Abstract: To suppress both influence of electron emission from a cathode side surface and consumption of energy to be supplied to a heater, while being provided with a grid, an electron gun of the present invention includes: a cathode capable of emitting electrons by heating; a grid capable of controlling the electron emission; and a cathode shield which is an conductor including a material portion located in the vicinity of a side surface of the cathode and facing at least a portion of the side surface via a gap or a heat insulating material, and not being made in direct physical coupling nor in direct physical contact with the cathode.

Abstract: By a method for manufacturing a flat image display device having a plate spacer, even if the center of the plate spacer is displaced from its initial assembly position, it can easily be corrected to the initial assembly position again, allowing stable production of high-quality image display devices. The present invention includes the process of forming a space between the plate spacer and a first substrate between the process of fixing the plate spacer to the first substrate and the process of tightly bonding the first substrate and a second substrate together.

Abstract: Electron gun for cathode ray tube comprising aligned in series along an axis XX? an electron-emitting cathode K, electrodes G1 and G2 for the formation of an electron beam, a prefocusing electron lens G3, G4, G5, a first quadripolar device G7, G8 electrically controlled in a dynamic manner in synchronism with the screen scan so as to correct beam focusing defects at the screen edge, a main electron lens G8–G9 making it possible to focus the electron beam onto a screen. It also comprises a second quadripolar device G5, G6, G7situated between the prefocusing electron lens G3, G4 and the first quadripolar device and comprising electrodes G5, G6, G7exhibiting rectangular apertures. Those of G5 and G7 are parallel and those of G6 are orthogonal to those of G5 and G7. The electrodes G5 and G7 are placed at a fixed polarization potential, and the electrode G6 is at a polarization potential varying in synchronism with the screen scan.

Abstract: Cathode comprising a substrate (2) supporting a cathode emissive coating, comprising what is called an emissive central zone (12) and what is called a nonemissive peripheral zone (11); according to the invention: the average density and the emissive zone (12) is greater than that in said nonemissive zone (11), the average thickness in the emissive zone (12) is less than that in the nonemissive zone (11). In this way it is possible to significantly limit the drift in cut-off voltage, while still maintaining good maximum emission performance in DC mode and in pulse mode.

Abstract: Color CRTs, used in large display screens, have a plurality of three color electron beams that are strongly focused so that they crossover and become divergent in both the X and Y axes if the CTR's face. The strength of the focusing determines the size of the illuminated area on the face of the CRT. A shadow mask, aperture grill, or slotted mask and the red, green and blue phosphor dots or stripes are located at predetermined positions such that the red electron beams only hit the red phosphors, the green electron beams only hit the green phosphors, and the blue electron beams only hit the blue phosphors. No raster scanning with the electron beams are required.

Abstract: A spacer, which is an atmospheric pressure resistant structure for a vacuum container, can be easily assembled, and the manufacturing costs that accompany the installation of the spacer are reduced. A rear plate, which includes a substrate on which electron-emitting devices are mounted, is located opposite a face plate that is irradiated by electrons emitted by the electron-emitting devices, so that together these two units constitute one part of the vacuum container. A spacer is positioned as an atmospheric pressure resistant structure in the vacuum container. Blocks are bonded to both ends of the spacer, and with these blocks, the spacer is self-supported. Both ends of the spacer are tapered, and are used to reduce the stress that is imposed on the bottoms of the spacer and the blocks by the rear plate and the face plate while air is discharged from the vacuum container.

Abstract: An electron gun for a cathode ray tube includes a single cathode that emits thermions; first and second electrodes; a plurality of focus electrodes provided consecutively after the second electrode; an anode electrode mounted after a final focus electrode; and a support that supports the electrodes in an aligned configuration. The final focus electrode and the anode electrode are mounted opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween. If a lengthwise direction of phosphor layers forming a phosphor screen of the cathode ray tube is a Y axis direction, and a direction perpendicular to the Y axis direction is an X axis direction, an electron beam aperture formed in a portion of the final focus electrode opposing the anode electrode, and an electron beam aperture formed in the anode electrode have diameters in the X axis direction that are larger than corresponding diameters of electron beam apertures formed in the remaining electrodes.

