Abstract:
A cathode ray tube has a vacuum envelope formed of a panel portion supporting a phosphor film on an inner surface thereof, a neck housing an electron gun, a funnel joining the panel and the neck, and a stem sealing an open end of the neck and mounting the electron gun via a plurality of pins extending through the stem. The inside diameters at the open end sealed by the stem and vicinities thereof become gradually larger toward the open end sealed by the stem, or retain at least a value substantially equal to an inside diameter of a major portion of the neck.
Abstract:
A chopper type voltage comparison circuit is disclosed which restrain leakage current between an input and output nodes of each amplifying circuit to enable normal voltage comparisons even if a threshold voltage for each transistor is reduced to diminish a power supply voltage. This chopper type voltage comparison circuit comprises a capacitor C1 having an input voltage or a reference voltage selectively supplied to one end thereof depending on whether a voltage input operation or a voltage comparison operation is to be performed, a CMOS clocked inverter circuit CINV1 for voltage amplification having a voltage at the other end of the capacitor input to an input node thereof and having a clock gate section biased so as to be constantly conductive, and a CMOS clocked inverter circuit CINV4 for input voltage setting having the same circuit configuration as the CMOS clocked inverter circuit for voltage amplification, having an input and output nodes short-circuited thereto, and connected to the input node of the CMOS clocked inverter circuit for voltage amplification so that the clock gate section is switch-controlled to be turned on for the voltage input operation, while the clock gate section is switch-controlled to be turned off for the voltage comparison operation.
Abstract:
A photoconductive device having a photoconductive layer which includes an amorphous semiconductor layer capable of charge multiplication in at least a part thereof is disclosed. The method of operating such a photoconductive device is also disclosed. By using the avalanche effect of the amorphous semiconductor layer, it is possible to realize a highly sensitive photoconductive device while maintaining low lag property. In one aspect of the present invention, the amorphous semiconductor layer is amorphous Se. In another aspect of the present invention, the amorphous semiconductor layer is composed mainly of tetrahedral elements including at least an element of hydrogen or halogens. When using the amorphous semiconductor layer composed mainly of tetrahedral elements, the charge multiplication effect is produced mainly in the interior of the amorphous semiconductor, and thus it is possible to obtain a thermally stable photoconductive device having a high sensitivity while keeping a good photoresponse.
Abstract:
A target of an image pickup tube, having a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film, a p-type photoconductive film made mainly from amorphous Se, and an n-type conductive film capable of forming a rectifying contact at the interface with the p-type photoconductive film, using the rectifying contact as a reverse bias, characterized in that the p-type photoconductive film containing at least a region having more than 35%, and to 60% by weight of Te in the film thickness direction, and at least a region containing 0.005 to 5% by weight of at least a material capable of forming shallow levels in the amorphous Se in the film thickness direction, has good after-image characteristics even if operated at a high temperature.