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A method of forming a base plate for a field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• providing a substrate configurable into a base plate for a field emission display (FED);
• a forming a plurality field emitters from material of the substrate, the emitters being arranged into more than one demarcated, independently-addressable region of emitters;
• and
• providing address circuitry operably coupled with the field emitters and configured to independently address individual regions of the emitters.

A method of forming a base plate for a field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• providing a monolithic addressable matrix of rows and columns of field emitters, the matrix having a perimetral edge defining length and width dimensions of the matrix;
• partitioning the matrix into a plurality of discretely-addressable sub-matrices of field emitters;
• and
• providing row and column address lines operably coupled with the matrix and collectively configured to address the field emitters, at least one of the row or column address lines having a length within the matrix which is sufficient to address less than all of the field emitters which lie in the direction along which the at least one row or column address line extends within the matrix.

A method of forming a field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• providing a substrate configurable into a base plate for a field emission display (FED);
• forming a plurality of discrete, segmented regions of field emitter tips by at least removing portions of the substrate;
• individual discrete, segmented regions being electrically isolated into separately-addressable regions of field emitter tips;
• providing a face plate supporting areas of luminescent material;
• and
• mounting the face plate in operable proximity with the substrate.

A method of forming a field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• providing a substrate configurable into a base plate for a field emission display (FED);
• forming a plurality field emitters from material of the substrate, the emitters being arranged into more than one demarcated, independently-addressable region of emitters;
• providing address circuitry operably coupled with the field emitters and configured to independently address individual regions of the emitters;
• providing a face plate supporting areas of luminescent material;
• and
• mounting the face plate in operable proximity with the substrate.

A method of forming a field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• providing a monolithic addressable matrix of rows and columns of field emitters, the matrix having a perimetral edge defining length and width dimensions of the matrix;
• partitioning the matrix into a plurality of discretely-addressable sub-matrices of field emitters;
• providing row and column address lines operably coupled with the matrix and collectively configured to address the field emitters, at least one of the row or column address lines having a length within the matrix which is sufficient to address less than all of the field emitters which lie in the direction along which the at least one row or column address line extends within the matrix;
• providing a face plate supporting areas of luminescent material;
• and
• mounting the face plate in operable proximity with the monolithic addressable matrix.

A field emission display (FED) device comprising:

• a monolithic addressable matrix of rows and columns of field emitters, the matrix having a perimetral edge defining length and width dimensions of the matrix;
• the matrix being partitioned into a plurality of discretely-addressable sub-matrices of field emitters;
• row and column address lines operably coupled with the matrix and collectively configured to address the field emitters, at least one of the row or column address lines having a length within the matrix which is sufficient to address less than all of the field emitters which lie in the direction along which the at least one row or column address line extends within the matrix;
• and
• a face plate supporting areas of luminescent material mounted in operable proximity with the monolithic addressable matrix.