Abstract:
A photocathode substrate includes a plurality of prisms to refract radiation before it impinges upon a photocathode material. The refraction causes most of the radiation to meet the photocathode material at an angle other than 90* so that internal reflection of the energy within the photocathode material occurs. This greatly enhances the probability of electrons being released from the photocathode material.
Abstract:
A method of forming an array from a bundle of individual channel multipliers, the individual channels being fabricated of a lower temperature softening glass tube to permit the walls of the individual channels to be spiralled and also expanded to fill the interstices within a higher softening temperature outer tube, Also, the invention could be practiced utilizing glass tubes of the same temperature softening characteristic. The expanding and spiralling operation is preformed simultaneously by drawing the bundle of individual channels through a furnace while rotating the feed or pull assemblies of the drawing apparatus to spiral the channel bundle and exhausting the area between the individual tubes and the equal or higher temperature softening glass tube to expand the individual channels.
Abstract:
979,687. Electron multipliers. BENDIX CORPORATION. March 26, 1963 [April 13, 1962], No. 11815/63. Drawings to Specification. Heading H1D. An electron multiplier comprises a tube with a secondary emissive, resistive, coating along which a P.D. is applied to produce a transverse electric field inclined to the axis, so that the electrons " hop " along the secondary emitter. The inclined field may be produced by inclining the ends of the tube, Fig. 1 (not shown), or forming an inclined conductive end coating inside the tube, Fig, 5 (not shown). The ends of the tube may not be parallel to produce a varying inclination along the tube and thereby reduce " noise," Fig. 4 (not shown). Alternatively a pair of parallel plates may be used coated with a resistive emitter, Fig. 6 (not shown); or a series of parallel multiplier tubes may be used with a photo-cathode and screen to form an image converter, Fig. 3 (not shown). Specifications 954,248, 965,044 and 971,773 are referred to.