Abstract:
A flat panel display and a method for forming a flat panel display. In one embodiment, the flat panel display includes a cathodic structure which is formed within an active area on a backplate (100). The cathodic structure includes a emitter electrode metal (102) composed of strips of aluminum overlain by a layer of cladding material.
Abstract:
A flat panel display and a method for forming a flat panel display. In one embodiment, the flat panel display includes a cathodic structure which is formed within an active area on a backplate (100). The cathodic structure includes a emitter electrode metal (102) composed of strips of aluminum overlain by a layer of cladding material.
Abstract:
Openings are created in a structure by a process in which a plate (20) is furnished with a sacrificial patterned masking layer divided into multiple laterally separated mask portions (22A). A primary layer of actinic material (28) is provided over the masking layer and in the space between the mask portions. Material of the primary layer that is not shadowed by a mask formed with the mask portions is backside exposed to actinic radiation (30). Material of the primary layer not exposed to the radiation is removed. Segments of the masking layer not covered by exposed material of the primary layer are then removed. Consequently, openings extend through the primary layer where the segments of the masking layer have been removed. The process is typically employed in forming an optical device such as a flat-panel cathode-ray tube display in which the openings in the primary layer receive light-emissive material.