SIPDP-AC

SIPDP-AC is a 2-D fluid model of  glow discharges in conditions typical of AC Plasma Display Panel (PDP) cells. The geometry can include dielectric barriers and can take into account several cells (in order to study cross-talk). The design of the electrodes and dielectric layers in the cell is entered interactively by the user.

SIPDP-AC  is based on a semi-implicit method of solutions of Poisson's equation coupled with the electron and ion tranport equations. 

SIPDP-AC also has an option for automatic calculation of the breakdown curves in a coplanar or matrix electrode geometry.

SIPDP-AC comes with a data base including the electron and ion transport coefficients in 15 gases. A  user friendly Boltzmann code is also provided with SIPDP-AC so that the user can calculate the electron transport coefficients in a gas mixture (a set of electron-molecule cross sections is also provided for the 15 gases).

The recommended operating system for running SIPDP-AC  is Windows 2000 Professional or Windows NT. On a 2 GHz Pentium, the typical computation time for standard PDP conditions is 1 hour per pulse (this however strongly depends on the spatial resolution of the numerical grid). The GUI of SIPDP-AC can be made compatible with UNIX systems.

A Demo version of SIPDP-AC is available. This version is limited and does not allow to change the simulated cell geometry. Click here to download the Demo version of SIPDP-AC Download DEMO 

Click here to view the  SIPDP-AC Help Manual.

Example of simulations of plasma displays can be found here: EXAMPLES