Abstract: An light-emitting apparatus and a method for producing a light-emitting apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes at least one organic device and an outcoupling layer, wherein the at least one organic device emits electromagnetic radiation during operation, wherein the outcoupling layer contains optical structures, and wherein the apparatus has a non-Lambertian radiation distribution curve during operation. The outcoupling layer influences the radiation passing through it in an optically varying manner by the optical structures along a lateral direction in order to produce the non-Lambertian radiation distribution curve.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cathodes electrodes compositions suitable to provide a pumping mechanism which exhibits an extremely high pumping speed and capacity of noble gas suitable to be used in several vacuum devices as for example sputter ion vacuum pumping systems comprising them as active element.

Abstract: An x-ray tube includes an electron emitter and a cathode cup having a recess that holds the electron emitter. The recess has a bottom surface, and a shield is positioned in the recess between the electron emitter and the bottom surface. The shield is configured to receive deposited sublimated emitter material and to maintain the sublimated emitter material away from the electron emitter.

Abstract: For estimation of the gas emission amount from a storage tank for storing a liquid containing the volatile compounds therein, preconditions involving a tank shape of the fixed roof type storage tank and a working pressure of a relief valve are set in a first step, and initial conditions for storage volumes, temperatures, and pressures of the liquid and a gas inside the storage tank are set in a second step. In a third step, an inflow or outflow heat quantity to or from the liquid and the gas inside the storage tank is determined so that a mass transfer amount between the liquid and the gas is obtained through CFD analysis. In a fourth step, whether or not the relief valve is actuated and the gas emission amount through the relief valve are obtained based on the mass transfer amount.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure transmitter device including: a pressure receiving diaphragm in contact with a measuring fluid; a fill fluid, in contact with an opposite side of the pressure receiving diaphragm to the other side in contact with the measuring fluid, for transferring a pressure received by the pressure receiving diaphragm from the measuring fluid to a sensor disposed at a position apart from the pressure receiving diaphragm; a hydraulic path filled with the fill fluid and connecting the pressure receiving diaphragm and the sensor; and an output circuit for measuring and outputting an absolute pressure of the measuring fluid or a differential pressure between measuring fluids based on the pressure received by the sensor, where a hydrocarbon absorbing material for absorbing hydrocarbon and a hydrogen occlusion material for occluding hydrogen are provided inside the hydraulic path.

Abstract: A display substrate includes an annular package region and a display region inside package region. The package region includes an annular adhering region and a groove region positioned inside and/or outside the adhering region. A groove structure in which water-absorbing material and/or oxygen-absorbing material is provided is formed in the groove region. The display substrate can solve the problems of poor moisture isolation effect and influence of oxygen in the conventional display device. A display device including the display substrate is further provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for analyzing rare gases present in a gaseous fluid (1). According to the invention, initially, the rare gases are extracted from the gaseous fluid by trapping by means of a getterizing substrate (5), then superconcentration of the rare gases is produced before injection (8) into the measuring instruments (9). By virtue of the invention, it is possible to increase the partial pressure of the rare gases in the gases to be analyzed before their injection into the analysis instruments.

Abstract: This relates to vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window units and methods for making VIG window units. Hybrid getter(s) are utilized. In certain example embodiments, a hybrid getter for use in a VIG window unit and/or a method making same includes both evaporable getter (EG) material and non-evaporable getter (NEG) material. In certain example embodiments, the NEG material may be covered (directly or indirectly) with EG material in the hybrid getter at least prior to getter activating/flashing.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a barrier discharge device capable of increasing the combustion efficiency of an engine while overcoming the problems of the cumbersome replacement of the electrodes and the commercialization of the device. The barrier discharge device of an engine includes a dielectric body and at least two barrier discharge electrodes which are held inside the dielectric body and to which voltages for barrier discharge are applied, wherein each of the barrier discharge electrodes are not exposed to the inside of a cylinder bore and are arranged so as to surround the cylinder bore.

Abstract: Getter structure comprising a substrate and at least one getter material-based layer mechanically connected to the substrate by means of at least one support, in which the surface of the support in contact with the substrate is smaller than the surface of a first face of the getter material layer, in which said first face is in contact with the support, and a second face of the getter material layer, opposite said first face is at least partially exposed.

