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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5838057 | Transistor switches An electronic switch (80) having a transistor (T) and a diode (D) formed on a substrate (82) is provided. The electronic switch (80) includes a common transistor collector and diode cathode region (81) of a first conductivity type formed in the substrate ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5751049 | Two-color infrared detector A two-color infrared detector (50) is provided comprising elements (10, 110, or 210) having one or more diodes (58, 158 and 168) and a metal insulator semiconductor ("MIS") device (56 and 156). The infrared detector (50) may be referred to as a vertically... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5698460 | Method of self-aligning an emitter contact in a planar heterojunction bipolar transistor and apparatus thereof A self-aligned planar heterojunction bipolar transistor (10) is fabricated by forming a base layer (18) and forming an emitter layer (20) on the base layer (18). An emitter cap layer (22) is formed on the emitter layer (20) and an interface layer (24) is ... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5669801 | Field emission device cathode and method of fabrication A microtip of a field emission device cathode (10) may be fabricated by forming a dielectric layer (18) on an upper surface of a resistive layer (16). A gate layer (20) is formed on the dielectric layer (18). An opening is formed in the gate layer (20) an... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5646884 | Electrical data storage device A data storage device consisting of at least two series connected resonant tunneling diodes (RTD1, RTD2) with capacitors (C1 ,C2) coupled thereacross. By coupling a time varying voltage V(t) across the series connected diodes, one the diodes can be select... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5643033 | Method of making an anode plate for use in a field emission device An anode plate 50 for use in a field emission flat panel display device comprises a transparent planar substrate 58 having a plurality of electrically conductive, parallel stripes 52 comprising the anode electrode of the device, which are covered by phosp... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5639356 | Field emission device high voltage pulse system and method To prevent degradation of field emission in a field emission device (FED) (10) resulting from the accumulation of contaminating impurities on the surface (42) of the microtips (26) of the FED (10), a high voltage pulse is applied at a cathode voltage cont... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5632664 | Field emission device cathode and method of fabrication A field emission device cathode (10) may be fabricated by forming a dielectric layer (14) on an upper surface of a resistive layer (12). A gate layer (16) is formed on the dielectric layer (14). An opening is formed in the gate layer (16) and a microtip c... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5628662 | Method of fabricating a color field emission flat panel display tetrode An anode plate 40, suitable for use in a field emission display tetrode, includes a transparent planar substrate 42 having thereon a layer 46 of a transparent, electrically conductive material, which comprises the anode electrode of the display tetrode. B... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5619061 | Micromechanical microwave switching Micromechanical microwave switches with both ohmic and capacitive coupling of rf lines and integration in multiple throw switches useful in microwave arrays.... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5616959 | Planarized multi-level interconnect scheme with embedded low-dielectric constant insulators A multi-level interconnect structure and method. A first plurality of interconnect lines (14) is located on an insulator layer (12) of semiconductor body (10). A first layer of low dielectric constant material (20), such as an organic polymer, fills an ar... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5614785 | Anode plate for flat panel display having silicon getter An anode plate (10) for use in a field emission flat panel display device (8) includes a transparent substrate (26) having a plurality of spaced-apart, electrically conductive regions (28) are covered by a luminescent material (24) and from the anode elec... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5606225 | Tetrode arrangement for color field emission flat panel display with barrier electrodes on the anode plate An anode plate 40, suitable for use in a field emission display tetrode, includes a transparent planar substrate 42 having thereon a layer 46 of a transparent, electrically conductive material, which comprises the anode electrode of the display tetrode. B... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5594305 | Power supply for use with switched anode field emission display including energy recovery apparatus A switching power supply 38 for use in a switched anode, field emission flat panel display includes energy recovery modules 48R, 48G and 48B for recovering energy from each anode electrode 50R, 50G an... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5591677 | Planarizeed multi-level interconnect scheme with embedded low-dielectric constant insulators A multi-level interconnect structure and method. A first plurality of interconnect lines (14) is located on an insulator layer (12) of semiconductor body (10). A first layer of low dielectric constant material (20), such as an organic polymer, fills an ar... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5577944 | Interconnect for use in flat panel display An interconnect for use in a field emission flat panel display device for providing an electrical interconnect between a bond pad 42 on the anode plate 10 and an electrically conductive region 44 on the emitter plate 12 comprises an electrically conductiv... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5574298 | Substrate contact for gate array base cell and method of forming same A method for forming a gate array substrate contact and the contact resulting therefrom includes the steps of etching off polysilicon gate layers at the same time as cutting the polysilicon to form the gate array base cell (10). The method includes formin... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5565179 | Electrostatic particle removal and characterization An electrostatic decontamination method and decontamination device (10) is disclosed for decontaminating the surface of a semiconductor substrate. The decontamination device (10) includes particle ionizing device (24) that charges contaminating particles ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5562517 | Spacer for flat panel display A spacer 40 for use in a field emission device comprises a comb-like structure having a plurality of elongated filaments 42 joined to a support member 44. The filaments 42, which may be glass, are positioned longitudinally in a single layer between the fa... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5557159 | Field emission microtip clusters adjacent stripe conductors The emitter plate 60 of a field emission flat panel display device includes a layer 68 of a resistive material and a mesh-like structure 62 of an electrically conductive material. A conductive plate 78 is also formed on top of resistive coating 68 within ... | 09/17/1996 |
