Abstract: A driving electrode structure of a plasma display panel for improving operation margin is described. A plurality openings is formed in a transparent electrode according to the driving characteristics of fluorescent layer of each luminous cell to adjust the effective area of the transparent electrode in each luminous cell, thereby increasing the operation margin of the sustaining voltage.

Abstract: A plasma display panel wherein sustain discharge spaces can be arranged at an equal distance. In the plasma display panel, each of a plurality of first electrode groups includes first and second electrodes formed adjacently to each other and third electrodes spaced at a large distance from the second electrodes. A plurality of second electrode groups are adjacent to the first electrode groups and have the first electrodes, the second electrodes and the third electrodes arranged in a mirror type. One sides of the first electrode groups and the second electrode groups are set to a first distance including widths of the third electrodes being adjacent to each other. Other sides of the first electrode groups and the second electrode groups are set to a second distance equal to the first distance including widths of the second electrodes.

Abstract: An electrode plate, a method of manufacturing the same, a gas discharge panel using an electrode plate, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided by incorporating a relatively simple structure, which can keep electrodes formed on a plate from peeling or becoming misaligned. In the electrode plate, at least one electrode is formed and adhered to a main surface of a plate by a thick film or thin film formation method, wherein of all ends of the electrode, at least an end opposite to an end at a power supply point is adhered to the main surface of the plate with stronger adhesion than the other parts of the electrode.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprises a selective row electrode Z extending between row electrode pairs (X, Y) adjacent to each other in a column direction. A discharge cell is divided by into two by a second transverse wall 15B of a partition wall 15 defining the periphery of the discharge cell: a display discharge cell C1 provided opposite transparent electrodes Xa, Ya of the paired row electrodes X, Y for a sustaining discharge, and a reset and addressing discharge cell C2 provided opposite the selective row electrode Z for a reset discharge and an addressing discharge which are created between the electrode Z and a column electrode D. A clearance r is provided for communication between the display discharge cell C1 and the reset and addressing discharge cell C2.

Abstract: The invention provides plasma display panel technique that is operated with a low voltage and reduced power consumption, and exhibits high luminous efficiency and high luminance. A barrier plate comprises a metal electrode having a projection that projects partially toward the cell space side between display electrodes formed so that the display electrodes intersect with an address electrode in a plane approximately parallel to the panel plane.

Abstract: A board for a plasma color display, on which striped barrier ribs for partitioning address electrodes and discharge spaces are formed, and on which phosphor layer stripes emitting light of red, green and blue are formed in the grooves between the respectively adjacent barrier ribs, characterized in that the following relation is satisfied Pb>Pr where Pr is the distance between respectively adjacent barrier ribs for forming a red light emitting phosphor layer, and Pb is the distance between respectively adjacent barrier ribs for forming a blue light emitting phosphor layer, and that the height differences of the barrier ribs within the board face are within ±0.5˜±6 ?m in reference to the average height of the barrier ribs, or characterized in that phosphor layer stripes respectively emitting light of the same color are formed in respectively adjacent two or more grooves.

Abstract: A plasma display device having a front substrate and a rear substrate is provided. The front substrate is constituted from a transparent first insulating substrate, and a plurality of stripe-shaped first electrodes including at least one discharge electrode and extending parallel to each other. The rear substrate is constituted from a second insulating substrate, a plurality of second electrodes extending parallel to each other, and a plurality of ribs forming a plurality of discharge spaces therebetween. The discharge electrode includes a transparent electrode, a black-colored first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer. The second conductive layer has a lower resistivity than the first conductive layer and is made with widths smaller than those of the first conductive layer and extends to the edge of the first insulating substrate.

Abstract: A display panel driving device has a simple substrate structure. Amorphous silicon material or organic semiconductor material can be used for the substrate structure. A data code wiring group which is the base of row addresses of the display panel, and an address electrode line wiring group, intersect each other. The two wiring groups sandwich a compound layer of an insulating film and a semiconductor film. By providing disconnected portions at prescribed intersecting points on the address electrode lines, MOS type transistors are formed at the disconnected portions. A logic circuit is configured for row address decoding, in which MOS type transistors are connected in series to a single address electrode line.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being provided with a predetermined gap therebetween. Barrier ribs are formed in a non-striped pattern between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge spaces. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate along a direction (y), the address electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. A plurality of sustain electrodes are formed on the second substrate along a direction (x), the sustain electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. The address electrodes include large electrode portions provided within discharge spaces and small electrode portions provided outside the discharge spaces. If a width of large electrode portions is AW, a width of small electrode portions is Aw, and a distance between barrier ribs along direction (x) is D, AW is larger than Aw, and AW is 40-75% of D.

