Abstract
In this thesis, several experiments are designed to observe the discharge phenomenon of adjacent image sticking. According to experiment result, it is found that the reason the adjacent area has brighter luminance is because of the stronger reset discharge. On the commercial display panel used in this experiment, it is found, the range which adjacent image sticking affects in vertical dimension is greater than that of horizontal dimension. Comparing the discharge time and discharge intensity, it is observed that the degree which the discharge gets earlier has direct proportion to discharge intensity and discharge interval. Form the result of the recovery time of adjacent image sticking, it is found that the discharge of adjacent cell recovers in two to three hours which is near to the recovery time that temperature needs. It might be the temperature transmitted from the sticking area makes the adjacent area discharges stronger and earlier. And the reason that the sticking area has weaker discharge than adjacent area might because it has been discharged in previous sustain period for a long time. In the end of this thesis, a possible physical mechanism of the adjacent sticking phenomenon is introduced. The temperature affects both sticking and adjacent area when the panel is warmed up and causes them have stronger discharge. When the panel is switched to dark background, the discharge intensity of sticking area would be lower than that of adjacent area because it was treated for long period of sustain discharge. The the cells surround the sticking area would have the brightest luminance and present the adjacent image sticking.