Planar pulse discharge panel for a TV display

To realize a flat display panel for a high-definition TV (HDTV) receiver, the feasibility of a planar gas-discharge panel simply arranged with both the display and auxiliary cells on the same plane in the panel structure was studied. This would allow for a thick-film printing technique to be used for all fabrication processes. Using a pulse discharge driving scheme to provide internal memory, a monochrome current TV picture with 256 gray levels was reproduced on a small panel with 72 × 100 cells (horizontal cell pitch: 0.7 mm, vertical cell pitch: 0.5 mm).