Abstract: Bradbury-Nielson gates for the modulation of beams of charged particles, particularly ion beams in mass spectrometry, have been produced with an adjustable wire spacing down to 0.075 mm or a smaller spacing. The gates are robust, they can be fabricated in less than 3 hours, and the method of production is reproducible. In time-of-flight mass spectrometers, fine wire spacing leads to improvements in mass resolution and modulation rates. Gates that were produced using this new method have been installed in a Hadamard transform time-of-flight mass spectrometer in order to demonstrate their utility.

Abstract: A cold cathode electron emission device activating electron emission applying an external electric field is provided, in which an inversion layer inverting the type of a semiconductor layer by an external electric field is generated to form a shallow channel, and an electron beam due to a number of electrons is emitted by an avalanche breakdown in the shallow channel. A single or plurality of active regions are formed in the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate in fabrication and then an inversion layer is formed by the external electric field. The cold cathode electron emission device is driven according to the principle that a number of electrons are emitted by the avalanche breakdown in the inversion layer. Thus, since the high-density electrons are instantaneously emitted at the inversion layer by the external electric field, a preheating is not required.

Abstract: Display device having an in-line electron gun with a main lens, in which the anode voltage ranges between 16 and 22 kVolt and the parameter Va0.5.p3/2 is greater than 50 kVolt0.5 mm3/2. A reduction of the total power can be achieved without sacrificing front-end performance.

Abstract: A one-piece grid assembly for use in an electron gun for a miniature cathode-ray tube application that consists of a core made of an electrically insulating material, a first grid deposited on the core, and a second grid deposited on the core that is spaced apart from the first grid, and a method of making the one-piece grid assembly by first compression molding the core and then depositing the grid by plating are disclosed.

Abstract: A cathode for an electron tube formed by coating the base of the cathode for the electron tube with an alkaline-earth metal carbonate containing at least barium as the alkaline-earth metal, and thermally decomposing in a vacuum to generate an emitter mainly comprising an alkaline-earth metal oxide, wherein a mixture of two or more kinds of alkaline-earth metal carbonate crystalline particles having different shapes is used as the above mentioned alkaline-earth metal carbonate. Since the present invention can provide a cathode for electron tube having improved both cut-off drift and emission characteristic at the same time, it is useful as a cathode for the electron gun of a CRT, or a cathode for the electron gun of an electron microscope.

Abstract: Electron gun with band-shaped beams that includes a vacuum chamber extend in a longitudinal direction, a beam window running in the longitudinal direction along the vacuum chamber, and a cathode control-electrode system positioned within the vacuum chamber in the longitudinal direction. The cathode control-electrode system includes at least one substantially straight cathode positioned substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the cathode control-electrode system and the at least one substantially straight cathode has bulges formed at defined distances. The bulges are shaped to produce a substantially homogeneous current density distribution along the at least one substantially straight cathode and support units are located in the cathode control-electrode system to correspond with the bulges. The bulges are removably couplable to the support units.

Abstract: By selecting the number of apertures per vertical row in the shadow mask of a color cathode ray tube to be in the range between 615 and 650, such a cathode ray tube can be used both in a PAL, an NTSC system and a MUSE system without the occurrence of disturbing Moire effects. In a second embodiment the number of apertures per row ranges between 425 and 450.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube package includes a cathode ray tube assembly and a housing assembly including a deflection coil and/or at least one focus coil. The cathode ray tube assembly includes a collar (31) aligned with the electron beam, being arranged to mate with a mounting collar (41) carried on the housing assembly. The provision of the collar (31) enables the cathode ray tube assembly to be easily replaced at the end of the cathode ray tube's life within the housing assembly without the need for realignment of the coils.

