Multilevel voltage wave-shaping display driver for AC plasma display panel application

Author

Roh, Chung-Wook ; Kim, Hye-Jeong ; Lee, Sang-Hoon ; Youn, Myung-Joong

Author_Institution

Hardware R&D Group, Samsung Electron. Co., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

38

Issue

6

fYear

2003

fDate

6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

935

Lastpage

947

Abstract

A new sustainer circuit with multilevel voltage wave-shaping characteristics for an AC plasma display panel (AC-PDP) drive is proposed. The proposed circuit features half the device voltage stresses and significantly reduced power losses compared with those of the conventional ones. This circuit, realizable without much increased cost of the semiconductor devices, gives a significant improvement in the power efficiency, essential for the design of a drive circuit for the AC-PDP. A comparative analysis and experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed sustainer circuit.

Keywords

driver circuits; equivalent circuits; flat panel displays; losses; plasma displays; power electronics; AC plasma display panel application; AC-PDP drive; multilevel voltage display driver; power efficiency; power losses; sustainer circuit; voltage stresses; wave-shaping display driver; Costs; Discharges; Driver circuits; Drives; Flat panel displays; Plasma displays; Reactive power; Semiconductor devices; Stress; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2003.811992

Filename

1201996