ELECTRON EMISSION DEVICE AND ELECTRON EMISSION DISPLAY USING THE SAME

Abstract

An electron emission device includes a substrate, first electrodes formed on the substrate, electron emission regions electrically connected to the first electrodes, and second electrodes placed over the first electrodes such that the second electrodes are insulated from the first electrodes, The second electrodes have a plurality of openings at the crossed areas of the first and the second electrodes to open the electron emission regions, wherein 1.36≦P/D≦1.65, where D indicates the width, or diameter, of the openings of the second electrodes, and P indicates the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and/or other aspects and advantages of the invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a partial exploded perspective view of an electron emission display according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of the electron emission display of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partial amplified plan view of the electron emission device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating the variation in the discharge current as function of the opening pitch to width ratio of the gate electrode with the electron emission display of FIG. 1 according to the invention;

FIG. 5 is a partial exploded perspective view of an electron emission display according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 6 is a partial amplified plan view of the electron emission device shown in FIG. 5.

Claims

1. An electron emission device, comprising: a substrate;first electrodes formed on the substrate;electron emission regions respectively electrically connected to the first electrodes; andsecond electrodes respectively positioned over the first electrodes, wherein the second electrodes are insulated from the first electrodes,the second electrodes include a plurality of openings at crossed areas, where the second electrodes respectively cross over the first electrodes, to open the electron emission regions, and wherein a ratio of a pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to a width of the openings of second electrodes is in a range of: 1.36≦P/D≦1.65, where D is the width of the openings of the second electrodes and P is the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes.

2. The electron emission device of claim 1, wherein: the ratio of the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to the width of the openings of the second electrodes is further in a range of: 1.41≦P/D≦1.60.

3. The electron emission device of claim 1, wherein: the electron emission regions and the openings of the second electrodes are formed in the shape of a circle.

4. The electron emission device of claim 1, wherein: the openings of the second electrodes are respectively positioned at the center of the crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes.

5. The electron emission device of claim 4, wherein: the openings of the second electrodes are serially arranged in the longitudinal direction of the first electrodes or the second electrodes.

6. The electron emission device of claim 1, further comprising: a third electrode positioned over the second electrodes, wherein the third electrode is insulated from the second electrodes.

7. The electron emission device of claim 6, wherein: the third electrode includes a plurality of openings positioned at the respective crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes, to open the openings of the second electrodes at the crossed areas.

8. The electron emission device of claim 6, wherein: the first electrodes comprise scan electrodes or data electrodes,the second electrodes comprise scan electrodes when the first electrodes comprise data electrodes, and the second electrodes comprise data electrodes when the first electrodes comprise scan electrodes, andthe third electrode comprises a focusing electrode.

9. The electron emission device of claim 1, wherein: the electron emission regions comprise at least one material selected from the group consisting of carbon nanotube, graphite, graphite nanofiber, diamond, diamond-like carbon, fullerene C60 and silicon nanowire.

10. An electron emission display, comprising: a first substrate;a second substrate positioned in facing relation to the first substrate;first electrodes formed on the first substrate;electron emission regions respectively electrically connected to the first electrodes;second electrodes respectively positioned over the first electrodes, wherein the second electrodes are insulated from the first electrodes,the second electrodes include a plurality of openings at crossed areas, where the second electrodes respectively cross over the first electrodes, to open the electron emission regions, andwherein a ratio of a pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to a width of the openings of the second electrodes is in a range of 1.36≦P/D≦1.65, where D is the width of the openings of the second electrodes and P is the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes;phosphor layers formed on a surface of the second substrate; andan anode electrode positioned on a surface of the phosphor layers.

11. The electron emission display of claim 105 wherein the ratio of the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to the width of the openings of the second electrodes is further in a range of: 1.41≦P/D≦1.60.

12. The electron emission display of claim 10, wherein: the electron emission regions and the openings of the second electrodes are formed in the shape of a circle.

13. The electron emission display of claim 12, wherein: the openings of the second electrodes are respectively positioned at the center of the crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes.

14. The electron emission display of claim 10, wherein: the phosphor layers comprise red, green and blue phosphor layers alternately arranged in a direction of the second substrate, andthe openings of the second electrodes are serially arranged at the center of the crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes, in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the second substrate.

15. The electron emission display of claim 10, further comprising: a third electrode positioned over the second electrodes, wherein the third electrode is insulated from the second electrodes, andthe third electrode includes a plurality of openings respectively positioned at the crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes, to open the openings of the second electrodes.

16. The electron emission display of claim 15, wherein: the first electrodes comprise scan electrodes or data electrodes,the second electrodes comprise scan electrodes when the first electrodes comprise data electrodes, and the second electrodes comprise data electrodes when the first electrodes comprise scan electrodes, andthe third electrode comprises a focusing electrode.

17. The electron emission display of claim 10, wherein: the electron emission regions are formed of a carbonaceous material or a nanometer (nm) size material.

18. The electron emission display of claim 10, wherein: the phosphor layers are arranged in the electron emission display such that the phosphor layers respectively correspond to the crossed areas, where the second electrodes respectively cross over the first electrodes.

19. The electron emission display of claim 101 wherein: an area of the electron emission regions within a pixel is limited to a predetermined domain at a center of the pixel.

20. The electron emission device of claim 1, wherein: the electron emission regions are formed of a carbonaceous material or a nanometer (nm) size material.

21. An electron emission display, comprising; a first substrate;a second substrate positioned in facing relation to the first substrate;first electrodes formed on the first substrate;electron emission regions respectively electrically connected to the first electrodes;second electrodes respectively positioned over the first electrodes, wherein the second electrodes are insulated from the first electrodes,the second electrodes include a plurality of openings at crossed areas, where the second electrodes respectively cross over the first electrodes, to open the electron emission regions, andwherein a ratio P/D of a pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to a width of the openings of the second electrodes is substantially in a range of from about 1.36 to about 1.65, where D is the width of the openings of the second electrodes and P is the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes;a plurality of phosphor layers formed on a surface of the second substrate; andan anode electrode positioned on a surface of the phosphor layers.

22. The electron emission display of claim 21, further comprising: a third electrode positioned over the second electrodes, wherein the third electrode is insulated from the second electrodes, andthe third electrode includes a plurality of openings respectively positioned at the crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes, to open the openings of the second electrodes.

23. An electron emission device, comprising: a substrate;first electrodes formed on the substrate;electron emission regions electrically connected to the first electrodes; andsecond electrodes respectively positioned over the first electrodes, wherein the second electrodes are insulated from the first electrodes,the second electrodes include a plurality of openings at crossed areas, where the second electrodes respectively cross over the first electrodes, to open the electron emission regions, andwherein a ratio P/D of a pitch of the openings of the second electrodes to a width of the openings of the second electrodes is substantially in a range of from about 1.36 to about 1.65, where D is the width of the openings of the second electrodes and P is the pitch of the openings of the second electrodes.

24. The electron emission device of claim 23, further comprising: a third electrode positioned over the second electrodes, wherein the third electrode is insulated from the second electrodes.

25. The electron emission device of claim 24, wherein: the third electrode includes a plurality of openings positioned at the respective crossed areas, where the second electrodes cross over the first electrodes, to open the openings of the second electrodes at the crossed areas.