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electron gunSeries of electrodes, including a cathode for producing an electron beam. It plays an essential role in many electronic devices, including cathode-ray tubes (television tubes) and electron microscopes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These advances include: (1) field-emission gun electron beam instruments such as scanning electron microscopes (FEG-SEMs) that have high brightness electron guns with excellent performance at low beam energies, [E. Other researchers have used carbon nanotubes as tiny electron guns in flat electronic displays, but until now, no one had made a lightbulb based on nanotubes, says Jean-Marc Bonard. The specialty display is manufactured exclusively by Video Display Corporation's Lexel Imaging Systems division in Lexington, Kentucky, utilizing electron guns manufactured by VDC's Southwest Vacuum Devices division in Tucker, Georgia. |
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