Tung & Associates
Field emission display device equipped with nanotube emitters and method for fabricating
A field emission display device utilizing a nanotube emitter layer instead of microtips and a method for fabricating such device by a thick film printing technique instead of thin film deposition and photolithographic methods are provided. In the device, various layers of materials including a layer of nanotube emitter material can be formed by a thick film printing technique on a glass plate. The nanotube emitter material can be nanotubes of carbon, diamond or a diamond-like carbon material that is mixed with a solvent-containing paste. The resulting paste has a consistency suitable for a thick film printing process. The nanotubes should have diameters between about 30 nanometers and about 50 nanometers for use in the present invention device. The screen printing or the thick film printing method of the present invention can be carried out at substantially lower cost than the thin film deposition and photolithographic methods. Furthermore, no size limit is imposed in the thick film printing technique in contrast to a substrate size limit due to a deposition chamber used in a thin film deposition process. The present invention novel method is especially suitable for the fabrication of large-size FED screens.
Industrial Technology Research Institute
H Y B H
H01J Y10S B82Y H01J
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Wen-Chun Feng-Yu
Wang Chuang