摘要:
An electron emission device exhibits a high electron emission efficiency. The device includes an electron-supply layer of metal or semiconductor, an insulator layer formed on the electron-supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer has a film thickness of 50 nm or greater. The electron-supply layer has a film thickness of 2.5 &mgr;m or greater. When an electric field is applied between the electron-supply layer and the thin-film metal electrode, the electron emission device emits electrons.
摘要:
An electron emission device exhibits a high electron emission efficiency. The device includes an electron-supply layer of metal or semiconductor, an insulator layer formed on the electron-supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer has a film thickness of 50 nm or greater. The electron-supply layer is made of hydrogenated amorphous silicon. When an electric field is applied between the electron-supply layer and the thin-film metal electrode, the electron emission device emits electrons.
摘要:
An electron emission device exhibits a high electron emission efficiency. The device includes an electron-supply layer of metal or semiconductor, an insulator layer formed on the electron-supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer has at a film thickness of 50 nm or greater and a field-stabilizing layer. When an electric field is applied between the electron-supply layer and the thin-film metal electrode, the electron emission device emits electrons.
摘要:
A magneto optical recording medium is provided with: a record layer, to which information is recorded as a directional condition of magnetization thereof and which comprises a magnetic substance having a Curie temperature Tc.sub.2 ; a reproduction layer, to which the magnetization of the record layer is transferred at a predetermined reproducing temperature Tpb and which comprises a magnetic substance having a Curie temperature Tc.sub.0 ; an intermediate layer disposed between the record layer and the reproduction layer and comprising a magnetic substance having a Curie temperature Tc.sub.1 for allowing the magnetization of the record layer to be transferred therethrough at a temperature lower than the Curie temperature Tc.sub.1 by a switched connection force between the record layer and the intermediate layer and by a switched connection force between the intermediate layer and the reproduction layer, and for disallowing the magnetization of the record layer to be transferred therethrough at a temperature not lower than the Curie temperature Tc.sub.1 ; and an intermediate auxiliary layer interposed between the record layer and the intermediate layer and comprising a magnetic substance having a Curie temperature Tc.sub.3 for increasing the switched connection force between the record layer and the intermediate layer. The Curie temperatures satisfy conditions of: Tc.sub.1
摘要:
An electron emitting device includes an amorphous electron supply layer, an insulating layer formed on the electron supply layer, and an electrode formed on the insulating layer. The electron emits device emitting electrons when an electric field is applied between the electron supply layer and the electrode. The electron emitting device includes a concave portion provided by notching the electrode and the insulating layer to expose the electron supply layer, and a carbon layer covering the electrode and the concave portion except for an inner portion of an exposed surface 4a of the electron supply layer and being in contact with an edge portion of the exposed surface of the electron supply layer.
摘要:
Provided is a method of driving an electron emission apparatus that drives the apparatus including a plurality of electron emission devices each having an electron supply layer formed of silicon, a silicon-based mixture or a compound thereof, an insulator layer formed on the electron supply layer and a thin film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer. The plurality of electron emission devices are sealed and the method includes: a driving step for supplying power between the electron supply layer and the thin film metal electrode to cause electrons to be emitted from the electron emission device and a reactivating step for applying a reactivating voltage at a level equal to or higher than an applied voltage value which causes discontinuity in differential value of the device current flowing between the electron supply layer and the thin film metal electrode with respect to the applied voltage.
摘要:
An electron emitting device having a lower electrode on a side near to a substrate and an upper electrode on a side remote from the substrate respectively, formed of a plurality of electron emitting elements remitting electrons from a side of the upper electrode side, wherein space is formed between the electron emitting elements, and the upper electrode extends across the plurality of electron emitting elements and the space by a bridging portion of the upper electrode.
摘要:
Disclosed is an image pickup device capable of greatly reducing delay in drive signals supplied to field emission devices, and cross-talk and the like that originate in these drive signals. The image pickup device comprises a photoelectric conversion film for receiving incident light on one side thereof; a field emission layer having an electron emitting surface apart from and facing the other side of the photoelectric conversion film, and including a plurality of electron emission devices; and a drive layer formed on a back side of the field emission layer and including a plurality of device drive circuits for supplying drive signals to each of back electrodes of the plurality of electron emission devices.
摘要:
An electron emission device based flat panel display apparatus is composed of a pair of a back substrate and an optically transparent front substrate opposing to each other with a vacuum space interposed therebetween, and a plurality of electron emission devices, each of which includes an electron-supply layer made of metal or semiconductor, formed on ohmic electrodes formed on a surface of the back substrate proximate to the vacuum space, an insulator layer formed on the electron-supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer and facing the vacuum space. The front substrate includes collector electrodes formed on its surface proximate to the vacuum space, fluorescent material layers formed on the collector electrodes, and an image display array composed of a plurality of light emitting elements corresponding to the fluorescent material layers. The electron emission device based flat panel display apparatus also comprises an insulative support member formed on the back substrate and disposed between adjacent ones of the electron emission devices, and a plurality of electrodes, each of which is disposed between adjacent ones of the thin-film metal electrodes and on the insulative support member for electrically connecting the thin-film metal electrodes.
摘要:
An electron emission device exhibits a high electron emission efficiency. The device includes an electron supply layer of metal or semiconductor, an insulator layer formed on the electron supply layer, and a thin-film metal electrode formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer is made of a dielectric substance and has a film thickness of 50 nm or greater. When an electric field is applied between the electron supply layer and the thin-film metal electrode, the electron emission device emits electrons.