Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Display

Abstract

An excellent performance of carbon nanotubes as field-emitters was demonstrated using a high-voltage FED (field emission display) elements at SID (Society for Information Display) in 1998, where a light-source tube for an outdoor large-size display and diode-type flat panel were presented with a screen-printed nanotube cathode [1]. The diode FED-panel image was presented by Samsung at SID in 1999 [2]. After that, a triode structure that describes an x-y addressable high-luminance FED panel was introduced at IDRC (International Display Research Conference) in 1999. The experimental panel gave approximately 7×10 5 cd/m 2 of green light at 6 kV, at approximately 1 mA/cm 2 d.c.-driving condition