Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same

A plasma display panel comprising:

• first and second substrates opposed to each other for defining a space filled with discharge gas;
• a screen made up of a plurality of cells arranged in row and column directions;
• display electrodes arranged on the first substrate for generating surface discharges, the display electrodes extending in the row direction;
• a plurality of band-like partitions arranged in parallel on the second substrate for dividing the gas filled space into columns;
• and
• fluorescent material layers sticking to side faces of the partitions and inner surfaces between the partitions on the columns, each of the fluorescent material layers having a band-like shape extending across a plurality of cells in a plan view, wherein
• a thickness of the fluorescent material layer at a part sticking to the side face of the partition and overlapping with the display electrode is smaller than a thickness of the fluorescent material layer at a part sticking to the side face of the partition in a vicinity of a surface discharge gap.