Door Panels and Raised panels
  External doors and a variety of internal feature panel doors use solid timber panels that are 'raised', that is, the centre of the panel is approximately the same thickness as the door, and narrower around the edges where they fit into grooves cut into the edges of the stile, rails and muntin.
A panel can be made of either a single piece of timber, but at times made up of a number of pieces of the same type of wood that are joined together.
This panel is machined in such a way that it gives the appearance of being raised.  Though there are a number of designs for a panel, they all follow a basic pattern where it is reduced around the edges and the greater thickness is maintained in the centre. This raised flat centre are is known as the 'Field'.
An alternative to the Raised and Fielded panel would be the Bevel Raised and Fielded Panel, where the reduced perimeter, rather than being flat, is machined at an angle, there by forming a bevel up to the field. As you can see by the drawing here on the left, the step-up to the field is reduced compared to the drawing above it, due to the angle of the bevel.
Where some panels are single sided panels with only one side raised leaving the reverse side plain, the alternative is where both  front and back of the panel are raised. A Raised, Fielded panel as shown in the drawing battom right, has the edges reduced on both sides, providing a two sided panel or double sided panel with an identical feature on both faces.
An alternative design to the fielded range of panels is the Bevel Raised Panel. The Bevel Raised Panel has no field because the four edges are beveled to where all points meet, producing an apex effect in the centre of the panel.
The size of the field can vary depending on style of panel, which is determined by the width of the reduced area around the edges of the field.
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