Abstract: A plasma display panel having increased contrast and sharpness of image displayed on the panel. The panel includes (1) a front plate and a back plate in parallel, with a discharge gas between the plates, (2) plural pairs of composite display electrodes, each display electrode including a sustain electrode and a bus electrode, (3) a dielectric layer covering the display electrodes, and a protective film over the dielectric layer, (4) address electrodes on the back plate at right angles to the display electrode pairs, and a dielectric layer covering the address electrodes, and (5) linear ribs between the address electrodes, with phosphor layers between the adjacent linear ribs to extend intermittently in the lengthwise direction of the ribs for each pixel. Each phosphor layer covers both the dielectric layer surface and the surface of the linear ribs within each pixel. No phosphor layers are in the regions between adjacent pixels.

Abstract: A plasma display panel. First and second substrates are provided opposing one another. Address electrodes are formed on the second substrate. Barrier ribs are mounted between the first and second substrates defining discharge cells and non-discharge regions. Phosphor layers are formed within each of the discharge cells. Discharge sustain electrodes are formed on the first substrate. The non-discharge regions are formed in areas encompassed by discharge cell abscissas and ordinates passing through centers of the discharge cells. Further, the discharge cells are formed such that ends thereof increasingly decrease in width as a distance from centers of the discharge cells is increased. The discharge sustain electrodes include bus electrodes that extend perpendicular to the address electrodes and outside areas of the discharge cells but across areas of the non-discharge regions, and protrusion electrodes formed extending from each of the bus electrodes.

Abstract: When a PDP 10 is produced by superposing, and fixing, a front plate 16 and a rear plate 18 on, and to, each other, a sheet member 20 including an X wiring layer 36 and a Y wiring layer 40 is fixed to the front plate 16 or the rear plate 18, so that X electrodes 46 and Y electrodes 48 are provided in respective discharge spaces 24. Thus, the X electrodes 46 and the Y electrodes 48 can be assembled with the front and rear plates 16, 18, by just placing the sheet member 20 between the two plates 16, 18. Therefore, in the PDP 10, the front plate 16, the rear plate 18, and the discharge electrodes 46, 48 are free of distortions resulting from a heat treatment that would otherwise be carried out to form the electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display panel including a plurality of cells arranged in a matrix, wherein each of the cells includes (a) a scanning electrode having partial cutout, (b) a sustaining electrode having partial cutout, spaced away from the scanning electrode by a discharge gap in mirror-symmetry with a centerline of the discharge gap extending in a first direction, (c) a first trace electrode extending in the first direction on the opposite side of the scanning electrode about the discharge gap such that the first trace electrode makes electrical contact with the scanning electrode and further with a scanning electrode of an adjacent cell, and (d) a second trace electrode extending in the first direction on the opposite side of the sustaining electrode about the discharge gap such that the second trace electrode makes electrical contact with the sustaining electrode and further with a sustaining electrode of an adjacent cell.

Abstract: A plasma flat-panel display has a glass substrate having a first pair of parallel sustainer electrodes deposited thereon that includes a first sustainer electrode and a second sustainer electrode. A second pair of parallel sustainer electrodes also is deposited upon the substrate that also includes a first sustainer electrode and a second sustainer electrode. A single common electrode pad is electrically connected to the first sustainer electrode in the first sustainer electrode pair and the first sustainer electrode in the second sustainer electrode pair. The electrode pad is adapted to be connected to a first sustainer voltage waveform supply so that a single supply provides a voltage waveform to both of the first sustainer electrodes.

Abstract: Provided herein are novel phosphors useful in the manufacture of white light emitting diodes.

Abstract: The PDP disclosed herein has a plurality of thin wire electrodes extending in the row direction, which are laid out in such a way as to widen the interval at a fixed ratio (2 times) from the discharge gap section toward the non-discharge gap section as well as to shorten the lengths of those row direction thin wire electrodes in steps with a fixed difference (approximately 20 &mgr;m×left/right) from the cell's vertical center axis toward the partition walls. They are connected by thin wire electrodes that extend in the column direction to form antenna-shaped plane electrodes and the thin wire electrodes that extend in the column direction from the center of the antenna-shaped plane electrodes and the bus electrodes that extend in the row direction are connected to form a sustaining electrode pair (scan electrode and common electrode).

