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 initializing period for causing an initializing discharge, 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 having an NaCl crystal structure to the base protective layer, the NaCl crystal structure being surrounded by one of a specified two-type orientation face formed of (100) face and (111) face and a specified three-type orientation face formed of (100) face, (110) face, and (111) face, and
• wherein the panel driving circuit
• performs, in the initializing period, one of an all-cell initializing operation of causing an initializing discharge in all discharge cells and a selective initializing operation of causing an initializing discharge in a discharge cell that has undergone a sustain discharge before the initializing period,
• temporally disposes the subfields so that the luminance weight monotonically decreases from the subfield in which the all-cell initializing operation is performed to the subfield immediately before the subfield in which a next all-cell initializing operation is performed, and
• drives the plasma display panel.