Electron emission whiskers from CRI
I just received this note from Paul Nordine, president of Containerless Research, Inc.. I'll just pass it on verbatim. For those who aren't familiar with "typical" aspect ratios and tip radii of micromachined silicon structures, check out the pictures in their website. Those are mighty sharp needles.
-bob
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Dear Mr. Mackey:
I found your discussion group in the Silicon Investor
web site about flat panel display alternatives, and
thought our new products and web page would be
interesting to you and other members in the group.
We are supplying single crystal, silicon micro-whiskers,
and one application of these devices is for field emission
cathodes.
The micro-whiskers are grown on both silicon posts
and wafers. The whiskers can be sharpened as well
as diamond coated, and we can provide them with
various combinations of tip number, spacing, height,
diameter, and tip radii as small as 5 nm for field
emission applications.
Our web site has specifications and SEM photographs
which demonstrate in detail some of the samples we
have. It also cites some published papers on the work.
The web address is: containerless.com.
Reading through the postings, I also noticed that someone
located the JTEC/WTEC evaluation of Russian technologies
at itri.loyola.edu. Our micro-
whiskers were discussed at this site by Christopher Curtin.
I look forward to your reply and any discussions and insights
our new products may provide.
Sincerely,
Paul Nordine
President
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Containerless Research, Inc
906 University Place
Evanston, IL 60201
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E-mail: cri@containerless.com
Web http:/www.containerless.com/cri/
Phone (847)-467-2678
Fax (847)-467-2679
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