Abstract: A light emission device having an evaporating getter unit and a display device utilizing the light emission device as a light source. The light emission device includes a vacuum vessel having first and second substrates facing each other and a sealing member, the first and second substrates having an active area and a non-active area, an electron emission unit located on the first substrate at the active area, a light emission unit located on the second substrate at the active area, a getter unit provided between the first and second substrates at the non-active area, and a barrier disposed between the getter unit and the active area. The barrier blocks diffusion of getter material toward the active area during the getter activating process and prevents (or reduces) a slip or a movement of the getter unit.

Abstract: A light emission having: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite the first substrate; a sealing member between the first and second substrates and forming a vacuum envelope with the first and second substrates. The device also includes an electron emission unit on the first substrate, the electron emission unit having a plurality of pixel regions, each of the plurality of pixel regions having an independently controlled electron emission; a light emission unit on the second substrate, the light emission unit having a phosphor layer and an anode electrode on the phosphor layer; at least one anode button penetrating the second substrate at a region enclosed by the sealing member and spaced apart from the light emission unit; and a conductive layer on the second substrate and electrically coupling the anode button to the anode electrode.

Abstract: An electron emission device includes first and second substrates facing each other, an electron emission unit provided on a first surface of the first substrate, a light emission unit provided on a first surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and a sealing member for sealing peripheries of the first and second substrates together. The sealing member contacts a first insulation layer of the electron emission unit.

Abstract: An electron emission display includes: an electron emission substrate having at least one electron emission device formed thereon, an image forming substrate, and at least two spacers for supporting the electron emission substrate and the image forming substrate to be spaced apart from each other. Areas of the spacers per unit area are increased in at least one direction from a central region to a periphery region. The areas can be increased by, for example, increasing a cross-sectional area of each spacer or increasing the number of spacers. In another embodiment, heights of the spacers are decreased in at least one direction from the center region to the periphery region.

Abstract: An electron emission display includes first and second substrates facing each other to form a vacuum envelope, an electron emission unit formed on the first substrate, and a light emission unit formed on the second substrate. The light emission unit includes an anode electrode formed on the second substrate and electrically connected to at least one anode terminal to receive an anode voltage from the anode terminal, and the anode terminal is arranged on a side of the first substrate external to the vacuum envelope and in parallel to the first substrate.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope includes a pair of substrates spaced apart from each other, each of the substrates having a facing portion overlapped with the other of the substrates and a non-facing portion not overlapped with the other of the substrates, a sealing member disposed between the substrates along peripheries of the facing portions, and a plurality of fixing members disposed on the non-facing portion of at least one of the substrates and contacting a side surface of the other of the substrates.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope and an electron emission display having the vacuum envelope are provided. The vacuum envelope includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. A side member is disposed at peripheries of the first substrate and the second substrate. A first spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate at an active area of the vacuum envelope, and a second spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate at a non-active area of the vacuum envelope, the non-active area surrounding the active area. A height of the first spacer is greater than a height of the second spacer.

Abstract: An electron emission display is provided to prevent electron beams around the spacers from being distorted and to prevent arc discharging due to the spacers. The electron emission display includes first and second substrates facing each other to form a vacuum vessel, an electron emission unit provided on the first substrate, a light emission unit provided on the second substrate, and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first and the second substrates. Each spacer has a spacer body with a surface roughness, a resistance layer placed on a lateral side of the spacer body, and a flattening layer covering the resistance layer. The flattening layer has a thickness larger than the thickness of the resistance layer and a surface roughness smaller than the surface roughness of the spacer body.

Abstract: An electron emission display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. An electron emission unit is arranged on the first substrate. A light emission unit is arranged on the second substrate, the light emission unit having an anode electrode for accelerating an electron beam emitted from the electron emission unit. A sealing member is adapted to seal an exhaust hole of the first substrate. A voltage supply unit is adapted to apply an anode voltage to the anode electrode via the sealing member.

Abstract: A vacuum envelope and an electron emission display having the vacuum envelope. The vacuum envelope includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. A plurality of frames is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate to form an inner vacuum space. An absorbing member is arranged between at least two of the frames.

