation) driving method. The designed circuits consist of three stages which are the image processing program, digital logic parts, and power circuits. The Image processing program is designed serial-communication with RS-232C using BASIC language. Digital logic parts design ADS driving signals with Xilinx FPGA and are simulated by ModelSim 5.5f. Power circuits convert output of digital logic parts into high voltage which panel is drived.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.01a
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• pp.101-102
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• 2000

The performance of ac plasma display panels (PDP) is influenced strongly by the surface glow discharge characteristics on the MgO thin films. This paper deals with the surface glow discharge characteristics and some physical properties of MgO thin films prepared by reactive RF planar unbalanced magnetron sputtering in connection with ac PDP. The samples prepared with the de bias voltage of -10V showed lower discharge voltage, lower erosion rate by ion bombardment, higher optic transparency and higher crack resistance in annealing process than those samples prepared by conventional magnetron sputtering or E-beam evaporation.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.748-751
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• 2009

This paper provides a novel scheme to enhance luminous efficiency within Plasma Display Panels (PDPs). The He-Xe or Ne-Xe mixtures are mainly used in conventional PDP cells, where their discharge characteristics exemplify different behavior. Significantly, the excitation efficiency in He-Xe is lower than that of the Ne-Xe mixture. This paper demonstrates that by adding a small quantity of Ar or Kr gas in Ne-Xe mixture increases cell efficiency, while for the He-Xe mixtures their cell efficiency is reduced.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.597-600
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• 2007

The address and sustain discharge characteristics in plasma display panels (PDPs) are investigated and compared by the optical emission spectroscopy using the ICCD and Vt close-curve analysis. The observations on the xenon (Xe) emission show that the spatial and temporal evolutions in the first sustain discharge are quite different from those in the address and the other sustain discharges. The striation found in the conventional sustain discharge doesn't occur in the first sustain discharge. These different discharge behaviors are explained by employing the Vt close-curve.