Abstract: In one embodiment that provides a technology in which process complication is suppressed and selective pattern film formation is performed, a method MT for processing a wafer W is provided, the wafer W includes a metal portion 61, an insulating portion 62, and a main surface 6, and a surface 61a of the metal portion 61 and a surface 62a of the insulating portion 62 are exposed on the main surface 6 side, the method MT includes: a step S1 of accommodating the wafer W in a processing chamber 4 of a plasma processing apparatus 10; a step S2 of starting supplying O2 gas into the processing chamber 4; and a step S3 of generating a plasma in the processing chamber 4 by the gas in the processing chamber 4 containing a SiF4 gas by supplying the SiF4 gas and plasma generation high-frequency power into the processing chamber 4, the plasma generated in the step S3 contains deposition species and etching species, and, in the plasma generated in the step S3, a proportion occupied by the etching species is greater than a p

Abstract: Provided are an antenna structure, driving method thereof, and antenna system. The antenna structure includes a first base substrate, a second base substrate, a dielectric layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of first electrodes are disposed apart at a side of the first base substrate facing to the dielectric layer, the plurality of second electrodes are disposed apart at a side of the second base substrate facing to the dielectric layer. The first base substrate includes a plurality of first micro-hole units, each of the first micro-hole units is disposed in a region between the adjacent first electrodes, each of the first micro-hole units includes at least one micro-hole extending a direction perpendicular to the first base substrate.

Abstract: A pixel structure substrate including a substrate, a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer is provided. A data line and a first electrode are disposed on the substrate. The first dielectric layer directly covers the data line. The second dielectric layer covers the first electrode and the first dielectric layer. A thickness of the second dielectric layer is smaller than a thickness of the first dielectric layer, and the following equation is satisfied u1*A1/d1<u2*A2/d2, wherein A1 denotes an area of the first dielectric layer overlapping the data line, d1 denotes the thickness of the first dielectric layer and u1 denotes a permittivity of the first dielectric layer, A2 denotes an area of the second dielectric layer overlapping the pixel electrode, d2 denotes the thickness of the second dielectric layer and u2 denotes a permittivity of the second dielectric layer.

Abstract: An organic optoelectronic device that includes a substrate and a plurality of structures disposed thereon, the structures include: (a) a first electrode; vertically separated from (b) a second electrode by (c) an electrode gap that includes an organic photoactive layer disposed within the gap, wherein one of the electrodes includes a plurality of plasmonic nanopores or metal nanostructures, wherein the nanostructures project towards the electrode gap and the metal is selected from gold, aluminum, silver, calcium, copper, and nickel is presented.

Abstract: The present invention includes light valve section (10) having a plurality of shutter mechanisms (14) that switch between a transmitting state and a shading state of light emitted from light emitting element (25); and substrate (16) through which light that exits plurality of shutter mechanisms (14) is transmitted. The display element also has plasmon coupling section (11) that causes plasmon coupling to occur with light that exits the light valve section (10). Plasmon coupling section (11) includes carrier generation layer (17) that generates carriers with incident light that exits light valve section (10), plasmon excitation layer (19) that has a higher plasma frequency than the frequency of light that is generated in carrier generation layer (17) excited with the light emitted from light emitting element (25), and wave number vector conversion layer (22) that converts the light or surface plasmons generated in plasmon excitation layer (19) into light having a predetermined exit angle.

Abstract: This invention provides a display device capable of maintaining a high image quality of a display image even when a plurality of plasma tube array-type display sub-modules is joined horizontally to one another. A display device comprises a plasma tube array-type display sub-module in which a plurality of plasma tubes 31, 31, . . . , are arranged in parallel being held between an address electrode support sheet where address electrodes are formed and a display electrode support sheet 35 where display electrodes are formed, wherein the plurality of plasma tube array-type display sub-modules 30, 30, . . . , are joined horizontally to one another so that an interval between the adjacent plasma tube array-type display sub-modules 30, 30, . . . , and a clearance between the adjacent plasma tubes 31, 31 are substantially equal.

