In this paper, a novel sustaining driving waveform for ac-type plasma display panels is proposed. Significant improvement of the luminous efficiency can be achieved. The improvement comes from introducing self-erase discharges into the sustaining period. The self-erase discharge not only changes the sustaining discharge into a more efficient state, but also emits visible light additionally. Experimental verification under the same luminance 600 cd/m2 is performed on a 42-in plasma display panel. It is shown that the proposed sustaining driving approach consumes less power in the process of light emission by about 146 W than the conventional sustaining driving approach
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Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:30
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Issue:
1
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Date of Publication: Feb 2002