Patent ID: 6873106

Claim:
A plasma display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate on opposite sides of a discharge space, a plurality of row electrode pairs extending in a row direction and arranged in a column direction on the front substrate to form display lines, a protective dielectric layer provided on a face of the front substrate facing the discharge space, a plurality of column electrodes extending in the column direction and arranged in the row direction on the back substrate to form a unit light emitting area in the discharge space at each intersection with the row electrode pair, and a phosphor layer on a face of the back substrate facing the discharge space, said plasma display panel comprising; a priming particle generating member provided at a site facing each unit light emitting area between the front substrate and the back substrate; wherein said priming particle generating member is formed separate from said phosphor layer and is made up of an ultraviolet region light emissive layer formed of an ultraviolet region light emitting phosphor having persistence characteristics allowing continuous radiation of ultraviolet light for at least 0.1 msec as a result of excitation by ultraviolet rays having a predetermined wavelength, and wherein said ultraviolet region light emissive layer extends in the row direction at each site opposing the row electrode pairs, and faces toward the discharge space of the unit light emitting areas adjacent to each other in the column direction.