Abstract: Protective layer (26) of front plate (20) of a plasma display panel has base protective layer (26a) and particle layer (26b). Base protective layer (26a) is formed of a thin film of metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. Particle layer (26b) is formed by sticking, to base protective layer (26a), single crystal particles (27) of magnesium oxide having an NaCl crystal structure that is surrounded by a specified two-type orientation face formed of (100) face and (111) face or a specified three-type orientation face formed of (100) face, (110) face, and (111) face. The panel driving circuit drives the panel while temporally disposing the subfields so that the luminance weight monotonically decreases from a subfield in which an all-cell initializing operation is performed to the subfield immediately before the subfield in which its next all-cell initializing operation is performed.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing an ultraviolet light emitting phosphor material. This method includes a step of heat-treating a composition containing zinc and oxygen as main components and at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum, gallium and indium as a sub-component, in the presence of at least two coexisting substances selected from the group consisting of zinc oxide, gallium oxide and phosphorus oxide under a non-oxidizing atmosphere.

Abstract: There is provided a PDP including a front substrate and a rear substrate. The front substrate and the rear substrate are disposed via discharge spaces. The discharge spaces are filled with a discharge gas. In the discharge spaces or in a space permeable to the discharge spaces, a copper-ion-exchanged zeolite adsorbent is disposed which is in an activated state.

Abstract: There is provided a PDP in which the structure of the periphery of a protective film is improved, excellent secondary electron emission property is exhibited, and improved efficiency and increased life can be expected. There is further provided a PDP in which occurrence of a discharge delay at the time of driving is prevented, and exhibition of high quality image display performance can be expected even in a high definition PDP that is driven at a high speed. Specifically, a crystalline film containing Sr in CeO2 in a concentration of 11.8 mol % to 49.4 mol % inclusive is formed on the surface of dielectric layer on the discharge space side as surface layer (protective film) having a thickness of about 1 ?m. High ? fine particles having secondary electron emission property higher than those of protective film are arranged thereon.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method that allows even a PDP having high-definition cells to exhibit excellent image display performance with reduced power consumption by effectively preventing impurities from adhering to the protective layer. Specifically, in a pre-baking step, a back substrate 9 is baked at a pre-baking temperature. Here, a highest pre-baking temperature is set to be lower than a softening point of a sealing material. The back substrate 9 is superposed on a front substrate 2. Then, a sealing step is performed in a sealing atmosphere prepared by mixing a predetermined amount of a reducing gas with a non-oxidizing gas. The above enables the impurities attributed to organic components due to a sealing material paste to remain as low molecular components, whereby the impurities are evacuated and removed in an evacuating step performed after the sealing step. This prevents adherence of the impurities to the protective layer 8.

Abstract: The present invention improves discharge characteristics of a protective layer in order to provide a PDP that exhibits excellent display performance even if the PDP is of a fine-cell structure. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method for the PDP. In particular, a protective layer 8 is composed of an MgO film layer 81 and an MgO particle layer 82 that is made of MgO particles 16. The MgO particles 16 are formed by burning an MgO precursor and satisfy that a/b?1.2, where a denotes a spectrum integral value in a wavelength region of a CL spectrum from 650 nm to 900 nm, exclusive of 900 nm, and b denotes a spectrum integral value in a wavelength region of the CL spectrum from 300 nm to 550 nm, exclusive of 550 nm.

Abstract: “Discharge delay” and “dependence of discharge delay on temperatures” are solved by improving a protective layer, thus a PDP can be driven at a low voltage. Furthermore, the PDP can display excellent images by suppressing “dependence of discharge delay on space charges.” Liquid-phase magnesium alkoxide (Mg(OR)2) or acetylacetone magnesium ate whose purity is 99.95% or more is prepared, and is hydrolyzed by adding a small amount of acids to the solution. Thus, a gel of magnesium hydroxide that is a magnesium oxide precursor is formed. Burning the gel in atmosphere at 700° C. or more produces powder containing MgO particles 16a-16d having the NaCl crystal structure with (100) and (111) crystal faces or with (100), (110) and (111) crystal faces. By pasting the powder on a dielectric layer 7 or a surface layer 8, the MgO powder 16 is formed so as to serve as the protective layer.

