Patent ID: 7358672

Claim:
A plasma display panel having a pair of substrates with at least one transparent front side and positioned to face each other so that discharge spaces are formed between the substrates comprising: a front substrate; display electrodes provided on the front substrate, the display electrodes including a transparent electrode and a bus electrode disposed on a side of the transparent electrode opposite the front substrate; a light-shield formed on a non-discharge area between the display electrodes; and a rear substrate having phosphor layers to emit light by discharge, wherein the bus electrode includes at least one black layer with a product of a resistivity and a layer thickness of not larger than 2 Ωcm 2 and the light-shield is composed of a black layer with a resistivity of not smaller than 1×10 5 Ωcm, and the light-shield extends from the front substrate along a side of the transparent layer to the black layer.