A new type of vacuum microelectronics flat panel camera tube

This new Vacuum Microelectronics (VME) Flat Panel Camera tube (FPC) VME-FPC, made by the same techniques used in Microtip Flat Panel Display (FPD), has been formed upon the baseplate and the faceplate, the baseplate made from the Field Emission Array (FEA) and the gates, the faceplate made from the photoconductive layer and the transparent conductive layer. The VME-FPC works when the electrons emitted from a Field Emitter Array (FEA) scan a photoconductive layer under the control of a clock. This VME-FPC offers many advantages: simple structure inside the tube, high resolution, high sensitivity, low tube volume, low energy consumption and long life, etc. We predict that the application of this type of FPC will have broad applications in high definition TV, video communication, medical apparatus and instruments.