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To: kinkblot who wrote (9)	11/29/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: John Finley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 330

Hey, y'know, FED's aren't OT. They are "novel light emitting devices" <g>. Back when I was paying attention to the field effect emitters, I was impressed with the fact that you could use hard carbon films as emitters. If I remember correctly (I s'pose I could look it up), carbon itself doesn't have a low enough work function but the hard carbon films do. It was unexplained at the time. Pretty interesting stuff! I always wondered if there was another commercial application beyond displays. I don't suppose the ability to spew electrons has too many uses any more. Anyway, looking at SIDT's history they haven't thought of any either <g>. They made more money selling their domain name than all but one of their Qs last year. JF

To: kinkblot who wrote (9)	11/30/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: John Finley	Respond to of 330

I just was poking around the Pixtech site. It looks like they are actually selling a working display! I looked in the datasheet for the emission voltage but the closest I came was 12V supply to the "converter". So we know that it is >12V <g>. I'm not quite sure why the military is interested. Maybe it's robust against interference and EMP? Thanks for the link. I remember back when everybody and their brother were working on flat panels. Might have had something to do with that well-funded federal research initiative <g>. JF - CDTS is hopping for some reason <g>