KR20040047142A - High efficiency ac plasma display panel having low sustain voltage and long discharge path - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A high efficiency AC PDP having low sustain voltage and long discharge path is provided to improve a contrast efficiency by lengthening the discharge path and widening an interval discharge without increasing the discharge voltage. CONSTITUTION: An AC PDP includes a plurality of discharge cells for displaying images. The discharge cells include a first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode, and an address electrode. A discharge path for high efficiency discharge is provided between the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode. The opposite surface of the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode includes a first opposite unit formed by a short-gap and a second opposite unit formed by a long-gap.

Description

HIGH EFFICIENCY AC PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL HAVING LOW SUSTAIN VOLTAGE AND LONG DISCHARGE PATH}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electrode structure of an AC plasma display panel (AC PDP), and more particularly, to change the shape and arrangement of electrodes while maintaining the structure and process of a pixel, and between the sustain electrodes. The present invention relates to a plasma display panel having an optimized electrode structure capable of lengthening a path of a main discharge to occur, and at the same time maintaining an electrode gap for determining a discharge voltage to obtain high luminance efficiency without increasing the discharge voltage.

Currently, many kinds of flat panel display devices compete in the market with their advantages and disadvantages. Among them, Plasma Display Panel (hereinafter referred to as 'PDP') has been attracting attention as the most influential display device capable of realizing next-generation wall-mounted television because it can be enlarged, thinned and lightweight. Since the early 1990s, Fujitsu developed a three-electrode surface discharge type electrode structure and ADS (Address and Display Separation) driving method, and entered the market in earnest, and the PDP market has been steadily expanding. In particular, based on technological innovations in the late 90s, PDP demand is being created through image quality improvement and price reduction. However, there are some problems to be solved in order for PDP to be used more widely as a home receiver. In particular, low luminous efficacy (luminous efficacy) is the biggest problem to be solved by the PDP, and the luminance efficiency obtained by current technology is less than half of the CRT.

Therefore, many studies have been made to improve the luminance efficiency of the PDP. For example, a method of using a mixed gas to which new gas has been added, a method of optimizing a component ratio of gas, and the like have been studied. In addition, researches on delta electrode structures having meander-type partition walls, new T-shaped electrode structures, and the like have been actively conducted.

In Patent Application No. 2001-3511 of the present inventor, a closed delta color pixel structure having a unique partition shape and arrangement for improvement of luminance efficiency (the present inventors referred to this structure as' Segmented electrode in Delta color arrayed in Rectangular sub-pixel). 'SDR structure', which is referred to as 'SDR structure'), has been reported to improve luminance efficiency through such a structure.

1A is a perspective view showing the structure of an AC plasma discharge indicator which is generally used at present.

The color pixels of the conventional plasma discharge indicator include a plurality of address electrodes 151 and 152 disposed in parallel with the partition wall between the plurality of vertical partitions 141, 142,..., 14n and the vertical partition wall. 15n and the dielectric layer 18 applied to protect the address electrode and the red, green and blue phosphors 11, 12 and 13 applied on the partition wall; A plurality of bus electrodes 6, blackstripes 8, and discharge sustain electrodes 71, 72, ..., 7n formed on the upper plate 10 covering the lower plate in the direction perpendicular to the vertical partition walls; A transparent dielectric layer 16 formed on the bottom surface of the upper plate and covering the discharge sustain electrodes 71, 72, ..., 7n; It consists of a protective layer 17 which protects a transparent dielectric layer.

The plasma discharge indicator configured as described above uses red, green or blue visible light generated by exciting the phosphor coated on the partition wall of the lower plate by vacuum ultraviolet rays emitted during discharge between the discharge sustain electrodes. That is, as shown in FIG. 1A, three unit pixels in which red, green, and blue phosphors separated by using only the vertical partition wall 14 are applied in turn constitute one color pixel. In addition, the structure is driven by placing the address electrodes 15 for controlling the discharge between the linear partition walls 14 on the lower plate and arranging pairs 7n-1 and 7n of discharge holding electrodes orthogonal thereto on the upper plate. This structure is advantageous in that the shape of the partition wall is simple and the pixel control using the address electrode is easy.

