Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same

1. A plasma display panel comprising:

first and second substrates opposed to each other for defining a space filled with discharge gas;

a screen made up of a plurality of cells arranged in row and column directions;

display electrodes arranged on the first substrate for generating surface discharges, the display electrodes extending in the row direction;

a plurality of band-like partitions arranged in parallel on the second substrate for dividing the gas filled space into columns; and

fluorescent material layers sticking to side faces of the partitions and inner surfaces between the partitions on the columns, each of the fluorescent material layers having a band-like shape extending across a plurality of cells in a plan view, wherein

a thickness of the fluorescent material layer at a part sticking to the side face of the partition and overlapping with the display electrode is smaller than a thickness of the fluorescent material layer at a part sticking to the side face of the partition in a vicinity of a surface discharge gap.

2. The plasma display panel according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the display electrodes is made up of a band-like metal film extending across a plurality of cells arranged along the display electrode and a transparent conductive film having a bus portion and protruding portions from the bus portion toward another display electrode that forms a pair with the display electrode in each cell, and

the thickness of the fluorescent material layer at the part sticking to the side face of the partition and overlapping with the metal film is smaller than the thickness of the fluorescent material layer at the part sticking to the side face of the partition in the vicinity of the surface discharge gap.

3. The plasma display panel according to claim 1 , wherein

the display electrode is a metal electrode.

4. The plasma display panel according to claim 1 , wherein

a pair of the display electrodes is arranged in each of the rows, and

the thickness of the fluorescent material layer at the part sticking to the side face of the partition and overlapping with the display electrode is smaller than a thickness of the fluorescent material layer at a part sticking to the side face of the partition in a middle portion of a display electrode gap between cells.

5. A method for manufacturing the plasma display panel according to claim 1 , the method comprising the steps of:

disposing a mask for pattern printing that has a plurality of apertures arranged discretely along the partition above the second substrate on which the plurality of band-like partitions are formed; and

printing paste of the fluorescent material in a space between the partitions by using the mask, wherein

viscosity of the paste is adjusted so that bodies of the paste passing through neighboring apertures of the mask are combined in the space and that unevenness of the thickness of the printed paste remains in accordance with a mask pattern, thereby forming a fluorescent material layer, the thickness of the fluorescent material layer differing between the part sticking to the side face of the partition and overlapping with the display electrode and other parts sticking to the side face of the partition.