We fabricated a novel high voltage address driver (Hi‐AD) IC, which is necessary for low loss and low cost single sustain PDPs. By adopting an IGBT for the Hi‐AD IC, the cost of driver circuits can be reduced by 19% compared with a conventional dual sustain system.

We developed driving waveforms for new single sustain system with Hi‐AD. We designed address breakdown voltage up to 270V from conventional 100V to obtain the wide driving margin. The cost of sustain and address circuits can be reduced 19% compared with the conventional dual sustain system.

This paper presents a novel single sustain PDP with a high voltage address driver (Hi‐AD) that has an address supply voltage equal to the sustain voltage and does not change wall voltage on the address electrode side during sustain periods. The Hi‐AD system reduced the luminance degradation to only 1% after 1000 hours. A power consumption in an all black display condition for the Hi‐AD system is 28 % less than that for a conventional dual sustain system.