Abstract: An electron emission display device includes first and second substrates facing each other with a predetermined distance therebetween, an electron emission unit formed at the first substrate, and an image display unit formed at the second substrate. A grid electrode is disposed between the first and the second substrates and has a plurality of beam guide holes arranged in a first predetermined pattern, and spacer insertion holes arranged in a second predetermined pattern. Spacers are inserted into the respective spacer insertion holes of the grid electrode, and are fitted between the first and the second substrates. The size of each of the spacer insertion holes is larger than the outer size of each of the spacers.

Abstract: A field emission display device includes: a first substrate; an electron emission assembly arranged on the first substrate; a second substrate arranged a predetermined distance from the first substrate, the first and second substrates forming a vacuum space; an illumination assembly arranged on the second substrate, the illumination assembly being illuminated by electrons emitted from the electron emission assembly; and a mesh grid and above the electron emission assembly.

Abstract: An electron emission display device includes first and second substrates facing each other with a non-active area and an active area having a plurality of pixel, a first pixel portion, e.g., an electron emission unit, formed on the first substrate, a second pixel portion, e.g., a light emission unit, formed on the second substrate, and one or more alignment marks formed in the non-active area of at least one of the first and the second substrates and having a pattern substantially similar to that of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: A vacuum vessel includes first and second substrates facing each other with a predetermined distance therebetween, a sealing member placed at peripheries of the first and second substrates to seal the first and second substrates to each other, and a getter provided between the first and second substrates. The getter has an active metal, a getter receptacle for containing the active metal, and a support for holding the getter receptacle between the first and second substrates. The getter receptacle is spaced substantially equidistance from the first and second substrates. A diffusion intercepting plate is formed at an end of the support directed toward the center of the first and second substrates in a body of the vacuum vessel.

Abstract: A vacuum vessel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate and spaced apart therefrom, and support frames mounted along the edges of the first and the second substrates. At least two support frames are separately formed on at least one side of the first and the second substrates. Adhesive layers are placed on a surface of the support frame facing the first substrate as well as on the opposite-surface of the support frame facing the second substrate to attach the two substrates and the support frames to each other. A filler is disposed between the neighboring support frames to prevent the vacuum leakage.

Abstract: A vacuum vessel includes first and second substrates facing each other, and a sealing member arranged at peripheries of the first and the second substrates to define a vacuum-tightly sealed inner space together with the two substrates. The sealing member has a support frame of a predetermined width and a predetermined height, and an adhesive portion arranged external to the support frame to attach the first and the second substrates together. The support frame is wider than the adhesive portion, and the difference between the width and height of the support frame is within a range of ±10% of the width or the height.

Abstract: An electron emission display device includes first and second substrates facing each other with a predetermined distance therebetween, an electron emission unit formed at the first substrate, and an image display unit formed at the second substrate. A grid electrode is disposed between the first and the second substrates and has a plurality of beam guide holes arranged in a first predetermined pattern, and spacer insertion holes arranged in a second predetermined pattern. Spacers are inserted into the respective spacer insertion holes of the grid electrode, and are fitted between the first and the second substrates. The size of each of the spacer insertion holes is larger than the outer size of each of the spacers.

Abstract: An electron emission display comprises: a first plate and a second plate disposed in opposition to each other; a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the first plate and insulated from each other; an electron emission region connected to the first electrode or the second electrode for emitting electrons; a third electrode formed with at least one opening through which the electrons emitted from the electron emission region pass; a spacer supporting the first plate and the second plate so that they are spaced apart from each other; a metal coating layer formed on at least one region of the third electrode facing the spacer; a fourth electrode formed on the second plate; and a fluorescent layer connected to the fourth electrode. With this configuration, abnormal light-emission due to the spacer is prevented.

Abstract: A field emission display device includes: a first substrate; an electron emission assembly arranged on the first substrate; a second substrate arranged a predetermined distance from the first substrate, the first and second substrates forming a vacuum space; an illumination assembly arranged on the second substrate, the illumination assembly being illuminated by electrons emitted from the electron emission assembly; and a mesh grid and above the electron emission assembly.