Microplasma arrays are fabricated in aluminum substrate with indium tin oxides(ITO)electrode. The discharge characteristics and light emission of the devices at atmospheric pressure in neon are investigated experimentally. The experiment results for microplasma devices with different microcavity diameters show that the breakdown voltage of the microplasma device with 150 μm microcavity diameter reduces firstly and then increases as the operation pressure increases
and reaches the minimum value 212 V at 53.2 kPa. Devices with large microcavity diameters are easy to breakdown at low pressures.The breakdown voltage of the device with small microcavity diameter goes down quickly as the operation pressure increases. The breakdown voltage of microcavity is lower than the breakdown voltage of commercial plasma display panel(PDP). Using small microcavity as pixel of PDP can improve the resolution of PDP at high atmospheric pressure.
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