Abstract: A method for fabricating a PDP is disclosed. The method for fabricating a PDP including the steps of preparing first and second panels for connecting with each other, forming at least one electrode on the first panel, forming a dielectric layer of PbO on the first panel, sequentially forming Cr and Ni on the PbO layer as a mask material of the PbO layer, performing photolithography and lift-off processes on the Ni/Cr layers to form a mask pattern of Ni/Cr, and etching the PbO layer using the mask pattern of Ni/Cr to form at least one capillary tube within the PbO layer to expose the electrode.

Abstract: A plasma addressed display or storage device includes a substrate and at least first and second plasma electrodes on an upper surface of the substrate. The first plasma electrode is connected to an external potential and the second plasma electrode is not ohmically connected to an external potential.

Abstract: A backplane with multiple arrayed electrodes positioned on the backplane is provided in a method of fabricating a liquid crystal (LC) panel. The method begins with coating an alignment layer on the backplane. By performing a rubbing process, multiple alignment trenches are formed on the alignment layer. A photoresist layer is then formed on the alignment layer. By performing a lithography process, both a side frame, having at least one slit, and multiple photoresist spacers(PR spacers) are formed on the alignment layer. A gasket seal is coated on the side frame and the multiple PR spacers. By performing a lamination process, a transparent conductive layer is laminated on the backplane. A liquid crystal filling (LC filling) processis then performed to fill a cell gap between the backplane and the transparent conductive layer with liquid crystal. Finally, an end sealing process is performed to seal the slit.

Abstract: A plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving light-emission efficiency. In the plasma display panel, a plurality of electrode groups each has first and second electrodes formed adjacently to each other at an upper substrate and third electrodes having a large distance from the second electrodes. A plurality of address electrodes are formed at a lower substrate in a direction crossing the first to third electrodes. Barrier ribs are provided to form a discharge space between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. A dielectric layer is provided on the address electrode. A first area has a fluorescent layer formed on the dielectric layer. A second area other than the first area is defined.

Abstract: This invention provides a rear plate of a plasma display panel (PDP) and the method for forming PDP ribs thereon. The address electrodes and the base plates are formed on a glass substrate. The address electrodes and the base plates are formed alternately. A rib material layer is formed over the address electrodes, the base plates and the glass substrate. A patterned mask layer is formed on the rib material layer. The rib material layer is further sandblasted to form the ribs according to the shape of the base plates. The rib material directly located on the glass substrate is easily removed because the adhesion between the rib material layer and the base plates is better than the adhesion between the rib material layer and the glass substrate.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a plasma display panel can improve contrast of a panel by using an inkjet printing method in forming a fluorescent layer in the fabrication process of the plasma display panel. Also, after charging a liquid flake of fluorescent ink with a charge of a predetermined polarity, contrast of the panel can be improved by inducing the injection direction of the liquid flake by charging an address electrode with a charge having an opposite polarity to the liquid flake so that the charged liquid flake can be printed in the center portion of the cell region.

Abstract: A method of treating a first chemical species in a gas using a plasma, the method including the steps of providing an array of micro-scale cavity discharge devices capable of sustaining the plasma where the first chemical species is capable of flowing proximate to the array of micro-scale cavity discharge devices, wherein the first chemical species is converted to a second chemical species within the plasma.

Abstract: The plasma display panel includes a pair of glass substrates forming therein display cells. One substrate has address electrodes and the other has sustain electrodes including X-electrodes and Y-electrodes. X-electrodes are connected to terminals of sustain pulse generating circuits provided on a printed circuit board, via intermediate circuit boards. The printed circuit board and the intermediate circuit boards are connected to each other by connectors having a first set of terminals connected to the first sustain pulse generating circuit and a second set of terminals connected to the second sustain pulse generating circuit. Terminals of first and second sets are arranged in a row alternately one by one, or group by group.

Abstract: The present invention provides an AC memory type plasma display panel comprising a pair of substrates and stacked together via a sealing member so as to have a discharge space therebetween, and discharge electrodes and a dielectric layer covering the discharge electrodes formed on at least one of the substrates. The dielectric layer is formed on the surface of the substrate including a display region and a portion outside the display region in which the sealing member is located. The thickness of the portion for bonding of the sealing member outside the display region is smaller than the thickness of the portion corresponding to the display region.

