Field emitters of wide-bandgap materials and methods for their
fabrication
    6.
    发明授权
    Field emitters of wide-bandgap materials and methods for their fabrication 失效
    宽带隙材料的场发射体及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5713775A

    公开(公告)日:1998-02-03

    申请号:US432848

    申请日:1995-05-02

    摘要: Improved field-emission devices are based on composing the back contact to the emitter material such that electron-injection efficiency into the emitter material is enhanced. Alteration of the emitter material structure near the contact or geometric field enhancement due to contact morphology gives rise to the improved injection efficiency. The devices are able to emit electrons at high current density and lower applied potential differences and temperatures than previously achieved. Wide-bandgap emitter materials without shallow donors benefit from this approach. The emission characteristics of diamond substitutionally doped with nitrogen, having a favorable emitter/vacuum band structure but being limited by the efficiency of electron injection into it, show especial improvement in the context of the invention. The injection-enhancing contacts can be created by combining the emitter material with an appropriate metal compound and annealing or by conventional dry anisotropic etching or ion bombardment techniques.

    摘要翻译: 改进的场致发射器件基于构成与发射极材料的背接触,使得增加到发射极材料中的电子注入效率。 由接触形态引起的接触或几何场增强附近的发射极材料结构的改变提高了注入效率的提高。 器件能够以高电流密度发射电子,并且能够比以前实现的更低的施加电位差和温度。 没有浅供体的宽带隙发射体材料受益于这种方法。 替代地掺杂有氮的金刚石的发射特性具有良好的发射极/真空带结构但被电子注入的效率所限制,在本发明的上下文中显示出特别的改进。 注入增强触点可以通过将发射极材料与适当的金属化合物组合并进行退火或通过常规的干各向异性蚀刻或离子轰击技术来产生。

    Surface-emission cathodes
    7.
    发明授权
    Surface-emission cathodes 失效
    表面发射阴极

    公开(公告)号:US5973451A

    公开(公告)日:1999-10-26

    申请号:US794361

    申请日:1997-02-04

    IPC分类号: H01J1/30

    CPC分类号: H01J1/30

    摘要: The surface-emission cathodes of the invention are constructed so that the cathode body has a free surface over which electrons are efficiently accelerated after injection from a conductive contact. The junction between the free surface and the contact has the property that the height of the barrier to tunneling from the contact to floating surface states associated with the free surface of the cathode body is lower than both the barrier to emission from the contact to vacuum and the barrier to injection from the contact into the conduction band of the cathode body material. Thus under an applied potential, electrons are injected from the contact into floating surface states associated with the free surface. After acceleration, electrons leave the free surface, either emitted to vacuum or injected into another medium.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的表面发射阴极被构造成使得阴极体具有自由表面,电子在从导电接触点注入之后被有效地加速。 自由表面和接触之间的接合点具有这样的特性,即从接触到与阴极体的自由表面相关联的浮动表面状态的穿透的屏障的高度低于从接触到真空的发射屏障, 从触点注入阴极体材料的导带的阻挡层。 因此,在施加电位下,电子从触点注入与自由表面相关的浮动表面状态。 加速后,电子离开自由表面,发射到真空或注入另一种介质。

    Field emmitters of wide-bandgap materials
    8.
    发明授权
    Field emmitters of wide-bandgap materials 失效
    宽带隙材料的场发射器

    公开(公告)号:US5990604A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-23

    申请号:US17361

    申请日:1998-02-02

    摘要: Improved field-emission devices are based on composing the back contact to the emitter material such that electron-injection efficiency into the emitter material is enhanced. Alteration of the emitter material structure near the contact or geometric field enhancement due to contact morphology gives rise to the improved injection efficiency. The devices are able to emit electrons at high current density and lower applied potential differences and temperatures than previously achieved. Wide-bandgap emitter materials without shallow donors benefit from this approach. The emission characteristics of diamond substitutionally doped with nitrogen, having a favorable emitter/vacuum band structure but being limited by the efficiency of electron injection into it, show especial improvement in the context of the invention. The injection-enhancing contacts can be created by combining the emitter material with an appropriate metal compound and annealing or by conventional dry anisotropic etching or ion bombardment techniques.

    摘要翻译: 改进的场致发射器件基于构成与发射极材料的背接触,使得增加到发射极材料中的电子注入效率。 由接触形态引起的接触或几何场增强附近的发射极材料结构的改变提高了注入效率的提高。 器件能够以高电流密度发射电子,并且能够比以前实现的更低的施加电位差和温度。 没有浅供体的宽带隙发射体材料受益于这种方法。 替代地掺杂有氮的金刚石的发射特性具有良好的发射极/真空带结构但被电子注入的效率所限制,在本发明的上下文中显示出特别的改进。 注入增强触点可以通过将发射极材料与适当的金属化合物组合并进行退火或通过常规的干各向异性蚀刻或离子轰击技术来产生。

    Energetic-electron emitters
    9.
    发明授权
    Energetic-electron emitters 失效
    能量电子发射体

    公开(公告)号:US5729094A

    公开(公告)日:1998-03-17

    申请号:US632026

    申请日:1996-04-15

    IPC分类号: H01J1/304 H01J19/02

    CPC分类号: H01J1/304

    摘要: An energetic-electron emitter providing electrons having kinetic energies on the order of one thousand electron volts without acceleration through vacuum. An average electric field of 10.sup.5 V/m to 10.sup.10 V/m applied across a layer of emissive cathode material accelerates electrons inside the layer. The cathode material is a high-dielectric strength, rigid-structure, wide-bandgap semiconductors, especially type Ib diamond. A light-emitting device incorporates the energetic-electron emitter as a source of excitation to luminescence.

    摘要翻译: 能量电子发射体提供具有一千电子伏特的动能的电子,而没有加速通过真空。 施加在发射阴极材料层上的105V / m至1010V / m的平均电场加速层内的电子。 阴极材料是高介电强度,刚性结构的宽带隙半导体,特别是Ib型金刚石。 发光装置将能量 - 电子发射体作为激发源发光。