Field emission displays (FEDs) show great promise as high performance flat panel displays. The light emission process is efficient, long lifetimes are possible with high brightness, and bright passive matrix displays can be built. Because passive matrix displays don’t need a transistor backplane, it was once thought that these displays would be cheaper to fabricate than their competitors. It is...

The theory of delayed fluorescence produced in an organic material by singlet excitation through an absorbing layer is given. It is shown, that it will be reduced by a factor la.2/ ( la .+ ls) 2 due to the singlet energy transfer to such a layer, where /a the penetration depth of the exciting irradiation and Zs the diffusion lenght of the singlets. Further reduction of delayed fluorescence shou...