Abstract: A capacitive touch panel and a touch display panel using the same are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of sensing structures and a light diffusing structure. Each sensing structure includes a plurality of sensing units and a plurality of bridge wires, and two adjacent sensing units are connected by a corresponding bridge wire. The light diffusing structure is formed on at least one of the bridge wires. After a light is incident to the light diffusing structure, the light is diffusely reflected.

Abstract: An electron beam device has a body provided with an exit window, said body is forming or is at least partly forming a vacuum chamber, the vacuum chamber comprising therein a cathode housing and at least one electron generating filament. At least one getter sheet is provided between the cathode housing and the filament. The invention is further comprising a getter sheet for use in an electron beam device and a method of manufacturing an electron beam device comprising at least one getter sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic device, such as a display, lighting or signalling device, that is protected from the ambient air by a sealed encapsulation in the form of a thin film, and to a method for encapsulating such a device. An optoelectronic device (1) according to the invention is coated with a sealed multi-layer encapsulation structure (20) comprising alternating inorganic layers (21a to 26a) and organic layers (21b to 25b). According to the invention, the device is such that at least one of said organic layers consists of a crosslinked adhesive film (21b to 25b) based on a glue that can be crosslinked thermally or by electromagnetic radiation, the or each adhesive film having a thickness uniformly lower than 200 n, said thickness being obtained by passing the film, which is deposited and not yet cross-linked, through a vacuum, such that the total thickness of the encapsulation structure is minimized.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lamp part fixing device and method for lamp components made of shape memory alloy. The device includes a main body that carries, for example, a main or auxiliary amalgam, getter, etc. located at a desired position within a discharge tube of a fluorescent lamp. For example, the amalgam can be advantageously located at preselected axial locations and/or within a diffusion path. The main body is configurable between a first configuration and a second configuration. The first configuration allows the mount to move within the discharge tube when the shape memory alloy is below an alloy transition temperature. The second configuration of the main body allows for controlled placement and immobilization of the device within the discharge tube when the shape memory alloy is raised above the alloy transition temperature. The device is shaped in a generally planar or non-planar configuration.

Abstract: A flat panel display device having an improved encapsulation structure includes a glass substrate; a light emission unit formed on the glass substrate; an encapsulation substrate formed on the glass substrate; and frit sealing a space between the glass substrate and the cover layer. The encapsulation unit includes a metal layer formed of a metallic material and a cover layer stacked on the metal layer and formed of a glass material in order to cover the light emission unit. In the above encapsulation structure, pressure resistance and vapor permeability resistance of a flat panel device may be improved and thus deterioration of a light emission unit due to permeation of moisture may be prevented. Also, heat radiation capacity may be improved and thus deterioration in performance of a product may be prevented.

Abstract: A support for filiform elements containing an active material in form of powders is described, comprising anchoring means of the support and blocking means for the filiform element, a method for manufacturing said support and lamps wherein said supports are employed.

Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus, which can emit a stable electron beam, having high brightness and a narrow energy width. The charged particle beam apparatus comprises a field emission electron source, electrodes for applying an electric field to the field emission electron source, and a vacuum exhaust unit for keeping the pressure around the field emission electron source at 1×10?8 Pa or less. The apparatus is so constituted as to use such one of the electron beams emitted as has an electron-beam-center radiation angle of 1×10?2sr or less, and to use the electric current thereof, the second order differentiation of which is negative or zero with respect to the time, and which reduces at a rate of 10% or less per hour. The charged particle beam apparatus further comprises a heating unit for the field emission electron source, and a detection unit for the electric current of the electron beam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device preventing a getter layer from contacting elements disposed in the display device, and an embodiment of the present invention may be achieved in a whole or in part by a display device comprising: A substrate; A pixel part disposed on the substrate; A cap comprising a first region attached on the substrate; and a second region having a position different from a position of the first region, connected with the first region, and corresponding to the pixel part; A getter layer disposed on the second region of the cap; and A protecting layer disposed on the getter layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a starter member to which a mercury-absorbing layer is applied and which can be used in low-pressure mercury discharge lamps. A starter member for a low-pressure amalgam discharge lamp comprises a mercury-absorbing layer on a base. A coating layer which is provided on the mercury-absorbing layer has a getter effect and prevents the material of the mercury-absorbing layer from coming off.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device which may include an interior compartment housing at least one electronic component that may be reactive to target impurities. The electronic component may include at least a cathode and an anode. A purifier material may be interspersed within a conducting polymer layer between the cathode and the anode. The purifier material may decrease target impurities within the interior compartment of the electronic device from a first level to a second level.

