Field emission device and method for making same
    2.
    发明授权
    Field emission device and method for making same 失效
    场发射装置及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5588894A

    公开(公告)日:1996-12-31

    申请号:US548533

    申请日:1995-10-26

    IPC分类号: H01J1/304 H01J9/02 H01J31/12

    摘要: In accordance with the invention, a field emission device is made by disposing emitter material on an insulating substrate, applying masking particles to the emitter material, applying an insulating film and a gate conductor film over the masking particles and emitter material and removing the particles to reveal a random distribution of apertures to the emitter material. The result is a novel and economical field emission device having numerous randomly distributed emission apertures which can be used to make low cost flat panel displays.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明,通过将发射体材料设置在绝缘基板上,将掩模粒子施加到发射极材料,在掩模颗粒和发射体材料上施加绝缘膜和栅极导体膜,并将颗粒除去,制成场致发射器件 揭示孔径随机分布到发射体材料。 结果是一种新颖且经济的场致发射装置,其具有许多随机分布的发射孔,其可用于制造低成本的平板显示器。

    Microwave vacuum tube device employing grid-modulated cold cathode source having nanotube emitters
    5.
    发明授权
    Microwave vacuum tube device employing grid-modulated cold cathode source having nanotube emitters 有权
    采用具有纳米管发射体的并网冷阴极源的微波真空管装置

    公开(公告)号:US06297592B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-02

    申请号:US09631890

    申请日:2000-08-04

    IPC分类号: H01J2304

    摘要: An improved gridded microwave tube is provided, the tube containing a cold cathode, an anode, and a grid located between the anode and cathode. In one embodiment, the cold cathode has a refractory metal substrate and carbon nanotube emitters, the emitters having a diameter of 1 to 300 nm and a length of 0.05 to 100 &mgr;m. The grid-cathode spacing is 1 to 100 &mgr;m, the grid contains apertures having a maximum dimension of 0.5 to 100 &mgr;m, and the grid thickness is 0.5 to 100 &mgr;m. Emission from the cathode directly onto the grid material itself, which undesirably heats the grid, is reduced by either (a) the presence of a shadow mask between the grid and the emitters or (b) selective formation of the emitters in locations that correspond to the grid apertures. The microwave tube operates at a frequency of greater than 0.5 GHz, advantageously greater than 2 GHz.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种改进的网格微波管,该管包含位于阳极和阴极之间的冷阴极,阳极和栅极。 在一个实施方案中,冷阴极具有难熔金属基底和碳纳米管发射体,发射体的直径为1至300nm,长度为0.05至100μm。 栅极 - 阴极间距为1〜100μm,栅格包含最大尺寸为0.5〜100μm的孔,栅格厚度为0.5〜100μm。 通过(a)在栅格和发射体之间存在阴影掩模,或(b)在对应于栅格和发射体的位置中选择性地形成发射体,从阴极直接排放到栅格材料本身上,这不利地加热栅格, 网格孔。 微波管的工作频率大于0.5GHz,有利地大于2GHz。

    Field emission devices employing enhanced diamond field emitters
    6.
    发明授权
    Field emission devices employing enhanced diamond field emitters 失效
    采用增强金刚石场发射体的场致发射器件

    公开(公告)号:US5637950A

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-10

    申请号:US331458

    申请日:1994-10-31

    摘要: Applicants have discovered methods for making, treating and using diamonds which substantially enhance their capability for low voltage emission. Specifically, applicants have discovered that defect-rich diamonds--diamonds grown or treated to increase the concentration of defects--have enhanced properties of low voltage emission. Defect-rich diamonds are characterized in Raman spectroscopy by a diamond peak at 1332 cm.sup.-1 broadened by a full width at half maximum .DELTA.K in the range 5-15 cm.sup.-1 (and preferably 7-11 cm.sup.-1). Such defect-rich diamonds can emit electron current densities of 0.1 mA/mm.sup.2 or more at a low applied field of 25 V/.mu.m or less. Particularly advantageous structures use such diamonds in an array of islands or particles each less than 10 .mu.m in diameter at fields of 15 V/.mu.m or less.

