The discharge characteristics of the newly-developed, shadow-mask plasma display panel(SM-PDP) cell with electrodes of different widths were simulated with a three-dimensional model.

• PDP中可以通过改变电极宽度，使放电空间的等位面沿电极增加的方向扩展，在等位面扩展的区域电场得到增强，从而改善SM-PDP护的放电性能。