本研究為使用二維交流型電漿顯示器之數值模擬來改善電漿顯示器的發光效率，影響發光效率的因子有驅動電壓波形、混合氣體成份、電極結構、cell結構等參數，而本論文的探討以電極結構與氣體成份為主，而模擬所使用的物理模型為流體模型(fluid model)，並考慮電子能量方程式，以精確計算空間中的電子平均能量，在本文中比較了傳統式電極以及一些特殊電極對電漿顯示器發光效率的影響，藉由增加電漿的放電路徑來產生較多的氙激發態，並且在兩維持電極間的輔助電極上加維持電壓方波以感應出正陽光柱放電(positive column discharge)，因此利用在陽極區域的高放電效率來有效提升電漿顯示器的發光效率，並考慮紫外光的放射情形計算發光效率，根據我們設計的電極可以使放電效率達26%，而改變維持電壓頻率，當頻率增加時會有較低的電子溫度，因此枮激發效率可提升，但是若頻率過高而產升的提早放電將使電子密度下降，所以電子加熱效率會降低，在混合氣體方面，已建立六種不同的氣體比例，為Ne/Xe4%、Ne/Xe5%、Ne/Xe8%、Ne/Xe10%、Ne/Xe12%、Ne/Xe15%，研究發現在低氙氣成分時紫外光主要是147nm為主，而在高氙氣下紫外光主要是由Xe2*(3Σu+)所產生(173nm)，最後並模擬友達的面板參數，得到與實驗上相近的結果。

The luminous efficiency of AC plasma display panels is relatively low. In this thesis, we design new electrode structure to improve luminous efficiency. The UV efficiency can be increased by a factor of 1.3 in comparison with the conventional model.

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