Simple fabrication process and characteristic of a screen-printed triode-CNT field emission arrays for the flat lamp application

  • Jung, Y.J. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Park, J.H. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jeon, S.Y. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Park, S.J. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Alegaonkar, P.S. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Physics, University of Pune) ;
  • Yoo, J.B. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Park, C.Y. (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

We introduced simple fabrication process for field emission devices based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) emitters. Instead of using the ITO material as a transparent electrode, a metal (Au) with thickness of 5-20nm was used. Moreover, the ITO patterning process was eliminated by depositing metal layer, before the CNT printing process. In addition, the thin metal layer on photo resist (PR) layer was used as UV block. We fabricated the CNT field emission arrays of triode structure with simple process. And I-V characteristics of field emission arrays were measured. The maximum current density of $254{\mu}A/cm2$ was achieved when the gate and the anode voltage was kept 150V and 3000V, respectively. The distance between anode and cathode was kept constant.

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