Abstract: The invention provides a plasma display panel including a number of first display units and a number of second display units, wherein the first and second display units are composed of plural sustaining electrodes, scanning electrodes, data electrodes. The sustaining electrodes and scanning electrodes form at least two adjacent electrode combinations, namely the first electrode combination and the second electrode combination, wherein each electrode combination includes one sustaining electrode and one scanning electrode. Data electrodes are disposed along a direction approximately orthogonal to these sustaining electrodes and scanning electrodes. The first display unit corresponds to the first primary color and is controlled by the first data electrode and the first electrode combination while the second display unit corresponds to the second primary color and is controlled by the first data electrode and the second electrode combination.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes first and second substrates spaced apart from each other at a distance while proceeding substantially parallel to each other. The first and the second substrates have a display area and a non-display area. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate, and covered by a dielectric layer. Main barrier ribs are arranged between the substrates to form discharge cells. Phosphor layer is formed with the discharge cells. A plurality of discharge sustain electrodes are formed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and covered by a dielectric layer. Reinforcing barrier ribs are arranged at the non-display area while surrounding the display area, and connected to the main barrier ribs with an outer structure curved toward the outside of the substrates.

Abstract: A radio frequency plasma display panel that is capable of reducing a discharge voltage. In the plasma display panel, a dielectric material is entirely coated on a substrate and is patterned to have a convex surface. A first electrode crossing the dielectric pattern is formed on the substrate, and a dielectric layer is entirely coated on the substrate provided with the dielectric pattern and the first electrode. A second electrode crossing the first electrode is formed on a concave groove area in the dielectric layer having a wave shape with lands and grooves.

Abstract: An electrode structure with white balance adjustment for plasma display panel is described. The electrode structure has a comb electrode, a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are separated from the comb electrode, respectively. Changing the profile of the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode increases the flexibility of the transparent electrodes. Further, the width of the first electrodes responsive to the luminous regions is adjusted to control the luminance through the first transparent electrode so that white balance of the plasma display panel is precisely corrected.

Abstract: An electrode structure of a plasma display panel (PDP) is disclosed. The electrode structure is formed on a front substrate of the PDP. The electrode structure includes a first sustaining electrode, a second sustaining electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The first and second sustaining electrodes are formed on the substrate with a first gap existing therebetween. The auxiliary electrode is formed in the first gap. A second gap is formed between the auxiliary electrode and the second sustaining electrode. The second gap is smaller than the first gap.

Abstract: A material usable for the electrodes and the dielectric layer plasma display panels and capable of reducing the occurrence of yellowing and a high-image-quality plasma display panel using the material are provided. Using glass powder containing 25 to 50 wt % of Bi2O3, 5 to 35 wt % of B2O3, 10 to 20 wt % of ZnO, 5 to 20 wt % of BaO, 0 to 15 wt % of SiO2 and 0 to 10 wt % of Al2O3, the electrodes and the dielectric layer of a plasma display panel are formed.

Abstract: An electrode plate, a method of manufacturing the same, a gas discharge panel using an electrode plate, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided by incorporating a relatively simple structure, which can keep electrodes formed on a plate from peeling or becoming misaligned. In the electrode plate, at least one electrode is formed and adhered to a main surface of a plate by a thick film or thin film formation method, wherein of all ends of the electrode, at least an end opposite to an end at a power supply point is adhered to the main surface of the plate with stronger adhesion than the other parts of the electrode.

Abstract: The disclosure teaches using at least two orthogonal arrays of complicated shaped glass rods or very large fibers-like structures (from here in referred to as fibers) with wire electrodes to fabricate plasma displays with plasma cells larger than 0.05 mm3 in volume. (The volume of a plasma cell is defined by the width of the plasma channel times the height of the plasma channel times the pitch of the pair of sustain electrodes.) To increase the size of the bottom fiber and keep the addressing voltage constant or to reduce the addressing voltage, the address electrode is moved from the bottom of the channel up into the barrier rib. Moving the address electrode up into the barrier rib will reduce the distance, d, between the address electrode and the sustain electrodes, thus increasing the electric field of the addressing pulse.

Abstract: A color plasma display panel which includes front and back substrates bonded together to form an integrated body and separated from each other at a predetermined distance, the front substrate being an image displaying surface, the back substrate including a plurality of sustain discharge electrodes forming a pair of plural electrodes in a cell, a dielectric layer for insulating the sustain discharge electrodes, and a protective layer; and the front substrate including a plurality of address electrodes arranged in crossing with the sustain discharge electrodes, and a fluorescent layer for generating visible rays.

