Patent ID: 7522128

Claim:
A plasma display device comprising: a plasma display panel including a plurality of row electrode pairs which constitute display lines, a plurality of column electrodes intersecting with said plurality of row electrode pairs, and display cells each formed at each of the intersections of said row electrode pairs with said column electrodes, each of said display cells having a magnesium oxide layer including magnesium oxide crystals which are excited by an electron beam to emit cathode luminescence light having a peak in a wavelength range from 200 to 300 nm; a row electrode driving circuit for driving each of said plurality of row electrode pairs; and a column electrode driving circuit for driving each of said plurality of column electrodes, so that a halftone image is displayed in a one-field display period which is divided into a plurality of sub-fields each of which includes an addressing period and a sustain period, wherein in said addressing period, said row electrode driving circuit applies a scanning pulse to one row electrodes of said row electrode pairs in turn, while said column electrode driving circuit supplies said column electrodes with data pulses corresponding to a display line which are applied with the scanning pulse.