Patent ID: 6614183
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: H01J

Abstract:
A plasma display panel including a plurality of row electrode pairs extending in a row direction and arranged in a column direction to respectively form display lines on a backside of a front substrate, and a plurality of column electrodes extending in the column direction and arranged in the row direction to constitute unit light emitting areas in a discharge space at respective positions, corresponding to intersections of the column electrodes and the row electrode pairs, on a surface of a back substrate facing the front substrate with a discharge space in between, each row electrode of said row electrode pair being made up of transparent electrodes each formed opposite to the corresponding transparent electrode via a predetermined discharge gap, and a bus electrode extending in the row direction and connected to ends of the transparent electrodes situated opposite to the discharge gap, said plasma display panel comprising:a light-shield layer formed at least on a portion of a backside of the front substrate between the two back-to-back bus electrodes of the adjacent row electrode pairs in the row direction and on the portions of the proximal ends of the transparent electrodes connected to sides of the bus electrodes.