CONSTITUTION AND FABRICATION OF FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY AND POROUS-FACED STRUCTURE SUITABLE FOR PARTIAL OR FULL USED IN SPACER OF FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY

摘要

A STRUCTURE SUITABLE FOR PARTIAL OR FULL USE IN A SPACER (24) OF A FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY HAS A POROUS FACE (54). THE STRUCTURE MAY BE FORMED WITH MULTIPLE AGGREGATES (100) OF COATED PARTICLES (102) BONDED TOGETHER IN AN OPEN MANNER TO FORM PORES (58). A COATING (88) CONSISTING PRIMARILY OF CARBON AND HAVING A HIGHLY UNIFORM THICKNESS MAY EXTEND INTO PORES OF A POROUS BODY (46). THE COATING CAN BE CREATED BY REMOVING NON-CARBON MATERIAL FROM CARBON-CONTAINING SPECIES PROVIDED ALONG THE PORES. A SOLID POROUS FILM (82) WHOSE THICKNESS IS NORMALLY NO MORE THAN 20 µM HAS A RESISTIVITY OF 10(8) - 10(14) OHM-CM. A SPACER FOR A FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY CONTAINS A SUPPORT BODY (80) AND AN OVERLYING, NORMALLY POROUS, LAYER (82) WHOSE RESISTIVITY IS GREATER PARALLEL TO A FACE OF THE SUPPORT BODY THAN PERPENDICULAR TO THE BODY''S FACE.(FIG. 2)