Abstract: A cold cathode type flat panel display which is an image display device includes a vacuum panel container composed of a cathode substrate in which plural cold cathode type electron sources are arranged, an anode substrate, plural spacers for supporting the cathode substrate and the anode substrate, and a glass frame. Plural electrical lines extend in a line direction and a row direction across an interlayer insulator on the cathode substrate. Parts of lines positioned in an upper layer of the plural electrical lines are made into scan lines and lines positioned in a lower layer are made into data lines. Further, parts of the electrical lines positioned in the upper layer are made into spacer lines for giving to the spacers a voltage lower than an acceleration voltage which is applied to an accelerating electrode.

Abstract: An image display device which is free of display defects and with high reliability to prevent destruction of electron sources due to injection of electric charge. On an outermost periphery of a display region, there are provided a bottom electrode serving as data line, a scan line bus serving as scan line, and dummy potential fixing electrodes which do not contribute to image display, and are connected with electrodes with low impedance and constant potential.

Abstract: To provide an image display device including a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and an electron acceleration layer composed of an insulator or a semiconductor provided therebetween, and further including a thin film electron source array that emits electrons from the upper electrode, and a phosphor surface, wherein degradation of an electron emission characteristic caused by an increase of a work function due to an adhesive material to the above-described upper electrode is suppressed. An amount of S content adhering to the upper electrode is set equal to or less than 20 mol % of a total amount of elements used as the upper electrode in terms of elements by using an element belonging to Group VIII or Group Ib or a laminated film or alloy film thereof as a component of the upper electrode of the thin film electron source.

Abstract: The invention provides a display device using thin film type electron sources having a structure that can be formed in a simple manufacturing process. A lower electrode, a protective insulating layer and an interlayer film are formed on a cathode substrate. An upper bus electrode made from a laminated film of a metal film lower layer and a metal film upper layer is provided further on the interlayer film. A film of an upper electrode of a thin film type electron source for each pixel constituted by an insulating layer serving as an electron accelerating layer on the lower electrode and the upper electrode is formed on two stripe electrodes of the upper bus electrode in that pixel and another upper bus electrode in an adjacent pixel by sputtering. Then, the upper electrode is separated by self-alignment due to a setback portion of the metal film lower layer and an appentice of the metal film upper layer of the corresponding upper bus electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image display device free of display defects and with high reliability to prevent destruction of electron sources due to injection of electric charge. On the outermost periphery of a display region, there are provided a bottom electrode 11 serving as data line, a scan line bus 21 serving as scan line, and dummy potential fixing electrodes 11D1, 11D2, 21D1 and 21D2 not contributing to image display, and these are connected with electrodes 70 and 80 with low impedance and constant potential.

Abstract: An display apparatus arranged in a matrix having plural luminance modulation elements for modulating or do not modulating luminance depending upon application of a voltage of positive or reverse polarity, having plural parallel scanning electrodes and plural parallel data electrodes, in which each luminance modulation element is disposed at an intersection between the scanning electrode and the data electrode, and having first driving means connected to the scanning electrodes and outputting scanning pulses, and second driving means connected to the data electrodes, wherein the scanning electrodes are grouped into those in a selected state applied with a scanning pulse and those other than described above in a non-selected state at a certain time point during the scanning period; the number of the scanning lines in the selected state is n1; the scanning lines in the non-selected state are grouped into non-selected state scanning lines at a high impedance state and non-selected state scanning lines at a low im

Abstract: A flat type display device is provided which is capable of accurately and easily assembling a spacer when arranging the spacer while reducing the danger of damaging the metal back. In the display device, a plurality of fine holes each having a fluorescent materials are formed on a light transparency substrate and a metal sheet is arranged by a black oxide film formed on the surface of the light transparency substrate side so as to obtain a light absorbing layer. A plurality of concave portions are provided on a surface of the metal sheet of the rear substrate side. A metal back having an openings corresponding to predetermined areas containing each of the concave portions is superimposed on the metal sheet, thereby constituting an acceleration electrode of two-layer structure. The spacer is inserted into the concave portion on the metal sheet exposed in the opening of the metal back.