The common three-electrode surface discharge electrode structure shown in FIG. 1A has a sustain discharge electrodes forming sustain discharge on the upper plate so as to separate the sustain discharge and the address discharge, and an address electrode disposed on the lower plate perpendicularly to the discharge electrode. Structure. In this electrode structure, the aspect ratio of the subpixels R, G, and B constituting the three primary colors is 3: 1. In the case of the band-shaped partition wall structure, a high yield can be obtained in a partition wall process mainly manufactured by sand blasting, and a product yield is high because of a large tolerance in the assembling process of the upper plate and the lower plate. However, there is a problem of efficiency reduction due to visible light blocking of an opaque bus electrode having a large area on the front substrate. In addition, there is a disadvantage in that the discharge pixels cannot be efficiently used because some distance is required between the discharge cells in order to prevent crosstalk with adjacent cells.

1B is a perspective view of the above-described SDR electrode structure.

The SDR electrode structure is characterized in that the partition wall has a rectangular shape, and the arrangement of discharge cells (sub pixels) in the pixel is delta-shaped. Therefore, the aspect ratio of the subpixel is 4: 3. In this embodiment, the bus electrodes are disposed at the same positions as the partition walls, so that no visible light is blocked by the bus electrodes, and mutual interference is reduced by the partition walls surrounding the discharge cells, thereby obtaining an electrode structure that efficiently uses the pixel region.

2 illustrates an example of a discharge cell in the SDR electrode structure as described above. In general, the largest design variables that determine power consumption under the same driving conditions in a PDP are the area of the sustain electrode and the thickness of the transparent dielectric layer. These design parameters should be determined according to the product's target specifications. For example, the electrode width of FIG. 2 may be 240 um, depending on the specifications of a particular product. Normally both sustain electrodes are positioned to face each other at the center. Also, for example, the electrode may have an area of 0.0912 mm ² and a distance of 80 μm, depending on the specification of the product.

The present invention aims to provide a PDP of a novel electrode structure that makes it possible to improve the various PDP electrode structures of the prior art exemplified above to maintain a low discharge voltage while attaining higher luminous efficacy.

It is well known that the luminance efficiency in plasma displays improves as the discharge path becomes longer. However, as the distance between the sustain electrodes increases, the discharge voltage increases. Therefore, many efforts have been made to overcome these problems, but most of them adopt a structure in which the discharge voltage is reduced by disposing a long interval between the sustain electrodes and inserting an auxiliary electrode. The present invention provides a plasma having an improved electrode structure that can achieve high luminance efficiency by making the discharge path longer by changing only the arrangement or shape of the sustain electrode without the need for additional structure insertion such as an auxiliary electrode and subsequent manufacturing process. It is for providing a display panel.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a plasma display panel having an optimum electrode structure capable of maintaining a narrow electrode gap in order to obtain a low discharge voltage with high luminance efficiency.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an optimum electrode structure for minimizing the electrode area in the AC type plasma display, in which the luminance efficiency decreases as the area of the electrode decreases, and further increasing the luminance efficiency by using the discharge cell area to the maximum. It is for providing a plasma display panel.

1A is a perspective view showing the structure of an AC plasma discharge indicator which is generally used.

FIG. 1B is an example of an SDR electrode structure in which the partition wall has a rectangular shape and the arrangement of discharge cells (sub pixels) in the pixel is delta-shaped.

2 is an example of a discharge cell in the above SDR electrode structure,

3 is an embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

4 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

5 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

6 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

7 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

8 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

9 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

10 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

11 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

12 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

Figure 13 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

14 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

15 is another embodiment of the electrode structure of the present invention,

16 and 17 illustrate embodiments in which the electrode structure of the present invention is applied based on the discharge cell structure of FIG. 1A.

FIG. 18 illustrates a discharge start voltage and a sustain voltage according to pressure in a plasma display panel filled with Ne + 5% Xe from an example of the prior art electrode structure of FIG. 2 and an embodiment of the present invention of FIG.

19, 20, and 21 show discharge current, luminance, and luminance efficiency according to voltage in a plasma discharge indicator filled with Ne + 5% Xe, respectively.

