Patent ID: 7109657

Claim:
A plasma display panel (PDP) comprising: a rear plate; a front plate parallel with and spaced apart from the rear plate; a plurality of transparent electrode pairs, each electrode pair comprising a common electrode and a scanning electrode disposed in parallel on a bottom surface of the front plate along a first direction, a discharge gap being formed between the common electrode and the scanning electrode, one non-transparent bus electrode being formal on a surface of a side of the common electrode facing the discharge gap, and another non-transparent bus electrode being formed on a surface of a side of the scanning electrode facing the discharge gap; a plurality of data electrodes, each data electrode disposed in parallel on a top surface of the rear plate along a second direction; a plurality of ribs disposed in parallel and spaced from each other by a predetermined distance on the top surface of the rear plate along the second direction; and a plurality of display cells defined at an intersection of each data electrode and each electrode pair, each display cell being partitioned by two adjacent ribs; wherein the plurality of display cells comprise at least a first display cell for displaying blue light, a second display cell for displaying red light and a third display cell the displaying green light, and at least one recessed portion is formed in the electrode pair in the second display cell extending from one side of the discharge gap between the electrode pair along the second direction, the entire recessed portion being positioned inside the second display cell but not positioned above any of the ribs.