Abstract: The present invention prevents a phenomenon that some electrons emitted from electron sources are charged to partition walls from influencing trajectories of the electrons thus preventing the shortage of excitation of phosphor layers. An image display device includes electron sources to which an electric current is supplied from scanning signal lines by way of current supply electrodes. The image display device also includes partition walls which are arranged on at least some of the scanning signal lines. Further, the current supply electrodes are connected with the electron sources on a downstream side of the scanning signal lines.

Abstract: In a matrix electron emitter display using a thin-film electron emitter, a required resistance value of a top electrode, which value is determined by voltage drop at the top electrode, is small, and selection of a material and film thickness of the top electrode have been limited. Use of cathode structure which improves the capability of feeding from a feeding line to a thin-film electron emitter element improves the electron emission efficiency, and permits achieving higher luminance and lower power of a display apparatus.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image display using a thin film electronic source having a structure for separating picture elements in a self-alignment manner. The structure of bus wiring (scanning line) for powering the electronic source is formed by a stacked structure including a lower layer 17 made of an alloy of CrMo, an intermediate layer 18 made of Al or an alloy of Al, and an upper layer 19 made of Cr, from a cathode substrate 10. The CrMo alloy in the lower layer 17 includes 30 wt % or more of Mo. Such a stacked structure can be used to process one side of the lower layer 17 to form an undercut relative to the intermediate layer 18. The undercut serves as a picture element separating structure in sputtering of an upper electrode 13 of the electronic source and achieves picture element separation in a self-alignment manner.

Abstract: A simple method was needed for dividing up the electron emitter electrodes into individual supply electrodes. An insulator partition wall was formed on the same layer and parallel to the supply electrode for supplying power to the electron emitter electrode, an electron emitter electrodes formed across the entire surface of the image display area, a side surface of the partition wall was sliced, condensation and solubility diffusion performed by heat treatment, ablation performed by irradiating the upper surface of the silicon partition wall with a laser, Joule thermal sealing/cutting performed by conducting electricity across the scanning lines enclosing the silicon partition wall in order to slice the electron emitter electrode.

Abstract: A cold cathode type flat panel display which is an image display device includes a vacuum panel container composed of a cathode substrate in which plural cold cathode type electron sources are arranged, an anode substrate, plural spacers for supporting the cathode substrate and the anode substrate, and a glass frame. Plural electrical lines extend in a line direction and a row direction across an interlayer insulator on the cathode substrate. Parts of lines positioned in an upper layer of the plural electrical lines are made into scan lines and lines positioned in a lower layer are made into data lines. Further, parts of the electrical lines positioned in the upper layer are made into spacer lines for giving to the spacers a voltage lower than an acceleration voltage which is applied to an accelerating electrode.

Abstract: In a display device is capable of performing the gradation display of high bits by regulating the sheet resistance of the signal lines according to the set operation conditions of a display panel, plural pixels that are formed of plural sub-pixels each consisting of a pair of a cathode and a phosphor layer are arranged in a matrix to constitute a two-dimensional display region, and wherein when Ry is a vertical resolution of the display region, ? is a cathode efficiency, Ies is a peak current per color sub-pixel, Ed [V] is the maximum amplitude of a drive voltage that is applied to the signal lines, b is the number of gradation bits, and SR[?/?] is a sheet resistance of the signal lines, SR<?·Ed/3·2b·Ies·Ry is satisfied.

Abstract: Although sintered wire with lower resistance was preferable as a scan line and a signal line in conventional art in order to make a voltage drop small, there was a problem in electric connection with an electrode which constructs a cathode. In the present invention, a cathode which has an electron-emitting region 16 on a substrate 10 is constructed of a base electrode 11, a top electrode 13, and a protective insulating film 14 sandwiched by these electrodes, the base electrode 11 becomes a signal line, and sintered wire 18, used as a scan line, and the top electrode 13 are connected with an sub-electrode 17. The sub-electrode 17 includes metal included in the sintered wire 18, and metal included in the top electrode 13.

