Patent ID: 7812536

Claim:
A plasma display panel, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged in opposition to each other, each of the first and the second substrates occupying an emissive area and a non-emissive area surrounding the emissive area and at a periphery of the emissive area; a plurality of intermediate barrier ribs arranged between the first and the second substrates, the plurality of intermediate barrier ribs having a grating structure and defining a plurality of discharge cells, the plurality of intermediate barrier ribs including a plurality of first barrier ribs extending in a first direction parallel to each other between the first and the second substrates and a plurality of second barrier ribs extending perpendicular to the plurality of first barrier ribs; a plurality of sustain electrodes including first and second electrodes arranged within the plurality of first barrier ribs and extending parallel to the plurality of first barrier ribs and alternately located about ones of the plurality of discharge cells, the first and the second electrodes being shared by adjacent ones of said plurality of discharge cells; a plurality of address electrodes arranged on an upper surface of the first substrate and extending parallel to the plurality of second barrier ribs; a fluorescent layer arranged within the emissive area and on at least one of the first and the second substrates; and an epoxy molding compound arranged within the non-emissive area and adapted to seal a space occupied by the emissive area between the first and the second substrates, wherein ones of the plurality of sustain electrodes being arranged within corresponding ones of the first barrier ribs while extending from an inside of the epoxy molding compound to an outside of the epoxy molding compound.