A Numerical Analysis Method to Investigate Display Characteristics of Plasma Display Panels using Fluid Simulation with Circuit Simulation

Abstract

We propose a new arrayed plasma simulation method in which discharge and circuit simulation are coupled to investigate the display characteristics of a plasma display panel (PDP). In the new method, the PDP is described an equivalent circuit model as a set of impedance models for electrodes and capacitance models for the panel, in which a discharge simulation evaluates the discharge currents of the PDP cells. Further, the new method estimates variability of the applied voltage waveform distortion and then the luminescence uniformity of the high resolution PDP. In this paper, we describe the new method and its effectiveness.