Abstract
For studying the physics of striation phenomenon in the AC plasma display panel cell (PDP), we achieve to establish the experimental system and the optoelectronic measurements for the first step. We establish the intensified-CCD system (ICCD) to measure the temporal spectrum, spatial and temporal image acquisition with different driving waveforms for studying the images of striations. With the spectroscopy, photomulti- tube(PMT) system, voltage probe and current probe, we can observe the light intensity, image, voltage and current of gas discharges with time variation at the same time.The experimental results show that under the driving waveforms developed by K.Yoshikawa et al., if the voltage and frequency of sustain pulse increases, the discharge current and light intensity grows but the initial time is faster; if the rising time of sustain voltage increases, the discharge current and light intensity decay but the initial time is slower. We also found that the intensified-CCD has excellent performance of temporal analysis. About the image acquisition, the distribution of wall charges on the electrode surface changes by variation of driving waveforms and the patterns of discharge images and the distribution of light intensity above the surface of the sustain electrodes will have some different results.Finally we establish the high vacuum system and heating system, and then succeed in firing DC gas discharge tube and found the striations in the positive column. It is a pity that the macro-PDP cell ruled by similarity law hasn’t been fired successfully, and need to be research in advance at the second step. If we could succeed in macro-PDP cell, we can change the parameters of panel structures and gas cheaply and simply, and compare with the difference between the macro-PDP cell and real PDP production.