Abstract: A PDP flat panel display includes a front glass plate and a rear glass plate bonded to each other to form a number of display cells therebetween in a display area. Scan electrodes and sustain electrodes are formed on an inner, namely, rear surface of the front glass plate, and data electrodes are formed on an inner, namely, front surface of the rear glass plate. The rear glass plate includes an extension extending beyond the front glass plate, in an extending direction of the data electrodes. A heat dissipating conductor film is integrally formed on an inner, namely, front surface of the extension of the rear glass plate, and an integrated circuit chip of a driver integrated circuit for supplying a required voltage to the data electrodes is heat-conductively bonded on the heat dissipating conductor film.

Abstract: A field emissive display (40) having an anode plate (10) coupled to a cathode plate (20) and a method for manufacturing the field emissive display (40). A substrate (21) of the cathode plate (20) is manufactured or selected such that its coefficient of thermal expansion substantially matches that of the anode plate (10), i.e., the coefficients of thermal expansion of the cathode plate (20) and the anode plate (10) are within ten percent of each other. The cathode plate (20) is coupled to the anode plate (10) by means of a frit structure (41) whose coefficient of thermal expansion preferably substantially matches that of the cathode plate (20) and the anode plate (10). A control circuit can be mounted to the bottom surface of the field emissive display (40).

Abstract: A display device has a screen made of a substrate and a group of elongated illuminators that are arranged on the substrate. Elongated electrode supporters are arranged on at least one side of the illuminators in the width direction. The elongated electrode supporter has plural electrodes that am spaced along the longitudinal direction of the illuminator and define corresponding discharge cells. A wiring conductive pattern is formed on the substrate for supplying electricity to the plural electrodes of the electrode supporter. Selective light emission from the discharge cells of the illuminator is controlled by signals applied to the wiring conductive pattern and the plural electrodes.

Abstract: An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component via at least two electrodes. An improved method of energizing a micro-component is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device with a color filter used as an electrode which improves both color purity and optical efficiency of the display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The display device with color filters used as electrodes in accordance with the present invention is achieved by forming conductive color filters on an upper substrate. The fabrication process is simple and accordingly the production yield is increased for thereby reducing the manufacturing cost. In addition, the light transmittance and optical efficiency are increased, and the color purity is increased and external light reflection is effectively shut off.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes front and rear substrates, strips of a conductive material on the front substrate, and an insulating layer covering the conductive strips, first and second electrodes parallel to each other and disposed on the insulating layer and a dielectric layer covering the first and second electrodes, third electrodes perpendicular to the first and second electrodes on the rear substrate, and a dielectric layer covering an interior surface of the rear substrate and the third electrodes, barrier walls defining discharge spaces on the dielectric layer of the rear substrate, and phosphor coatings between the barrier walls. The plasma display device further includes conductive strips at positions directly opposite the barrier walls on the inner surface of the front substrate, and an insulating layer over the inner surface of the front substrate covering the conductive strips.

Abstract: A plasma display device that operates stably at low power consumption comprises a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrode groups, a data pulse phase control circuit, and data drivers. The data pulse phase control circuit generates, at a different phase for each data electrode group, pulse strings that are composed of consecutive pulses in which the start timing of the first pulse is delayed and the end timing of the last pulse is advanced. A data driver is provided for each data electrode group, and these data drivers apply to the data electrodes display data that are synchronized with the pulse strings. The data electrodes in the plurality of data electrode groups realize screen display by the discharge that occurs at the intersections with the scan electrodes upon the application of data pulses.

Abstract: A flat display panel is provided which can improve the reliability of the contact portion where a flat plate and a back plate are bonded together and can suppress the display dead space. Recessed portions 52 are formed in a glass substrate 60 so that a sealing wall 63 is formed along the outer fringe of a back plate 61. The front plate 54 includes a protrusion 59 protruding outward from the sealing wall 63 on the outer fringe portion thereof. The contact portion between the front plate 54 and the back plate 61 is sealed by depositing fritted glass 62 onto the corner portion defined by the protrusion 59 and the side surface of the back plate 61. In order to improve the sealing effect, the fritted glass 62 is inserted into the gap at the bonding portion. The groove 64 is formed on the top surface of the sealing wall 63 to prevent the fritted glass 62 from intruding in to the discharge space.

