Abstract:
A bistable storage cathode ray tube wherein the bistable storage target thereof has a conductive layer provided on an insulating support member, the conductive layer including a multiplicity of collector electrode members having insulating material covering at least the collector electrode members except for an area thereof. A layer of storage dielectric material is provided on the conductive layer and the insulated collector electrode members extend through the layer of dielectric material. The exposed conductive area of the collector members collect secondary electrons emitted from written areas of the dielectric layer and provide a substantially uniform potential over the target surface. The interface between the dielectric layer and the insulating material around the collector electrode members provides isolation between the dielectric layer and the collector electrode members thereby minimizing luminance around the collector electrode members.
Abstract:
A streak camera electron-optical image tube having a passive microchannel plate collimation adjacent the photocathode whereby photoelectrons are accelerated by the field between the photocathode and microchannel plate, and collimated by the microchannels. Collimated electrons pass a pair of deflection plates and strike a phosphor screen. Accelerating voltage and deflection voltage are synchronized with phenomenon photographed.
Abstract:
The camera includes an input focussing and image cycling system to alternly cycle between a thermal reference and a thermal image, onto a thermally sensitive layer. Means are provided for electronically controlled conversion of thermal images to electron images. Further means, defined in the camera, accomplish electronic image integration and storage. The output portion of the camera includes means to furnish image intensification, after integration and storage. Photographic or electrostatic film is pulled at a constant rate by a drive system positioned at the output of the camera, to expose film to the intensified image.
Abstract:
A miniature flat panel image intensifier tube display device using two inne microchannel plate (MCP) electron multipliers that have two arrays of orthogonally positioned electrically isolated parallel metallic stripes as electrodes on their interfacing surfaces and have the conventional continuous electrodes on the other two surfaces. A solid photocathode layer is in proximity focus with the solid input electrode of the first MCP, and the solid output electrode of the second MCP is in proximity focus with a display device. Array switching electronic means selectively switches bias voltages in some selected scan mode over the two arrays of MCP metallic stripes to provide a selective electron charge pattern exiting the second MCP wherein the charge pattern is converted to a visible image at the display device.
Abstract:
A cathode ray tube (CRT) having a faceplate-deposited cathodochromic material, said CRT having electron beam write and erase. The erase beam is an electron beam focused to a size of approximately 0.010 inches at the image screen of the CRT and the intensity of the beam is about 10.sup.5 watts/in.sup.2.
Abstract:
A target structure for electronic storage tubes which is of the "coplanar grid" type. The target comprises a conducting layer which in a preferred configuration has slender elongated pedestals supporting elongated spaced parallel insulating strips which serve as the coplanar grid. The spaces between adjacent edges of insulating strips expose regions of the conducting layer to enable an electron beam to contact the exposed regions of the conducting layer. The pedestals support the insulating strips a spaced distance above the exposed regions of the conducting layer to form "vacuum gaps" which serve to inhibit electrical charge on the surfaces of the insulating strips from transferring to the interface between each strip and the vacuum gap. The pedestals may be an integral part of the conducting layer or may be formed from an insulating material. Methods for producing the novel target are described.
Abstract:
An electron emissive tube of the type having therein a cesiated cathode, and also having a metal anode electrode. The improvement comprises a thin, clean, non-porous coating of semiconductor material on the surface of the electrode. The coating prevents degradation of the cathode by inhibiting the release of contaminants from the electrode by electron-bombardmentstimulated desorption.
Abstract:
Apparatus for compressing, expanding and reading out audio and other signals while preserving or varying their pitch. The apparatus includes means for discarding segments of the signals and compressing the undiscarded segments or, when desired, repeating certain portions of segments as the signals are being read out to reproduce the signals. The apparatus may also include means for converting the signals into word organized digital signals, storing and reading out the digital signals while discarding or repeating certain segments thereof without losing information content, means for interlacing the reading and writing operations, means for varying the write-in rate and means for varying the read-out rate of the signals so as to control the overall rate and pitch of the output.
Abstract:
A storage system for the mass recording and readout of digital data with ultra high resolution. An electron beam structure is provided for forming a beam of extremely small focused spot diameter, on the order of 0.1 microns, and high current density capability, on the order of 1,000 amperes per sq. cm., which records data by scanning over defined areas of the storage medium surface and micromachining elemental portions of said medium as a function of beam modulation. Readout may be subsequently accomplished by similarly scanning the beam at reduced power density and detecting electrons that have been transmitted by or reflected from the storage medium.
Abstract:
In a character generating device in which character signals are generated by scanning a character plate having character slits therein, with an electron beam, a signal developed across a load connected with an electrode provided in front of the character plate with respect to the travel of the beam by collecting with said electrode the secondary electrons emitted from a portion of the surface of said character plate other than said character slits when said beam hits against that portion and a signal developed across a load connected with a collector electrode provided in rear of the character plate with respect to the travel of the electron beam by collecting with the character plate the secondary electrons emitted from the collector electrode when the beam passes through the character slits of the character plate and impinges on the collector electrode, have the same polarity and both the signals are added through respective coupling capacitors to produce a composite signal. The composite signal is opposite in polarity to the signal developed across the load connected with the character plate. Accordingly, if the composite signal and the signal across the load connected with the character plate are differentially combined and thereafter applied to an external circuit, then an output representing any character signal can be increased in magnitude. Consequently, since a high level output signal is obtained without increasing the electron beam current according to the proposed device, the resolution or character generating capacity is improved. If the resolution need not be so high, the accelerating voltage can be accordingly reduced.