Abstract:
A cathode for a vacuum electronic device is described which is made of a material that also allows the cathode to act as a getter. The cathode may include a mixture of a getter material and a diamond powder.
Abstract:
A cathode has electropositive atoms (80) directly bonded to a carbon-containing substrate (60). Preferably, the substrate comprises diamond or diamond-like (sp3) carbon, and the electropositive atoms are Cs. The cathode displays superior efficiency and durability. In one embodiment, the cathode has a negative electron affinity (NEA). The cathode can be used for field emission, thermionic emission, or photoemission. Upon exposure to air or oxygen, the cathode performance can be restored by annealing or other methods. Applications include detectors, electron multipliers, sensors, imaging systems, and displays, particularly flat panel displays.
Abstract:
The present invention provides for a field emission device including an anode assembly (600) and a cathode assembly, wherein the cthode assembly further includes a substrate (1101), a plurality of electrically conducting strips (1102) deposited on the substrate (1101), and a continuous layer of diamond material (1801) deposited over the plurality of electrically conducting strips (1102) and portions of the substrate exposed between the plurality of electrically conducting strips (1102). The field emission device may further include a grid assembly (2000) including a perforated silicon substrate (2003), a first dielectric layer (2002) deposited on the silicon substrate (2003), and a first conducting layer (2001) deposited on the first dielectric layer (2002), wherein the first dielectric layer (2002) and the first conducting layer (2001) have perforations coinciding with perforations of the silicon substrate (2003). The grid assembly may further include a second dielectric layer deposited on an underside of the silicon substrate.
Abstract:
A process for making a field emitter cathode by attaching a particulate field emitter material to a substrate. The particulate field emitter material is dispersed in a solution of a metal compound in a solvent and deposited onto the surface of the substrate. The substrate is heated for sufficient time to completely reduce the metal compound to the metal. The resulting field emitter cathode is a substrate coated with a thin layer of the metal with a particulate field electron emitter material embedded therein and protruding therefrom.
Abstract:
A field emission cathode includes a layer of conductive material (14) and a layer of amorphic diamond film (12), functioning as a low effective work-function material, deposited over the conductive material to form emission sites. The emission sites each contain at least two sub-regions having differing electron affinities.
Abstract:
Novel uses of diamondoid-containing materials in the field of microelectronics are disclosed. Embodiments include, but are not limited to, thermally conductive films in integrated circuit packaging, low-k dielectric layers in integrated circuit multilevel interconnects, thermally conductive adhesive films, thermally conductive films in thermoelectric cooling devices, passivation films for integrated circuit devices (ICs), and field emission cathodes. The diamondoids employed in the present invention may be selected from lower diamondoids, as well as the newly provided higher diamondoids, including substituted and unsubstituted diamondoids. The higher diamondoids include tetramantane, pentamantane, hexamantane, heptamantane, octamantane, nonamantane, decamantane, and undecamantane. The diamondoid-containing material may be fabricated as a diamondoid-containing polymer, a diamondoid-containing sintered ceramic, a diamondoid ceramic composite, a CVD diamondoid film, a self-assembled diamondoid film, and a diamondoid-fullerene composite.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a diamond electron source and its manufacturing method wherein one sharp-pointed section as an electron emission point for use in an electron beam device such as an electron microscope is formed at one end of a columnar diamond single crystal having a size where resist coating is difficult in a microfabrication process. SOLUTION: One end of the columnar diamond single crystal 10 is polished to form a smooth flat surface 11, and a ceramic layer 12 is formed on the smooth flat surface 11. After a thin film layer 14 having a predetermined shape is deposited on the ceramic layer 12 by using a focused ion beam system, the ceramic layer 12 is patterned by etching using the thin film layer 14 as a mask. One sharp-pointed section is formed at the one end of the columnar diamond single crystal 10 by dry etching using the formed ceramic mask. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT