Abstract
Field emission has had a long history of development, but has not emerged as an economic technology. The Spindt tip device has resolved many operational problems and much of our understanding of field emission process, but manufacturing difficulties have precluded mass market devices. Attention is turning to nanotechnology solutions. Nano-Spindt shows much promise and can potentially resolve the manufacture difficulty. The emergence of carbon electronics and especially carbon nanotubes has now provided a new momentum. Planar devices, no longer relying on geometric field enhancement, are an attractive technology with nanocomposites providing high internal electric fields, and simple printing and laser techniques offering a route to manufacturability. New theories for this are now emerging. The field emission display is still a great hope for an emissive, low-power, low-cost display that can challenge the dominance of LCD, and is tantalizingly close. However, at this point, there are no plans to manufacture these devices.
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Abbreviations
- CNT:
-
Carbon Nanotube
- FED:
-
Field Emission Display
- MIM:
-
Metal–Insulator–Metal
- PBS:
-
Porous Polycrystalline Silicon–Based Ballistic Electron Surface Display
- SED:
-
Surface Conduction Electron-Emitter Display
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Rose, M., Fan, Y. (2012). New Field Emission Technologies. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_73
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