A highly stabilized AC plasma display

Achieving overall stability of the ac plasma display/ memory device is vital to solving major problems to secure maintenance-free operation in its practical use. The stability improvement reported in this paper has been achieved by improving driving waveforms for the panel. The main improvements were: finding an address-pulse shape suitable for the panel characteristics, applying a proper address sequence, and the use of an addressing method free from half-select failure. These techniques have enabled us to obtain a wide operating margin in character-display application.