Abstract: The control of a plasma display panel, successively comprises, at least for all the cells of a current line having to switch state for the next line: a connection of a terminal of application of an intermediary supply voltage to output terminals of column control stages corresponding to the junction points of first and second switches between two terminals of application of a supply voltage, to perform a precharge or a predischarge of the screen cells; a disconnection of said output terminals from this intermediary voltage; and a connection of each output terminal to a first or to a second power supply voltage by the turning-on of the first or second switch of the corresponding stage, according to a luminance reference value, delayed with respect to the disconnection of the corresponding output terminal from the terminal of application of the intermediary voltage.

Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided with liquid crystal dipole molecule control. The device is made from a first set of electrodes including at least one electrically conductive top electrode and at least one electrically conductive bottom electrode capable of generating a first electric field in a first direction. A second set of electrodes, including an electrically conductive right electrode and an electrically conductive left electrode, is capable of generating a second electric field in a second first direction. A dielectric layer overlies the bottom electrode, made from a liquid crystal material with molecules having dipoles responsive to an electric field. A plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the first and second set of electrodes and in contact with the dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic layer is embedded in the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A pixel structure comprises a substrate, a first metal layer, a dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer, a second metal layer, a patterned floating metal layer and a pixel electrode. The first metal layer, disposed on the substrate, comprises a gate and a scan line electrically thereto. The dielectric layer, overlapped by the semiconductor layer, is disposed on the substrate and overlapping the first metal layer. The second metal layer comprises a source/drain, disposed on the semiconductor layer and partially overlaps the gate, and a data line, electrically connects to the source and partially overlapped with the scan line. The pixel electrode electrically connects to the drain. Additionally, the patterned floating metal layer is disposed between the dielectric layer and the semiconductor layer, beneath the source/drain and partically overlapping the gate.

Abstract: A reflector has a curved part covering the light source and a pair of end parts extending at the two sides of the curved part. The inside surface of each end part has a plurality of substantially parallel projections or depressions. The light-guiding plate has an incident surface and an emission surface substantially perpendicular to the incident surface, the incident surface having a plurality of projections or depressions extending substantially parallel to the emission surface. Also, the reflection surface of the light-guiding plate has projections.

Abstract: A plasma display device is provided having a plasma display panel, a chassis base arranged substantially parallel to the plasma display panel, a tape bonding the plasma display panel to the chassis base, and a radiative sheet interposed between and adhering to the plasma display panel and the chassis base. The radiative sheet is of material having a layered crystal structure. The layered crystal structure is arranged to extend at an angle from the plasma display panel. The angle is not horizontal/parallel to a surface of the plasma display panel.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator comprises: a first substrate (25); a second substrate (26); a layer of electrooptic material disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first electrode arrangement (27) is disposed over the first substrate (25); and a second electrode arrangement (35) is disposed over the second substrate (26). The first electrode arrangement (27) comprises first and second electrode layers (28,29) disposed over the first substrate, with the spacing between the first electrode layer (28) and the first substrate (25) being different to the spacing between the second electrode (29) layer and the first substrate (25). The first electrode layer (28) and the second electrode arrangement (35) are configured so as to co-operate, in use, to define a plurality of first addressable regions in the electrooptic material.

Abstract: A high quality and highly reliable plasma display panel having a simple structure where it is possible to stably secure a uniform removal of impurities through the discharge of air from the inside of the panel is provided. An airtight space between a front surface substrate 11 and a rear surface substrate 21 is a space surrounded by a sealing portion 45 in rectangular frame form. This airtight space is divided into two small airtight spaces, space A and space B, which are isolated from each other by one dividing wall 35 formed in the airtight space. The dividing wall 35 is formed so as to pass through the point of L/2 of each long side in a partition formed region 32 when the length of the long sides of the partition formed region 32 is denoted as L. Furthermore, the rear surface substrate 21 is provided with two air holes 38 and 39 so that the space A and the space B in the panel 10 are connected to the outside of the panel 10.

Abstract: A traffic light includes a circuit board on which linear arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are mounted in a V-shaped arrangement, an inner cover having a first inner surface facing the LEDs to receive light from the LEDs and an opposite, first outer surface forming elongate prisms inclined with respect to a predetermined axis at a predetermined angle of 65-80 degrees, and a front cover having a second inner surface facing the first outer surface of the inner cover to receive the light from the inner cover, and an opposite, second outer surface through which the light is further projected out of the traffic light. The second inner surface of the front cover forms a honeycomb structure including a plurality of hexagonal lens blocks, each composed of an array of individual lens segments.

