Patent 7675235 was granted and assigned to Sony on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes a front panel including a front glass substrate, a plurality of pairs of discharge-maintaining electrodes disposed over the front glass substrate, and a first dielectric layer disposed in covering relation to the pairs of discharge-maintaining electrodes, and a rear panel disposed in confronting relation to the front panel with discharge spaces interposed therebetween, the front panel including a second dielectric layer disposed between the front glass substrate and the pairs of discharge-maintaining electrodes, the second dielectric layer including a cluster of fine particles of silica.