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When Display Monitor began publication in 1994, one of the technologies being tipped as representing the future of flat panel displays was the FED or Field Emission Display. Similar in principle to a CRT, the FED uses a beam of electrons to excite phosphors which then emit visible light. Unlike a CRT, it uses multiple … Read more
Elegant in their simiplicity, electro-luminescent displays offer the thinnest profile of any colour flat panel technology. The principle of EL displays is very simple. In construction they consist of an upper and lower substrate and upper and lower electrodes sandwiching a material which will give off light when high frequency voltage is applied. The whole … Read more
When looking at the operation of the deflection circuit , we see that it constantly adjusts the strength of the deflection yoke’s influence on the electron beam as the length of its path to the faceplate, and the amount of time the beam spends under the influence of the deflection yoke and the anode, varies. … Read more
A CRTs electron beam focusing circuitry has to change the focal length of an electrostatic or electromagnetic “lens” according to where on the screen the beam is being directed, as shown in Dynamic Focus . This ensures that the beam is consistently focused on a spot of the correct size on the inside of the … Read more
Originally, the term “dongle” was applied to any external attachment to a PC or one of its components. It seems to have originated in the UK and may have been coined to describe something which “dangled”, or hung, from the back of a machine. These days, the term is normally applied only to devices, which … Read more
To make a beam of electrons do something useful, it has to be deflected from its course in some manner so as to make a trace or scan across the CRT’s faceplate. There are two methods used to do this: with an electrostatic charge and an electro-magnetic field. Electrostatic deflection uses pairs of charged plates … Read more
The deflection yoke’s electromagnets are used to alter the path of the electron beam in a CRT. The job of synchronising the influence exerted by each of the yoke’s two magnets, and so controlling the directing of the beam towards specific parts of the screen, is handled by some electronics known as the deflection circuit. … Read more
Although the Braun tube contained all the essential elements of the modern CRT, these existed in a fairly primitive form and it lacked many of the refinements which are now considered as basic components. In the years following Braun’s work, one of his assistants, Jonathan Zenneck, added a second aperture to the neck of Braun’s … Read more
The development of the first CRT was the culmination of many years, or in this case, centuries, of research and discovery which put into place all the necessary elements. These include: the first manmade phosphor (1603); the first gas discharge tube (1751); the first production of light by exciting a phosphor with an electrical discharge … Read more
A simple form of texture filtering, point sampling, could be used to scale textures prior to their being mapped onto surfaces in a 3D scene. This technique could easily introduce errors by taking a too simple approach to the task. Using a more sophisticated, though slower, technique called “bi-linear filtering”, the colour of each pixel … Read more
There are parts of the CRT that control the production, flow, acceleration and direction of the tube’s electron beam but leave its shape unaltered. As the electrons accelerate towards the screen, they tend to diverge, as they all have a similar negative charge. If this divergence were to continue, the beam’s diameter when it reached … Read more
Before the three-gun, shadow mask CRT was firmly established as a standard for producing colour CRTs, several other novel systems were developed. One of these was the PDF (Post Deflection Focusing) Chromatron developed at the University of California. This tube had a single electron gun addressing a pattern of continuous vertical phosphor stripes on its … Read more
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