Patent ID: 8508437

Claim:
A plasma display device comprising: a plasma display panel including: a pair of electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode; a dielectric layer formed so as to cover the first electrode and the second electrode; a protective layer formed so as to face a discharge section on a surface of the dielectric layer; a first substrate including a part facing the discharge section on the surface of the dielectric layer; a second substrate including a third electrode and a dielectric layer formed so as to cover the third electrode; and a driving circuit for driving the plasma display panel by a driving method, wherein the first substrate is positioned so as to face the second substrate, wherein a discharge gas is filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the protective layer includes: a base protective layer formed of a thin film containing a metal oxide; and a particle layer formed by discretely sticking, to the base protective layer, agglomerated particles in which a plurality of single-crystal particles of magnesium oxide are aggregated by static electricity between the plurality of single-crystal particles of magnesium oxide and are distributed across the entire surface of the base protective layer, wherein the plurality of single-crystal particles of magnesium oxide have a ratio Sa/Sb of 1 or higher, where Sa is a spectral integrated value of a wavelength region of 200 nm or higher and lower than 300 nm in cathode luminescence, and Sb is a spectral integrated value of a wavelength region of 300 nm or higher and lower than 550 nm; wherein, in the driving method, one field is formed of a plurality of subfields, wherein each of the subfields includes an initializing period and an address period, and wherein the initializing period includes (i) a first half of the initializing period for applying voltage, which gradually increases from a first voltage and to a second voltage, to the second electrode, and (ii) a second half of the initializing period for applying voltage, which gradually decreases from a third voltage and to a fourth voltage, to the second electrode.