Self-shift characteristics of single-substrate AC plasma display incorporating suspended electrodes

Author

Anandan, Munisamy ; Andreadakis, Nicholas C. ; Ngo, Peter D T ; Wullert, John R., II ; Nelson, Terence J. ; Meagher, Brian

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

37

Issue

5

fYear

1990

fDate

5/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1264

Lastpage

1270

Abstract

The suspended-electrode single-substrate AC plasma display, which has low input power and full color capability (because of reduced ion bombardment), has been examined for operation as a self-shift display. The structural symmetry of these devices has been improved by special process steps involving self-aligning and touch-up-etch techniques. The pixel shift has been successfully performed on individual pixels along the suspended electrodes, and the results indicate a shift speed of 2000 characters/s with a resolution of 30 lines/in. No tendency of reverse-shift has been noticed (hence good directivity). However, it was not possible to perform a shift operation perpendicular to the direction of suspended electrodes due to the structural limitation on breakdown voltage

Keywords

gas-discharge displays; breakdown voltage; color capability; low input power; pixel shift; process steps; self-aligning; self-shift display; shift speed; single-substrate AC plasma display; structural symmetry; suspended electrodes; touch-up-etch; Capacitance; Cathode ray tubes; Costs; Driver circuits; Drives; Electrodes; Electrons; Graphics; Plasma applications; Plasma displays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9383

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/16.108188

Filename

108188