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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
445 24 ;
Abstract
To fabricate a field emission device a micromechanically manufactured array (1) of widely-spaced tips (2) and a micromechanically manufactured perforated extracting electrode (3) are provided. The outer sides of the perforated extracting electrode are bonded to the array in a way that the perforated extracting electrode is facing the array. With the array of widely-spaced tips and the perforated extracting electrode being fabricated separately and bonded together subsequently, both the number of process steps required for each of the two parts and the manufacturing process costs are reduced.