  This article reports on the development and experimental results of
commercial plasma display panels adapted for their potential use as
micropattern gas radiation detectors. The plasma panel sensors (PPS) design an
materials include glass substrates, metal electrodes and inert gas mixtures
which provide a physically robust, hermetically-sealed device. Plasma display
panels used as detectors were tested with cosmic ray muons, beta rays and gamma
rays, protons and thermal neutrons. The results demonstrated rise times and
time resolution of a few nanoseconds, as well as sub-millimeter spatial
resolution compatible with the pixel pitch.
