Improving luminous efficacy using dual sustain pulse waveform associated with short sustain pulse width in AC-plasma display panels

Abstract

In the previous work, we reported that the luminous efficacy was significantly improved using the short sustain pulse width with sufficiently long off-time between sustain pulses. In this paper, we have proposed the dual sustain pulse as an alternative of short sustain pulse width when the off-time is short. We demonstrate that the luminous efficacy can be significantly improved by using the new dual sustain waveform, which is attribute to the effects of the dual sustain pulse as well as short sustain pulse width when the off-time is 1μs. The proper adjustment of the 1st sustain discharge can induce the 2nd sustain discharge out of the sustain pulse, resulting in the high luminous efficacy. Comparing to the luminous efficacy of the conventional case, it is improved by approximately 130 % due to the effects of dual sustain pulse as well as short sustain pulse width.