Base substrate, method of separating the base substrate and plasma display panel using the same

Abstract

A plasma display panel (PDP) may include a first substrate having first discharge electrodes and a first separation border where the first substrate was separated from a first base substrate and a second substrate having second discharge electrodes and a second separation border where the second substrate was separated from a second base substrate.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded partial perspective view of a plasma display panel (PDP) according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a cross-sectional view of the PDP of in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 illustrates a plan view of a layout of discharge electrodes of the PDP shown in FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 illustrates a plan view of a base substrate according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 illustrates a plan view of a base substrate according to a second embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 6 illustrates a plan view of base substrates of FIGS. 4 and 5 that have been separated and combined.

Claims

1. A plasma display panel (PDP), comprising: a first substrate including first discharge electrodes and a first separation border where the first substrate was separated from a first base substrate; anda second substrate including second discharge electrodes and a second separation border where the second substrate was separated from a second base substrate.

2. The PDP as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second separation borders are oriented in a same direction.

3. The PDP as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first discharge electrodes are parallel to the first separation border.

4. The PDP as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second discharge electrodes are orthogonal to the second separation border.

5. The PDP as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second base substrates satisfies the following relationship: 1.5≦L1/L2≦2.0where L1 is a length of a long side of the base substrate and L2 is a length of a short side of the base substrate.

6. A method of fabricating a plasma display panel (PDP), comprising: forming address electrodes on a first base substrate;separating the first base substrate into a plurality of individual first substrates in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the address electrodes extend, each of the individual first substrates including multiple address electrodes;forming sustain discharge electrode pairs on a second base substrate;separating the second base substrate into a plurality of individual second substrates in a direction parallel to a direction in which the sustain discharge electrode pairs extend, each of the individual second substrates including multiple sustain discharge electrode pairs; andsecuring at least one of the plurality of individual first substrates and a corresponding one of the plurality of individual second substrate to form at least one PDP.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein forming the address electrodes includes patterning the address electrodes on each of the plurality of individual first substrates to extend along a direction parallel to a long side of the first base substrate.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein separating the first base substrate includes cutting along a respective border between adjacent individual first substrates.

9. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein forming the sustain discharge electrode pairs includes patterning in the sustain discharge electrode pairs in each of the plurality of individual second substrates to extend in a direction parallel to a short side of the second base substrate.

10. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein separating the second base substrate includes cutting along a respective border between adjacent individual second substrates.

11. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein securing includes aligning a border along which first individual substrates have been separated from the first base substrate with a border along which the second individual substrates have been separated from second base substrate parallel to each other.

12. A method of separating a base substrate, comprising: forming discharge electrodes on a base substrate; andseparating the base substrate into a plurality of individual substrates along a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the discharge electrodes extend, each of the individual substrates including multiple discharge electrodes.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein forming discharge electrodes includes patterning the discharge electrodes on the base substrate so as to extend in a direction parallel to a long side of the base substrate.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein separating the base substrate includes cutting along respective borders between adjacent individual substrates.

15. A base substrate which is separated into a plurality of individual substrates each having multiple discharge electrodes, wherein the base substrate satisfies the following relationship: 1.5≦L1/L2≦2.0where L1 is a length of a long side of the base substrate and L2 is a length of the short side of the base substrate.

16. The base substrate as claimed in claim 15, wherein the base substrate is sequentially partitioned along a direction orthogonal to the long side of the base substrate into a plurality of individual substrates.

17. The base substrate as claimed in claim 12, wherein the discharge electrodes are address electrodes.

18. A method of separating a base substrate, comprising: forming discharge electrodes on a base substrate; andseparating the base substrate into a plurality of individual substrates along a direction parallel to a direction in which the discharge electrodes extend, each of the individual substrates including multiple discharge electrodes.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein forming discharge electrode includes patterning the discharge electrodes on the base substrate so as to extend in a direction parallel to a short side of the base substrate.

20. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein separating the base substrate includes cutting along respective borders between adjacent individual substrates.