Abstract: A plasma display panel has a front substrate including a plurality of display electrode pairs, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer, and a rear substrate including a plurality of data electrodes, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer. The front substrate and rear substrate face each other so that the display electrode pairs and the data electrodes intersect, and a hydrogen-absorbing material containing palladium is disposed inside the plasma display panel.

Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.

Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge lamp (1) configured as a coaxial double tube comprises an inner tube (3), which is disposed coaxially inside an outer tube (2). The inner tube (3) comprises an inner electrode tube (8) provided for receiving the inner electrode (7) and a getter tube (10) provided for receiving getter material (9). The inner electrode tube (8) and getter tube (10) are separated from each other in a gastight manner by a partition (11).

Abstract: The present invention provides a getter material configured by a pressed powder mixture comprising Ba—Al alloy powder and Ni powder, wherein when the pressed powder mixture is heated in a vacuum atmosphere or an inert gas atmosphere, a temperature at which an exothermic reaction starts is ranging from 750° C. to 900° C. According to this getter material, since the temperature at which the pressed powder mixture starts the exothermic reaction is set within a range from 750° C. to 900° C., there can be provided a getter material and an evaporation type getter device capable of suitably controlling an evaporation amount of getter components under a stable condition, and is excellent in responsiveness because a time ranging from a starting time of heating the getter material to a starting time of evaporation of the getter components can be shortened.

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 single-channel photomultiplier tube having a sealed envelope, of which one wall includes an internal face having a concavity with a central axis, turned toward the inside of the tube, having a plane of symmetry and containing a photocathode, inlet optics including electrodes, an electron multiplier including a plurality of dynodes, an anode, and a mechanism connecting the dynodes, the photocathode, electrodes of the optics, and the anode, at their respective operating voltages. The electron multiplier is composed of parts physically distinct from one another, and having between them a symmetry of revolution with respect to the central axis of the concavity.

Abstract: An electroded high watt ceramic metal halide lamp assembly is provided which comprises a light transmissive arc-tube surrounding at least one electrode, a fill disposed in the arc-tube that includes at least one metal halide component and at least one metallic halide getter. The metallic halide getter has a Gibbs Free Energy greater than mercury halide and less than thallium halide, vapor pressure less than mercury halide, free energy of formation of oxide less than Aluminum oxide.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a substrate; an organic light emitting diode on one surface of the substrate; an encapsulation substrate located opposite and substantially parallel to the substrate with the organic light emitting diode therebetween; a filler layer on one surface of the encapsulation substrate facing the substrate; a first encapsulation layer located between the encapsulation substrate and the substrate and sealing the substrate and the encapsulation substrate together; and a second encapsulation layer located adjacent to the first encapsulation layer and between the encapsulation substrate and the substrate, wherein the filler layer and the second encapsulation layer include a moisture absorbent.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which a first substrate provided with an electron-emitting device and an image displaying member which electrons emitted from the electron-emitting device irradiate are arranged to be opposed is provided with a deflecting means deflecting the electrons emitted from the electron-emitting device and a trapping unit trapping an inert gas ionized by the electrons. Thereby, the damages of the electron-emitting device by the inert gas are prevented, and the life of an image display apparatus is aimed to be elongated.

Abstract: A vacuum container comprising: a first and second substrate of relatively the same dimensions and areas, a peripheral seal positioned about the outer periphery of each substrate for bonding the first substrate to the second substrate to form a composite stacked member; and a getter box having a vacuum aperture in one side with an evacuation tube of a given diameter opening to enclose the vacuum aperture, the tube joined to the box about the opening and having a sealed end remote from the box, the getter box having a getter source in the box hollow to absorb any residual gasses in the display hollow after the display hollow has been evacuated to a desired vacuum before sealing the end of the evacuation tube, wherein the area of the aperture is equal to or greater than ?(D/2)2 where D is the diameter of the evacuation tube opening.

