Microminiature thermionic flat panel display prototype vacuum

Author

Sadwick, L.P. ; Baker, B. ; Chen, C.C. ; Petersen, R. ; Johnson, S. ; Hwu, R.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

3-5 June 1996

Firstpage

245

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on the fabrication and electrical characteristics of low work microminiature thermionic vacuum (MTV) diodes for use in flat panel display applications. MTV technology is well suited for use in electron beam writing sources and optics, aeronautical control and diagnostics, geothermal and oil exploration, space, and conventional vacuum tube applications. In this work advances in the technology and performance of a novel thermionic analog to field emission vacuum microelectronic emitters that are referred to by the descriptive name microminiature thermionic vacuum (MTV) emitters are presented.

Keywords

thermionic tubes; MTV technology; aeronautical control; aeronautical diagnostics; electron beam writing sources; field emission vacuum microelectronic emitters; flat panel display applications; geothermal exploration; microminiature thermionic vacuum diode; microminiature thermionic vacuum emitters; oil exploration; optics; space applications; vacuum tube applications; Diodes; Electric variables; Flat panel displays; Optical control; Optical device fabrication; Prototypes; Space exploration; Space technology; Thermionic emission; Vacuum technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1996. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3322-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1996.551471

Filename

551471