FIG. 22 compares and shows the results of measuring the infrared distribution of the discharge cell of the prior art discharge cell of FIG. 2 and the discharge cell having the electrode structure of the present invention of FIG. 13 using an ICCD camera.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

6: bus electrode 7: discharge sustain electrode

8 black stripe 11 red phosphor

12 blue phosphor 13 green phosphor

14 barrier rib 15 address electrode

16: transparent dielectric layer

17: protective layer

18: dielectric layer

21: back substrate 22: front substrate

23: sub-pixel with red phosphor layer

24: red phosphor 25: blue phosphor

26: sub-pixel with blue phosphor layer

27 green phosphor

28: sub-pixel with green phosphor layer

29: address electrode 30: row barrier rib

31: column barreier rib

32: sustain electrode 33: bus electrode

A plasma display panel according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a surface discharge type plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, each discharge cell is a first sustain electrode, And a second sustain electrode and an address electrode, wherein the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode are disposed in the discharge cell to provide an extended discharge path therebetween for high efficiency discharge.

Here, it is preferable that the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode do not completely face each other in the discharge cell, and only a part thereof faces each other to provide a minimum gap G for low voltage discharge.

Here, the extended discharge path is preferably a discharge path in an oblique direction in the discharge cell.

A plasma display panel according to another aspect of the present invention is a surface discharge plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, wherein each discharge cell is a first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode and an address electrode. Wherein the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode are patterned to have a first opposing portion having a narrow gap and a second opposing portion having a wide gap, thereby extending for high efficiency discharge by the second opposing portion. It is characterized by providing a discharge path.

Here, the first opposing portion of the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode preferably provides a minimum gap G for low voltage discharge.

A plasma display panel according to another aspect of the present invention is a surface discharge type plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, wherein each discharge cell is a first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode and an address. An electrode, wherein the first storage electrode is formed of at least one first storage electrode group, and the second storage electrode is made of at least one second storage electrode group, and any one of the first storage electrode groups is One of the second storage electrode groups may have a narrow gap, and the other of the first storage electrode group and the other of the second storage electrode group may be patterned to have a wide distance for high efficiency discharge.

Here, the narrow gap between any one of the first storage electrode group and any one of the second storage electrode group is preferably a minimum distance G for low voltage discharge.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment of an electrode form in an electrode structure of the present invention (the inventors call the electrode structure of the present invention a 'Long Path Discharge' structure, hereinafter referred to as an 'LPD structure'). In this embodiment, the electrode structure in the discharge cell of the SDR structure as shown in Fig. 2 of the prior art is improved. For example, in the structure of the SDR of FIG. 2, the pair of sustain electrodes 32n and 32n + 1 are both positioned at the center of the discharge cell and protrude toward the discharge cell to face each other.

However, in the LPD electrode structure of the present invention, one of the sustain electrodes is protruded from the center of the discharge cell in the left direction in the drawing, and the other 32n + 1 is the right direction in the drawing from the discharge cell center. Deviated and protrudes. However, since there is still a portion forming the minimum gap G between the two sustain electrodes between the two electrodes, such an electrode structure is the surface of the sustain electrode constituting the main discharge surface while maintaining the same minimum distance as the structure of FIG. The distance D between the surface and the surface becomes a structure that can be extended as long as possible.

4 illustrates an embodiment of another LPD electrode structure. As shown in FIG. 4, the first sustain electrode 32n and the second sustain electrode 32n + 1 have a boundary in the vertical direction instead of the horizontal in the horizontal direction as in the conventional electrode form. It is a structure that can extend the path).

5 shows an embodiment of another type of LPD electrode structure. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the first sustain electrode 32n and the second sustain electrode 32n + 1 do not have an interface in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction but have an interface in the diagonal direction, thereby providing a path for sustain discharge. ) Can be extended.

6 shows an embodiment of another form of LPD electrode structure. Basically, as shown in FIG. 5, the first storage electrode 32n and the second storage electrode 32n + 1 having a narrow gap causing discharge are disposed to have a boundary surface in the diagonal direction, but the connection part connected to the bus electrode is the same. By arranging the outer portion, the path of sustain discharge can be further extended.