    摘要翻译: 申请人已经发现了用于制造,处理和使用金刚石的方法,其大大增强了它们的低电压发射能力。 具体来说,申请人已经发现,生长或处理以增加缺陷浓度的富含缺陷的钻石 - 金刚石具有增强的低电压发射性能。 富含缺陷的金刚石的特征在于在1332cm-1处的金刚石峰,在5-15cm -1(优选7-11cm -1)的范围内以最大DELTA K的全宽度加宽的拉曼光谱。 这样的富含缺陷的金刚石可以在25V /μm以下的低施加电场下发射0.1mA / mm 2以上的电子密度。 特别有利的结构在15V /μm或更小的场中使用直径小于10μm的岛或颗粒阵列中的这种金刚石。

    Spaced-gate emission device and method for making same
    8.
    发明授权
    Spaced-gate emission device and method for making same 失效
    间隔栅极发射装置及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5504385A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-02

    申请号:US299470

    申请日:1994-08-31

    摘要: In accordance with the invention, a field emission device is made by disposing emitter material on an insulating substrate, applying a sacrificial film to the emitter material and forming over the sacrificial layer a conductive gate layer having a random distribution of apertures therein. In the preferred process, the gate is formed by applying masking particles to the sacrificial film, applying a conductive film over the masking particles and the sacrificial film and then removing the masking particles to reveal a random distribution of apertures. The sacrificial film is then removed. The apertures then extend to the emitter material. In a preferred embodiment, the sacrificial film contains dielectric spacer particles which remain after the film is removed to separate the emitter from the gate. The result is a novel and economical field emission device having numerous randomly distributed emission apertures which can be used to make low cost flat panel displays.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明,通过将发射极材料设置在绝缘衬底上,将牺牲膜施加到发射极材料并在牺牲层上形成具有其中孔径随机分布的导电栅极层而形成场致发射器件。 在优选的方法中,通过将掩模颗粒施加到牺牲膜,在掩模颗粒和牺牲膜上施加导电膜,然后去除掩模颗粒以显示孔的随机分布来形成栅极。 然后去除牺牲膜。 孔然后延伸到发射体材料。 在优选实施例中,牺牲膜包含介电间隔物颗粒,其在除去膜之后保留,以将发射极与栅极分离。 结果是一种新颖且经济的场致发射装置,其具有许多随机分布的发射孔,其可用于制造低成本的平板显示器。

    Article comprising aligned nanowires
    9.
    发明授权
    Article comprising aligned nanowires 有权
    文章包括对齐的纳米线

    公开(公告)号:US06741019B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-05-25

    申请号:US09420157

    申请日:1999-10-18

    IPC分类号: H01J130

    摘要: An improved process for fabricating emitter structures from nanowires, wherein the nanowires are coated with a magnetic material to allow useful alignment of the wires in the emitter array, and techniques are utilized to provide desirable protrusion of the aligned nanowires in the final structure. In one embodiment, nanowires at least partially coated by a magnetic material are provided, the nanowires having an average length of about 0.1 &mgr;m to about 10,000 &mgr;m. The nanowires are mixed in a liquid medium, and a magnetic field is applied to align the nanowires. The liquid medium is provided with a precursor material capable of consolidation into a solid matrix, e.g., conductive particles or a metal salt, the matrix securing the nanowires in an aligned orientation. A portion of the aligned nanowires are exposed, e.g., by etching a surface portion of the matrix material, to provide desirable nanowire tip protrusion.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从纳米线制造发射体结构的改进方法,其中纳米线被涂覆有磁性材料,以允许发射器阵列中的线的有用对准,并且利用技术在最终结构中提供对准的纳米线所需的突出。 在一个实施例中,提供至少部分地由磁性材料涂覆的纳米线,所述纳米线具有约0.1μm至约10,000μm的平均长度。 纳米线在液体介质中混合,施加磁场以对准纳米线。 液体介质设置有能够固结成固体基质例如导电颗粒或金属盐的前体材料,该基质将纳米线固定在一个排列的取向上。 对准的纳米线的一部分例如通过蚀刻基质材料的表面部分而暴露,以提供所需的纳米线尖端突起。