Patent ID: 8188660

Claim:
A plasma display panel (PDP), comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate having an inner surface facing the second substrate; at least one dark-colored visible ray absorbing layer on the inner surface of the first substrate; a plurality of discharge sustaining electrode pairs on the visible ray absorbing layer; a first dielectric layer on the discharge sustaining electrode pair; an address electrode on the second substrate and disposed in a direction crossing the discharge sustaining electrode pair; a second dielectric layer on the address electrode; barrier ribs disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and defining a plurality of discharge cells; and a phosphor layer coated in the discharge cells, wherein: the plurality of discharge sustaining electrode pairs each have at least a pair of electrodes, at least one discharge sustaining electrode pair being adjacent to another discharge sustaining electrode pair, and a non-discharge region defined by a space between one discharge sustaining electrode pair and the other adjacent discharge sustaining electrode pair, and the visible ray absorbing layer and the discharge sustaining electrodes each have a width, the width of the visible ray absorbing layer being greater than the width of each discharge sustaining electrode, and each visible ray absorbing layer and each discharge sustaining electrode of a discharge sustaining electrode pair include a first edge, and wherein the first edge of the visible ray absorbing layer is aligned with the first edge of the discharge sustaining electrode in one of the discharge cells.