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photomultiplier tube

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photomultiplier tube

[¦fōd·ō′məl·tə‚plī·ər ¦tüb]
(electronics)
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photomultiplier tube

A vacuum tube that converts light into electrical energy and amplifies it. Photomultiplier tubes are used in high-end drum scanners, because they are more sensitive to light than the CCD elements used in lower-cost devices.
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Our detection system consisted of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) operated as a single photon-counting detector along with pre-processing electronics (pulse-shaping and signal discrimination), pulse-counting hardware, and input into a computer for data acquisition, display, and logging for offline analysis.
Factoring in both the positional dependence of the effciency and the beta-decay spectrum of the electrons, we obtain a detection effciency of (48 [+ or -] 6) % when photomultiplier tube (PMT) threshold levels are set to three or more photoelectrons (see Ref.
The authors have put together a table of the machines, listing such details as the optics, the mode of detection (charge-coupled device camera or photomultiplier tube), the platform (96-well, glass capillary, etc.), and size and weight.
All scans were recorded at photomultiplier tube settings of 480-540, a pinhole aperture setting of 50 [micro]M, and a laser voltage setting of 20 mW.
Plasma emission is studied by a monochromator and a photomultiplier tube hooked up to a computer digitizing card, where Ar I lines are identified in the wavelength range from 300 - 500 nm.
The light is gathered by a photomultiplier tube, where it is converted into digital data.
In addition, the satellite carries a device called a photomultiplier tube, which allows the camera to take advantage of ultra-low-light conditions.
The new color scanners are smaller versions of the reading half of the larger, more expensive rotary drum laser scanner-recorders that employ photomultiplier tube technology rather than the semiconductor chargecoupled devices of the smaller film and flatbed scanners.
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