Patent ID: 6979950

Claim:
A plasma display panel including, a front substrate and a back substrate which are opposite each other with a discharge space in between, a plurality of row electrode pairs regularly arranged in a column direction on the front substrate and each extending in a row direction to form a display line, a dielectric layer formed on the front substrate and covering the row electrode pairs, a plurality of column electrodes regularly arranged in the row direction on one of the back substrate and the front substrate and each extending in the column direction to form unit light-emission areas at intersections with the row electrode pairs in the discharge space, and partition walls provided between the front substrate and the back substrate and having transverse walls each extending in the row direction and defining and separating the unit light-emission areas adjacent to each other in the column direction from each other, the plasma display panel comprising: a black- or dark-colored light absorption layer facing the front substrate and formed in each area including the transverse walls between the unit light-emission areas adjacent to each other in the column direction in the discharge space, wherein in between the unit light-emission areas adjacent to each other in the column direction, the transverse walls partitioning off the corresponding unit light-emission areas are opposite each other with an interstice in between, and said light absorption layer is formed inside the interstice.