Abstract: A switching element includes a first electrode 1 and a second electrode 2 provided apart from each other so as to run a discharge current between them, and a third electrode 3 configured to be capable of changing the difference in potential from at least one of the first and second electrodes 1 and 2, and of controlling the magnitude of the discharge current running between the first and second electrodes 1 and 2 by changing this potential difference.

Abstract: An inspection process is performed to determine defects of an electrode pattern. A first repairing process is performed to fill the pit part, and a second repairing process is performed to remove the salient part. The first repairing process utilizes a conductive paste to fill the pit part of the electrodes, and the second repairing process utilizes a laser beam to remove the salient part of the electrode pattern so that the electrodes can discharge normally.

Abstract: There is provided an address-while-display driving method for a surface discharge type triode plasma display panel, which includes sequentially performing resetting and addressing on each XY-electrode line pair while alternately and consecutively applying display voltages to all XY-electrode line pairs of the panel. The panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate that are separately formed to face each other, X- and Y-electrode lines that are alternately arranged in parallel between the front and rear substrates to form the XY-electrode line pairs, and address electrode lines that are formed in perpendicular to the X- and Y-electrode lines. The address-while-display driving method includes lowering the display voltages during an addressing time for each XY-electrode line pair.

Abstract: In a display device comprising a first substrate having at least one transparent, first picture electrode of a first material, a second substrate comprising at least one second picture electrode of a second material which, jointly with the picture electrode on the first substrate and an intermediate opto-electronic material, defines a pixel, and means for supplying electric voltages to the picture electrodes, the work function between the two picture electrodes is decreased in that at least one of the picture electrodes is coated with at least one layer of conducting material, or a layer of a material comprising a dipole.

Abstract: Disclosed are an upper substrate structure for a plasma display panel including a dielectric layer reinforcing color properties and a fabricating method thereof. The upper substrate structure comprises a sustain electrode formed on an upper glass substrate, a bus electrode formed on the sustain electrode, and an upper substrate dielectric layer formed over a lower part of the surface created by two electrodes and the glass substrate. There is also included a colorant having color properties of red, blue, and green colors, and a protection layer formed on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer may include one or more colorants so that important properties of PDP such as selective brightness of desired color, color temperature, and color purity improvement can be controlled.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for adjusting or reducing intrinsic DC offset potential in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) are taught. The methods allow the upper and lower assemblies of the LCD device to be manufactured with selected materials while achieving adjusted or reduced intrinsic DC offset potential in the finished LCD device. The methods are especially useful for reflective LCD designs where it is not possible to build the LCD with symmetric assemblies.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a plasma display apparatus in which reliable erase discharge is performed and an erroneous discharge is suppressed, even when a discharge sustain period is shortened so as to realize a PDP having high definition.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plasma display device which prevents the brightness of a phosphor layer from lowering is disclosed, and the method can form the phosphor layer in a stable manner because a nozzle is free from clogging. At least one of the phosphor layers has a green phosphor layer containing green phosphor having zero or positive charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn. Green phosphor ink, of which major ingredient is the green phosphor, is applied through the nozzle to discharging cells, thereby forming the green phosphor layer. The green phosphor ink is formed of green phosphor powder coated with oxide having positive charges, or the ink is formed by crushing the green phosphor powder originally having negative charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn such that the powder changes to have positive charges.

Abstract: A flat lamp for emitting light to a surface area includes a planar cover formed of a transparent material, an anode formed on a rear surface of the planar cover; the rear surface of the planar cover coated with a fluorescent material, a bottom coupled with the rear surface of the cover to form a sealed inner space between the bottom and the rear surface of the cover, a cathode formed on a surface of the bottom internal to the sealed inner space, power supply means electrically connected to the anode and the cathode to supply an external power source, and a plasma-discharging gas injected into the sealed inner space, wherein visible light is produced uniformly over an entire surface of the cover by a reaction between the plasma-discharging gas and an electric field generated between the cathode and the anode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell substrate 109, a plasma cell substrate 104, a dielectric layer 103 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the plasma cell substrate 104, a liquid crystal layer 110 provided between the liquid crystal cell substrate 109 and the dielectric layer 103, and a plurality of plasma channels 106 provided between the dielectric layer 103 and the plasma cell substrate 104, are provided. Each of the plurality of plasma channels 106 includes a discharge gas, an anode 107 and a cathode 108, and the cathode 108 includes a cathode layer 108a made of a mixture of a conductive material and an insulative material including a glass having a lead weight percentage of 30% or less.