Abstract: A barrier rib structure for a plasma display panel is described. The barrier rib structure formed on a back substrate has a plurality of parallel barrier ribs. Each barrier rib has a plurality of discharge spaces therein divided by separate walls. Each of the discharge spaces is connected to a small gas channel beside the barrier rib through a small connect opening.

Abstract: A plasma display panel and a method of manufacturing the same are provided to prevent data electrode from being reacted with the sodium component contained in a back glass to change its color or to be cut while the data electrodes are formed on a back plate constructing the plasma display panel, thereby improving the quality of the back plate. The plasma display panel includes a front plate constructed in a manner that a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a first dielectric layer and a protection layer are sequentially formed on a glass substrate, a back plate constructed in a manner that a plurality of data electrodes are formed on a glass substrate, barriers formed between the front and back plates to define discharge cells, and fluorescent materials formed between the barriers. The plasma display panel further has a transparent electrode layer that is at least partially formed between the glass substrate of the back plate and the data electrodes.

Abstract: In order to improve the light emitting efficiency of a surface-discharge type color PDP, a sustaining electrode is divided into a plurality of electrodes formed in respective different layers. Lower electrodes 121 and upper electrodes 122 in different layers are formed as electrode pairs, an upper dielectric layer 14 is formed on the upper electrodes 122 in an upper layer to make a dielectric layer on the surface-discharge electrode pair thin to thereby maintain the discharge sustaining voltage low and obtain high light emitting efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel to improve its light emission efficiency and lower its driving voltage. The plasma display panel of the present invention has electrodes formed on a front substrate. The electrodes of the plasma display panel include first electrodes for receiving scan pulses, second electrodes for receiving first sustain pulses and third electrodes for receiving second sustain pulses. The first dielectric sub-layer formed on a backside of the first electrodes is formed thinner than the second dielectric sub-layer formed on backsides of the second electrodes and the third electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroless-plating liquid useful for forming a protective film for selectively protecting surface of exposed interconnects of a semiconductor device which has an embedded interconnect structure formed by an electric conductor, such as copper or silver, embedded in fine recesses for interconnects formed in a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and also to a semiconductor device in which surfaces of exposed interconnects are selectively protected with a protective film. The electroless-plating liquid contains cobalt ions, a complexing agent and a reducing agent containing no alkali metal.

Abstract: In a scan electrode (2), the widths of transparent electrodes (2b) vary depending on colors so that the relation of the widths (WR0, WG1, WB1) of the transparent electrodes (2bR, 2bG, 2bB) in the Y direction may become WB1>WR0>WG1. Similarly, in a sustain electrode (3), the widths of transparent electrodes (3b) vary depending on colors so that the relation of the widths (WR0, WG1, WB1) of the transparent electrodes (3bR, 3bG, 3bB) in the Y direction may become WB1>WR0>WG1. With this variation in width, a plasma display panel capable of setting the color temperature of white to a proper value can be obtained without control of input gains which would invite deterioration in the number of tones.

Abstract: A plasma display panel has an improved cell electrode structure including: a pair of sustaining and scanning electrodes which are approximately similar or equal in area to each other, and which are different from each other in pattern shape. Each of the scanning electrode alignments further includes a plurality of scanning electrodes. Adjacent two of the scanning electrodes are separated from each other by the separation wall. Each of the sustaining electrode alignments further includes a plurality of sustaining electrodes. Adjacent two of the sustaining electrodes are separated from each other by the separation wall.

Abstract: In a surface-discharge-type alternating-current plasma display panel, a discharge cell is divided into two cells: a display discharge cell C1 providing for a sustaining discharge between transparent electrodes Xa, Ya of row electrodes X, Y; and an addressing discharge cell C2 which is opposite a bus electrode Yb of the row electrode Y, giving rise to an addressing discharge in association with a column electrode D, to provide for the addressing discharge between the bus electrode Yb of the row electrode Y and a column electrode D. The display discharge cells C1 and the addressing discharge cells C2 of the discharge cells are interposed in alternate positions in the column direction so as to arrange the addressing discharge cells C2 in a back-to-back position in the column direction.