Abstract: An improved design for maintaining separation between electrodes in tunneling, resonant tunneling, diode, thermionic, thermo-photovoltaic and other devices is disclosed. At least one electrode 1 is made from flexible material. A magnetic field B is present to combine with the current flowing in the flexible electrode 1 and generate a force or a thermal expansion force combined with a temperature distribution that counterbalances the electrostatic force or other attracting forces between the electrodes. The balancing of forces allows the separation and parallelism between the electrodes to be maintained at a very small spacing without requiring the use of multiple control systems, actuators, or other manipulating means, or spacers. The shape of one or both electrodes 1 is designed to maintain a constant separation over the entire overlapping area of the electrodes, or to minimize a central contact area.

Abstract: Disclosed is a starter member to which a mercury-absorbing layer is applied and which can be used in low-pressure mercury discharge lamps. A starter member for a low-pressure amalgam discharge lamp comprises a mercury-absorbing layer on a base. A coating layer which is provided on the mercury-absorbing layer has a getter effect and prevents the material of the mercury-absorbing layer from coming off.

Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp has an outer envelope (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged enclosing a discharge space (13) with an ionizable filling. The discharge vessel has two mutually opposed neck-shaped portions (2, 3) through which current supply conductors (4, 5) extend to a pair of electrodes (6, 7) in the discharge space. A lamp base (8) of electrically insulating material supports the discharge vessel. The lamp base also supports the outer envelope. The outer envelope with a volume equal to or less than 2 cc encloses the current supply conductors and is connected to the lamp base in a gas-tight manner. A getter (10) is provided in the outer envelope for pumping out residual nitrogen from the outer envelope after sealing off the discharge lamp prior to operation of the discharge lamp, the getter (10) comprising at least 2.5 mbar.ml nitrogen. Preferably, the getter comprises an alloy of zirconium and aluminum or of zirconium and cobalt.

Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided with a vacuum chamber consisting of an electron source substrate and an image display substrate, and an ion pump which is attached to an electron-emitting substrate or the image display substrate and exhausts air from the vacuum chamber by the action of a magnet, wherein the magnet is attached and fixed to the substrate to which the ion pump has been attached. Thereby, the image display apparatus prevents the magnet from applying an excessive force to the ion pump by its weight, and acquires a stable structure without causing a vacuum leak.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device and its method of manufacturing are provided. The organic electroluminescent device may include a rear substrate, an organic electroluminescent unit including a first electrode, an organic film, and a second electrode stacked on a surface of the rear substrate. It may also include a front substrate joined to the rear substrate to seal an internal space in which the organic electroluminescent unit is disposed. It may also include a porous oxide layer composed of a porous silica and a metal compound on a lower surface thereof. A device constructed according to the present invention may have excellent adsorption of moisture and oxygen, thereby increasing the life span of the device.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The OLED display includes a substrate, a subpixel on the substrate, and a multi-layered protective layer covering the subpixel. The multi-layered protective layer has a structure in which organic layers and inorganic layers are alternately stacked in a repeated manner and at least one moisture absorbing layer is interposed in the multi-layered protective layer.

Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.

Abstract: A vacuum device, including a substrate and a support structure having a support perimeter, where the support structure is disposed over the substrate. In addition, the vacuum device also includes a non-evaporable getter layer having an exposed surface area. The non-evaporable getter layer is disposed over the support structure, and extends beyond the support perimeter, in at least one direction, of the support structure forming a vacuum gap between the substrate and the non-evaporable getter layer increasing the exposed surface area.

Abstract: An embodiment of an encapsulated organic optoelectronic device is described. The encapsulated device includes a hybrid getter film which is composed of a getter and a handling agent.

Abstract: A non-evaporation getter material suitable for non-evaporation getters disposed in electron devices, such as fluorescent luminous tubes. The getter material is sized and shaped to more efficiently absorb gases actively at low temperatures.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes at least one electron-emitting device, at least one wiring arranged to apply a voltage to the electron-emitting device, a getter disposed on the wiring, and an insulating layer interposed between the getter and wiring. The getter has penetrating portions formed in a part thereof corresponding to a region where an image is displayed in the image display apparatus. The penetrating portions are at least one opening, and an area of an inner wall surface of the getter facing the opening is substantially the same as or larger than an area of the opening.