7 shows an electrode structure having a first boundary surface having a narrow gap G and a second boundary surface having a wide interval by changing the shape and arrangement of the first storage electrode and the second storage electrode (the present inventors have the electrode structure of the present invention). Is referred to as a 'Dual Gap Discharge' structure, hereinafter referred to as a 'DGD structure'. As shown in FIG. 7, the first sustaining electrode 32n and the second sustaining electrode 32n + 1 are arranged at an outer side in a bent manner to provide a first boundary surface having a narrow electrode gap G at the outer side, thereby providing a low discharge voltage. It is possible to form a discharge in the structure and to improve the brightness efficiency by providing a second boundary surface having a wide interval in the center.

8 shows an example of another type of DGD structure. In the sustain electrode structure of FIG. 8, the first sustain electrode 32n and the second sustain electrode 32n + 1 are arranged in an outward shape so as to provide a first interface having a narrow electrode gap G at the center thereof, thereby providing low discharge. It is possible to form a discharge at a voltage and to provide a second boundary surface having a wide gap on the left and right sides to improve the luminance efficiency.

9 shows an example of another type of DGD structure. In the sustain electrode structure of FIG. 9, the first storage electrode 32n and the second storage electrode 32n + 1 protrude from the center portion to have a first boundary surface having a narrow gap G and a second boundary surface having a wide gap on the left and right sides. It is characterized by having an electrode structure consisting of.

10 illustrates an embodiment of another type of DGD structure. FIG. 10 is a structure having a concept similar to that of FIG. 9, but having a narrower gap G from the center portion, the first boundary surface is also disposed on the left and right sides to have two or more narrow gap portions to expand stability of discharge formation. It is done.

11 shows an example of another type of DGD structure. The structure of the sustain electrode of FIG. 11 is characterized in that the centers of the first sustain electrode 32n and the second sustain electrode 32n + 1 are emptied so that the entire discharge pixels can be effectively utilized while minimizing the electrode area.

12 illustrates an embodiment of another type of DGD structure. The structure of the sustain electrode of FIG. 12 is characterized by arranging the first sustain electrode 32n and the second sustain electrode 32n + 1 in the form of an arc to have a narrow gap in the center and a long gap in the outer part. .

FIG. 13 illustrates an embodiment of an electrode form in another electrode structure of the present invention (the inventors call the electrode structure of the present invention a 'Dual Mode Discharge' structure, hereinafter referred to as a 'DMD structure'). In the DMD electrode structure, unlike the conventional sustain electrode structure, the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode are separated into two or more, and are patterned to form the first sustain electrode group and the second sustain electrode group, respectively. It is characterized by separating the formation into discharges at narrow intervals and discharges at wide intervals. The DMD electrode structure shown in the embodiment is also connected to one bus electrode 33n and is formed by two sustain electrodes 32n and 32n 'protruding into the discharge cell. Consists of the position biased. The second storage electrode group, which is formed by two sustain electrodes 32n + 1 and 32n + 1 'connected to the other bus electrode 33n + 1 and protrudes into the discharge cell, is shifted to the right of the drawing at a position off the center. It is configured in position. The upper two sustain electrodes 32n and 32n 'are arranged to maintain the minimum distance G from the lower sustain electrodes 32n + 1 and 32n + 1', and the distance between the sustain electrode faces is shown in FIG. It is longer than in the case of.

14 illustrates an embodiment of another type of DMD electrode structure. As shown in Fig. 14, the electrode structure includes one electrode 32n of the first storage electrode groups 32n and 32'n and one electrode 32n + of the second storage electrode groups 32n + 1 and 32'n + 1. 1) is disposed at the center with a narrow electrode gap G as in the conventional electrode structure, and at the outer part of the cell, the other electrode 32'n of the first storage electrode group and the other electrode of the second storage electrode group (32'n + 1) is characterized in that the structure is arranged with a wide electrode gap.

15 shows one embodiment of another type of DMD electrode structure. As shown in FIG. 15, the electrode structure of the electrode structure of FIG. 12 is formed at the center of the arc-shaped first storage electrode groups 32n and 32'n and the second storage electrode groups 32n + 1 and 32'n + 1. It is characterized by disposing an electrode having a long gap.

