New triggering method for five-electrode alternating current plasma display panel

A new triggering method is proposed to lower the sustaining voltage of the five-electrode alternating current plasma display panel (AC PDP). In the method, a triggering discharge is adopted in one of the auxiliary gaps to increase the wall voltage across the sustaining gap. Two dimensional fluid simulation results show that the wall voltage across the sustaining gap is increased by 30 V, and the sustaining voltage can be lowered by 10-20 V with the new triggering method. The vacuum ultra-violet radiation efficiency is increased by more than 50% compared to the conventional three-electrode AC PDP.