Plasma display panels and plasma display devices which use the panel

A plasma display device including at least a plasma display panel and a driving circuit which applies voltages to said plasma display panel,

• wherein said plasma display panel comprises a front substrate through which visible light for display is emitted and a plurality of discharge cells;
• each of said plurality of discharge cells is provided at least with electrodes for applying voltages to said each of said discharge cells, a discharge gas for generating discharge, a substance which generates visible light based upon said discharge, and laminated members each comprised at least of a light absorption layer and a light reflection layer;
• and
• said front substrate defines a part of a discharge space which generates said discharge and forms part of a hermetic sealing,
• wherein a visual field space is defined as a space on a side of said front substrate opposite from said discharge space,
• a display surface is defined as a surface obtained by expanding over an entire area of each of said plurality of discharge cells a surface of said front substrate in contact with said discharge space,
• a portion of said visible light emitted into said visual field space through said display surface serves as said visible light for display,
• wherein a BM height hd is defined as an average of distances between a bottom surface of said discharge space and discharge-space-side surfaces of said laminated members, as measured perpendicularly to said display surface, where a first plane containing said laminated members is considered, and said bottom surface of said discharge space is a plane which faces said first plane across said discharge space and which bounds said discharge space,
• wherein said laminated members are disposed one of (i) within said discharge space, (ii) between said discharge space and said front substrate, and (iii) within said front substrate, are each comprised of a light absorption layer disposed on a visual-field-space side thereof and a light reflection layer disposed on a discharge-space side thereof, and
• wherein the following inequality is satisfied:
• Lave/hd<5,
• where a BM region is defined as a region occupied by said laminated members in said display surface,
• a light-transmissive region is defined as a region in said display surface through which said visible light from said discharge space is emitted into said visual field space,
• a length dbm-A is defined as a shortest distance between an arbitrary point A in said BM region and said light-transmissive region, and
• Lave is a value of said length dbm-A averaged over an entire area of said BM region with respect to said arbitrary point A.