Of course, the electrode structure of the present invention is not necessarily an improvement based on the cell of the SDR structure. Even if it is based on the conventional electrode structure of the prior art shown in FIG. 1A, the electrode structure of this invention can be applied by improving the arrangement | positioning of an electrode. 16 and 17 are other embodiments in which the electrode structure of the present invention is applied based on the general discharge cell structure of FIG. 1A.

In the case of a strip structure as shown in FIG. 1A (for example, a pixel pitch of 1.08 X 0.36 mm based on 42-inch WVGA), the horizontal pitch h is about 0.36 mm. Fabrication of electrode patterns at such narrow pitches as in FIGS. 16 and 17 generally requires a technique for finely patterning sustain electrodes 7 ₁ and 7 ₂ using ITO as a material, which is still needed today. Can be provided according to.

Hereinafter, the operation and effects of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiment of FIG. 13 which is one of the above embodiments. In the embodiment of Fig. 13, the electrode pairs 32n and 32n + 1 providing the minimum electrode spacing G are disposed in the center and have the electrode pairs 32n 'and 32n + 1' having a long inter-electrode distance D2. ) Is disposed at the outer side so that a short-gap discharge and a long-gap discharge may be combined to occur together.

It is well known that when the Ne-based mixture gas is used at a pressure of several hundred torr or more, such as a plasma indicator, the shorter the discharge sustain electrode interval, the lower the discharge voltage and the longer the sustain discharge path, the higher the efficiency. to be. Therefore, the electrode structure of the present invention is to arrange a long-gap electrode group to improve the efficiency, at this time, to reduce the high discharge voltage that can occur in a long-gap discharge, a short interval ( Short-gap) This is an innovative electrode structure that can arrange a group of electrodes capable of providing a discharge, thereby improving luminance efficiency without increasing the discharge voltage.

In order to examine the effect of the electrode structure of the present invention, the discharge characteristics were compared in two electrode structures in which the same conditions and structures as those of the prior art of FIG. 3 were replaced with only the electrode structure replaced by the electrode structure of the present invention.

In FIG. 18, discharge start voltage and sustain voltage characteristics measured from one example of the SDR structure of FIG. 2 and one example of the DMD structure of FIG. 13 are shown. Experiments were carried out using Ne + 5% Xe, a mixed gas generally used in plasma indicators, and measuring the discharge start voltage and the holding voltage with varying pressure. As can be seen from the experimental results of FIG. 18, the discharge voltage characteristics of the electrode structure of the present invention are determined by a short-gap electrode pair, and thus, there is no significant difference from the conventional case of FIG. 2.

19, 20, and 21 show discharge current, luminance, and luminance efficiency according to voltage in a PDP filled with Ne + 5% Xe, respectively. As can be seen from Figure 19 in the case of the present invention was able to obtain a low discharge current compared to the prior art of Figure 3, as shown in Figure 20, in the case of the present invention was able to obtain a high luminance compared to the prior art. This means that the electrode structure of the present invention can achieve higher luminance even with a small current, thereby forming a more efficient discharge. In summary, as shown in FIG. 21, the electrode structure of the present invention is shown in FIG. It has been verified to have high efficiency compared to the case of the technology. In particular, in FIG. 21, the efficiency of the prior art structure of FIG. 2 decreases with respect to the case where the voltage is high, but the efficiency increases in the structure of the present invention. This is thought to be due to the phenomenon that the discharge in the long gap mode is further activated when the voltage is increased.

