Patent EA-003573-B1 (EA)
Title: Self-scanning flat display
IPC: G09G3/28
Filed: 2001-06-29
Abstract: 1. A flat self-scanning two-dimensional display, further - the display, comprising a light-active matrix in the form of a set of periodic lines comprising light-reflective or back-projection or light-emitting elements, which are controlled by a current or a charge generated by a raster-scanning device, characterized in that the raster device is made in the form of streamers from nanostructured active material, in which a persistent running electron soliton-wave controlling the light-active matrix is generated and propagated, said display further comprising a device for excitation of a running wave. 2. The display according to claim 1, characterized in that the raster device is made in the form a matrix of the mutually isolated streamers produced of a nanostructured active material, which streamers are coated line-by-line in grooves on the surface of a dielectric with the step determined by the required resolution. 3.The display according to claim 1, characterized in that the raster device is made in the form of at least one zigzag line - a serpentine produced from a nanostructured active material coated into the zigzag groove at the surface of a dielectric with the step determined by the required resolution. 4. The display according to claims 2,3, characterized in that at least two control electrodes determining the parameters of the movement of a soliton are coated on each streamer produced from the nanostructured active material. 5.The display according to claims 2,3, characterized in that the device for excitation of a persistent wave is arranged in the beginning of each streamer produced from a nanostructured active material, said device comprises at least one control electrode generating the persistent wave of the given size. 6.The display according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one additional control electrode made in the form of a grid is formed between the raster device and the light active matrix, isolated from them, said electrode performing the modulation of the electronic flow for forming the brightness image. 7. The display according to claim 1 comprising a raster device produced from a nanostructured active material consisting of clusters with tunnel-transparent gaps, characterized in that the clusters have at least one distinguished cross-sectional size determined within the range 7.2517 nm <= r <= 29.0068 nm, the thickness of the tunnel-transparent gap being not more than 7.2517 nm, the spacing between the electrodes being not more than 7.2517 nm. 8. he display according to claim 7, characterized in that the clusters are made of the material selected from the group consisting of the materials - a semiconductor, a conductor, a superconductor, a high molecular organic material or a combination thereof. 9. he display according to claim 7, characterized in that the clusters are made in the form of cavities having a sheath of a tunnel-transparent layer consisting of a semiconductor or a dielectric. 10. The display according to claim 7, characterized in that the clusters have a centrally symmetric form. 11. The display according to claim 7, characterized in that the clusters are made extended and have a distinguished cross-sectional size determined within the range 14.5034 nm <= r <= 29.0068 nm. 12. The display according to claim 11, characterized in that the clusters are made extended along the axis and have a regular structure with the period determined within the range 7.2517 nm <= r <= 29.0068 nm. 13.The display according to claim 7, characterized in that a plurality of clusters are regular arranged at least in one layer, the intervals between the clusters being tunnel - transparent and not exceeding 7.2517 nm. 14. The display according to claim 7, characterized in that a plurality of clusters with tunnel-transparent gaps are regular arranged as layers, the parameters of clusters at least in one of the layers differ from the parameters of clusters in the adjacent layers, the intervals between the clusters being tunnel-transparent and not exceeding 7.2517 nm. 15.The display according to claim 7, characterized in that a plurality of clusters are made in the form of a cavity having a sheath of a tunnel-transparent layer, at least in two points of the cavity said clusters are in contact with the adjacent clusters and form a foam-like material with open pores, the sheath being made of either a semiconductor, or a dielectric, or a high molecular organic substance, and the pores can be filled with either a gas, or a semiconductor, or a dielectric having the properties different from that of the sheath material. 16. A method for operating the display according to claims 1-15 comprising the application of the electric field in the working range of field strength, characterized in that the field strength per one cluster for the operation of the raster device should be not less than , and the maximal field strength should not exceed 3Emin. 17. The method for operating the display according to claims 1-15 comprising the limitation of the ultimate working densities of the raster device current by the value 18. The method for operating the display according to claims 1-15, characterized in that for the formation of one picture frame it is necessary to feed at least one control impulse to the soliton-generating electrode of the formation of a soliton and at least one more control impulse - to each electrode that controls the movement of the soliton along the rows. 19. The method for operating the display according to claims 18, characterized in that after the termination of the movement of the soliton along the row, to each soliton-generating electrode there is fed at least one impulse for regenerating the nanostructured active material to prepare it for next picture frame. 20. The process for operating the display according to claims 6, characterized in that to at least one additional control electrode formed as a grid there is fed the impulse voltage that is sufficient for drawing the electrons into vacuum or into a diluted gaseous medium from the nanostructured active material, while the amplitude of the control impulse is proportional to the brightness of the image in the given point at the moment of passage of the soliton at the time, and thereby the spatial time modulation of brightness is effected by controlling the current or the charge.