Large-area color ac plasma display employing dual discharge sites at

Abstract

An AC PDP incorporating the invention includes a first substrate having plural elongated address electrode structures, which include sets of color phosphors. A second substrate is opposed to the first substrate and encloses a dischargeable gas therebetween. The second substrate supports a plurality of scan electrode structures that are orthogonally oriented to the address electrode structures. Each scan electrode structure includes a scan loop with a first trace and a second trace and a plurality of sustain electrode structures that are interdigitated with the scan electrode structures, each sustain electrode structure including a first trace and a second trace. Address circuitry selectively applies address signals to the address electrode structures and scan circuitry applies a scan voltage to the scan electrode structures. Gas discharges occur at intersections between address electrode structures and both traces of a scan loop to which the scan voltage is applied, so as to create wall charges and dual subpixel sites for each color subpixel. Thereafter, a sustain signal applied to the sustain electrode causes discharges at each of the dual subpixel sites at which wall charges exist. Increased light and resolution are the result of the dual subpixel discharge sites.