Field Emitter Array
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A vacuum electronics device, made of a substrate on which small "Spindt tips" are microfabricated. Upon receiving a voltage, the tips emit electrons by field emission, functioning like a cold cathode.
Spindt, Shoulders and Heynick filed a U.S. Patent [1] in 1970 for a vacuum device comprising an array of emitter tips.
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- ^ U.S. Patent 3,755,704 granted on August 28, 1973
