Patent ID: 7623095

Claim:
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP), comprising: front and rear substrates spaced apart from each other and facing each other in parallel; barrier ribs partitioning spaces between the front substrate and the rear substrate into a plurality of discharge cells having front, rear, and sides; an X electrode and a Y electrode surrounding the sides of the discharge cell to be parallel to the front and rear of the discharge cell and extending in a direction in parallel to the front and rear of the discharge cell; an R electrode arranged between the X electrode and the Y electrode, surrounding the sides of the discharge cell to be parallel to the front and rear of the discharge cell, and extending in a direction in parallel to the front and rear of the discharge cell and perpendicular to an extending direction of the X electrode and the Y electrode; and a phosphor layer arranged on the rear of the discharge cell; wherein the PDP is driven by a waveform voltage that is classified into a reset period adapted to initialize all the discharge cells, an address period adapted to select a discharge cell that generates a sustain discharge, and a sustain discharge period adapted to generate the sustain discharge for the selected discharge cell; and wherein the PDP is driven by supplying a waveform voltage sequentially having a first falling ramp type pulse, a rising ramp type pulse, and a second falling ramp type pulse to the R electrode, a rising step waveform voltage to the X electrode, and a ground voltage to the Y electrode in the reset period.