Abstract: A low-wattage, bi-helically shaped, compact fluorescent lamp, having preferably a wattage rating of preferably 23-watts, to sustain constant luminous output when the lamp is mounted in either in an upright position or mounted lying in the horizontal plane, by the unique placement of two cooling point chambers on the periphery of the bi-helical lamp. In an alternative embodiment, a medium wattage compact fluorescent lamp performs ideally by using three cooling points chambers, whereas higher wattage sized lamps perform best utilizing preferably four to five cooling point chambers. Hence, the plurality of cooling point chambers required for omni-directional mounting of the lamp is functional with the physical size of the lamp, its wattage rating, the quantity of mercury needed and the placement of each cooling point chamber.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display device and a fabricating method thereof for preventing a badness of a pad portion are disclosed. In the organic electro-luminescence display device, a first conductive layer is electrically connected to any at least one of first and second electrodes of the organic electro-luminescence array. A second conductive layer is provided on the first conductive layer. A dummy insulating pattern is provided to cover the first and second conductive layer and has a hole for exposing a portion of the second conductive layer.

Abstract: Provided is a plasma display panel (PDP) design that results in improved light emission efficiency and improved brightness and improved opening ratio. The PDP includes a transparent upper substrate, a lower substrate oriented parallel to the upper substrate, a first discharge electrode extending in a first direction on the lower substrate, a dielectric layer that covers the first discharge electrode, a plurality of barrier ribs made of a dielectric material between the upper and lower substrates dividing a space between the upper and the lower substrate into a plurality of discharge cells, a second discharge electrode within the barrier ribs and extending in a second direction to cross the first discharge electrode, a phosphor layer located within the discharge cell, and a discharge gas located within the discharge cell.

Abstract: A conductive element comprises a metal core and a coating, wherein the coating comprises at least one layer of aluminum, an aluminum alloy, an aluminide, silicon, a silicon alloy, a silicide, and combinations thereof, and wherein the at least one layer has a predetermined thickness. A method of making a conductive element comprises depositing a coating material on a metal core to form a coated metal core and heating the coated metal core to a predetermined temperature to form at least one layer of aluminum, an aluminum alloy, an aluminide, silicon, a silicon alloy, a silicide, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: A monolithic white light emitting device is provided, including an active layer and a passive layer that emits light with a long wavelength obtained by wavelength conversion. White light can be obtained by appropriately controlling lights emitted from the active layer and the passive layer. The monolithic white light emitting device is easily manufactured at a low cost and applied to a wide range of fields compared with a conventional white light emitting device that needs a help of a phosphor.

Abstract: An electron-emitting device substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of surface conduction electron-emitting elements. Each surface conduction electron-emitting element comprises a pair of opposing electrodes disposed on the substrate and a conductive circular pattern disposed between the opposing electrodes and contacting the electrodes. The electron-emitting elements are arrayed in a matrix formation, the matrix having rows and columns in orthogonal directions. The electron-emitting elements are formed on a front surface of the substrate. The front surface is configured to have a surface roughness that is less than a surface roughness of a back surface of the substrate and is less than 0.5 s.

Abstract: In a cross-section including a tube axis, assuming that T1 represents a thickness of a funnel at a point on an outer circumferential surface of the funnel, which is placed at the same position in a tube axis direction as that of an end of a horizontal deflection coil on a phosphor screen side, and T2 represents a thickness of the funnel at a point on the outer circumferential surface of the funnel, which is placed at the same position in the tube axis direction as a position 7 mm away from the end of the horizontal deflection coil on the phosphor screen side to the phosphor screen side along the tube axis, the funnel includes at least one cross-section including the tube axis satisfying a relationship: T2/T1?1.18. Owing to this, cone halation can be prevented while an X-ray leakage amount is limited to a predetermined value or less.

Abstract: An electron beam generator device includes a base body having a conductive surface and a electron-emission electrode having a carbon nanotube structure on the conductive surface of the substrate. The carbon nanotube structure constitutes a network structure which has plural carbon nanotubes and a crosslinked part including a chemical bond of plural functional groups. The chemical bond connects one end of one of the carbon nanotubes to another one of the carbon nanotubes. A method for producing an electron beam generator device, includes applying plural carbon nanotubes each having a functional group onto a conductive surface of a base body, and crosslinking the functional groups with a chemical bond to form a crosslinked part, thereby forming a carbon nanotube structure constituting a network structure having plural carbon nanotubes electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting zone including a hole transport region and an electron transport region. The hole transport region include a hole impeding material located non-adjacent the anode.

Abstract: A plasma display panel having excellent electron emission properties and a method of making the same. A plasma display panel is provided with a protective layer having a dense growth of columnar crystals formed on a dielectric layer. A middle layer can be provided for improving orientation of the columnar crystals. A heating step creates seed crystals to increase the width and growth of columnar crystals with a selective orientation and greater diameter. The area of any exposed surfaces on the protective layer becomes smaller and absorption of impurities decreases. A layer of grain crystals or an amorphic crystal layer is initially deposited on the dielectric layer to establish wider area seed crystals of a desired orientation. A vacuum evaporated complimentary protective layer can then be grown with the improved configuration.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes first and second transparent substrates provided opposing one another; first electrodes provided in parallel on the first transparent substrate, second electrodes provided in parallel on the second transparent substrate on a surface of the same opposing the first transparent substrate, the second electrodes being formed perpendicular to the first electrodes, and barrier ribs that form concave sections between the second electrodes and define discharge cells together with the concave sections. The second electrodes are formed by keeping still conductive liquid material that includes conductive particles, and allowing precipitated conductive particles to join by a heat treating process. In another aspect, at least one protrusion is formed in the each of the concave sections to divide the concave sections into a plurality of sections.

