Electrophoretic Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Auxiliary Layer for Power Saving in AC Plasma Display Panels

Author

Liu, Qifa ; Wang, Yan ; Yang, Zhuoqing ; Ding, Haiquan ; Liu, Chang ; Ding, Guifu

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Nano/Micro Fabrication Technol., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

2012

fDate

4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1110

Lastpage

1116

Abstract

The carbon nanotube (CNT) auxiliary layers are suggested to reduce the high driving voltage in ac plasma display panel (AC-PDP). The CNT layer, which was integrated on dielectric layer overlapping the PDP bus electrode, was formed by electrophoretic deposition without sheltering further plasma emission light. The effective CNT pretreatment, uniform and thickness distribution of CNTs in the layer result in the excellent field-emission properties of low turn-on field (1.7 V/μm), which was proved to effectively reduce the discharge voltage of display cell with A-type (CNT layer is at the middle of indium-tin-oxide electrode) in a series of discharge testing. The lowest sustain volt- age for turning on the cells was reduced by 30-40 V. The FE-PDP theoretical model was proposed for explaining the testing results.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; discharges (electric); electrodeposition; electrophoresis; nanofabrication; plasma deposition; plasma displays; plasma transport processes; AC plasma display panels; C-ITO; FE-PDP model; PDP bus electrode; carbon nanotube auxiliary layer; carbon nanotube thickness distribution; dielectric layer; discharge testing process; discharge voltage; electrophoretic deposition process; field-emission properties; high driving voltage; indium-tin-oxide electrode; low turn-on field; plasma light emission; power saving; Copper; Discharges; Electrodes; Partial discharges; Plasmas; Resists; Testing; AC plasma display panel (AC-PDP); carbon nanotube (CNT) auxiliary layer; electrophoretic deposition (EPD); field emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2012.2183393

Filename

6145706