Abstract: Glass substrate comprising raised glass elements (20) placed over part of its area, characterized in that the glass elements (20) are intrinsically incorporated into the substrate. Advantageously, this substrate is used in a plasma screen for which the front face includes a first electrode array (13a, 13b) and the rear face, which consists of said structured substrate, includes a second electrode array (12) approximately perpendicular to the first array (13a, 13b) and placed on the external face (23) of the structured substrate, opposite the space (21) lying between the raised elements (20), while phosphors (16) occupy, surfacewise, the space (21) lying between the raised elements.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display screen comprising a liquid crystal layer and a first and a second transparent substrate flanking said liquid crystal layer, and comprising means for influencing the transmission state of the liquid crystal layer, and a phosphor layer, containing at least one phosphor in the form of phosphor dots, on the second substrate, and comprising a third substrate, which is arranged opposite the second substrate and connected with said second substrate so as to form a gastight gas discharge vessel filled with a filling gas, and comprising means for igniting and maintaining a dielectrically impeded discharge in the gas discharge vessel.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a high throughput electrorotation chip having an array of electrorotation units and methods of use thereof. To make the high throughput electrorotation chip, a plurality of electrorotation units (EU) are fabricated on a substrate or support and each EU is capable of producing a rotating electric field upon the application of an appropriate electrical signal. Exemplary embodiments include a row-column configuration of EUs having four electrode elements realized through two conductive-layers. The electrode elements may be linear, concave, or convex. Thin plates having one or multiple holes are bound to high-throughput electrorotation chips to form assay chambers having one or multiple wells. Particles can be introduced to the wells and electrorotation measurements can be performed on the particles.

Abstract: A plasma address electrooptical device is provided, wherein the distance between a liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and an adjacent liquid crystal drive electrode 6b is set to be equal to or greater than the distance between the lower surface of said liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and the lower surface of a dielectric layer 3. Moreover, by providing additional electrodes between liquid crystal drive electrodes of the plasma address electrooptical device, the display leakage to adjacent pixels is reduced even further.

Abstract: A PALC panel is operated by driving a channel electrode to a positive voltage relative to the data drive electrode to initiate an AC discharge in the channel and thereafter maintaining a sufficient voltage between the channel electrodes to sustain a DC discharge in the channel.

Abstract: An array of parallel spaced fiber segments is attached to the flat upper surface of a transparent plate. The transparent plate and the fiber segments preferably are made of glass, with the fiber segments bonded to the transparent plate with fused glass frit or by sintering under pressure. The plate and attached fiber segments suitably are embodied in the channel substrate for a plasma-addressed display device, such as a PALC panel.

Abstract: A plasma addressed display device includes a flat panel, a scanning circuit and a signal circuit. The flat panel is of a superimposed structure of a plasma cell having scanning electrodes in a row configuration and a display cell having scanning electrodes in a column configuration. The scanning circuit sequentially applies selection pulses to the scanning electrode to scan the display panel. The signal circuit writes the picture data in the signal electrode in synchronism with this scanning. On the plasma cells, there are formed reciprocally isolated discharge channels in a row configuration. To each discharge channel, charged with an electrically dischargeable gas, are allotted plural scanning electrodes. As characteristic of the present invention, the scanning circuit sequentially applies the selection pulses to the scanning electrode allotted to a sole discharge channel to produce electrical discharge to form at least two scanning lines to a sole discharge channel.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the invention includes: a substrate; a dielectric layer; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the substrate and the dielectric layer; a plurality of stripe-shaped electrodes formed on a surface of the substrate facing the liquid crystal layer to extend in parallel with a first direction; and a plurality of stripe-shaped plasma channels formed to face the plurality of electrodes with the liquid crystal layer and the dielectric layer therebetween to extend in parallel with a second direction different from the first direction. The dielectric layer or an alignment layer formed on a surface of the dielectric layer facing the liquid crystal layer selectively attenuates ultraviolet rays emitted from the plasma channels.

