Claims
- 1. A plasma display comprising:
at least two orthogonal arrays of fiber-like structures; at least one fiber such that said fiber makes up said fiber-like structures; at least one wire electrode within said fiber such that said electrode creates a plurality of plasma cells with a volume greater than 0.05 mm3.
- 2. A fiber plasma display of claim 1, wherein at least one address electrode is located in a barrier rib region to reduce an addressing distance between the address electrode and at least one sustain electrode.
- 3. A fiber plasma display comprising at least one field electrode located below a plasma channel in a bottom fiber to retard the electric field created by at least one sustain electrode and to repel said electric field to reside within a plasma cell region.
- 4. A fiber plasma display of claim 3, wherein said field electrode also serves to shield an electromotive force escaping out of a back of the display.
- 5. A color plasma display device have a plurality of subpixels, comprising:
an array of sustain electrodes and an orthogonal array of address electrodes that create at least one subpixel at an intersection between the arrays wherein said array of sustain electrodes comprise two closely spaced sustain electrodes separated by at least one far spaced sustain electrode to create each row of subpixels; and a linear array of barrier ribs which forms a plasma channel that is coated with a thin phosphor coating.
- 6. A display device according to claim 5, wherein the two orthogonal array of electrodes are wire electrodes contained within at least one glass fiber which form a structure of the display comprising the barrier ribs and the plasma channel.
- 7. A display device according to claim 5, further comprising an erase address drive control system, wherein said erase address control system comprises:
means for storing charge at each said closely spaced sustain electrodes to turn each subpixel ON; means for selectively removing said charge from at least one subpixel by applying an erase pulse to its corresponding top fiber closely spaced sustain electrodes and corresponding bottom fiber wire electrode, thereby turning said at least one subpixel OFF; and means for sustaining the ON subpixels by alternatively applying voltage pulses between said far spaced sustain electrode(s) and closely spaced sustain electrodes, thereby creating light in said display.
- 8. A display device according to claim 5, further comprising a write address drive control system, wherein said write address control system includes:
means for removing charge at each subpixel, thereby turning each subpixel OFF; means for selectively adding charge to at least one subpixel by applying a voltage to its corresponding closely spaced sustain electrodes in the top fiber and corresponding bottom fiber wire electrode, thereby turning said at least one subpixel ON; and means for sustaining the ON subpixels by alternatively applying voltage pulses between said far spaced sustain electrode(s) and closely spaced sustain electrodes, thereby creating light in said display.
- 9. A display device according to claim 6, further comprising a ramped voltage address drive control system, wherein said ramped voltage address drive control system comprises:
means for turning each subpixel ON by applying at least one voltage ramp to said top fiber closely spaced wire electrodes to create a standardized chare at each subpixel; means for selectively removing said charge from at least one subpixel by applying an erase pulse to its corresponding top fiber closely spaced sustain electrodes and corresponding bottom fiber wire electrode, thereby turning said at least one subpixel OFF; and means for sustaining the ON subpixels by alternatively applying voltage pulses between said far spaced sustain electrode(s) and closely spaced sustain electrodes, thereby creating light in said display.
- 10. A display device according to claim 5, wherein said display is addressed in an interlaced mode of operation, where every other line in the display is operated per video frame.
- 11. A full color fiber plasma display device having a plurality of subpixels, comprising:
two glass plates sandwiched around a top fiber array and a bottom fiber array, said top and bottom fiber arrays being substantially orthogonal and defining a structure of said display, said top fiber array disposed on a side facing towards a viewer; said top fiber array including wire sustain electrodes which are located near a surface of said top fiber on a side facing away from said view and a thin dielectric layer separating said sustain electrodes form said surface, said surface being covered by an emissive film; said wire sustain electrodes are composed of two closely two closely spaced sustain electrodes separated by at least one far spaced sustain electrode to create each row of subpixels; said bottom fiber array including three alternating bottom fibers, each bottom fiber including a pair of barrier ribs that define a plasma channel, at least one address electrode located near a surface of said plasma channel, and a phosphor layer coating on said surface of said plasma channel, wherein a luminescent color of said phosphor coating in each of the three alternating bottom fibers represents a subpixel color of said plasma display; and said plasma display being hermetically sealed with a glass frit and said sustain electrodes and said at least one address electrode are brought out through said glass frit for direct connection to a drive control system.
- 12. A display device according to claim 11, wherein said at least one address electrode is located near the top of the barrier rib region to reduce the addressing distance between the address electrode and sustain electrodes.
- 13. A display device according to claim 11, wherein a black matrix function is added to the display between each closely spaced sustain electrode.
- 14. A display device according to claim 13, wherein said black matrix is formed by coloring said top fiber glass by adding a coloring ingredient into said glass, such as Cobalt.
- 15. A display device according to claim 12, wherein said black matrix is formed using a dark glass sealing frit material.
- 16. A display device according to claim 11, wherein the surface of said top fiber on a side facing away from said view is contoured to enhance the electric field from said sustain electrodes.
- 17. A display device according to claim 11, wherein said thin dielectric layer separating said sustain electrodes form said surface is textured around at least one sustain electrode to enhance the electric field in said textured region.
- 18. A fiber plasma display with at least one field electrode to retard the electric field created by the sustain electrodes and confine it to the plasma cell region.
- 19. A fiber plasma display in claim 18, wherein said field electrode is located in the bottom fiber.
- 20. A fiber plasma display in claim 18, wherein said field electrode is a wire electrode contained within said top fiber.
- 21. A fiber plasma display in claim 18, wherein said field electrode is a transparent conductive film deposited on the top fiber on the side away from the plasma cell.
- 22. A fiber plasma display in claim 18, wherein said field electrode is a transparent conductive film deposited on the inside surface of the top glass plate, which sandwiches the fiber arrays.
- 23. A fiber plasma display comprising top and bottom fiber arrays wherein said bottom fiber contains glass frit that flows up against the top fiber array during the frit sealing step of display fabrication to reduce the gap over the barrier ribs in said bottom fiber and said top fiber.
- 24. A fiber plasma display comprising two orthogonal fiber arrays where the fibers in at least one fiber array is frit sealed together such that a cover glass is not needed to form the vacuum tight seal on the outside surface of said at least one fiber array.
- 25. A fiber plasma display where electrons are created by one set of orthogonal set of electrodes and then some of said electrons are pulled through a long gas region to create a long plasma region similar to that experienced in a positive glow region.
- 26. A fiber plasma display comprising two orthogonal wire electrodes arrays to address said display and to generate a plasma and a third wire electrode array to pull electrons from the plasma through a gas region to create ionization.
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims an invention which was disclosed in Provisional Application No. 60/186,025, filed Mar. 1, 2000, entitled “MEDIUM AND LARGE PIXEL MULTIPLE STRAND ARRAY STRUCTURE PLASMA DISPLAY”. The benefit under 35 USC § 119(e) of the United States provisional application is hereby claimed, and the aforementioned application is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60186025 |
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