An energy-recovery sustaining driver with discharge current compensation for AC plasma display panel

Author

Liu, Chen-Chang ; Hsu, Horng-Bin ; Lo, Shin-Tai ; Chen, Chern-Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

2001

fDate

4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

351

Abstract

A novel driver with discharge current compensation is proposed to drive an AC plasma display panel (PDP). This proposed circuit uses resonance between the inductor and the AC PDP to avoid abrupt charging/discharging. The four switches of the full bridge are all operated with zero-voltage-switching turn-on. In addition, an 8-in AC PDP equipped with the proposed driving circuit, operating at 100 kHz, is investigated. With the discharge current compensation, the experimental results show that the proposed driver can maintain the AC PDP to light at lower voltage (129 V)

Keywords

bridge circuits; compensation; driver circuits; inductors; plasma displays; power supplies to apparatus; resonance; switching circuits; 100 kHz; 129 V; 8 in; AC plasma display panel; discharge current compensation; energy-recovery sustaining driver; full bridge; inductor; resonance; switches; zero-voltage-switching turn-on; Dielectric substrates; Driver circuits; Drives; Electrodes; Glass; Phosphors; Plasma displays; RLC circuits; Surface discharges; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/41.915413

Filename

915413