A plasma display screen including a carrier plate, a transparent front plate, a ribbed structure which divides the space between the carrier plate and the front plate into plasma cells, which are filled with a gas, and including one or more electrode arrays for generating corona discharges in the plasma cells, and including a phosphor layer which includes a phosphor for generating red radiation selected from the group formed by rare earth metal borates of the general formula EA M.sup.1.sub.1-x-y M.sup.2.sub.x Eu.sub.y B.sub.9 O.sub.16, where EA=Ca, Sr, Ba; M.sup.1 =Gd, La; M.sup.2 =Y, Lu, Sc, In and 0