SBIR PHASE I: Gated, Self Aligned, Diamond-Based Field Emission Electron Source

Information

• NSF Award
• 9560077

Owner

• SI Diamond Technology, Inc.

• Award Id

  9560077

• Award Effective Date

  4/1/1996 - 28 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  2/28/1997 - 27 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 74,672.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will demonstrate a unique diamond based cold cathode electron source that contains a randomly distributed high density of emission sites, fast response time, low energy spread, and high thermal conductivity. Due to the novel structure proposed and use of diamond as the cathode material, this electron source should not be subject to built-in wear-out mechanisms of Spindt-type field emission cathodes and should be relatively impervious to substrate poisoning by residual contamination. In Phase I this firm will construct this novel diamond-based electron source and test the properties of this source by comparing performance with more traditional Spindt-type field emission cathodes. The anticipated benefits of the proposed material include reduced production costs and increased performance of field emission electron sources used in vacuum electronic devices, electron sources for electron microscopes, and electron sources for field emission flat panel display devices.

• Program Officer

  TIMOTHY J. RUDD

• Min Amd Letter Date

  3/8/1996 - 28 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  10/10/1996 - 27 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  SI Diamond Technology, Inc

• City

  Austin

• State

  TX

• Country

  United States

• Address

  12100 Technology Boulevard

• Postal Code

  787276203

• Phone Number

  5123316200

• First Name

  Marianne

• Last Name

  McGonigal

• Start Date

  10/10/1996 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Donald

• Last Name

  Patterson

• Start Date

  3/8/1996 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  10/10/1996

• Name

  Materials Research

• Code

  106000