Patent ID: 7504775

Claim:
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) comprising: a front substrate and a rear substrate facing each other and separated from each other; barrier ribs of a dielectric material arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate to define discharge cells together with the front substrate and the rear substrate; discharge electrodes arranged within the barrier ribs, the discharge electrodes being separated from each other and surrounding the discharge cells and each discharge electrode having at least one corner portion for surrounding the discharge cells; fluorescent layers arranged in the discharge cells; a discharge gas contained within the discharge cells; and an attenuator adapted to reduce a strength of an electric field generated between at least one pair of respective corner portions of a pair of discharge electrodes, the respective corner portions facing each other, to be less than a strength of an electric field generated between portions of the discharge electrodes facing each other, other than the respective corner portions, in the discharge cells; wherein the attenuator comprises at least one pair of the facing corner portions of the discharge electrodes, a distance between the facing corner portions being greater than a distance between the portions of the facing discharge electrodes other than the corner portions in the discharge cells.