Recent Advances of Color Plasma Displays and the Status of the Plasma Display Industry in Japan

摘要

Several kinds of color PDPs have been converged to a single group of the surface-discharge ac PDPs of which reason will be described on the basis of the recent advanced measuring systems including ultraviolet rays. PDP Manufacturers have completed to construct the first generation of mass production lines for color PDPs and now doing to accomplish the second generation of ones. Under the existing circumstances in Japanese PDP manufactures one of the most distinctive events in 1999 is amalgamating or cooperative motions between PDP manufacturers within or outside of Japan. The present paper will also describe the latest information about the processes and materials of which composed the advanced color PDPs.