Wall charge characteristics in accordance with square and ramped reset pulse in alternating current plasma display panels (AC-PDPs)

The characteristics of wall charge after squared and ramped reset pulse have been experimentally investigated in an AC-PDP with a versatile driving simulator (VDS) system, in which arbitrary driving waveforms and sequences can be edited. Rising or falling times of ramped reset pulse have been varied to be 0, 30, 70, 110 and 150 V under fixed zero falling or rising times, respectively, and the reset voltage is fixed to be 320 V. The longer rising (either falling) times under zero falling (either rising) time in reset pulse make the less IR intensity caused by weak self-discharge that occurred at falling (either rising) time in reset pulse. Generally, the ramped reset pulses have been observed to have large wall voltages of 100 to 200 V while the squared reset pulses are to be 4 V by the weak self-discharges at falling time of reset pulse in this experiment.