Se. Huq et al., COMPARATIVE-STUDY OF GATED SINGLE-CRYSTAL SILICON AND POLYSILICON FIELD EMITTERS, Journal of vacuum science & technology. B, Microelectronics and nanometer structures processing, measurement and phenomena, 15(6), 1997, pp. 2855-2858
Both single crystal silicon and polysilicon are attractive emitter mat
erials for displays using cold field emission. Although single crystal
silicon has been under investigation for some time, by contrast, inte
rest in polysilicon is more recent. Using state of the art fabrication
techniques including high resolution electron beam lithography and pl
asma dry etch both single crystal silicon and polysilicon have been pr
ocessed to fabricate sharp and uniform gated emitter arrays. We report
in this article a comparative study of material aspects, processing,
and emission properties of the two materials. (C) 1997 American Vacuum
Society.