One-dimensional single and multipulse simulations of the on/off voltages and the bistable margin for he, xe, and he/xe filled plasma display pixels

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1399-1410

  Veerasingam, Ramana ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRONS; HELIUM; IONIZATION; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA SIMULATION; XENON;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PLASMA DYNAMICS; POISSON EQUATIONS; WALL VOLTAGE TRANSFER CURVED METHOD;

PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 0030414525     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.553208     Document Type: Article

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