Abstract: A recessed groove h is formed in a portion of an inner surface of a front glass substrate 10 facing a non-display area between adjacent discharge cells C in a column direction. Each of adjacent bus electrodes Xb and Yb of the respective row electrodes X and Y positioned back to back in between the adjacent row electrode pairs (X, Y) is formed to extend along the corresponding side face of the two side faces of the recessed groove h in such a way as to raise the bus electrode in relation to the corresponding transparent electrode Xa or Ya in a thickness direction of the front glass substrate 10.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprises a front substrate and a rear substrate, a plurality of row electrode pairs provided on the inner surface of the front substrate, a dielectric layer provided on the inner surface of the front substrate for coverring the row electrode pairs, a plurality of column electrodes provided on the inner surface of the rear substrate, a partition wall assembly provided between the front substrate and the rear substrate, said partition wall assembly including a plurality of longitudinal partition walls and a plurality of lateral partition walls, forming a plurality of discharge cells. In particular, the dielectric layer has a plurality of projection portions located corresponding to and protruding toward the lateral partition walls of the partition wall assembly, in a manner such that there would be no slots formed between the dielectric layer and the lateral partition walls.

Abstract: A plasma display device with improved luminance and light emission efficiency in display discharge without shortening the life is provided. The plasma display panel has a structure including a discharge gas space and fluorescent materials between the display electrode and the address electrode. After the addressing process for forming wall charge in cells to be lighted, a drive operation is performed for changing a potential of at least one display electrode so as to be different between the start time point and the end time point of the display discharge for generating display discharge and the following reform of the wall charge in the cell, and the cell voltage between the display electrode and the address electrode at the start time point of the display discharge is set to a value lower than the microdischarge start voltage that is measured in advance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma display apparatus comprising: discharge spaces of red which emit lights of red; discharge spaces of green which emit lights of green; discharge spaces of blue which emit lights of blue; and photo masks which are formed and arranged in order that an aperture of each of the discharge spaces of red may be wider than an aperture of each of the discharge spaces of green in area and an aperture of each of the discharge spaces of blue may be wider than the aperture of each of the discharge spaces of red in area.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes: first and second substrates sandwiching a discharge gas therebetween; a plurality of first and second electrodes arranged alternately on the first substrate to extend in a first direction; a plurality of third electrodes arranged on the second substrate to extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; display cells formed between the first and second electrodes along the third electrodes; first and second discharge electrode parts extending from the first and second electrodes toward the second and first electrodes in the display cells, respectively; and first and second auxiliary electrodes connecting the first and second electrodes with tip parts of the first and second discharge electrode parts, respectively. The display cells include first and second display cells. The first display cells include the first and second auxiliary electrodes, and the second display cells each lack at least one of the first and second auxiliary electrodes.

Abstract: A gas discharge display device having a first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes having a substantially rectangular form being arranged on the first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes, respective ones of the plurality of second electrodes being formed on respective ones of the plurality of first electrodes, and each of the plurality of second electrodes having an extension extending beyond an end of a respective one of the plurality of first electrodes on which respective ones of the plurality of second electrodes are formed and in an oblique direction therefrom. The extension of the plurality of second electrodes extend beyond opposite ends of alternate ones of the plurality of first electrodes.

Abstract: A front plate of a plasma display panel (PDP) comprising a glass substrate, a auxiliary electrode formed in the glass substrate, and a protecting electrode over the auxiliary electrode is disclosed. The auxiliary electrode is inlaid in the glass substrate or in a buffer layer formed atop the glass substrate. The protecting electrode is formed to prevent a bonding auxiliary electrode of the auxiliary electrode from being oxidized easily during a high temperature process. Another front plate of a PDP is disclosed and includes a glass substrate, a sustaining electrode on the glass substrate, an auxiliary electrode on the sustaining electrode, and a protecting electrode disposed on the auxiliary electrode. Again, the protecting electrode is formed to prevent the bonding auxiliary electrode of the auxiliary electrode from being oxidized easily during a high temperature process.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a plurality of row electrode pairs (X, Y) forming display lines which are formed on a front glass substrate (10). Each row electrode (X, Y) of the row electrode pair (X, Y) makes up transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya) each formed opposing the corresponding transparent electrode (Xa, Ya) via a discharge gap (g) for each pair, and a bus electrode (Xb, Yb) connected to the transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya). In such plasma display panel, a light-shield layer 20A is formed at least on a portion between the two bus electrodes situated back to back and a required portion in proximal to sides of the bus electrodes (Xb, Yb) connected to the transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya) on the front glass substrate (10).

Abstract: A plasma display panel has a good productivity of partition formation and air exhaustion process and realizes a bright and stable display. A discharge gas is filled in a gap between two substrates. A mesh-patterned partition is arranged on the inner surface of one of the substrates for dividing the gap into plural squares corresponding to a cell arrangement. The partition has low portions forming a mesh-like air path that travels through all of the gas-filled space enclosed by the partition, in a plan view.