Abstract: A triode type field emission display in accordance with the invention includes: a cathode electrode (12) formed on an insulation substrate (10); an insulation layer (13) formed on the cathode electrode; a gate electrode (14) formed on the insulation layer; a number of emitters (16); and an anode electrode (18) with a phosphor layer (19) positioned over the gate electrode. The emitters are distributed on portions of the cathode electrode at two sides of the insulation layer, and a height of the emitters is less than a thickness of the insulation layer. The emitters are capable of emitting electrons from tips thereof, and the emitted electrons are focused on the phosphor layer by an electric field generated by the gate electrode.

Abstract: First, a plurality of organic EL elements are formed on a substrate. The electron injection electrode of an organic EL element has a stacked layer structure of a metal thin film and a metal oxide film. A sealing agent is provided on the upper portion and outer periphery of the plurality of organic EL elements on the substrate, so as to surround the entire perimeter of the plurality of organic EL elements. A sealing plate is bonded to the upper face side of the sealing agent with a color filter sandwiched therebetween. As the sealing agent, a resin adhesive is used from which a solution extracted in accordance with the SEMI standard G29-1296 after curing has a pH of not less than four nor more than ten. It is preferable that the resin adhesive has a light transmittance of 70% or more on average in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 800 nm, with the variation range of the light transmittance in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 800 nm being not more than ±10% for the average light transmittance.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure discharge lamp of the ceramic metal halide type of the Philips MasterColor® series having power ranges of about 150 W to about 1000 W. Such lamps are provided with a discharge vessel which encloses a discharge space. The discharge vessel has a ceramic wall and is closed by a ceramic plug. An electrode which is located inside the discharge space is connected to an electric conductor by way of a leadthrough element. The leadthrough element projects through the ceramic plug with a close fit and is connected thereto in a gas-tight manner by way of a sealing ceramic. The leadthrough element has a first part which is formed by a cermet at the area of the gas-tight connection.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display (OELD) includes first and second substrates facing each other and having a display region and a non-display region, a first stacking layer in the display region, the first stacking layer including an array layer disposed on the first substrate and having a thin film transistor, a connection pattern connected with the array layer, and an emitting diode disposed on the second substrate and connected with the connection pattern, and a second stacking layer between the first and second substrates and in the non-display region, the second stacking layer corresponding to the first stacking layer.

Abstract: To provide a sheet-shaped organic EL display device having a reduced thickness, an organic EL display device includes a substrate serving as both a protective layer to reduce or prevent permeation of moisture, oxygen, and the like into the inside and a support layer for film formation, a laminate which is provided on a under layer by film formation and which includes a thin film circuit layer carrying an electric circuit and an organic EL light emitting layer carrying an organic EL light emitting element, and an adhesive layer joining the above-described laminate and the above-described substrate. The above-described organic EL light emitting element radiates the emitted light toward the above-described under layer side. In this manner, a low-profile organic EL display device can be provided.

Abstract: Field emission devices comprising carbon nanotube mats which have been treated with laser or plasma are provided. Mats are formed from carbon nanotubes, also known as carbon fibrils, which are vermicular carbon deposits having diameters of less than about one micron. The carbon nanotube mats are then subjected to laser or plasma treatment. The treated carbon nanotube mat results in improved field emission performance as either a field emission cathode or as part of a field emission device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which includes signal lines which are formed on an upper surface side of a substrate, an insulation film which is formed such that the film covers the signal lines except for terminal portions of the signal lines, and conductive layers which extend in the extension direction of the signal lines such that the terminal portions traverse the terminal portions. In such a display device, gaps are formed between respective sides of the conductive layer parallel to the extension direction of the conductive layer and the insulation film and holes are formed in the signal lines at portions corresponding to the gaps along the extension direction of the signal lines.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprises a substrate that supports a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light emitting structure that is disposed between the first and second electrodes. A protective structure comprising a layer of boron oxide and an inorganic barrier layer cooperates with the substrate to encapsulate the first electrode, the second electrode, and the light-emitting structure.

Abstract: A light emitting diode comprising an LED chip having a light emitting layer made of a nitride compound semiconductor and a light transmitting resin that includes a fluorescent material which absorbs at least a part of light emitted by the LED chip and emits light of a different wavelength, wherein the fluorescent material includes a fluorescent particles of small particle size and a fluorescent particles of large particle size, the fluorescent particles of large particle size being distributed in the vicinity of the LED chip in the light transmitting resin to form a wavelength converting layer, the fluorescent particles of small particle size being distributed on the outside of the wavelength converting layer in the light transmitting resin.