Origin of the Bistable Voltage Margin in the AC Plasma Display Panel

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1977, Pages 853-859

  Sahni, O ^a   Lanza, C ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA DEVICES;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 0017514081     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1977.18841     Document Type: Article

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