Abstract: A plasma addressed liquid crystal display which includes a pair of spaced substrates upon which orthogonal electrodes are mounted and electro-optical material layer mounted in contact with a first group of electrodes on the first substrate and an ionizable gas between the substrate and the electro-optical material layer to provide a discharge region that functions as a visible display.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a substrate; a dielectric layer; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrate and the dielectric layer; a plurality of stripe electrodes formed on a surface of the substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, the electrodes running in a first direction; and a plurality of stripe plasma channels formed to face the plurality of electrodes via the liquid crystal layer and the dielectric layer, the plasma channels running in a second direction different from the first direction. A plurality of pixel regions are formed in respective crossings of the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of plasma channels. Portions of the liquid crystal layer included in the plurality of pixel regions change their orientation states depending on a voltage applied between the electrodes and the plasma channels, to realize display with light having passed the plurality of pixel regions.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display (LCD) device of the invention includes: a substrate; a dielectric layer; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the substrate and the dielectric layer; a plurality of stripe-shaped electrodes formed on a surface of the substrate facing the liquid crystal layer to extend in parallel with a first direction; and a plurality of stripe-shaped plasma channels formed to face the plurality of electrodes with the liquid crystal layer and the dielectric layer therebetween to extend in parallel with a second direction different from the first direction. The dielectric layer or an alignment layer formed on a surface of the dielectric layer facing the liquid crystal layer selectively attenuates ultraviolet rays emitted from the plasma channels.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a polymer region and a liquid crystal domain surrounded by the polymer region in which liquid crystal molecules are oriented in an axial symmetrical manner, the first substrate includes a dry film having a concave portion on a surface facing the liquid crystal layer, and a symmetric axis in the liquid crystal domain substantially extends through the concave portion and is substantially perpendicular to the first substrate.

Abstract: A process for the fabrication of a fiber-based information display using a lost glass process includes drawing a fiber from a preform composed of at least two different glass compositions, where one of the compositions is a dissolvable glass, and removing the dissolvable glass with a liquid solution to change a cross-sectional shape of the drawn fiber. The lost glass process can be used to create an exposed wire electrode, where the drawn fiber contains a wire electrode that is exposed when the dissolvable glass is removed. The lost glass process can also be used to hold the shape and a tight tolerance of the drawn fiber. The cross-sectional shape of the fibers created using the lost glass process are suitable for use in an information display, such as plasma emissive displays, plasma addressed liquid crystal displays, and field emissive displays.

Abstract: Disclosed is a DC type plasma display panel for back light of liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A plasma addressed liquid crystal display device has a plurality of plasma channels, each having discharge electrodes for plasma discharge, in an area divided by parallel partitions associated with reference electrodes. The discharge electrodes are formed by a pair of transparent electrodes having pre-set electrode widths and electrode intervals and a bus electrode of a material lower in the electrical resistance than the material of the transparent electrode and which is arranged in association with each transparent electrode. With the present plasma addressed liquid crystal display device, stable display can be obtained in an entire area of the viewing screen.