Abstract: An electrode plate, a method of manufacturing the same, a gas discharge panel using an electrode plate, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided by incorporating a relatively simple structure, which can keep electrodes formed on a plate from peeling or becoming misaligned. In the electrode plate, at least one electrode is formed and adhered to a main surface of a plate by a thick film or thin film formation method, wherein of all ends of the electrode, at least an end opposite to an end at a power supply point is adhered to the main surface of the plate with stronger adhesion than the other parts of the electrode.

Abstract: A plasma display panel that is capable of improving a discharge efficiency. In the panel, trigger electrodes are provided at the center of an upper substrate. Sustaining electrodes is provided at the upper substrate and is positioned at a layer different from the trigger electrodes. An address electrode is provided at a lower substrate opposed to the upper substrate in a direction crossing the trigger electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is an AC plasma display device for preventing an error discharge, improving a luminous intensity, and applicable to high definition display. The device includes a front substrate, which has display electrodes in parallel to each other and a non-display line. The line and the display electrode are arranged alternately each other on the front substrate. Further, the device comprises a rear substrate, which has a plurality of data electrodes extending in a direction perpendicular to the display electrodes. The rear substrate forms a discharge space between itself and the front substrate, defines a gap of the discharge space, and has a partition in a belt shape placed between adjoining data electrodes. Furthermore, the rear substrate has a barrier between the partitions at a position facing to the non-display portion so as to have width corresponding to the non-display portion, form a gap between itself and the front substrate, and prevent an error discharge between the display electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a filter for controlling a light transmittance by selectively diffracting a light emitted from a discharge cell of a plasma display panel on the basis of an electric signal. A luminance efficacy can be enhanced by using the low-priced filter and the contrast of a plasma display panel can be improved.

Abstract: An AC type plasma display panel is designed so as to have the relationships of Wb>Wg>Wr and Db>Dg>Dr, where Wb, Wg and Wr denote the widths of blue, green and red discharge cells and Db, Dg and Dr denote the widths of address electrodes (15b, 15g and 15r) corresponding to respective colors. As a result, it is possible to adjust the electric charge stored in the discharge cells due to a write discharge according to colors, thereby making complete lighting write voltages of the discharge cells uniform. This achieves the AC type plasma display panel with an excellent display quality that has less occurrence of erroneous discharge and discharge flicker and an improved white display quality.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided with discharge cells CB, CG, CR at intersecting positions of row electrode pairs (X, Y) formed on a front glass substrate 10 and column electrodes D formed on a back glass substrate 13, and formed with phosphor layers 16B, 16G, 16R of the three primary colors of red, green and blue in the discharge cells CB, CG, CR in order. In such plasma display panel, the discharge cell CR formed with a red phosphor layer 16R, the discharge cell CG formed with a green phosphor layer 16G and the discharge cell CB formed with a blue phosphor layer 16B respectively have opening areas SB, SG, SR opening toward the front glass substrate 10, which are set to be increased with decreasing order of luminance in accordance with each luminance of red, green and blue colors.

Abstract: A front substrate and a back substrate are placed opposing each other separated by a discharge space. The front substrate is made of a semitransparent material such as a dark color glass with a mean transmittance for visible light of 60 to 80%. On the front substrate, a group of electrodes including pairs of scanning electrodes and sustaining electrodes covered with a dielectric layer and a protective coating are provided. Data electrodes and spacers are formed on the back substrate, and phosphors are provided on the data electrodes towards the side of the spacers. A front filter, which is made of a semitransparent glass sheet with a mean transmittance for visible light of 60 to 80%, is disposed on the front side of the front substrate. The present invention realizes a display with less halation and high contrast. Also, a detection rate of a defect in electrodes, which are formed on the front substrate, improves.

Abstract: A surface discharge type plasma display panel has a dielectric layer facing to a discharge gas space and a pair of sustaining electrodes embedded in the dielectric layer and disposed apart from each other by a discharge gap on one of the substrates spaced parallel to each other at the discharge gas space. The dielectric layer includes a pair of first thickness portions formed on far ends of the electrodes from the discharge gap respectively which are larger than a second thickness portion on facing near ends of the facing electrodes. The dielectric layer is provided with a depth from its surface to the substrate larger than that on the second thickness portion between adjacent the electrodes. This plasma display panel prevents any useless expansion of the surface discharge over the sustaining electrodes.