Three-dimensional simulation of field emitter arrays using EO-3D

Summary form only given, as follows. Electron trajectories from the field emitters in the field emitter displays are very important. The trajectories effect the design of pixel size, the phosphor voltage, the gap between the field emitter arrays and the phosphor, color purity, etc. The electron trajectories are effected not only by the local potentials around each emitter, but the global field of each pixel. Two dimensional simulations would not be adequate. We are using a three-dimensional computer code EO-3D by Munro's Electron Beam Software, Ltd. To find the electric potential and the electron trajectories. First, the results of this code will be bench marked with experimental data of simplified field emitter array geometry not that of a display. Later, it will be applied to hypothetical display pixel geometry. We will discuss the properties of this software for these applications as well as the simulation results.