Abstract:
This cathode has a body made of a material that does not emit electrons, having a substantially smooth non-emissive face and elements made of an emissive material each having an emissive face, spaced out from one another and fixed to the body, for example in hollows with their emissive surface in relief by a determined value with respect to said non-emissive face, so that a protection electrode can be placed between the projecting parts of these elements.
Abstract:
An electron-emitting surface is provided with a material reducing the electron work function, which is obtained from a suitable reaction. The reaction mixture or the product to be decomposed, for example CsN.sub.3, is present in a surface depression of a semiconductor body, while one or more pn junctions act as a heating diode. Upon heating, cesium is released and deposited on the electron-emitting surface.
Abstract:
An encapsulated planar cathode structure is formed for a vacuum tube. A multibeam cathode ray tube is obtained by heating in the CRT such a structure with a plurality of separated electron emissive layers to remove the encapsulation material. Positive photoresist technology is utilized: for obtaining delineated apertures on a planar metallization layer supported by an insulating substrate into which needle-shaped carbonate particles are deposited electrophoretically normal to the metallization; and for encapsulating the resultant cathodes.
Abstract:
Cathodes having a support for emissive material of foamed carbon are mechanically stable and resistant to detrition and have a homogeneous pore distribution.
Abstract:
An improved diode for forming an intense electron beam and propagating theeam. The diode includes a cathode having a bore, and a rod-shaped anode having a medial tapered section which extends, approximately coaxially, through the bore of the cathode. The anode tapers at or near the cathode and is formed from electrically conductive material. The cathode is made from a material which rapidly emits electrons during the early stage of an applied voltage pulse. The electrons strike the anode and form a plasma thereon. Sufficient anode current and the formation of sufficient anode plasma affect the magnetic and electric fields to pinch the electrons closer to each other and to force the electron beam to propagate along the anode and away from the cathode and voltage supply. The tapered section of the anode increases the velocity of the pinch and the density of the electron beam.
Abstract:
A series of discrete heating current pulses are passed through a line cathode so as to cause the cathode to emit electrons therefrom. Between each consecutive pair of pulses is a cooling period during which no heating current flows through the cathode. Current is extracted from the cathode during this cooling period. In a preferred embodiment for an image display device, the heating pulse duration is about 10 .mu.sec and the cooling period is about 50.mu.sec. In this scheme, the heating period corresponds roughly to the horizontal retrace time between line times of 50.mu.sec.
Abstract:
An electron gun having a thermionic emitter held by boron carbide heating members or the like, supported by electroconductive members which have additional elastic positioning members arranged to nullify the emitter shift and other effects caused by heat distortion.