Influence of gas mixture ratio on the luminous efficiency in surface discharge alternating current plasma display panels

The improvement of luminosity and luminous efficiency is the one of the mos t important tasks in alternating current plasma display panels. The influen ce of gas mixture ratio, Ne-Xe and He-Ne(27%)-Xe(3%), on luminosity and lum inous efficiency in surface discharge alternating-current plasma display pa nels has been investigated. It is found that discharge power does not stron gly depend on the gas mixtures, while the luminosity for three species mixt ure gas, He-Ne(27%)-Xe(3%), is shown to be much higher than those for the t wo species mixture gas of Ne-Xe. The three species mixture gas, He-Ne(27%)- Xe(3%), can be suggested as the one of the candidates for achieving high lu minosity and luminous efficiency for color plasma display panels, based on the experimental observations of luminosity, discharge power, response time , and efficiency. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)03 311-9].