Abstract: A memory type alternating current plasma display panel has two pixel blocks on both sides of a spacer wall, and scanning/sustain electrode pairs for the two pixel blocks respectively have the innermost sustain electrodes closer to the spacer wall than the associated scanning electrodes so as to increase an offset margin during assemblage of panel structures.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes input terminals, each input terminal having conductive lines to be connected to conductive lines in an connection cable, and a connection cable, wherein each of the input terminals has a first alignment mark, having a first portion and a second portion, and the connection cable has a second alignment mark, having a third portion and a fourth portion, the first and third portions and the second and fourth portions having, respectively, the same shapes for alignment with each other.

Abstract: A light absorbing member is disposed on the periphery of a display element, a light absorbing layer is applied to an area that appears as a bright defect, and a projection is disposed on a surface of an optical waveguide panel of the display element which confronts a large-size light guide panel. If the projection comprises at least three projections, then the projections should preferably be disposed in respective positions spaced from the closest side of the display element by a distance of at most L/3 where L represents the length of a longer side of the display element.

Abstract: An improved AC plasma display panel structure and method of driving for improved efficiency. Gaseous discharges can tunnel or initiate in microchannels parallel to sustain electrodes in a front substrate lowering operating voltages and allowing the use of more efficient gas mixtures. A write step applies a pulse to selected first and second sustain electrodes corresponding to cells on a row that will be turned ON, and an erase step applies a voltage to first and third electrodes corresponding to cells that are to be turned OFF. Write discharges are tunneled through microchannels.

Abstract: A plasma display panel in which a structure of a discharge electrode and dielectric layer is provided to generate ultraviolet rays in a positive column area includes: a plurality of first and second bus electrodes successively formed on a substrate at a predetermined interval; a plurality of first discharge electrodes formed with a plurality of first branches branched at a first width for each first bus electrode, a plurality of first centers extended from the first branches to a second width greater than the first width, and a plurality of first ends extended from the first centers to a third width smaller than the second width; a plurality of second discharge electrodes successively branched at a predetermined interval for each second bus electrode and spaced apart from the first ends; and a dielectric layer deposited on areas between the first and second discharge electrodes at a first thickness and on some areas on the first and second discharge electrodes at a second thickness.

Abstract: A gaseous-discharge lamp, in particular for motor-vehicle headlamps, includes a burner vessel made of glass or the like that contains a gas. Into this burner vessel extend two main electrodes via two gas-tight electrode bushings. Between the end regions of the main electrodes arranged in the burner vessel, an arc gap is formed, along which an electric arc develops during operation. To achieve a smallest possible ignition voltage, an arrangement is provided for producing a creepage spark gap along the inner vessel wall and/or a spark gap that is shorter than the arc gap, serving as an ignition gap that is spatially separated from the arc gap.

Abstract: An AC plasma display device allows the display quality improved, to perform a write operation reliably and reduce a write operation period by reducing discharge delay at the write operation. Pairs of scan electrode and sustain electrode are arranged on a front substrate in parallel and covered by a dielectric layer. A protect film is formed on the dielectric layer. Data electrodes covered by an insulating layer are formed on a rear substrate. Partitions are located on the insulating layer in parallel with and between data electrodes. Conductive phosphor layers made of a mixture comprising an insulating phosphor material and a conductive material are formed from the surface of the insulating layer to each side of the partitions. Ignition gaps are defined between a surface of the protective film and peaks of the phosphor layer close to the surface.

Abstract: An AC type plasma display panel is designed so as to have the relationships of Wb>Wg>Wr and Db>Dg>Dr, where Wb, Wg and Wr denote the widths of blue, green and red discharge cells and Db, Dg and Dr denote the widths of address electrodes (15b, 15g and 15r) corresponding to respective colors. As a result, it is possible to adjust the electric charge stored in the discharge cells due to a write discharge according to colors, thereby making complete lighting write voltages of the discharge cells uniform. This achieves the AC type plasma display panel with an excellent display quality that has less occurrence of erroneous discharge and discharge flicker and an improved white display quality.

