Dual carrier display device

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1997-07-24

1998-12-15

Patel, Ashok

Electric lamp and discharge devices

With luminescent solid or liquid material

Solid-state type

313500, 313503, 313512, 445 24, 445 51, H01J 162, H01J 6304

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058501231

ABSTRACT:
A microelectronic light-emitting device (10) is made with dual lateral thin-film emitters (35 and 40) substantially parallel to a substrate (20). Emitter electrodes (35 and 40) have a thickness of not more than several hundred angstroms. Each emitter has an emitting blade edge (110 or 115) having a small radius of curvature. Thus, opposed emitters for two opposite-sign carriers are provided, shaped to provide very high electric field intensity at their emitting tips. A region containing phosphor (50) extends between the two emitters and contacts them. When a suitable bias voltage is applied, electrons are injected into the phosphor from the blade edge of one emitter and holes are injected from the other emitter. The sum of diffusion lengths of the carriers (including secondary carriers) is equal to or greater than the shortest distance between the emitters. DC, AC, pulsed, or other voltage waveforms can be applied. Light emission is excited from the phosphor by carrier recombination. Devices may be combined in a matrix display array, and/or combined to form a super-pixel, and/or combined to form segments of a character display.

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