Abstract: A dynamic color separation display CRT having an electron beam forming structure for beam generation and electrostatic impingement control. The electron gun forms a group of electron beams and includes a multi-aperture G1 grid for receiving the electron beam group. The group of electron beams overlap and combine to provide an impingement pattern that matches a primary color stripe without use of a shadow mask when focused on the output screen surface. An alternate preferred embodiment includes a grooved cathode to control the size, shape, and profile of the emitted beam.

Abstract: A low-power cathode can be obtained by arranging it on a substrate (1), preferably of silicon, which is entirely or partly removed at the location of the emissive structure (11) by means of, for example, anisotropic etching. Because of its low power, the cathode is particularly suitable for multi-beam applications.

Abstract: A very fine-mesh, non-emissive shadow grid is formed on the smooth emissive surface 16 of a thermionic cathode 12 by deposition from a vapor a continuous layer 22 of non-emissive conductive material. Between the elements 24 of the grid the non-emissive material is removed by bombardment through an apertured mask to restore emissivity between the elevated grid elements 24.

Abstract: A display device having in an evacuated envelope a mechanically tensed thermionic linear wire cathode 4 and a bent first electrode 5 having a slit 6. The wire cathode 4 is rendered insensitive to microphonics by means of positioning means 22 which are urged against the slit 6 by the wire cathode 4.

Abstract: A gun for generating a multiple sheet beams 50 of electrons has a flat surfaced cathode 10 with parallel protruding ridges 12 of non-emitting material forming parallel focus electrodes for the sheet beamlets. A control grid of parallel bars 14 is aligned with the ridges 12 to reduce grid interruption. The beamlets may be focussed between support bars 54 of a foil anode 52 for passing the beam into a high-pressure volume such as a gas laser 48. The ridges are formed by inserting non-emissive bent sheets into grooves 58 in the cathode, which are dovetailed to hold them.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube is disclosed which has a modulating grid for varying the charged particle flux density along a cross-section of a flat thin of charged particles or for varying the charged particle flux density in each of a plurality of charged particle beams arranged side-by-side in a sheaf. In a preferred embodiment, a cathode ray tube according to the invention includes a modulating grid and associated electronics that permit the tube to project a single line of video information simultaneously, thus increasing picture brightness. The beam scan is solely vertical, rather than horizontal and vertical, as in cathode ray tubes of the prior art.

Abstract: A modulator structure includes modulation electrodes electrically coupled into pairs. Isolation electrodes are arranged adjacent to and in the plane of the modulation electrodes. The modulation electrodes are substantially U-shaped, and the isolation electrodes partially extend into the U.

Abstract: Coma correction means is provided in a color display tube including an evacuated envelope (1) containing an electron gun system (5) of the "in-line" type to generate three electron beams (6, 7, 8) situated with their axes in one plane. The electron beams converge on a display screen (10) provided on a wall of the envelope and are deflected over the display screen in two mutually perpendicular directions by means of a first and a second deflection field. The first deflection field is parallel to the plane. The electron gun system includes at its end field shapers (34, 35) for causing the frames described on the display screen by the electron beams to substantially coincide the field shapers include substantially annular elements (34) of a material having a high magnetic permeability around the two outermost beams. Two elongate flat strips (35) of a material having a high magnetic permeability are provided symmetrically with respect to the axis (37) of the central beam and the plane through the beam axes.

Abstract: An electron gun assembly includes a plurality of cathode assemblies and a plurality of spaced successive electrodes mounted on at least two electrically-insulative support rods. At least one of the electrodes comprises a deep-drawn substantially rectangular cup-shaped member having a base portion, a supporting flange portion, including a plurality of attachment tabs, and a sidewall extending therebetween. The sidewall includes a plurality of reinforcing ribs formed therein which extend substantially from the supporting flange portion to the opposite end of the sidewall adjacent to the base. The reinforcing ribs minimize the flexure of the sidewall.

Abstract: A heater and support structure for a line cathode includes heater electrodes and an S-shaped cathode support member arranged between the heater electrodes. The heater electrodes and the S-shaped support member have a higher resistance than the cathode and thus heat flows into the cathode to compensate for heat radiation losses and the support compensates for thermal expansion to retain the cathode at a substantially constant position.