Abstract: A plasma display panel having an auxiliary electrode for lowering a discharge starting voltage between discharge sustain electrodes and a method for driving the same are provided. In the plasma display panel having the auxiliary electrode and the method for driving the same, a thin auxiliary electrode is arranged between an X electrode and a Y electrode arranged in each discharge cell of the plasma display panel and an electrode driving pulse is applied to the auxiliary electrode at the point in time which is not later than the point in time at which a discharge sustain pulse starts. Accordingly, the discharge starting voltage of the main discharge is reduced.

Abstract: A plasma display unit applies data pulses of a predetermined polarity to data electrodes in odd-numbered columns and applies data pulses of an opposite polarity to data electrodes in even-numbered columns. The plasma display unit applies scanning pulses which are inverted between positive and negative polarities in first and second states that occur alternately, to scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows, and applies scanning pulses which are inverted between positive and negative polarities in the first and second states in opposite relation to the scanning pulses applied to the scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows, to scanning electrodes in even-numbered rows. Pixels arranged vertically and horizontally in a two-dimensional matrix are alternately energized in a staggered grid pattern, so that the number of pixels that are simultaneously energized is half the number of pixels of a conventional plasma display unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image display panel (1) having a substrate (21) having at least one channel (31, 32, 33, 34, 35) comprising an ionizable gas mixture (51). The walls of the channels are provided with electrodes (37, 39) for selectively ionizing the ionizable gas mixture during operation. The display panel is provided with an exhaust box (55) and an exhaust tube (57) which are formed in one piece. The exhaust box (55) and exhaust tube (57) are provided at the back of the substrate (21) and extend in a plane parallel to the plane of the display panel.

Abstract: A plasma display panel and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, in which the fabricating process time of the plasma display panel can be reduced, characteristic and performance of the panel can be prevented from being reduced, and the panel can be prevented from being damaged. Also, a panel structure is not changed by external pressure variation.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device used as an illumination source in a scanner, including a plurality of electroluminescent elements, each having a transparent electrode with a top surface, a radiation generating stack under the transparent electrode, and a second electrode under said radiation generating stack. A voltage source having a plurality of phase characteristics is coupled across the electrodes of each of the electroluminescent elements to apply a voltage to each of the electroluminescent elements.

Abstract: In a plasma display or a field emission display, sub-pixels having extra (non-saturating) phosphors are applied to enhance the efficacy. Depending on the luminance and color of a pixel to be displayed, driving of the most efficient combination of sub-pixels is performed.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front glass substrate, a rear glass substrate, address electrode lines, a first dielectric layer, scan electrode lines, a second dielectric layer, phosphor layers, Y-common electrode lines and X-common electrode lines. The front glass substrate and a rear glass substrate are opposite to and spaced apart from each other. The address electrode lines are formed on the front surface of the rear glass substrate in parallel. The first dielectric layer is formed in front of the address electrode lines. The scan electrode lines are arranged in front of the first dielectric layer to be perpendicular to the address electrode lines to define discharge cells at intersections. The second dielectric layer is formed in front of the scan electrode lines. The phosphor layers are formed in front of the second dielectric layer to be parallel with the address electrode lines.

Abstract: A dielectric composition for a plasma display panel. In the dielectric composition, a P2O5—ZnO—BaO group glass is used. Accordingly, the dielectric composition is capable of meeting optical, thermal and electrical characteristic requirements of a dielectric layer and allows the dielectric layer to have a light weight.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma display panel capable of improving luminance intensity having a discharge-cell structure which can increase conductance at the time of exhaust and increase the surface area of a phosphor. A plurality of barrier ribs with the plane shape being formed with curve are provided on a back glass substrate to which address electrodes and a dielectric layer are formed and phosphors are formed in the discharge cells between the barrier ribs. The curvature and the pitch of the curved surface of the barrier ribs are determined by the spaces of sustain electrodes and address electrodes. For example, a rectangle or a square under consideration of the spaces or the like of the display electrodes is set to be a structural unit. The curve is drawn as an arc tracing the diagonal of such quadrilaterals and corrugated barrier ribs are formed by arranging these in 180° rotational symmetry to each other along the address electrodes.

