P‐192L: Late‐News Poster: Novel High Voltage Address Driver (Hi‐AD) IC for High Performance PDPs with Single Sustain Drive

Abstract

We fabricated a novel high voltage address driver (Hi‐AD) IC, which is necessary for low loss and low cost single sustain PDPs. By adopting an IGBT for the Hi‐AD IC, the cost of driver circuits can be reduced by 19% compared with a conventional dual sustain system.

13.1: New Single Sustain System with High Voltage Address Driver (Hi‐AD) for Low Power Consumption and Low Cost PDPs

“…The electric potentials of the electrodes and the potential differences (voltages) between the electrodes are given by the relations of Eqs. (1) to (8).…”

“…During the reset period the potential difference between V X and V Y is kept to the threshold voltage of the weak discharge between Q X and Q Y instead of Eq. (8). Figure 4 illustrates the calculated wall voltages at various Vs*.…”

“…V. The composition of the proposed single sustain system with the Hi-AD and its operation during the address and reset period are explained in detail elsewhere[8] [9], and this paper shows calculated and experimental results for its operation during the sustain period.…”