GB1535061A - Gallium arsenide photocathode - Google Patents

Gallium arsenide photocathode

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Publication number
GB1535061A
GB1535061A GB5142675A GB5142675A GB1535061A GB 1535061 A GB1535061 A GB 1535061A GB 5142675 A GB5142675 A GB 5142675A GB 5142675 A GB5142675 A GB 5142675A GB 1535061 A GB1535061 A GB 1535061A
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gaas
substrate
etching
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STC PLC
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Standard Telephone and Cables PLC
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J9/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture, installation, removal, maintenance of electric discharge tubes, discharge lamps, or parts thereof; Recovery of material from discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J9/02—Manufacture of electrodes or electrode systems
    • H01J9/022—Manufacture of electrodes or electrode systems of cold cathodes
    • H01J9/025—Manufacture of electrodes or electrode systems of cold cathodes of field emission cathodes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J1/00—Details of electrodes, of magnetic control means, of screens, or of the mounting or spacing thereof, common to two or more basic types of discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J1/02—Main electrodes
    • H01J1/30—Cold cathodes, e.g. field-emissive cathode
    • H01J1/304—Field-emissive cathodes
    • H01J1/3042—Field-emissive cathodes microengineered, e.g. Spindt-type
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J1/00—Details of electrodes, of magnetic control means, of screens, or of the mounting or spacing thereof, common to two or more basic types of discharge tubes or lamps
    • H01J1/02—Main electrodes
    • H01J1/34—Photo-emissive cathodes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J2201/00—Electrodes common to discharge tubes
    • H01J2201/34—Photoemissive electrodes
    • H01J2201/342—Cathodes
    • H01J2201/3421—Composition of the emitting surface
    • H01J2201/3423—Semiconductors, e.g. GaAs, NEA emitters

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Abstract

1535061 Making gallium arsenide photocathodes STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES Ltd 16 Dec 1975 51426/75 Heading HID A gallium arsenide field emission photocathode is made by bombarding a layer of p-type GaAs with protons to form a grid pattern of semiinsulating material 24 therein, and preferentially etching the material 24 by a cathodic inhibition process in a chemical etching solution with the p-type material 25 negatively electrically biased, whereby the GaAs layer is left with a figured surface having an array of field emission points. The proton bombardment may be done using a finely focused beam to write in the grid pattern, or, as shown, using a mask which includes a partly etched gold layer 23 above the GaAs layer. Initially the GaAs layer is epitaxially grown on a temporary substrate of semiconductor, e.g. also GaAs, and the layer is then bonded to a permanent substrate 15 of glass, by heating the components and pressing them together. The semiconductor substrate is then removed by etching; this may be a cathodic inhibition process as previously defined, if the substrate is semi-insulating; or, if the substrate is p-type, an anodic electrochemical etching process may be used, either in conjunction with monitoring of the optical transmission and thereby the thickness of the material to determine when to stop etching, or using an n-type blocking layer to stop the etch, which layer is then removed by chemical etching; the GaAs layer is thus exposed ready for the proton bombardment.
GB5142675A 1975-12-16 1975-12-16 Gallium arsenide photocathode Expired GB1535061A (en)

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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4369099A (en) * 1981-01-08 1983-01-18 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Photoelectrochemical etching of semiconductors
FR2553934A1 (en) * 1983-10-19 1985-04-26 Labo Electronique Physique SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE-VITREOUS SUPPORT AND DEVICES PRODUCED WITH SUCH A STRUCTURE
US4622114A (en) * 1984-12-20 1986-11-11 At&T Bell Laboratories Process of producing devices with photoelectrochemically produced gratings
GB2269048A (en) * 1992-07-03 1994-01-26 Third Generation Technology Li Photoemitters

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4369099A (en) * 1981-01-08 1983-01-18 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Photoelectrochemical etching of semiconductors
FR2553934A1 (en) * 1983-10-19 1985-04-26 Labo Electronique Physique SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE-VITREOUS SUPPORT AND DEVICES PRODUCED WITH SUCH A STRUCTURE
EP0139334A2 (en) * 1983-10-19 1985-05-02 Laboratoires D'electronique Et De Physique Appliquee L.E.P. Semiconductor-glass support structure and devices provided with such a structure
EP0139334A3 (en) * 1983-10-19 1985-06-19 Laboratoires D'electronique Et De Physique Appliquee L.E.P. Semiconductor-glass support structure and devices provided with such a structure
US4622114A (en) * 1984-12-20 1986-11-11 At&T Bell Laboratories Process of producing devices with photoelectrochemically produced gratings
GB2269048A (en) * 1992-07-03 1994-01-26 Third Generation Technology Li Photoemitters
GB2269048B (en) * 1992-07-03 1995-10-04 Third Generation Technology Li Photoemitters

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