Abstract:
A planar light unit provided with field emitters and a method for fabricating the same. According to the present invention, the planar light unit has a first substrate, a plurality of first conductive strips, a plurality of second conductive strips, a plurality of field emitters, a second substrate and a fluorescent film. The plurality of first conductive strips are formed over the first substrate, and the plurality of second conductive strips are formed over the first substrate and interposed inbetween the plurality of first conductive strips. The plurality of field emitters are formed in proximity of the plurality of first conductive strips. The second substrate is provided to be attached to and spaced apart from the first substrate to form a chamber therebetween, whereas a fluorescent film is formed over the interior surface of the second substrate facing the plurality of field emitters.
Abstract:
A light emitting device has an enclosure with a face portion, a cold cathode within the enclosure, a phosphor layer disposed on an interior surface of the face portion, an extracting grid between the cold cathode and the phosphor layer and a defocusing grid between the extracting grid and the phosphor layer. Electrons emitted from the cold cathode are defocused by the defocusing grid and impact the phosphor layer when an electric field is created between the cold cathode and the phosphor layer due to applied voltages at the cold cathode, extracting grid, defocusing grid and phosphor layer. The phosphor layer emits light through the face portion in response to electrons incident thereon. Secondary electron emission may also occur resulting in increased electron impact upon the phosphor layer, thereby increasing light output. A mirror layer may be included to reflect light toward the face portion of the light emitting device. The mirror layer also inhibits low energy electrons from impacting the phosphor, thereby enhancing the blink rate of the light emitting device.
Abstract:
An electron emission device is provided including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other and separated from each other by a predetermined distance. An electron emission unit is disposed on the first substrate, and a light emission unit is disposed on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate. A grid electrode is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and has a hole region with a plurality of electron beam-guide holes and a no-hole region surrounding the hole region. The first substrate has a first active area and a first outer portion. The second substrate has a second active area and a second outer portion. The grid electrode has a larger area than the first active area and the second active area, and the no-hole region is disposed corresponding to the first outer portion.
Abstract:
An electron emission device comprises first and second substrates facing each other and separated from each other by a distance. First and second electrodes are positioned on the first substrate such that the first and second electrodes are insulated from each other. Electron emission regions are positioned on the first substrate and are electrically connected to at least one of the first and second electrodes. An insulating layer covers the first and second electrodes. A focusing electrode is positioned on the insulating layer. The focusing electrode includes openings to allow passage of electron beams. The focusing electrode comprises a first layer having a first thickness, a second layer beneath the first layer and a third layer surrounding the first layer. The second and third layers are electrically connected and have second and third thicknesses smaller than the first thickness.
Abstract:
A lighting device of the present invention has a wire-shaped cathode provided along an axial direction, a phosphor-coated anode that opposes to the wire-shaped cathode in the axial direction and a vacuum sealing tube that vacuum-seals these cathode and anode, wherein the wire-shaped cathode has a wire and a carbon film provided on the entire circumference of this wire, and the phosphor-coated anode has an anode section and a phosphor section provided on this anode section.
Abstract:
Provided are a low-temperature formation method for emitter tips including copper oxide nanowires or copper nanowires and a display device or a light source manufactured using the same. The low-temperature formation method includes preparing a substrate having an exposed copper surface. The copper surface contacts an oxide solution at a low temperature of 100null C. or less to grow copper oxide nanowires on the surface of the substrate. Optionally, a reduction gas or a heat is supplied to the copper oxide nanowires, or plasma processing is performed on the copper oxide nanowires, thereby reducing the copper oxide nanowires to copper nanowires. Thus, emitter tips including copper oxide nanowires or copper nanowires are formed densely at a low temperature such that the emitter tips have a shape and length suitable for emission of electrons.
Abstract:
While high heat is generated in the anode section in the gas discharge tube in accordance with the present invention during its use, the heat is transmitted to the stem by way of the anode support plate due to a configuration in which the anode support plate abuts against the stem, and is released outside from the stem, whereby the cooling efficiency of the anode section is improved. Since the anode section employs not a floating structure including stem pins interposed therein but a configuration in which it is seated on the stem by way of the anode support plate, the anode section is stabilized on the stem, whereby the resistance to vibration improves. Also, for assembling the anode section into a sealed envelope, it will be sufficient if the anode support plate is mounted on the stem, which contributes to improving the easiness in assembling the gas discharge tube.
Abstract:
A beam mode discharge lamp typically has a shortcoming in that emitted light is reduced due to the deposition of cathode material on the phosphor surface. Such deposition can be reduced through the addition of a conductive mesh about the filaments to entrap cathode material and inhibit same from attacking the phosphor material.
Abstract:
A cathodoluminescent lamp for use for general lighting service includes an anode constituted by an electrically conducting coating, which may be partly internally reflective, on the interior surface of the bulb wall, a phosphor coating over the whole of the bulb wall interior, a dome-shaped metal mesh grid located near the junction of the bulb with the envelope neck and supported on a hollow metal cylinder, and an electron emissive cathode mounted within the grid/cylinder assembly. The cathode may be a "wreath" filament or indirectly heated disc located near the grid, or a linear filament located near the open end of the cylinder remote from the grid. In the latter case a metal disc, connected to the negative lead to the cathode, is located near the open end of the cylinder, to repel electrons emerging therefrom. A circuit, which may be incorporated in the lampholder, converts the supply to unidirectional operating voltages applied to the anode, grid and cathode.
Abstract:
In a fluorescent display panel comprising a grid member comprising, in turn, a pair of grid leads extended integrally from a grid frame to which a grid is attached, each grid lead is fixed to a substrate of the panel. When driven in a time division fashion, the panel produces audible noises disagreeable to the ear. In order to reduce the noises, at least one of the grid lead pair is deformed perpendicularly of the grid at its portion between the grid frame and the portion at which the grid lead is fixed to the substrate. The deformation may be an indent directed either away or towards the substrate, with the thickness of the grid lead rendered at the position of the indent. The deformation may alternatively be a bend, with the thickness kept uniform. Also in the latter case, an indent is formed in the grid lead.