Patent ID: 7078859

Claim:
An alternating current type plasma display comprising: a back substrate and a front substrate provided to face each other with a gas discharge space sandwiched between the back and front substrates; a pair of electrodes, covered with a dielectric layer, provided on one or both of the substrates; and a protective layer provided on the dielectric layer, the protective layer being produced by coating a coating liquid, substantially containing a partial hydrolyzate derived from an alkaline earth metal compound having a hydrolysable reaction site, on a dielectric layer provided on a substrate and heating the coating; wherein said partial hydrolyzate is derived from the alkaline earth metal compound represented by one of the following structural formula (I) or (II) wherein M represents an alkaline earth metal atom, A represents a hetero atom, n 1 an n 2 are integers of 1 or more, and n 3 is a valence of the hetero atom; wherein M represents an alkaline earth metal atom and n is an integer of 1 or more.