Abstract:
An improved lighting system (10) which in the preferred embodiment includes a cathode (12) having an external surface (34) being coated with a cathode outside film (40) for emitting electrons therefrom. A first anode (14) extends internal to the cathode (12) for heating the cathode (12) to thereby emit electrons from the external surface (34). A second anode (16) is positionally located external to the enclosed cathode (12) for accelerating the electrons emitted from the cathode external surface (34). A bulb member (18) encompasses the cathode (12), the first anode (14), and the second anode (16) in a hermetic type seal. The bulb member (18) has a predetermined gas composition contained therein with the gas composition atoms being ionized by the cathode emitted electrons. The gas composition ionized atoms radiate in the ultraviolet bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum. The bulb member (18) is coated with a fluorescent material (20) for intercepting the ultraviolet energy responsive to the ionization of the gas composition atoms. The fluorescent material (20) radiates in the visible bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum to give a visible light output.
Abstract:
A flat-panel gas discharge display operable with either alternating or direct current is free of implosive forces because it operates at least at substantially atmospheric pressure. The display comprises a first set of conductors disposed on a transparent substrate and a second set crossing over the first set at a distance therefrom. An array of components is formed at each location where a conductor of the second set crosses over a conductor of the first set. A gas is contained in the space between the first and second sets of conductors at each crosspoint. The gas will undergo light emissive discharge when a voltage greater than or equal to the Paschen minimum firing voltage is applied at a crosspoint. Air may be used as the operative gas. The display is formed on a single substrate, and may be stacked with additional displays in lieu of one or more capping layers. At least one of the sets of conductors may be provided with an aperture at each of the crosspoints to facilitate viewing the discharge. A system incorporating the flat-panel display is presented. A suitably wired flat-panel structure may constitute a flat-panel plasma discharge lamp for lighting applications.
Abstract:
A plasma display panel having a short decay time, high luminance, and high efficiency is provided. The plasma display panel includes a green phosphor layer that emits visible light when excited with vacuum ultraviolet rays. The green phosphor layer contains a green phosphor represented by the general formula aBaO·(2-a)EuO·bMgO·cSiO2·fCaCl2 (where 1.800≦a≦1.980, 0.950≦b≦1.050, 1.900≦c≦2.100, and 0.001
Abstract:
A flat-panel gas discharge display operable with either alternating or direct current is free of implosive forces because it operates at least at substantially atmospheric pressure. The display comprises a first set of conductors disposed on a transparent substrate and a second set crossing over the first set at a distance therefrom. An array of crosspoints is formed at each location where a conductor of the second set crosses over a conductor of the first set. A gas is contained in the space between the first and second sets of conductors at each crosspoint. The gas will undergo light emissive discharge when a voltage greater than or equal to the Paschen minimum firing voltage is applied at a crosspoint. Air may be used as the operative gas. The display is formed on a single substrate, and may be stacked with additional displays in lieu of one or more capping layers. At least one of the sets of conductors may be provided with an aperture at each of the crosspoints to facilitate viewing the discharge. A system incorporating the flat-panel display is presented. A suitably wired flat-panel structure may constitute a flat-panel plasma discharge lamp for lighting applications.
Abstract:
A flat gas discharge panel comprising two opposed glass plates sealed with a space for gas therebetween and having a plurality of first and second electrodes, respectively mounted on opposite plates in a matrix fashion and further including a plurality of parallel insulator ribs which intersect the first electrodes at right angles and further provide physical separation between the glass plates and the adjacent discharge segments. A plurality of parallel barrier electrodes are mounted on one of the plates in alignment with the insulator ribs so as to maintain the glow from an illuminated section isolated from adjacent sections, and at least two different phosphors for emitting different color lights are mounted in the sections at different positions.
Abstract:
The display panel comprises a gas-filled envelope containing an array of line-like glow cathodes. Circuit means is coupled to the panel to scan the array of cathodes and to energize a number of cathodes determined by the magnitude of an input analog signal. The cathodes which are energized at any instant, display a bar of light. A light source is provided behind the panel to transmit light through the panel and between the line-like cathodes so that a viewer sees both a bar of cathode glow light, the length of which is determined by the analog signal, and a bar of light generated by the light source, the length of which is determined by the number of cathodes which are not energized and do not generate cathode glow.