Plasma display panel and method for fabricating the same

An AC plane discharge plasma display panel comprising:

• a front substrate;
• a rear substrate;
• a sealing portion operable to encapsulate said front substrate and said rear substrate at a peripheral edge portion thereof to seal a discharge gas therein;
• column ribs extending longitudinally and row ribs extending laterally, perpendicular to the column ribs, to thereby define pixel cells in a matrix;
• a plurality of electrodes, provided on said rear substrate, each extending longitudinally in the column direction,
• a plurality of plane discharge electrodes, each extending laterally in the row direction, provided on said front substrate, having display electrodes and bus electrodes;
• wherein the display electrodes comprise sustain electrodes and scan electrodes connected to sustain-side bus electrodes and scan-side bus electrodes, respectively,
• wherein said sustain-side bus electrodes and said scan-side bus electrodes are parallel to the row ribs and are spaced from row ribs in the column direction,
• wherein each pixel cell, individually, has one sustain-side bus electrode and one scan-side bus electrode, and
• wherein one sustain electrode is provided for a pair of first and second pixel cells adjacent to each other in the column direction, and
• wherein said one sustain electrode is positioned above alternating said row ribs, and wherein said one sustain electrode has two sustain-side bus electrodes connected to it.