An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel, which is capable of simplifying the structure of a sustain circuit directly affecting the illumination and power consumption of the PDP and increasing an energy recovery rate, and a method thereof are provided. Separate hybrid couplers and band pass filters produce quadrature phase signals that are combined in a signal combiner to produce a pair of quadrature phase multiplexed signals. The signal is then stored and distributed. Whether the probability exceeds a read ahead threshold is determined. The second oxidation process can comprise a plasma oxidation process or a radical oxidation process using In-Situ Steam Generation. The artificial plasmon medium has a dielectric function of less than 1, and a plasma frequency selected to result in the permittivity of the composite being substantially equal to 1.