A study of the discharge characteristics and energy balance of a Ne/Xe pulsed planar dielectric barrier: simulation via the one-dimensional particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collision method

Abstract

Plasma display panels (PDPs) are one of the leading technologies in the flat panels market. However, they are facing intense competition. Different fluid models, both one-dimensional (1D) and 2D, have been used to analyze the energy balance in PDP cells in order to find out how the xenon excitation part can be improved to optimize the luminous efficiency. The aim of this work is to present a 1D particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collision (PIC–MCC) model for PDPs. The discharge takes place in a Xe10–Ne gas mixture at 560 Torr. The applied voltage is 381 V. We show at first that this model reproduces the electric characteristics of a single PDP discharge pulse. Then, we calculate the energy deposited by charged particles in each collision. The total energy is about 19 μJ cm−2, and the energy used in xenon excitation is of the order of 12.5% compared to the total energy deposited in the discharge. The effect of xenon content in a Xe–Ne mixture is also analyzed. The energies deposited in xenon excitation and ionization are more important when the xenon percentage has been increased from 1 to 30%. The applied voltage increases the energy deposited in xenon excitation.

Theoretical investigation of streamer characteristics in Ne–Xe–HCl pulsed high-pressure discharges

“…The transport coefficients and the electronic collision frequencies, which depend on the reduced electric field (E/N), are precalculated and tabulated by solving the steady state, homogeneous electron Boltzmann equation, using BOLSIG solver [26]. It is worth noting that the bibliographic research on the electronic reaction rates shows that most of references are long-established, but they constitute the basis of the set of models used for description of plasma display panels [27], excimer lamps and lasers [10,14,16,[28][29][30].…”

Comparison of particle in cell and fluid models in plasma display panels simulation

“…This model use different approximations like local field approximation (LFA). The aim of this work is to compare our one dimensional particle in cell model with Mont Carlo Collisions model (PIC'MCC) [19][20] to the 1D fluid model used by Meunier et al [21]. The two models are presented in Section 2.…”