Abstract: In a flash lamp, a mirror structure (20, 30, 40) is fixed at an inner end portion of an exhaust pipe (21, 34, 44) secured to a center of a stem (6) disposed at a bottom portion of an envelope (H). An arc emission part (S) is located at a focal position of a rounded mirror surface 24.

Abstract: A surface discharge type plasma display panel(PDP) includes a pair of front and rear substrates (11, 21) with a discharge space (30) therebetween and a plurality of pair display electrodes on internal surface of either the front or rear substrate. The display electrodes are extending along each display line L. The PDP further includes a light shielding film (45), having a belt shape extending along the display line direction, formed on either internal or outer surface of the front substrate (11) to overlap each area S2 between the adjacent display lines L and sandwiched between the display electrodes X and Y.

Abstract: A magnetic material-inverting display panel wherein a liquid dispersion, which has a yield value and contains a magnetic display material in fine particle form having magnetic poles of opposite signs tinged with different colors by placing an opaque thin metal layer on at least one surface and making the color of another surface different from that of the thin metal layer of one surface, a dispersion medium and a thickener as main components, is supported by a support. The total area of S-pole-surfaces or N-pole-surfaces of the magnetic display material in fine particle form being from 60 to 1500% of the display surface area of the display panel. The magnetic material-inverting display panel of this invention has whereby a good contrast and forms a display of a metallic tone or a pastel color tone.

Abstract: A plasma display panel driving system and method for a display panel having a first common electrode and first independent electrodes arranged at a back plate side, a second common electrode and second independent electrodes arranged at a face plate side, an inner partition positioned between the first common and independent electrodes at the back plate side and the second common and independent electrodes at the face plate side and having an aperture therein connecting a space at the back plate side and a space at the face plate side, and a fluorescent layer arranged in the space at the face plate side.

Abstract: The PDP is divided into a plurality of scan blocks. Immediately before a write discharge period of each scan block, a pre-discharge erasing period or a pre-discharge period and a pre-discharge erasing period is or are established. To minimize the period of time from the pre-discharge to the write discharge, the pre-discharge and the pre-discharge erasing are conducted for each of the scanning and sustaining electrode blocks or in a sequential manner. Furthermore, a first sustaining discharge period of a short time is disposed immediately after the write discharge period for each scan block and a second sustaining discharge period for all display cells is arranged after the write discharge of all scan blocks.

Abstract: The present invention provides a capillary electrode discharge plasma display panel device and method of fabricating the same including first and second substrates a first electrode on the first substrate, a second electrode on the second substrate, a pair of barrier ribs connecting the first and second substrates, a discharge charge chamber between the first and second substrates defined by the barrier ribs, and a dielectric layer on the first substrate including the first electrode, the dielectric layer having a capillary to provide a steady state UV emission in the discharge chamber.

Abstract: A flat type fluorescent lamp, obtaining an improvement in efficiency of brightness and being adjustable in an emitted light amount thereof, while maintaining a uniform light emission across the surface thereof, and illuminating with no use of mercury therein, comprising a sealed container being defined between a front glass substrate and a rear glass substrate which are hermetically bonded to each other, so as to enclose a rare gas as discharge gas therein, edge electrodes, having width from 2.

Abstract: The present case relates to a gas discharge display, represented with a plasma display panel(PDP), for displaying an image by displaying gradation using a discharge characteristic of a particular gas. Of a background art gas discharge display for displaying an image by means of a gas discharge having transparent front, and back substrates supported by barrier ribs of a fixed length from inside thereof, electrodes, dielectric, and protective film provided inside of the front, and back substrates, and Penning gas of two gases (Ne+Xe, He+Xe, and etc.) or Penning gas of three gases (Ne+Xe+Ar, He+Xe+Ar, Ne+Xe+He) filled in spaces of the two protective films as a discharge gas, a Penning gas of four gases (Ne+He+Xe+Ar) is used in the gas discharge display for improving a luminance.