Abstract: A first aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP capable of stably delivering favorable image display performance and being driven with low power, by improving the surface layer to improve secondary electron emission characteristics and charge retention characteristics. A second aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP, in addition to having the above-mentioned effects, capable of reducing an aging time. In order to achieve these aims, a crystalline film of a film thickness of approximately 1 ?m is disposed as a surface layer (protective film) 8 on a surface of the dielectric layer 7 that faces a discharge space. The surface layer 8 is made by adding Sr to CeO2, and a concentration of Sr in the surface layer 8 is in a range of 11.8 mol % to 49.4 mol % inclusive. With this structure, an attempt is made to improve the secondary electron emission characteristics and aging characteristics in the surface layer 8.

Abstract: “Discharge delay” and “dependence of discharge delay on temperatures” are solved by improving a protective layer, thus a PDP can be driven at a low voltage. Furthermore, the PDP can display excellent images by suppressing “dependence of discharge delay on space charges.” Liquid-phase magnesium alkoxide (Mg(OR)2) or acetylacetone magnesium ate whose purity is 99.95% or more is prepared, and is hydrolyzed by adding a small amount of acids to the solution. Thus, a gel of magnesium hydroxide that is a magnesium oxide precursor is formed. Burning the gel in atmosphere at 700° C. or more produces powder containing MgO particles 16a-16d having the NaCl crystal structure with (100) and (111) crystal faces or with (100), (110) and (111) crystal faces. By pasting the powder on a dielectric layer 7 or a surface layer 8, the MgO powder 16 is formed so as to serve as the protective layer.

Abstract: A first aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP capable of stably delivering favorable image display performance and being driven with low power, by improving the surface layer to improve secondary electron emission characteristics and charge retention characteristics. A second aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP, in addition to having the above-mentioned effects, capable of reducing an aging time. In order to achieve these aims, a crystalline film of a film thickness of approximately 1 ?m is disposed as a surface layer (protective film) 8 on a surface of the dielectric layer 7 that faces a discharge space. The surface layer 8 is made by adding Sr to CeO2, and a concentration of Sr in the surface layer 8 is in a range of 11.8 mol % to 49.4 mol % inclusive. With this structure, an attempt is made to improve the secondary electron emission characteristics and aging characteristics in the surface layer 8.

Abstract: A PDP can be driven at low voltage while having a charge retention property in a protection layer, and has favorable image display properties. Additionally, the PDP prevents the occurrence of discharge delay and realizes high-quality image display by performing favorable high-speed driving in a high definition PDP. To achieve this, a surface layer (8) is formed to a film thickness of 1 ?m in an oxygen atmosphere having an oxygen partial pressure of 0.025 Pa or more, the surface layer (8) is provided on a face of a dielectric layer (7) on a discharge space side. Furthermore, MgO particles (16) are dispersed on a surface of the surface layer (8). The surface layer (8) has the effects of protecting the dielectric layer (7) from ion bombardment during discharge, reducing the firing voltage, and preventing excessive electron loss. Also, the MgO particles (16) have a high initial electron emission property.

Abstract: The present invention improves discharge characteristics of a protective layer in order to provide a PDP that exhibits excellent display performance even if the PDP is of a fine-cell structure. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method for the PDP. In particular, a protective layer 8 is composed of an MgO film layer 81 and an MgO particle layer 82 that is made of MgO particles 16. The MgO particles 16 are formed by burning an MgO precursor and satisfy that a/b?1, where a denotes a spectrum integral value in a wavelength region of a CL spectrum from 200 nm to 300 nm, exclusive of 300 nm, and b denotes a spectrum integral value in a wavelength region of the CL spectrum from 300 nm to 550 nm, exclusive of 550 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method that allows even a PDP having high-definition cells to exhibit excellent image display performance with reduced power consumption by effectively preventing impurities from adhering to the protective layer. Specifically, in a pre-baking step, a back substrate 9 is baked at a pre-baking temperature. Here, a highest pre-baking temperature is set to be lower than a softening point of a sealing material. The back substrate 9 is superposed on a front substrate 2. Then, a sealing step is performed in a sealing atmosphere prepared by mixing a predetermined amount of a reducing gas with a non-oxidizing gas. The above enables the impurities attributed to organic components due to a sealing material paste to remain as low molecular components, whereby the impurities are evacuated and removed in an evacuating step performed after the sealing step. This prevents adherence of the impurities to the protective layer 8.

