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“Work on such solutions is already under way within the Advanced PDP Development Center Corporation”, Panasonic spokesman Peter Weber reports in an interview with the pressetext.de news service.
Simply doubling luminous efficiency to five lumens per watt is expected to reduce manufacturing costs for PDPs by around ten percent. According to DisplaySearch, this will be possible by the end of the decade. The APDC http://www.advanced-pdp.jp/english makes an important contribution to this. In addition to Panasonic, Hitachi and Pioneer are involved in the cooperation. According to Weber, the companies are also researching further technical development in their own laboratories. “We already presented corresonding prototypes at this year’s CeBit”, Weber adds. He expects that the products will actually be ready for the market within the next three years.
According to DisplaySearch, further improvements in energy yield to ten lumens per watt could even save up to 40 percent in production costs. Ten-lumen-per-watt technology is also the declared goal of ADPC. However, this is not only about falling production costs. The technology is intended to open up new areas of application for PDPs, such as devices the size of cinema screens or plasma screens suitable for medical applications. According to DisplaySearch, ten-lumen-per-watt technology would have a very concrete advantage for PDP manufacturers. In the area of high brightness with low power consumption, PDPs would gain the upper hand over LCDs.
Since energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important not only in the IT sector, the plasma screens notorious as power guzzlers are likely to gain not only a better picture but also a better image through technical advances. Because, Weber is certain: “The developments will drastically reduce energy consumption.”
