Patent ID: 7800305

Claim:
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP), comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other; address electrodes arranged on the first substrate; display electrodes arranged on the second substrate perpendicular to a direction of the address electrodes; a dielectric layer arranged on the first substrate to cover the address electrodes; barrier ribs arranged in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate to define a plurality of discharge cells; and a phosphor layer arranged in each of the discharge cells; wherein a display area includes the plurality of discharge cells arranged at positions where the address electrodes and the display electrodes cross each other, and wherein a plasma discharge occurs in the display area; wherein a non-display area is arranged adjacent to an edge of the display area along a direction parallel to a direction in which phosphor layers of the same color are applied to discharge cells neighboring each other, and wherein the plasma discharge does not occur in the non-display area; and wherein the dielectric layer extends beyond an edge of the non-display area; and wherein the phosphor layer is arranged in portions of the non-display area.