Abstract: A support for supporting the line cathode of a flat panel display device is electrically insulative and has low thermal conductivity. The support is U-shaped and has a notch in the closed end for supporting the cathode a precise distance from the entrance to the guide mesh assembly. The support is spring loaded in the guide mesh assembly and is retained by retainer means on the support and in the guide mesh assembly.

Abstract: An electron gun for use in a cathode ray tube includes beam forming electrodes and beam focusing electrodes. A gun improvement comprises the beam forming electrodes including a cathode, a control grid adjacent to the cathode and two screen grids. A first screen grid is located adjacent to the control grid. A second screen grid is located between the first screen grid and the beam focusing electrodes. Preferably, the second screen grid and the control grid are grounded.

Abstract: The electron beam emanated by a single electron gun falls, after traversing two successive quadrupolar electron lenses, on a beam separator electrode having a pair of vertically spaced apertures formed therethrough for permitting the passage of fractions of the incident beam as two separate beams for dual image display. Subsequently deflected vertically by respective pairs of vertical deflection plates, the two display beams follow their trajectories to a target screen through a focus corrector device, a third quadrupolar electron lens, a pair of horizontal deflection plates, and a dome-shaped scan expansion mesh. Were it not for the focus corrector device, the spots of the display beams on the screen would differ in size according to whether they were deflected upwardly or downwardly by the vertical deflection plate pairs disposed respectively above and below the tube axis.

Abstract: A multiple beam cathode ray tube having diminished off-axis aberrations and a reduced length. A tube having a flat or planar electron beam emitter means, focussing means and deflection means is provided. A novel accelerating means is provided for accelerating the emitted beams while causing them to converge towards a crossover point which is located not closer to the screen of the tube than the deflection means. The maximum off-axis distance of the beams when traversing the focussing and deflection means is reduced, and the off-axis aberrations are correspondingly diminished.

Abstract: An areal array of tubular electron sources is disclosed for producing multiple directed electron beams. Sources (10) are located in a parallel array between a conductive back plate (12) at a closed end of the tubes and a conductive face plate (14) having holes therein aligned with the second open end of each of the electrode tubes (10). An electrical current source (30) is connected between the back plate (12) and face plate (14) to resistively heat each of the sources (10) to a temperature high enough for thermionic electron emission. Electron beams (34) are produced from within each of the tubular electrodes (10). Extraction means which may include a magnetic field from a coil (29) and an extraction lens (18) tends to withdraw the electrons from within the sources (10) in an intense, collimated beam (34). Beams (34) are accelerated toward a target (28) through a beam deflection unit (22) having holes (24) associated with each of the electron beams (34 ).

Abstract: A multiple beam cathode ray tube having an improved cathode-grid structure which facilitates grid lead connections and mounting. The cathode means has a plurality of openings which are arranged in an array pattern which is identical to the desired electron beam array pattern, and has an emitter means associated with each opening for emitting a group of electrons. The grid means is located behind instead of in front of the cathode means and is comprised of a plurality of grid elements mounted on a substrate. When appropriately biased, the grid elements cause groups of electrons which are emitted by the respective emitter means to flow through the corresponding openings in the cathode in the direction of the screen, thus establishing the required electron beams.

Abstract: In a display device having an evacuated envelope, an electron beam guide and an electron generating means for generating beams of electrons, a modulator structure on which is disposed a plurality of control electrodes may be formed by interconnecting selected ones of the control electrodes which operate at a common potential. This interconnected electrode structure decreases the number of control electrodes which extend from the evacuated envelope. The electron generating means is shielded from the interconnected electrode structure to prevent perturbation of the generated electron beams.

Abstract: An evacuated envelope includes front and back walls and a plurality of spaced, parallel support walls between and perpendicular thereto. The support walls form therebetween a plurality of channels. In each of the channels is at least one beam guide which confines electrons injected into the guide in a beam which travels along the beam guide but permits selective deflection of the beam out of the guide toward a phosphor screen on the inner surface of the front wall. A gun structure extends across one end of the channels for generating electrons and directing the electrons into the beam guides. The gun structure includes a thermionic emissive cathode extending across the ends of the channels and support members at spaced points along the cathode which support the cathode within the envelope but allow movement of the cathode with respect to the support members as a result of expansion or contraction of the cathode.

