Patent ID: 6469441
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: H01J

Abstract:
In a PDP (Plasma Display Panel) which includes a substrate formed of a screen effective portion and a non-effective portion, and an electrode formed of a transparent electrode and a metallic electrode arranged in the screen effective portion of the substrate, each of said transparent electrode and metallic electrode having a predetermined width in the screen effective portion and having at least one end portion in the non-effective portion of the substrate, an improvement comprising:said at least one end portion of the metallic electrode having a width in the non-effective portion greater than the predetermined width of the metallic electrode in the screen effective portion, wherein the width of the metallic electrode in the non-effective portion is the same as or smaller than a width of the transparent electrode, and wherein the at least one end portion of the metallic electrode does not extend into a pad portion of the substrate.