Electrode configurations for gas discharge device

摘要

Electrode configurations for a gas discharge device such as a plasma display panel (PDP) having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels defined by a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. In one embodiment, there is used a plasma-dome having a dome and an opposing flat side. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-dome, at least one electrode being in contact with a side of the plasma-dome that is flat. The gas discharge device may include inorganic and/or organic luminescent substances that are excited by a gas discharge within each plasma-dome or by photons emitted from another luminescent substance. The luminescent substance is located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the plasma-dome and/or incorporated into the shell of the plasma-dome. The shell may be made of one or more luminescent substances.