FIG. 22 shows the results of measuring the infrared distribution of the discharge cell of the prior art discharge cell of FIG. 2 and the discharge cell having the electrode structure of the present invention of FIG. 13 using an infrared CCD camera. In the plasma display panel, the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) formed by the discharge excites the fluorescent film coated on the lower plate and the partition wall to emit visible light. Therefore, in the method of improving the luminance efficiency, it is necessary to improve the vacuum ultraviolet ray forming efficiency or to improve the transfer efficiency which can make the formed vacuum ultraviolet ray reach the phosphor without loss. As the mixed gas used in the plasma display panel, a gas in which a small amount of Xe gas is added to Ne gas is generally used. Visible light formed by excitation of the phosphor is mainly generated by VUV generated from excitation species of Xe. Such excitation species of Xe include Xe * (3P1) (resonance state) having 147 nm, Xe * 2 (O + u) having 150 nm, Xe * 2 (3 + u) (excimer states) having 173 nm, and the like. Therefore, it is very important to study the spatiotemporal distribution of these excitation species. However, it is very difficult to experimentally measure VUV having such wavelengths. Fortunately, many studies have reported that measuring IR at 823.1 nm and 828 nm can provide similar analytical results as measuring VUV. The reason is that 823.1 nm is emitted from the excitation species of resonance (3P1), and 828 nm is emitted from the excitation species of metastable (3P2).

Therefore, to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of IR, an ICCD camera (ICCD-576EM, Princeton Instruments, Inc) was used, and a filter having a center wavelength of 825 nm and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 10 nm was used. It was.

As can be seen in FIG. 22, in the electrode structure of the present invention, the distribution of IR is wider than that of the electrode structure of the prior art. This, together with the above-described Figure 21, can form a discharge having a larger volume than the electrode structure of the prior art of Figure 2 with the same power consumption of the electrode structure of the present invention, which is assumed to be an important factor leading to an improvement in luminance efficiency. do. In particular, it was observed that the distribution of IR was further diffused when the voltage was increased, and it is thought that the efficiency increases as the voltage increases due to the diffusion of the long-gap mode discharge.

In the detailed description of the present invention, some specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. For example, the discharge cells of the strip structure and the SDR structure listed in the prior art are merely examples, and the electrode structure of the present invention can be applied to any type of discharge cell structure to improve efficiency. It is obvious from the description. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalents of the claims as well as the technical spirit of the present invention as grasped by the following claims.

The present invention effectively utilizes the shape or arrangement of the sustain discharge electrode to enlarge the discharge path of the sustain discharge, or to have a first boundary surface having a narrow gap and a second boundary surface having a wide gap, or the first sustain electrode and the second bridge. By disposing the sustain electrodes in the shape of electrodes having short intervals and wide intervals, generating discharge in short interval mode and wide interval mode at the same time to increase the discharge path without increasing the discharge voltage determined by the short interval discharge. Since a wide interval discharge can be formed, a marked rise in luminance efficiency is possible.

According to the electrode structure of the present invention, it is possible to provide a plasma display panel having an improved electrode structure in which a discharge path is longer while obtaining a high luminance efficiency while maintaining the area of a pixel as it is.

In addition, in the AC type discharge indicator in which the luminance efficiency decreases as the area of the sustain discharge electrode increases, in general, in the electrode structure of the present invention, a higher luminance efficiency can be obtained by minimizing the electrode area.

Claims (7)

In the surface discharge plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, Each discharge cell, A first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode, and an address electrode, Wherein the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode are disposed in the discharge cell to provide an extended discharge path therebetween for high efficiency discharge. The method of claim 1, The first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode A plasma display panel, characterized in that it does not completely face each other in the discharge cell, and only a part of the discharge cells face each other to provide a minimum gap G for low voltage discharge. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The extended discharge pass is And a diagonal discharge path in the discharge cell. In the surface discharge plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, Each of the discharge cells includes a first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode, and an address electrode; Here, the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode are patterned to have a first opposing part having a narrow gap and a second opposing part having a wide gap, And an extended discharge path for high efficiency discharge by the second opposing portion. The method of claim 4, wherein And the first opposing portion of the first sustain electrode and the second sustain electrode provides a minimum gap G for low voltage discharge. In the surface discharge plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying an image, Each of the discharge cells includes a first sustain electrode, a second sustain electrode, and an address electrode; The first storage electrode is composed of one or more first storage electrode group, The second storage electrode is composed of one or more second storage electrode group, Any one of the first storage electrode group and any one of the second storage electrode group have a narrow spacing, And the other of the first storage electrode group and the other of the second storage electrode group are patterned to have a wide interval for high efficiency discharge. The method of claim 6, And said narrow gap between any one of said first sustaining electrode group and any one of said second sustaining electrode group is a minimum gap (G) for low voltage discharge.