• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.587-591
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• 2005

Driving Waveform of AC PDP in reset periode is increased and decreased with constant slope to improve dark room contrast ratio and image quality. But the slope and magnitude of ramp waveform are related to strong and weak discharge with temperature change in AC PDP. So this paper proposes a methods of changing the slope and magnitude of ramp waveform during reset periode according to temperature change in AC PDP. Experimental variable factors ire chosen to setup slope, setdown slope, and -Vy voltage magnitude in Y sustain electrode. The proposed methods are expected to compensate for effect of the temperature change, causing misfiring in high and low temprature, with varing the slope and magnitude of ramp voltage during reset period and improve image quality.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1189-1192
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• 2007

We propose new driving schemes, asymmetry and long gap mode, of PDP having auxiliary electrode between scan and common electrode. For the asymmetric modes, the auxiliary electrode located nearly center of the primary electrodes is connected to the scan of common electrode during all periods of reset, address and sustain. For the long gap mode, it is electrically disconnected or maintained at dc voltage of Vs/2 during sustain period except the first several sustain pulses. The proposed structure and driving method can provide higher luminous efficacy by minimizing consumption energy. The effectiveness of the new driving schemes has been investigated for various Xe partial pressure conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.22 no.1 s.79
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• pp.36-39
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• 2007

It is important to know Minimum Ignition Energy(MIE) of flammable materials for ignition hazard of chemical processes etc.. Currently a capacitor discharge is used mainly to measure the MIE. Then, it is impossible to control actively discharge energies and discharge time because the MIE measurement uses a high voltage capacitor and fixed capacitor. However, the control of discharge energy and discharge time will be convenient if self-sustain discharge is used. In this paper, we measured the MIE by self-sustain discharge of a pulse shape to propose the new measuring method of the MIE. AS a result, ignition energies are increased gradually as discharge duration time gets longer, and discharge current grows larger. Also, an arc discharge and a glow discharge occurred during the experimental period, and the ignition by glow discharges happened when discharge duration time was $90{\mu}s$, discharge current was 8A and 1A Especially, the MIE occurred the 0.05mm and 0.08mm of the gap distance between discharge electrode in the same discharge duration time.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1023_1024
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• 2009

In this paper, a novel 10kV, 50A, 50kHz pulsed power supply based on IGBT stacks is proposed. Proposed scheme consists of series connected 12 IGBT to generate maximum 10kV output pulse and 10kW full bridge phase-shifted zero voltage switching converter to charge DC capacitor voltage. Each IGBTs are sustain the 830V of capacitor voltage at turn off interval. By turn on the each IGBT for the same time it gives the path for the series connection of charged capacitor. From above turn on and off procedure, high voltage repetitive pulse is applied to the load. The synchronization of gating signal is important of series operation of IGBTs. For gating signal synchronization, specially designed gate power circuit using full bridge inverter and pulse transformer is developed to generate IGBT gating signal.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2003

As a convenient means for the characterization of the wall voltage and wall charge of AC PDPs during the sustain period, an equivalent circuit model for AC PDPs is presented. The equivalent circuit model for AC PDPs consists of capacitors and thyristors. The equivalent circuit model is based on the physical structure of the AC PDP and the I-V characteristic of the discharge space. This equivalent circuit model can be easily implemented in the standard simulators such as SPICE and can easily simulate the variation of the current, charge and voltage involved in AC PDPs as the supply voltage varies.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.2
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• pp.237-242
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• 2012

In this paper, we investigated effects of ITO electrode geometry and dielectric layer thickness on the discharge Characteristic of AC PDP. As the dielectric thickness is decreased ($30{\sim}12{\mu}m$), firing and sustain voltage is decreased. Luminance and discharge power increase with decreasing dielectric layer thickness because of increasing capacitance between plasma and electrodes. Reactive power decreases with dielectric thickness due to reduced capacitance between sustain electrodes. For the high Xe test panel with small ITO electrode, luminous efficacy as well as luminance increase with decreasing dielectric layer thickness. This result suggest that high power density and small plasma volume is beneficial for high efficacy discharge.

• 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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• 2003.07a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2003

The real test panel with the $200{\mu}m$ discharge gap in a coplanar AC plasma display panel was investigated. The auxiliary electrode was placed between two sustain electrodes and used for providing wall charges and prime particle during sustain period. The luminous efficiency had the maximum value when the voltage of the auxiliary pulses was 20 ${\sim}$ 100[V]. The luminous efficiency of coplanar long-gap discharge with auxiliary electrode was 2.6 times as much as that of the conventional structure.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06e
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• pp.179-182
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• 2000

We have proposed a new driving method of AC PDPs for high resolution and high luminance, in which address pulses shorter than 1 $\mu$sec and increase address time, make it possible to drive 2100 scan lines The proposed driving scheme also allows high sustain frequency, leading to improved luminance. The experiment with a 4-inch color AC PDP with 30$\times$58 pixels realized a high luminance of 850cd/$m^2$ when the sustain voltage of 140v with the frequency of 125KHz is applied to the panel, and showed the possibility of the proposed driving scheme for high luminance and high resolution AC PDPs with 2100 lines.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.12
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• pp.2441-2445
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• 2009

The effects of Si -doped MgO have been investigated in order to improve the material properties of the MgO protective layer in plasma display panels. A small amount of Si is added to the MgO pellet while the MgO layer is being deposited by using an electron-beam evaporation method. Both the surface characteristics of the protecting layer and the electro-optical properties of 4 in. test panels are investigated, such as XRD patterns, SEM images, firing and sustain voltages, secondary electron emission coefficient($\gamma$), luminance, luminous efficacy and lifetime. The firing and sustain voltage are minimized when Si concentration is 0.038%, where the luminance and luminous efficacy increase up to 17% and 26% compared with that of the pure MgO film, separately, and lifetime also shows good characteristics.