Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Display(CNT-FED)History of Vacuum Microelectronics50s Foundations of field emission physics1958 Buck and Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for fabricatingvacuum microelectronic devices1961 Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for vertical and lateral microtriodes1968 Spindt (SRI)-Fabrication and operation of gated Mo-FEAs1981 Henry Gray (NRL)-Lateral vacuum triode using silicon field emitters1985 Robert Meyer-Demonstration of matrix addressable monochromedisplay with field emission cathode arrays1988 Meyer and Baptist (LETI)-Mo microtips with lateral resistive layer1993 Pixtech Consortium-Demonstration of full color FED1993 Kumar (MCC)-Demonstration of FED with carbon/diamond films1995 Pixtech/Futaba-Demonstration of low voltage color display1997 Motorola-Demonstration of high voltage full color FED.2000 Sony/Candescent-Demonstration of full color 5.5” and 13.2”FED