M. Takai et al., FABRICATION OF FIELD EMITTER ARRAY USING FOCUSED ION AND ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED REACTION, Microelectronic engineering, 42, 1998, pp. 453-456
A 30 keV dual beam system with focused ion and electron beams has been
used to develop a fast fabrication process of field emitter arrays (F
EAs). The gate opening was fabricated by reactive focused ion beam etc
hing. Pt cathode tips were deposited through gate opening using electr
on beam induced chemical reaction. Pt tips fabricated in the over-etch
ed Si FEA showed field emission. A prototype of a nanometer-sized FEA
was fabricated using a dual beam technique with FIB etching and electr
on beam induced deposition.