Abstract: This disclosure deals with novel techniques for generating longitudinal strips of energetic electron beams through concentric slotted constructions, being quite adaptable for the generation of multiple beams in different directions that are of very narrow angular transverse extent, as for purposes of line irradiation of articles passing the beams, though the techniques herein disclosed are also useful in other applications of electron beam irradiation.

Abstract: An electron-gun for cathode-ray tubes comprising, by comparison with prior art guns, at least one supplementary electrode (6) of the diaphragm type, arranged between the accelerator grid (3) and the anode (4) of such gun, and placed at a positive potential lower than that of said anode, forming with the entry of said anode a second condenser lens influencing the electron-beam (F) to produce a second cross-over (C.sub.2) and utilisable in particular for multicolor cathode-ray tubes.

Abstract: A metal sheet is provided with a plurality of slots which are disposed in parallel rows and columns. Charge sensing pads are disposed on an insulating layer on one surface of the metal sheet with a separate pair of the charge sensing pads being in abutting relation and sandwiching a separate slot. The sensing pads include a portion which extends beyond the length of the slot and is of a material having a high secondary emission ratio. The sensing pads have a capacitance to the metal layer such that they can be electrically charged to a common voltage level which permits a substantially uniform maximum electrical charge to pass into each one of the slots when the abutting sensing pads are discharged by line electron sources. The charge sensing pads may be repetitively charged, i.e., brought back to the common level, through secondary emission from the portions of the pads which extend beyond the slots.

Abstract: A metal sheet is provided with a plurality of slots which are disposed in parallel rows and columns. Charge sensing pads are disposed on an insulating layer on one surface of the metal sheet with a separate pair of the charge sensing pads being in abutting relation and sandwiching a separate slot. The sensing pads have a capacitance to the metal sheet such that they can be electrically charged to a common voltage level which permits a substantially uniform maximum electrical charge to pass into each one of the slots when the abutting sensing pads are discharged by line electron sources. The charge sensing pads may be repetitively charged, i.e., brought back to the common voltage level, through resistive leakage to a body at that common voltage. A plurality of substantially parallel modulating electrodes are disposed on, but insulated from, the other surface of the metal sheet. Each one of the modulating electrodes extends around one of the parallel columns of slots.

Abstract: In an ion implantation apparatus, means for forming multiple, separate parallel ion beams, each having a predetermined spot diameter, and means for focusing each of said ion beams upon a predetermined chip area of a target wafer whereby multiple chip areas upon the wafer can be simultaneously implanted with prescribed ion dosages.

Abstract: A plurality of control plates is sandwiched between a cathode and a target to control the flow of charged particles such as electrons and ions between the cathode and the target. The cathode includes an elongated filament for generating charged particles such as electrons. A first electrode having a negative potential is positioned behind the filament with a second electrode having a positive potential interdigitated with the first electrode. Each control plate has a plurality of apertures formed therein which are effectively aligned with corresponding apertures on the other control plates. The aligned apertures form beam channels. The control plates have paired conductive electrodes thereon arranged at predetermined coded finger patterns.

Abstract: In a color cathode-ray tube of the plural-beam type wherein the beams originate on a horizontal or vertical straight line and are directed into fields produced by a horizontal-vertical electromagnetic deflection yoke at predetermined incident angles to each other so as to converge at a color screen, magnetic shielding means, for example, secured to electron beam convergence plates, are disposed for selectively shielding at least one of the beams from the leakage flux produced by the horizontal-vertical electromagnetic deflection yoke in deflecting the beams in the direction of the line of origination thereof, whereby such leakage flux acts selectively on only the unshielded beam or beams for correcting a deviation between the positions of rasters on the color screen produced by the plural beams.