Abstract: A gas discharge device having at least one dielectric charge storage member the gaseous medium contacting surface of which consists of a low operating voltage material. The material is used in an amount sufficient to increase the operating life span of the device and/or stabilize the operating voltages of the device. An interface and addressing means is connected to a pair of opposed electrode arrays to energize a plurality of discharge cells, each cell including proximate electrode portions of at least one electrode in each opposed array, said dielectric charge storage member insulating at least one of said proximate electrode portions from said gas. A cell and associated circuitry present a capacitive impedance to a voltage pulse applied by the interface and addressing means to the electrode portions to generate a relatively slow rise time leading edge on said voltage pulse for improved addressing of said cell.

Abstract: There is disclosed an electrical system and method for supplying operating potentials to gaseous discharge display panels and improving the performance characteristics of such devices. Write and erase operations are accomplished by means of controlling the level of pedestals which has the advantage over previous system in the improvement of sustaining and write/erase characteristics of gaseous discharge display/memory panels of the type disclosed in Baker et al. U.S. Pat. No. 3,499,167, which in turn produces a larger 100 percent operating window.