Abstract:
A field emission backlight unit includes: upper substrate and lower substrate separated from each other and facing each other; an anode formed on a bottom surface of the upper substrate; a phosphor layer formed on a bottom surface of the anode; a plurality of cathodes and gate electrodes alternately formed on a top surface of the lower substrate; and emitters formed on the cathodes; the gate electrodes include first gate electrodes formed of a conductive material on the top surface of the lower substrate and second gate electrodes having a greater thickness than that of the first gate electrodes and formed on a top surface of the first gate electrodes.
Abstract:
A light source apparatus (8) includes a rear plate (80), a front plate formed with an anode layer (82), and a cathode (81) interposed therebetween. The cathode includes a plurality of electrically conductive carriers (812) and a plurality of field emitters (816) formed thereon. The field emitters are uniformly distributed on anode-facing surfaces of the conductive carriers. Preferably, the field emitters extend radially outwardly from the corresponding conductive carriers. The conductive carriers are parallel with each other, and are located substantially on a common plane. Each of the conductive carriers can be connected with a pulling device arranged at least one end thereof, and an example of the pulling device is a spring. The conductive carriers may be cylindrical, prism-shaped or polyhedral.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a flat lamp device, including lower and upper glass plates facing each other in parallel; spacers interposed between the plates to keep distance therebetween; a cathode electrode singly formed over the entire upper surface of the lower glass plate; an insulation film formed on the cathode electrode; semiconductor films independently patterned on the insulation film at intervals; a catalyst-metal layer laminated on the buffer metal to improve the adhesion of catalyst metal formed on the semiconductor films; carbon nano-tubes formed on the catalyst-metal layer; a grid electrode installed on the carbon nano-tubes between the plates to guide electron emission from the carbon nano-tubes with a mesh shape having an opening for passage of the emitted electrons; an anode electrode formed below the upper glass plate to accelerate the emitted electrons; and a fluorescent layer formed below the anode electrode to emit light by collision with the accelerated electrons.
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:
A field emission backlight device includes: a front substrate and a rear substrate arranged in parallel and spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance; an anode and a cathode arranged opposite to each other on a respective inner surfaces of the front and rear substrates; a fluorescent layer arranged on the anode and having a predetermined thickness; a convex portion including a plurality of convex projections arranged on an outer surface of the front substrate opposite to the anode; and electron emitters arranged on the cathode to emit electrons in response to an applied field.
Abstract:
A field emission device for use as a backlight of a liquid crystal display comprises a conductive anode having a light-emitting layer and a cathode separated from the anode by a spacer. The cathode comprises nanofiber electron emitters. For example, the nanofiber electron emitters comprise a substrate, a conductive film adhered to the substrate and a plurality of isolated, hemispheroidal nanofiber clusters that are capable of emitting electrons at high current density and low field strength.
Abstract:
A masking layer is provided on selected areas of an electrode structure that is at least partly performed, to define masked areas and unmasked areas (emitter cells). A first constituent with particles and a second constituent are then applied to the emitter cells, and the particles are selectively directed towards the bottoms of the emitter cellsnulle.g. by electrophoresis. The masking layer is then removed from the masked areas, together with any stray quantities of the first and second constituents on the masking layer. The first and second constituents are then processed (e.g. by curing) to create broad area field electron emission sites in desired locations of the electrode structure.
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:
A light-emitting element includes a transparent substrate, a III-V nitride semiconductor layer including rare earth metal elements which is formed on said transparent substrate, and an irradiation source of electron beam which is disposed within 5 mm from the surface of said III-V nitride semiconductor layer so as to be opposite to said III-V nitride semiconductor layer. Then, the rare earth metal elements in the III-V nitride semiconductor layer are excited by electron beams from the irradiation source and a given fluorescence inherent to the rare earth metal elements are emitted.
Abstract:
A cold cathode-ray tube driving method by using a voltage with fixed phase shift to drive each cold cathode-ray tube of a backlighting module in a large size LCD; a circuit with phase excursion formed by the voltage so to provide a fixed phase shift between abutted loads to supply a highly consistent power source and to effectively control electricity leakage due to unstable phase shift between abutted loads.