Abstract: The plasma display of the present invention is a plasma display in which a dielectric layer and stripe-shaped barrier ribs are formed on a substrate, and it is characterized in that there are inclined regions at the lengthwise direction ends of said barrier ribs and, furthermore, the height (Y) of the inclined regions and the length (X) of the base of the inclined regions are within the range 0.5≦X/Y≦100. Moreover, the method of the present invention for manufacturing a plasma display is characterized in that the aforesaid stripe-shaped barrier ribs are formed via a process in which a pattern of stripe-shaped barrier ribs having inclined regions at the ends is formed on a substrate using a barrier rib paste comprising inorganic material and organic component, and a process in which said barrier rib pattern is fired.

Abstract: In an alternating-current driving-type display device utilizing the plasma discharge, a discharge maintaining electrode group composed of a plurality of discharge maintaining electrodes (I) and an address electrode group composed of a plurality of address electrodes (J) are formed on one substrate (22), the address electrode group which crosses the discharge maintaining electrode group through an insulator layer (27) and a discharge starting address group from a plurality of discharge starting address electrodes (K) composing a part of the address electrode group are continuously formed at the same time, the discharge maintaining electrode group and the discharge starting address electrode group are formed on the same plane, and a dielectric layer is formed on the discharge maintaining electrode group, the address electrode group and the discharge starting address electrode group.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a pair of substrates and electrodes extending in row direction of display to generate a surface discharge across a pair of the electrodes. In the panel, at least one electrode of the electrode pair for generating the surface discharge is formed in the shape of a comb having a base portion extending in row direction of display and a tooth portion composed of a number of teeth extending from the base portion towards the other electrode. And an arrangement pitch of the teeth is 1/n of an arrangement pitch of cells in row direction of display, in which n is an integer more than or equal to two.

Abstract: A plasma display having a transparent front panel spaced from a back panel which is a metal core having layers of a dielectric material extending over and bonded to the core. Conductive electrodes are on the surface of or imbedded in the dielectric layer of the back panel. The materials of which the back panel is made are chosen to form a back panel having a thermal coefficient of expansion compatible with that of the front panel. The dielectric material is made from a green ceramic tape which is bonded to the core and cofired with the core to form the back panel. Barrier ribs are formed on the back panel by embossing or scribing the green tape before cofiring the bonded assembly. Slight differences in the TCEs of the front and back panels may be compensated for by heating the panel having the lower TCE to a temperature hotter than the panel having the lower TCE during the frit seal process.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a PDP device fabricated by using photosensitive thick film conductor compositions wherein a black electrode is present between the substrate and a conductor arrangement electrode. Also, the invention is directed to methods for fabricating the PDP device.

Abstract: In an AC type plasma display panel in which a discharge electrode and an dielectric material layer are formed on its substrate on the display surface, it has a structure in which a thin color filter layer containing fine inorganic pigment particles as its main component is formed in contact with or within the dielectric material layer. The color filter layer containing the fine pigment particles as its main component can have good performance by arranging that the color filter layer has a thickness of 0.5 through 5 microns, and the fine pigment particles have average particle size of 0.01-0.15 microns.

Abstract: In the provision of a color filter on a front plate comprising a substrate 1, electrodes (4, 5) provided on the substrate, a dielectric layer 6 provided on the electrodes, and a protective layer 7 provided on the dielectric layer, a specific color filter is provided on the substrate 1, between the electrode 5 and the first dielectric layer 6a, or between the first dielectric layer 6a and the second dielectric layer 6b, or between the second dielectric layer 6b and the protective layer 7. By virtue of this constitution, troubles, such as breaking or unacceptable shape of edge, are not caused in the formation of the electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display device comprising: a rear substrate; a plurality of first electrodes formed on the rear substrate in a predetermined pattern; a dielectric layer formed on the rear substrate where the first electrodes are to be embedded; a plurality of second electrodes formed on the dielectric layer to be orthogonal with respect to the first electrodes; and at least one auxiliary electrode formed between the second electrodes.