Plasma display device

A plasma display device comprising:

• a plasma display panel including:
• a front plate having display electrode pairs on a first glass substrate, a dielectric layer for covering the display electrode pairs, and a protective layer on the dielectric layer;
• a back plate having data electrodes on a second glass substrate, the back plate being faced to the front plate;
• and
• discharge cells formed at positions where the display electrode pairs face the data electrodes;
• and
• a panel driving circuit for driving the plasma display panel while a plurality of subfields are temporally disposed to form one field period, each of the subfields having an address period for causing an address discharge and a sustain period for causing a sustain discharge in the discharge cells,
• wherein the protective layer has:
• a base protective layer formed of a thin film of metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide;
• and
• a particle layer formed by sticking single crystal particles of magnesium oxide to the base protective layer, wherein, in the single crystal particles, the emission intensity at the peak at 200 to 300 nm is two or more times that at 300 to 550 nm in a cathode luminescence emission spectrum, and
• wherein the panel driving circuit
• causes an initializing discharge for producing wall charge in a first subfield, of the plurality of subfields,
• causes an address discharge for erasing wall charge in address periods of the plurality of subfields, and
• drives the plasma display panel.