METHOD OF DRIVING CAPILLARY DISCHARGE PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL FOR IMPROVING POWER EFFICIENCY

摘要

In a method of driving a capillary discharge plasma display panel which comprises front and rear substrates (1, 2) forming a space discharge therein, an addressing electrode (3) on the front substrate (1), a common electrode (11-1,...11-n) and a plurality of scanning electrodes (12-1,...12-n) on the rear substrate (2), and a dielectric layer (7) covering the common electrode (11-1,...11-n) and the scanning electrodes (12-1,...12-n) and having a capillary (8-1, 8-2) corresponding to the common electrode (11-1,...11-n) and each scanning electrode (12-1,...12-n) in the second dielectric layer (7), the method includes the steps of applying an addressing pulse to the addressing electrode (3) and a first pulse to the common electrode (11-1,...11-n), and a second pulse sequentially from a 1st scanning electrode (12-1,...12-n) to an Nth scanning electrode (12-n) during an addressing period for selecting pixels to be turned on, and applying a first sustaining pulse to the common electrode (11-1,...11-n) and a second sustaining pulse from the 1st scanning electrode (12-1) to the Nth scanning electrode (12-n) during a sustaining period, wherein the first and second sustaining pulses are applied for only discharge time duration.