Abstract: A technique for sealing an EL panel of a light emitting device is provided. By preparing a absorption metal as a film on EL elements on the inside of an enclosed space, it becomes easy to made the interior of the space possess a absorption function, and further, an enclosure structure can be fabricated without the penetration of oxygen and moisture into the space because the absorption film is formed in succession after formation of the EL elements, according to the present invention.

Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.

Abstract: A sealing structure for a field emission display (FED) device and a method of manufacturing the same is provided. The sealing structure includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, spacers, and a frit, wherein at least one exhaust outlet is formed in the frit. The method of manufacturing the sealing structure of the FED device prepares a lower substrate and an upper substrate, installs a frit having at least one exhaust outlet between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and heats the lower substrate and the upper substrate while arranging the upper substrate on the lower substrate at a predetermined temperature to melt the frit in order to seal the space between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. Inner gas can be easily exhausted and the inside of the FED is reliably sealed while preventing damages of the spacers.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display for effectively emitting a heat which is generated at an organic light emitting diode device is disclosed. In the organic light emitting diode display, an organic light emitting diode device is formed at a front surface of a transparent substrate to radiate a light via the transparent substrate. And a cap is formed to enclose the organic light emitting diode device with having an internal air layer therebetween, and wherein the cap includes a glass and a metal coating layer which is coated at a bonding surface of the glass, and the bonding surface is attached to the transparent substrate.

Abstract: An electron device such as a fluorescent display tube is provided, wherein a simple ring-less getter can be simply fixed and arranged with a large degree of freedom. The ring-less getter is securely fixed to the inner surface of the glass anode substrate using laser beams. The laser beam is irradiated onto the ring-less getter from outside the anode substrate. Thus, the laser beam passes through the anode substrate thus heating and melting the ring-less getter. The corresponding inner surface of the anode substrate is melted through the heating. In cooling, the portion where the ring-less getter and the anode substrate are in a molten state is solidified, so that the ring-less getter is bonded to the anode substrate. The ring-less getter is shaped arbitrarily through press-working a getter material.

Abstract: A device including a substrate, a getter structure coupled to the substrate, and a photomask disposed over the getter structure. The photomask has a substantially transmissive and a substantially non-transmissive region. The substantially transmissive region substantially aligns with the getter structure.

Abstract: A holding clip is provided for fixing the position of components which carry getters and are arranged at least partly as holl bodies in containers used in vacuum systems. The holding clip include, a partial section supporting the component carrying the getter and a partial section forming a supporting part for support in the container. The partial section supports the component carrying the getter by way of a flexurally rigid connection. The partial section is provided with a spring-elastic arrangement, so that the component carrying the getter can be braced relative to the partial section supporting the component carrying the getter and the supporting part can be braced relative to the inner surface of the container by elastic deformation.

Abstract: An apparatus of the field emission light source having a luminous area and a non-luminous area includes a first plate, a second plate, cathode structures, gate structures, emission sources, an anode layer, a fluorescent layer, a getter, a retaining device and a sealant. The cathode structures are disposed in the luminous area and on the first plate. The emission sources are disposed on the cathode structures. The anode layer is disposed on the second plate. The fluorescent layer is disposed on the anode layer. The getter is disposed in the non-luminous area and on one of the first and the second plates. The retaining device is disposed between the luminous area and the non-luminous area. The sealant is sandwiched between the first plate and the second plate. When activating the getter, the retaining device can prevent metal ions gushed from the getter from entering the luminous area.

Abstract: A vacuum retention agent, which is safe, easy to handle, saves space, and absorbs residual gases inside a hermetic envelope to maintain the hermetic envelope in a high degree of vacuum is provided in place of the conventional metal getter. A display device including the vacuum retention agent is provided. A gas occlusion material containing ZrOx (where 1?x?2) is disposed in a hermetic envelope forming a self-luminous element. ZrOx is formed in pattern from a paste of zirconium dioxide, which can be generally obtained as a reagent. In a production step, the patterned self-luminous element is hermetically sealed in vacuum in an atmosphere at 120° C. to 500° C., so that the vacuum retention effect is more improved.