Conventionally, when a thickness of a dielectric layer is reduced without
changing an electrode shape, a drive margin is reduced and stable driving
cannot be performed. In a discharge cell, a display electrode comprises a
projection extending in a column direction from an electrode body
extending in a row direction, the projection forms a discharge gap
together with an adjacent paired projection of the other display
electrode, the projection includes a first projection and a second
projection having two kinds of widths in a row direction, and when a
ratio of widths of the second projection on the discharge gap side to the
first projection on the electrode body side is assumed as Y and a
thickness of the dielectric layer as X, Y.ltoreq.0.2X, X.ltoreq.20 and
Y.gtoreq.0.5 are satisfied.