Apparatus and method for compensating electron emission in a field emission device.

摘要

An electron emission device (800) including an array of microelectronic field emission devices (801), each with an integrally formed capacitance (804), a plurality of switches (805), a weighting level detector (806), and data storage and weighting structure (808). In one operational method, the field emission device (801) electron current emission is characterized and a weighting factor is calculated and coupled into the data storage and weighting means (808) so as to provide electron emission device (801) electron emission current in accordance with a desired emission level as prescribed by a data input signal and notwithstanding variations in electron current emission which may be present due to device fabrication. <IMAGE>