PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE

A protective layer of a plasma display panel has a base protective layer formed of a thin film containing metal oxide, and a particle layer formed by sticking, to the base protective layer, agglomerated particles where single crystal particles of magnesium oxide are agglomerated. A panel driving circuit drives the panel by forming one field period by temporally arranging a second subfield group after a first subfield group. The first subfield group has subfields having initializing period Ti for producing wall charge for causing an address discharge, address period Tw for producing wall charge for causing a sustain discharge, and sustain period Ts for causing a sustain discharge to emit light in the discharge cells. The second subfield group has subfields having address period Tw for erasing wall charge for causing a sustain discharge and sustain period Ts for causing a sustain discharge to emit light in the discharge cells.