Plasma TV technology employ over 900,000 individual pixels to bring you amazing and vibrant pictures on your flat screen TV.  Plasma TV technology may look the same as LCD but the technology that brings it alive is completely different.

Plasma TV technology has advanced to the level that larger wide screen televisions can have over 1 million pixels lit at one time.  Each plasma pixel has three sub-pixels with red, green, or blue gas.  As the gas filled pixel receives a current of electricity the gas turns to plasma.  The charge in the plasma changes the amount of light omitted according to the signal given.  This creates one of over 16 million colors in each and every pixel on the screen. 

In the thousands of tiny pixels plasma TV technology combine xenon and neon gasses between two panes of glass.  Along the front glass plate transparent display electrodes are mounted in front of the pixels.  Transparent electrodes are surrounded by an insulating dielectric material and covered by a magnesium oxide protective layer.  Along the rear glass plate sits address electrodes.  A voltage difference is created when the electrodes are charged that cross the paths of each pixel of the plasma television.  The gasses ionize and form plasma.  The gas ions rush to the electrodes and collide emitting photons and creating just the right amount of light to bring the desired color on the flat panel screen to life.

Plasma TV technology works kind of like a dimmer switch on a fluorescent light.  As the charged plasma changes in each pixel and becomes brighter or whiter the plasma is illuminated more and allows one of over 16 million colors to shine through.

Plasma TV technology is improving with every new model and has changed the television industry allowing us to enjoy our favorite movies, sports, games and TV shows like never before.

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