Abstract: A channel plate suitable for use in a plasma-addressed electro-optic display device and comprising a substrate having a set of elongate channels formed therein covered by a thin deposited dielectric layer is fabricated by filling the channels with filler material, depositing a layer of porous dielectric material over the substrate, removing the filler material from the channels through the porous layer and thereafter depositing a layer of non-porous dielectric material over the porous layer so as to close the channels. In this way a very thin dielectric layer can reliably be provided which improves operation of the channel plate as an addressing structure, with the channels filled with an ionisable gas, for example in a display device having electro-optic material overlying the dielectric layer.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display element includes disposing adhesive on at least one of first and second substrates; disposing spacer particles on at least one substrate; supplying liquid crystal material onto at least one substrate; and fixing the substrates together with adhesive spacer particles and liquid crystal material therebetween. The substrates are fixed together by applying pressure and/or heat to the substrates from an end portion toward the other end portion thereof. An impulse applied to each spacer particle can be between 0.001 gf·sec and 0.1 gf·sec in substrate fixing step. Parameter X relating to heating in fixing step can satisfy 200≦X≦3000, where X=(T−20)/(V·D), T is temperature (°C), V is fixing speed (mm/sec) of substrates, and D is diameter of spacer particles (mm). The spacer particles can occupy an area ratio of 0.003 or more to unit area of the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, wherein liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer have a negative dielectric anisotropy, and the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a direction substantially vertical to the substrates when no voltage is being applied and are axis-symmetrically aligned in each of a plurality of pixel regions under application of a voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma addressed display device characterized in that a plurality of scanning electrodes are formed in each discharge channel, wherein discharge is generated by applying selective pulses in sequence to the plurality of scanning electrodes allocated to each discharge channel, whereby each of the number of the scanning electrodes and the number of partition walls can be reduced in at least half to thereby enhance the opening ratio, as compared with a related art plasma addressed display device.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the first substrate and the second substrate,; a first electrode layer formed on a surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a second electrode layer formed on a surface of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a third electrode layer electrically connected with the second electrode layer via a photoconductive layer; and a plurality of stripe-shaped light sources disposed outside the second substrate for irradiating at least a portion of the photoconductive layer with light, wherein the electrical conductivity of the photoconductive layer is changed by switching the plurality of light sources to switch electrical connection between the second electrode layer and the third electrode layer and thereby to realize optical addressing of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A plasma-addressed liquid crystal color display device comprising a layer of liquid crystal material, data electrodes coupled to the liquid crystal layer and adapted to receive data voltages for activating pixels of the liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of ionizable-gas-filled plasma channels extending generally transverse to the data electrodes for selectively switching on said liquid crystal pixels. The plasma channels are sealed off by a thin dielectric sheet. To reduce the magnitude of the data voltages needed to activate the device, the LC layers are given compositions such that a much higher fraction of the applied data voltages appears across the liquid crystal layer thereby allowing a smaller data voltage to be used to obtain the same effect on the liquid crystal pixels.

Abstract: The display device comprises at least one compartment (30, 30′, 30″) which contains an ionizable gas (33). Walls of the compartment (30, 30′, 30″) are provided with electrodes (31, 32) for selectively ionizing the gas (33), during operation, by means of a direct current. The display device is characterized in that the walls of the compartment (30, 30′, 30″) are provided with a layer (20) of a secondary electron-emitting material, the electrons (31, 32) remaining completely or partly uncovered. Preferably, the thickness of the layer (20) exceeds 20 nm, and the secondary electron-emitting material comprises a material of the group formed by magnesium oxide, chromium oxide, silicon nitride and yttrium oxide.

Abstract: A plasma addressed liquid crystal display device includes a plasma cell substrate; a counter substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the plasma cell substrate and the counter substrate, the plasma cell substrate including a first substrate, a dielectric sheet provided on a side of the liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of stripe-shaped discharge channels surrounded by a plurality of partition walls formed in a gap between the first substrate and the dielectric sheet, the counter substrate including a second substrate, and a plurality of stripe-shaped electrodes formed on the second substrate so as to extend perpendicularly to the plurality of stripe-shaped discharge channels, and each of intersection regions of the plurality of discharge channels and the plurality of stripe-shaped electrodes defines a picture-element region, wherein the dielectric sheet includes a sheet-like dielectric, a plurality of conductive portions extending between surfaces of the sheet-like dielectric which respect

Abstract: The cover sheet of a PALC display panel is spaced from the ribs of the channel member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma addressed liquid crystal display improved to prevent deterioration of liquid crystal and an alignment film due to ultraviolet rays generated by plasma discharge. The plasma addressed liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal cell including columns of signal electrodes, a plasma cell including rows of discharge channels, and an intermediate thin glass sheet through which the liquid crystal cell is joined to the plasma cell. The thin glass sheet includes an ultraviolet ray transmission preventive layer having a function of absorbing or reflecting ultraviolet rays generated in the discharge channels on the plasma cell side thereby preventing the ultraviolet rays from being made incident on the liquid crystal cell side.

Abstract: A channel structure for a PALC display panel comprises a channel member defining at least one channel, a cathode having an upper surface exposed in the channel, and an anode having an upper surface exposed in the channel. The upper surface of the anode is of substantially uniform composition and has a conductivity perpendicular to its upper surface of at least about 10.sup.-4 ohm.sup.-1 cm.sup.-1.