Abstract:
A plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a first substrate made of a transparent material, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a first partition wall being located between the first substrate and the second substrate, defining discharge cells together with the first and second substrates, and being made of a dielectric material, upper discharge electrodes being located in the first partition wall and surrounding the discharge cells, lower discharge electrodes being located in the first partition wall to surround the discharge cells and separated from the upper discharge electrodes by a predetermined gap, protrusive electrodes being located in the first partition wall between the upper discharge electrodes and the lower discharge electrodes, connected to one of the upper discharge electrodes and the lower discharge electrodes, and separated from the other discharge electrodes by a predetermined gap, and a phosphor layer arranged in the discharge cells.
Abstract:
A plasma display panel. A first substrate and a second substrate are provided opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween. Address electrodes are formed on the second substrate. Barrier ribs are mounted between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge cells and a plurality of non-discharge regions. Phosphor layers are formed within each of the discharge cells. Discharge sustain electrodes are formed on the first substrate. The non-discharge regions are formed in areas encompassed by discharge cell abscissas and ordinates that pass through centers of each of the discharge cells. Also, external light absorbing members are formed between the second substrate and the barrier ribs layer at areas corresponding to locations of the non-discharge regions.
Abstract:
A PDP having a new discharge cell structure that improves light emission efficiency and light transmission by reducing reactive power that does not contribute to a discharge by reducing a displacement current between discharge electrodes includes: a transparent front substrate; a rear substrate arranged parallel to the front substrate; a plurality of front barrier ribs arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate to define discharge cells together with the front substrate and the rear substrate, wherein each of the barrier ribs includes a front unit of a dielectric material, a rear unit of a dielectric material, and a central unit of a dielectric material having a lower dielectric constant than that of the front unit and the rear unit, the central unit being interposed between the front unit and the rear unit; a front discharge electrode and a rear discharge electrode disposed in the front barrier ribs surrounding the discharge cells, and separated from each other leaving the central unit therebetween; a plurality of rear barrier ribs arranged between the front barrier ribs and the rear substrate; fluorescent layers arranged in spaces defined by the rear barrier ribs; and a discharge gas filling the discharge cells.
Abstract:
A plasma display panel reduces noise caused by the formation of minute gaps between the first substrate and the second substrate. The plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween, and a sealant formed on opposing surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant is formed around outer circumferential areas of the first substrate and the second substrate to seal the first substrate and the second substrate together. The sealant is formed of regions having a first width of substantially the same size and of regions having a second width greater than the size of the first width.
Abstract:
A PDP having a new discharge cell structure that improves light emission efficiency and light transmission by reducing reactive power that does not contribute to a discharge by reducing a displacement current between discharge electrodes includes: a transparent front substrate; a rear substrate arranged parallel to the front substrate; a plurality of front barrier ribs arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate to define discharge cells together with the front substrate and the rear substrate, wherein each of the barrier ribs includes a front unit of a dielectric material, a rear unit of a dielectric material, and a central unit of a dielectric material having a lower dielectric constant than that of the front unit and the rear unit, the central unit being interposed between the front unit and the rear unit; a front discharge electrode and a rear discharge electrode disposed in the front barrier ribs surrounding the discharge cells, and separated from each other leaving the central unit therebetween; a plurality of rear barrier ribs arranged between the front barrier ribs and the rear substrate; fluorescent layers arranged in spaces defined by the rear barrier ribs; and a discharge gas filling the discharge cells.
Abstract:
A plasma display panel includes a substrate that includes a first and second substrate disposed facing each other, a plurality of discharge electrodes disposed along a circumference of a discharge cell formed between the first and second substrate, a dielectric wall that buries the discharge electrodes, and a secondary electron emission amplifying unit that emits the secondary electrons into the discharge space and is formed at least on a portion of a surface that contacts plasma generated in the discharge space during a discharge. The discharge voltage can be reduced due to an increase in the emission of the secondary electrons.
Abstract:
A plasma display panel that improves luminance efficiency by increasing a plasma density by forming a magnetic field within a discharge space includes: a front substrate, a rear substrate, barrier ribs, upper sidewalls, address electrodes, discharge electrodes, a phosphor layer, and magnets. The front and rear substrates are arranged at a predetermined distance apart to face each other. The barrier ribs are arranged between the front and rear substrates to partition a space formed between the front and rear substrates into a plurality of discharge spaces. The upper sidewalls are arranged between the barrier ribs and the front substrate to define the discharge spaces in cooperation with the barrier ribs. The address electrodes extend in one direction over the rear substrate. The discharge electrodes are arranged within the upper sidewalls, the discharge electrodes arranged in parallel at a predetermined distance apart in a direction from the front substrate to the rear substrate to surround the discharge spaces and to extend across the address electrodes. The phosphor layer is arranged on at least one surface of each of the discharge spaces. The magnets are arranged in the upper sidewalls at a predetermined distance apart in a direction from the discharge electrodes to the discharge spaces.
Abstract:
A method of driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of sub-fields for time division gray-scale display exist in each frame which is a display period, and each of the sub-fields includes a reset period, an address period and a discharge-sustaining period. In the discharge-sustaining period, a sustaining pulse of a second level voltage based on a first level voltage is supplied to each Y-electrode line and X-electrode line according to a Y-supplied electrical-potential period and an X-supplied electrical-potential period. Each Y-supplied and X-supplied electrical-potential period includes a rising time to rise from the first level voltage to the second level voltage, a sustaining time to sustain the second level voltage, and a falling time to fall from the second level voltage to the first level voltage. An intermittent time to sustain the first level voltage, an intermittent time of the Y-supplied electrical-potential period, and an intermittent time of the X-supplied electrical-potential period do not overlap each other.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a PDP driving method and a plasma display device for providing stable discharge characteristics by varying gradients of PDP driving waveforms according to the external temperature of the PDP. A protection film of MgO reduces the secondary emission coefficient as the temperature is reduced. In order to compensate for the reduction, the external temperature is measured by an external temperature sensor, and the gradients in a falling period and/or the rising period during a reset period of a driving voltage waveform are modified according to the measured external temperature. In detail, the gradients in the falling period and/or the rising period of the reset period are varied to be less steep when the measured temperature is reduced to below a predetermined level such as freezing or −10 degrees C.