Display device having a plurality of discharge cells in each unit light-emitting area

A display device for carrying out an image display according to pixel data on each pixel on the basis of an input video signal, correspondingly to the input video signal, the display device comprising:

• a display panel having
• front and back substrates arranged to sandwich a discharge space therebetween;
• a plurality of row electrode pairs provided on an inner surface of the front substrate;
• a plurality of column electrodes arranged crossing the row electrode pairs on the inner surface of the back substrate;
• and
• unit light-emitting areas, respectively formed at intersections of the row electrode pairs and the column electrodes, each comprising a first discharge cell and a second discharge cell having a light absorbing layer close to the front substrate and a secondary-electron emitting material layer close to the back substrate;
• an address component for sequentially applying, while sequentially applying a scanning pulse having a polarity for placing the column electrode in a low potential to first row electrodes of first and second row electrodes constituting the row electrode pairs, a pixel data pulse having a voltage corresponding to the pixel data in an amount of one display line per time to the column electrodes in the same timing as the scanning pulse, thereby selectively causing address discharge within the second discharge cell;
• and
• a sustain component for repetitively applying a sustain pulse alternately to the first row electrodes and the second row electrodes.