Breakover Conduction Illumination Devices and Operating Method

摘要

The invention contained herein provides solid-state breakover conduction illumination devices, displays and driving methods. Illumination devices may be fabricated as co-packaged devices or integrated devices using in-organic or organic illumination elements. AC breakover conduction displays are embodied in both small, tightly-integrated configurations as well as, large area discrete implementations. Driving methods employ initialization and resetting methods for subfield based operation; taking advantage of the stable high speed characteristics of solid-state breakover devices such as DIACs. A full-color high-resolution DIAC based display is presented.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
a. a substrate supporting a first electrode; b. a dielectric material covering said first electrode; c. a first breakover conduction device comprising a first terminal capacitively coupled to said first electrode according to said dielectric material; d. first and second light emitting areas disposed in an electrically opposed parallel arrangement comprising a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of said breakover conduction element; e. a second electrode coupled to a second terminal of said first and second light emitting areas.