Abstract— The vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) ray emission characteristics for plasma‐display panels (PDPs) were studied with respect to various three‐component (He‐Ne‐Xe) and two‐component (He‐Xe and Ne‐Xe) gas systems. In the 4% Xe‐25% Ne‐He balance and 4% Xe‐He balance, an increase in the pressure contributed to an increase in the 147‐nm atomic emission, and above a certain point this decreased, while in the 4% Xe‐Ne balance it was saturated. The 172‐nm dimer emission showed a nearly linear increasing behavior with pressure and Xe content irrespective of its composition. In the various Xe with 25% Ne‐He balance gases, it was shown that total integrated VUV intensity can directly represent the luminance of real panels with the same gas compositions. Xe‐content variation showed similar characteristics of VUV emission as pressure variation both in two‐component (various Xe‐Ne balance) and three‐component (various Xe‐25% Ne‐He balance) systems. Therefore, different compositions with the same Xe partial pressure showed nearly the same optical properties. For the case of Ne content variation with 4% Xe, the 147‐nm peak increased and the 172‐nm peak decreased to 85% Ne, but above this point both intensities decreased.

The vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) ray emission characteristics for Plasma Display Panels (PDP) were studied using various systems.In the 3-component (Xe-25%Ne-He bal.) systems, an increase in the pressure and Xe content contributed to an increase in the 147nm atomic emission, whereas above a certain point this decreased. In contrast, in the 2-component 4%Xe-Ne bal. System, the 147 nm atomic emission was saturated with an increase in pressure. Integrated intensities of 147nm, 172nm and the total were largely changed with different measuring conditions (V fixed and V sus ), with Xe content variation. With the increase of Xe content, when measured at V sus, atomic emission shows maximum value at 8 % while dimer emission linearly increased. On the other hand, atomic emission shows maximum value at 4 % in V fixed condition . Different 3-component gas compositions with the same Xe partial pressure showed nearly the same optical properties at a fixed applied voltage. In the case of Ne, the 147nm peak increased and the 172nm peak decreased with an increasing Ne content.