A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device such as a lead-acid battery. This definition can be...
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A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a...
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Vacuum tube (redirect from Indirectly heated cathode)
heated electron-emitting cathode and an anode. Electrons can flow in only one direction through the device: from the cathode to the anode (hence the name...
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Cathode rays are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes. If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied...
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hollow cathode effect allows electrical conduction at a lower voltage or with more current in a cold-cathode gas-discharge lamp when the cathode is a conductive...
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A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament. A cathode may be considered "cold" if it emits more electrons than can be supplied...
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Lithium-ion battery (section Cathode)
first rechargeable lithium-ion battery, based on a titanium disulfide cathode and a lithium-aluminium anode, although it suffered from safety problems...
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In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic...
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Nixie tube (redirect from Cold cathode display)
A Nixie tube (/ˈnɪk.siː/ NIK-see), or cold cathode display, is an electronic device used for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge...
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Cathodic protection (CP; /kæˈθɒdɪk/ ) is a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an electrochemical cell...
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Television (redirect from Cathode-ray television)
using a cathode-ray tube as a receiver, the concept of using one as a transmitter was novel. The first cathode-ray tube to use a hot cathode was developed...
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electronics, cathode bias, also known as self-bias, or automatic bias, is a technique used with vacuum tubes to make the direct current (dc) cathode voltage...
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Electrode (redirect from Anode and cathode)
(chemicals) depending on the type of cell. An electrode may be called either a cathode or anode according to the direction of the electric current, unrelated...
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Fluorescent lamp (redirect from Cold-cathode fluorescent lamp)
as hot cathodes. However, cold cathode tubes have cathodes that emit electrons only due to the large voltage between the electrodes. The cathodes will be...
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J. J. Thomson (section Experiments with cathode rays)
the conduction of electricity by gases." In 1897, Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (now...
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English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869–1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered. Developed from the earlier...
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Oscilloscope (redirect from Cathode-ray Oscilloscope)
response in single kHz, and were superseded by the oscilloscope which used a cathode-ray tube (CRT) as its display element. The Braun tube, forerunner of the...
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through which conventional current enters the device. This contrasts with a cathode, which is usually an electrode of the device through which conventional...
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Electrical polarity (section Anode and cathode)
electrode, see the illustration) to cathode. In a diode, the operating current typically flows from the anode to cathode, an arrow on the diode symbol indicates...
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A hollow-cathode lamp (HCL) is type of cold cathode lamp used in physics and chemistry as a spectral line source (e.g. for atomic absorption spectrometers)...
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with two electrodes, a heated cathode and a plate, in which electrons can flow in only one direction, from the cathode to the plate. Among many uses,...
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Glow discharge (redirect from Cathode fall)
discharges are used as a source of light in devices such as neon lights, cold cathode fluorescent lamps and plasma-screen televisions. Analyzing the light produced...
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means of a direct electric current. The part to be coated acts as the cathode (negative electrode) of an electrolytic cell; the electrolyte is a solution...
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Solid-state battery (section Cathode)
can use metallic lithium for the anode and oxides or sulfides for the cathode, increasing energy density. The solid electrolyte acts as an ideal separator...
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Cathodic arc deposition or Arc-PVD is a physical vapor deposition technique in which an electric arc is used to vaporize material from a cathode target...
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tube which had a perforated cathode. When an electrical potential of several thousand volts is applied between the cathode and anode, faint luminous "rays"...
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X-ray tube (section Crookes tube (cold cathode tube))
the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. The first-generation cold cathode or Crookes X-ray tubes were used until the 1920s. These tubes work by ionisation...
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Pressure measurement (section Hot cathode)
10−8 - 10−1 Pa) Most ion gauges come in two types: hot cathode and cold cathode. In the hot cathode version, an electrically heated filament produces an...
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mobile devices and electric vehicles, acting as the positively charged cathode. There is a particular interest in optimizing NMC for electric vehicle...
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applied between the two electrodes—an anode (positively charged) and a cathode (negatively charged)—immersed in an electrolyte solution.: 89 [page needed]...
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