Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Display(CNT-FED)
History of Vacuum Microelectronics
50s Foundations of field emission physics
1958 Buck and Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for fabricating
vacuum microelectronic devices
1961 Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for vertical and lateral microtriodes
1968 Spindt (SRI)-Fabrication and operation of gated Mo-FEAs
1981 Henry Gray (NRL)-Lateral vacuum triode using silicon field emitters
1985 Robert Meyer-Demonstration of matrix addressable monochrome
display with field emission cathode arrays
1988 Meyer and Baptist (LETI)-Mo microtips with lateral resistive layer
1993 Pixtech Consortium-Demonstration of full color FED
1993 Kumar (MCC)-Demonstration of FED with carbon/diamond films
1995 Pixtech/Futaba-Demonstration of low voltage color display
1997 Motorola-Demonstration of high voltage full color FED.
2000 Sony/Candescent-Demonstration of full color 5.5” and 13.2”FED