Fabrication of Novel Metal Field Emitter Arrays(FEAs) Using Isotropic Silicon Etching and Oxidation

  • Oh, Chang-Woo (Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center(ISRC) and School of Electrical Eng., Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Chun-Gyoo (Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center(ISRC) and School of Electrical Eng., Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Byung-Gook (Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center(ISRC) and School of Electrical Eng., Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Duk (Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center(ISRC) and School of Electrical Eng., Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Ho (Department of Electronic Materials, Wonkwang University)
  • 발행 : 1997.12.01

초록

A new metal tip fabrication process for low voltage operation is reported in this paper. The key element of the fabrication process is that isotropic silicon etching and oxidation process used in silicon tip fabrication is utilized for gate hole size reduction and gate oxide layer. A metal FEA with 625 tips was fabricated in order to demonstrate the validity of the new process and submicron gate apertures were successfully obtained from originally 1.7$\mu\textrm{m}$ diameter mask. The emission current above noise level was observed at the gate bias of 50V. The required gate voltage to obtain the anode current of 0.1${\mu}\textrm{A}$/tip was 74V and the emission current was stable above 2${\mu}\textrm{A}$/tip without any disruption. The local field conversion factor and the emitting area were calculated as 7.981${\times}$10\ulcornercm\ulcorner and 3.2${\times}$10\ulcorner$\textrm{cm}^2$/tip, respectively.

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