Patent ID: 6853137

Claim:
A plasma display panel comprising: a front plate and a back plate parallel to and facing each other having a space therebetween for a discharge gas, plural pairs of display electrodes for surface discharge on the front plate parallel to each other, with each display electrode pair comprising a sustain electrode and a bus electrode, a dielectric layer covering the display electrodes, and a protective film overlying the dielectric layer, address electrodes on the back plate at right angles to the display electrode pairs, and a dielectric layer covering the address electrodes, and linear ribs located between the address electrodes, with phosphor layers located on the ck plate between the adjacent linear ribs so that they each extend intermittently in the lengthwise direction of the ribs for each pixel wherein (1) each phosphor layer covers both the surface of the dielectric layer and the surface of the linear ribs within each pixel, (2) each pixel is formed by a crossing region of the address electrode and the display electrode pair, and (3) each phosphor extends intermittently in the lengthwise direction of the ribs creating regions on the ribs and the dielectric layer that have no phosphor layer and that correspond to the regions between the adjacent display electrode pairs.