Abstract:
An electron gun assembly for use particularly in a shadow-mask color television cathode-ray tube has a plurality of (usually three) electron emissive areas adjacent which an accelerating electrode or electrodes is or are arranged for producing respective substantially collimated electron beams from electrons emitted by said areas. The collimated beams pass through an apertured screening electrode or electrodes so arranged that the space extending up to the electron emissive areas is effectively screened from electric fields in the tube beyond the screening electrode or electrodes.
Abstract:
A discharge system including a device such as a cathode-ray tube has an electron gun in which an accelerating electrode is placed close to a planar emissive surface of a cathode and is held at a small positive potential to provide an accelerating electric field having unipotential surfaces which are parallel to the electron emissive surface of the cathode. To screen the accelerating field having these unipotential surfaces from the further accelerating electrodes in the gun or in the cathode-ray tube a screening electrode or electrodes is placed in front of the accelerating electrode. In consequence the accelerating electric field close to the electron emissive surface is undistorted by the fields beyond the screening electrode(s), so that the electron beam is devoid of crossover and has a substantially uniform current density over its cross section.