Stability of discharge series in the plasma display panel

Abstract

The regularity of the pulsed discharges in the plasma display panel is attributed to processes which automatically damp out perturbations from equilibrium conditions. With rectangular wave excitation, these processes are controlled by the dependence of wall voltage changes during a discharge on the cell voltage at the beginning of a discharge. Conditions for stability and instability are derived for both simple series, in which all discharges are identical, and for more complex series of recurrent discharge sequences, for which the discharges within a sequence need not be identical.