Abstract: A cold cathode type flat panel display which is an image display device including a vacuum panel container composed of a cathode substrate in which plural cold cathode type electron sources are arranged, an anode substrate, plural spacers for supporting the cathode substrate and the anode substrate, and a glass frame. Plural electrical lines extend in a line direction and a row direction across an interlayer insulator on the cathode substrate. Parts of lines positioned in an upper layer of the plural electrical lines are made into scan lines and lines positioned in a lower layer are made into data lines. Further, parts of the electrical lines positioned in the upper layer are made into ground lines for giving ground voltage to the spacers.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image display device which suppresses the generation of sparks between end portions of divided portions and an anode when data signal lines are divided in two. Within a display region, between scanning lines GAN, GB1, data signal lines are divided in two in one direction of the data signal lines, that is, into upper data signal lines DA and lower data signal lines DB. Assuming a width of the data signal lines DA, DB as W, and a distance between opposedly-facing end portions of the divided electrode portions as S, and a pitch of the data signal lines as P, by establishing a relationship S?W/2, the influence of a potential attributed to an abnormal charge which concentrates on the end portion of the data signal line spreads radially and does not extend to a center portion of the divided portion thus suppressing an abnormal discharge.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a high-quality display device which prevents deterioration of color purity by use of a black matrix whose openings have sufficiently high partitions by a simple procedure. The black matrix BM is formed using an electroconductive black glass, comprising a glass incorporated with a black additive and electroconductive filler. The glass is mainly composed of V2O5, SnO2, Bi2O3, Ag2O or a combination thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image display device, in which a top electrode is selectively separated by laser ablation for each scan line. As the laser, a third harmonic wave of YAG laser with a wavelength of 355 nm is used. By setting film thickness of the interlayer insulator 15 to 100 nm and film thickness of a field insulator 14 to 140 nm, reflective spectrum has the minimum value near a wavelength of 355 nm, This laser beam is projected from a top electrode 13 toward a substrate 10. A part of the projected laser beam 20 is reflected by the top electrode 13, but most of the laser beam pass through a field insulator 14 and the interlayer insulator 15 and is reflected by a bottom electrode 11. As the result of interference of these two reflection waves, the minimum value appears in reflection spectrum. In this case, the laser beam is mostly absorbed near boundary surface between the top electrode 13 and the interlayer insulator 15.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a thin-film cathode having a base electrode, an upper electrode and an electron accelerator disposed therebetween and made of an insulator or a semiconductor, wherein a diode current rises with a lower threshold voltage that that in the background art, so that a diode current required for electron emission can be secured with a low voltage, and to obtain an image display device long in life and low in power consumption. Platinum-group metal (Group VIII), noble metal belonging to Group Ib, or a laminated film, a mixed film or an alloy film of those materials containing an alkali metal oxide, an alkaline earth metal compound or a compound of transition metal belonging to Group III to VII from the interface with an electron accelerator to the surface is used as an upper electrode.

Abstract: The invention provides a display device using thin film type electron sources having a structure that can be formed in a simple manufacturing process. A lower electrode, a protective insulating layer and an interlayer film are formed on a cathode substrate. An upper bus electrode made from a laminated film of a metal film lower layer and a metal film upper layer is provided further on the interlayer film. A film of an upper electrode of a thin film type electron source for each pixel constituted by an insulating layer serving as an electron accelerating layer on the lower electrode and the upper electrode is formed on two stripe electrodes of the upper bus electrode in that pixel and another upper bus electrode in an adjacent pixel by sputtering. Then, the upper electrode is separated by self-alignment due to a setback portion of the metal film lower layer and an appentice of the metal film upper layer of the corresponding upper bus electrode.