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electron gun

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electron gun

A device that creates a fine beam of electrons that is focused on a phosphor screen in a CRT.


electron gun [i′lek‚trän ‚gən]
(electronics)
An electrode structure that produces and may control, focus, deflect, and converge one or more electron beams in an electron tube.


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Such a CRT must be thick enough so that the electron gun isn't too close to the screen; otherwise, the image becomes distorted.
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.
A similar process is at work in TV screens: An electron gun fires a beam into various metals embedded in the screen, which combine to produce a color picture.
 
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