Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Display(CNT-FED) History of Vacuum Microelectronics 50s Foundations of field emission physics 1958 Buck and Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for fabricating vacuum microelectronic devices 1961 Shoulders (SRI)-Proposals for vertical and lateral microtriodes 1968 Spindt (SRI)-Fabrication and operation of gated Mo-FEAs 1981 Henry Gray (NRL)-Lateral vacuum triode using silicon field emitters 1985 Robert Meyer-Demonstration of matrix addressable monochrome display with field emission cathode arrays 1988 Meyer and Baptist (LETI)-Mo microtips with lateral resistive layer 1993 Pixtech Consortium-Demonstration of full color FED 1993 Kumar (MCC)-Demonstration of FED with carbon/diamond films 1995 Pixtech/Futaba-Demonstration of low voltage color display 1997 Motorola-Demonstration of high voltage full color FED. 2000 Sony/Candescent-Demonstration of full color 5.5” and 13.2”FED