NEW DEVELOPMENT OF FIELD EMISSION ARRAY
阵列场发射电子源的新进展

Some hot-spots of research in the field of the field emission array (FEA) and the vacuum microelectronics (VME) have been developed abroad in the last phase of 1990s. The expand speed of the FEA subject is very fast, and the non-heated electron emission sources iriside some advanced electron-physics equipments have also got a relevant development during this period. Considering those trends in the fields of basie science-FEA and VME abroad, according to the particularity of the vacuum electron emission, to seize the centralized relatively cathodes in the research or the report, a brief summary, review or comparison has been made, a more important type of the field emission array-the plasma electron source array which has already been developed into practical use recently in the information display has also been introduced simply.