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US3769539A
US3769539A US00130440A US3769539DA US3769539A US 3769539 A US3769539 A US 3769539A US 00130440 A US00130440 A US 00130440A US 3769539D A US3769539D A US 3769539DA US 3769539 A US3769539 A US 3769539A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
    • H01J29/02—Electrodes; Screens; Mounting, supporting, spacing or insulating thereof
    • H01J29/023—Electrodes; Screens; Mounting, supporting, spacing or insulating thereof secondary-electron emitting electrode arrangements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J31/00—Cathode ray tubes; Electron beam tubes
    • H01J31/08—Cathode ray tubes; Electron beam tubes having a screen on or from which an image or pattern is formed, picked up, converted, or stored
    • H01J31/26—Image pick-up tubes having an input of visible light and electric output
    • H01J31/28—Image pick-up tubes having an input of visible light and electric output with electron ray scanning the image screen
    • H01J31/34—Image pick-up tubes having an input of visible light and electric output with electron ray scanning the image screen having regulation of screen potential at cathode potential, e.g. orthicon
    • H01J31/36—Tubes with image amplification section, e.g. image-orthicon

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  • the output electrode of the array is normally held at a positive bias potential; the value of this potential depends upon the target material used, but a potential of the order of 10 volts is usually satisfactory.
  • the electrons emerging from the microchannel array have the property that they have sufficient energy to pass the potential barrier between the array and the target and still have sufficient energy to liberate on the average of more than one secondary electron from the target.
  • the secondary electrons are collected by the multiplier array output electrode, to be discussed more in detail in conjunction with the descriptions in FIGS. 3 to 5, thus leaving the target with a positively charged image.
  • This positive charge is capacitively coupled to the opposite side of the target and hence varies the electron scanning beam conventionally utilized to scan the target 14.

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  • Image-Pickup Tubes, Image-Amplification Tubes, And Storage Tubes (AREA)
  • Transforming Light Signals Into Electric Signals (AREA)
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US3935493A (en) * 1973-06-28 1976-01-27 U.S. Philips Corporation Radiation detector using double amplification
US4020376A (en) * 1976-03-05 1977-04-26 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Miniature flat panel two microchannel plate picture element array image intensifier tube

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US3039017A (en) * 1960-04-12 1962-06-12 Clinton E Brown Image intensifier apparatus
US3202853A (en) * 1960-08-16 1965-08-24 Rca Corp Electron beam tube with less than three hundred mils spacing between the target electrode and photocathode electrode
US3350591A (en) * 1961-02-21 1967-10-31 Rca Corp Indium doped pickup tube target
US3440470A (en) * 1965-09-14 1969-04-22 Westinghouse Electric Corp Image storage tube multiplier element
US3458745A (en) * 1967-06-09 1969-07-29 Stanford Research Inst Thin wafer-channel multiplier
US3497759A (en) * 1967-05-15 1970-02-24 Philips Corp Image intensifiers
US3535574A (en) * 1967-02-24 1970-10-20 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd Image pick-up tube with a photosensitive transmission secondary electron multiplication layer

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3039017A (en) * 1960-04-12 1962-06-12 Clinton E Brown Image intensifier apparatus
US3202853A (en) * 1960-08-16 1965-08-24 Rca Corp Electron beam tube with less than three hundred mils spacing between the target electrode and photocathode electrode
US3350591A (en) * 1961-02-21 1967-10-31 Rca Corp Indium doped pickup tube target
US3440470A (en) * 1965-09-14 1969-04-22 Westinghouse Electric Corp Image storage tube multiplier element
US3535574A (en) * 1967-02-24 1970-10-20 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd Image pick-up tube with a photosensitive transmission secondary electron multiplication layer
US3497759A (en) * 1967-05-15 1970-02-24 Philips Corp Image intensifiers
US3458745A (en) * 1967-06-09 1969-07-29 Stanford Research Inst Thin wafer-channel multiplier

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3935493A (en) * 1973-06-28 1976-01-27 U.S. Philips Corporation Radiation detector using double amplification
US4020376A (en) * 1976-03-05 1977-04-26 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Miniature flat panel two microchannel plate picture element array image intensifier tube

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GB1283794A (en) 1972-08-02
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FR2033382B1 (cs) 1973-07-13
DE2008358A1 (de) 1970-09-10

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