Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same

A plasma display panel having a display surface, comprising:

• a pair of substrates having parallel, spaced and opposed respective inner surfaces defining a gap therebetween;
• a discharge gas filled in the gap between the substrates;
• and
• a mesh-patterned partition disposed between the respective inner surfaces of the substrates and dividing the gap into a cell arrangement of plural gas-filled cells in plural, transverse rows and columns covering the display surface and in which the partition defines a surrounding sidewall for each cell, spaced and opposed portions of the respective sidewalls of the plural cells, aligned in both the row and column directions, defining corresponding air paths in the row and column directions, that travel through all of the gas-filled cells to a periphery of the partition.