Abstract: A first aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP capable of stably delivering favorable image display performance and being driven with low power, by improving the surface layer to improve secondary electron emission characteristics and charge retention characteristics. A second aim of the present invention is to provide a PDP capable of displaying high-definition images even when the PDP is driven at high speed by preventing the discharge delay during driving. In order to achieve these aims, the surface layer (protective film) 8 of a film thickness of approximately 1 ?m is disposed on a surface of the dielectric layer 7 that faces a discharge space 15. The surface layer 8 includes CeO2 as the main component and Ba, and a concentration of Ba in the surface layer 8 is in a range of 16 mol % to 29 mol % inclusive. With this structure, an electron level having a certain depth is introduced in a forbidden band in the surface layer 8, or an electron level of a valence band is elevated to narrow a band gap.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma display panel (PDP) with a protective film improved so as to achieve a lower discharge starting voltage. A surface portion of the protective film 16 substantially is composed of magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O). The protective film 16 is formed so that in the surface portion of the protective film 16, a ratio of the number of atoms of the aluminum to a total of the number of atoms of the magnesium and the number of atoms of the aluminum is at least 2.1% but not more than 66.5%, a ratio of the number of atoms of the nitrogen to a total of the number of atoms of the nitrogen and the number of atoms of the oxygen is at least 1.2% but not more than 17.2%, and a ratio of the total of the number of atoms of the nitrogen and the number of atoms of the oxygen to the total of the number of atoms of the magnesium and the number of atoms of the aluminum is at least 1.0 but not more than 1.35.

Abstract: The protective layer of the plasma display device is formed of a base protective layer and a particle layer. The base protective layer is a thin film of magnesium oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. The particle layer is formed in a manner that magnesium-oxide single-crystal particles, which have a structure surrounded by the specified two-type orientation face formed of (100) and (111) faces or the specified three-type orientation face formed of (100), (110), and (111) faces, are stuck to the base protective layer. The panel driving circuit drives the panel in a manner that one field period is formed of a first subfield group having a plurality of subfields and a second subfield group having a plurality of subfields temporally disposed after the first subfield group. Each subfield of the first subfield group has initializing period Ti, address period Tw for forming wall charge to generate a sustain discharge, and sustain period Ts.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma display panel (PDP) with a protective film improved so as to achieve a lower discharge starting voltage. A surface portion of the protective film 16 substantially is composed of magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O). The protective film 16 is formed so that in the surface portion of the protective film 16, a ratio of the number of atoms of the aluminum to a total of the number of atoms of the magnesium and the number of atoms of the aluminum is at least 2.1% but not more than 66.5%, a ratio of the number of atoms of the nitrogen to a total of the number of atoms of the nitrogen and the number of atoms of the oxygen is at least 1.2% but not more than 17.2%, and a ratio of the total of the number of atoms of the nitrogen and the number of atoms of the oxygen to the total of the number of atoms of the magnesium and the number of atoms of the aluminum is at least 1.0 but not more than 1.35.

Abstract: A plasma display panel demonstrating excellent image display performance by suppressing generation of initialization bright points through modification of the phosphor layer, and by eliminating variation in discharge characteristics between the discharge cells of each color. In addition to solving these problems, the luminance of the plasma display panel is also enhanced by using the ultraviolet rays emitted in the discharge space in order to promote the production of visible light on the front panel side. Specifically, the phosphor layer (14) is composed of a phosphor component and of MgO powder (16) disposed principally inside the phosphor layer and exposed towards the surface (140) facing the discharge space in order to impart secondary electron emission characteristics.

Abstract: In a plasma display panel, protective layer of front plate has base protective layer and particle layer. The base protective layer is formed of a thin film of a metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. The particle layer is formed by sticking, to base protective layer, single-crystal particles of magnesium that have an NaCl crystal structure surrounded by specified two type orientation faces of a (100) face and a (111) face, or by specified three type orientation faces of a (100) face, a (110) face, and a (111) face. A panel driving circuit drives the panel in a manner that an initializing discharge for forming wall charge is caused in the first subfield of a plurality of subfields, and an address discharge for erasing the wall charge is caused in address periods of the plurality of subfields.

Abstract: Protective layer (26) of front plate (20) of a plasma display panel has base protective layer (26a) and particle layer (26b). Base protective layer (26a) is formed of a thin film of metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. Particle layer (26b) is formed by sticking, to base protective layer (26a), single crystal particles (27) of magnesium oxide having an NaCl crystal structure that is surrounded by a specified two-type orientation face formed of (100) face and (111) face or a specified three-type orientation face formed of (100) face, (110) face, and (111) face. The panel driving circuit drives the panel while temporally disposing the subfields so that the luminance weight monotonically decreases from a subfield in which an all-cell initializing operation is performed to the subfield immediately before the subfield in which its next all-cell initializing operation is performed.