The Technology - Papers

Such is the interest in pFED™s, that the Executives and Scientists of the company were often invited to speak at display industry conferences. Below is a collection of technical papers from such conferences.

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The pFED - A Viable Route to Large Field Emission Displays  (2,927 Kb)
Presentation at IVNC'05 Conference, Oxford, July 2005.

Alternative Field Electron Emission Characteristics From Graphite-insulator Composite Layers.  (1,547 Kb)
Presentation at IVNC'05 Conference, Oxford, July 2005.

Finite Element Modelling of Electron Transport in Structures Involving Secondary Electron Emission and Wall Charging. (321 Kb)
Presentation at IVNC'05 Conference, Oxford, July 2005.

Colour Printable Field Emission Display (pFED) with Hop-Plate - presentation (2,350 Kb)
Presentation at IDMC'05 Conference, Taipai, March 2005.

Colour Printable Field Emission Display (pFED) with Hop-Plate - abstract (224 Kb)
Presentation at IDMC'05 Conference, Taipai, March 2005.

Improved Printable Field Emission Display (pFED) with Hop-plate for HDTV (2.93 Mb)
Presentation at IDW'03 Conference, December 2003.

Improved Printable Field Emission Display (pFED) with Hop-plate for HDTV (82.9 Kb)
Abstract of Paper presented at IDW'03 Conference, December 2003.

PFE the only path to profitable large flat panel TV (2.6Mb)
Paper presented at SID'03 Conference, May 2003.

The route to low-cost wall-tv demonstrated (1.3Mb)
Paper presented at IDW'02 Conference, December 2002.

Screen printing emitters for field emission displays (1.1Mb)
Paper presented at the Information Storage and Displays workshop on Printing Electronic Materials, September 2002.

Optimising printable FEDs towards the standard for mass-market displays (223Kb)
Abstract of paper given as an invited presentation at the 7th Asian Symposium on Information Display, September 2002

Towards printable FEDs as the standard for mass-market displays (7Kb)
Abstract of paper presented at the Institute of Physics Vacuum Group seminar on field emission technology, June 2002.

Developing and optimising printable field emitting inks for next generation FEDs (9Kb)
Abstract of paper presented at the Royal Microscopical Society's meeting on 'Developing Displays', June 2002.

Self-assembling heterogeneous nanophase materials for field emission displays (7Kb)
Abstract of paper presented at a Euspen seminar on Applications of Microtechnology, Nanotechnology & Precision Engineering, June 2002.

The FED is dead, long live the FED! (825Kb)
Paper presented at the DisplaySearch US FPD conference, March 2002

Towards the standard for post-cathode ray tube consumer TV (102Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the EuroFE'01 conference, November 2001

Materials for field emission displays (210Kb)
Paper published in International Materials Reviews 46 (2001) 213-231

Graphite-containing composite inks for low-cost screen-printed field emission displays (86Kb)
Abstract of paper presented at NanoteC'01 conference, August/September 2001

Printed FEDs - technical advances and manufacturing cost modelling (134Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the IVMC'01 Conference, Aug 2001

Pencils are good but printing is better (60Kb)
Abstract of paper presented at the Rank Prize Funds mini-symposium on 'creating the right image', May 2001

Towards a cold cathode system for consumer priced 40"- diagonal FED TV displays (349Kb)
Extended Abstract of paper presented at the EuroFE'00 Conference, September 2000

Printed field emission structures (534Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the IDMC'00 Conference, September 2000

Evaluating the performance of consumer-priced field-emitting inks and low-cost triode structures (63k)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the IVESC'00 Conference, July 2000.
This paper was submitted to Applied Surface Science. Reprint (1.2 Mb)

Materials on display
Paper appeared in Materials World 8 (2000) 22-25, July 2000
Reprints can be obtained by contacting PFE directly

Printable large-area FEDs (534Kb)
Paper appeared in Information Display 16 (2000) 14-16, June 2000
Reprints can be obtained by contacting PFE directly

How close are we to the printable large-area FED? (927Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the IDW'99 Conference, December 1999. This paper was also published in Displays Focus Jan (2000) 9-10

Incorporating consumer-priced field-emitting inks into gated (triode) devices (927Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the EID'99 and EuroFE'99 Conferences, November 1999
This paper has been published in Solid State Electronics 45 (2001) 987-99

Field emitting inks for consumer-priced broad area flat-panel displays (376Kb)
Extended abstract of paper presented at the IVMC'99 Conference, July 1999
Also published in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 18 (2000) 900-904 Reprint (2.4 Mb)

Novel field emitters beyond tips (55Kb)
A short technology primer, 1998.

Printable field emitting materials for large area, low cost field emission displays (227Kb)
Extended Abstract of paper presented at IDW'97 and EID'97 Conferences, November 1997