Abstract:
Field-forming devices primarily useful as field ionizers and field emission cathodes and having as a basic element an array of closely spaced cones with sharp points supported on a substrate (in the most usual case conductive or semiconductive) are disclosed. Preferably, the field-forming structure is completed by a screen-like structure, e.g. as fine mesh screen, insulatively supported above the points with the center of apertures in the screen substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis of corresponding cones. A novel method of forming such structures includes placing a screen with a mesh corresponding to the desired number and packing density of sharp conical points in close proximity to, or in contact with, the substrate and projecting material through the screen onto the substrate whereby sharp cones of the material are formed on the substrates.
Abstract:
A charged particle beam pattern forming and imaging system for producing an apodized pattern is disclosed in which charged particles from one or more sources impinge upon an imaging plate. A high voltage electrical source is connected between the imaging plate and a target to produce a strong electrical field therebetween. The imaging plate contains one or more long and narrow slits. Each slit functions as a lens to yield one image of itself for each particle source, each image being converged only along the width of the slit (convergence in one dimension). A relatively narrow apodizing mask member is positioned between the particle source and the target (preferably between source and imaging plate) so that the mask divides the image of each slit lens at the target. The number of particle sources displaced in a direction transverse to the long dimension of the slit lenses determines the number of parallel slits imaged at the target, and their relative orthogonal displacement determines the distance between the parallel slit images at the target. Relative displacement of each particle source in a direction parallel with the length of the slit lenses determines the placement of each source relative to the apodizing mask and, consequently, the location of the division of the slit image formed by each source. The width (dimension orthogonal to the slit lens) of each slit image is proportional to the dimension transverse to the slit of the particle source used to produce that slit image, and the intensity of the particle stream used to produce that slit image is proportional to the length (dimension parallel with the slit lens) of the particle source, so slit images of varying widths but constant intensity are produced by corresponding variations of the transverse widths of the particle sources while utilizing particle sources of equal lengths.
Abstract:
A charged-particle beam-pattern forming and imaging system is disclosed in which charged particles from one or more sources impinge upon an imaging plate. A high-voltage electrical source is connected between the imaging plate and a target to produce a strong electrical field therebetween. The imaging plate contains one or more long and narrow slits which may be straight or curved to any desired configuration. Each slit functions as a lens to yield one image of itself for each particle source, each image being converged only along the width of the slit (one-dimension convergence). Proper choices of the pattern of the particle sources and the slit arrangement in the imaging plate yield a variety of patterns useful in many applications, such as closely spaced parallel lines for diffraction gratings, interdigital patterns for microwave devices, meander lines, and interconnections for integrated circuits, by formation of the entire patterns at once rather than by the scanning or other sequential techniques used heretofore.