Photoconductive Television Camera Tubes a Survey: A Reprint

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 80, No. 6, pp. 468–474
Abstract: The Photoconductive Effect was discovered in selenium in 1873<sup>1</sup> but it was not until 1950 that a photoconductive camera tube — the vidicon — was announced. The photoemissive effect on the other hand, discovered about 1890,<sup>2</sup> was incorporated in a practical camera tube about 1930. The reason for this difference in the rate of development is easy to understand because, in spite of the basically higher quantum efficiency of photoconductors, it proved very difficult to control their other properties for television applications.
Publication Date: 1971-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/J05785
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J05785
Author(s): Walter E. TurkPhototube Marketing, Commercial Division, English Electric Valve Co. Ltd, Chelmsford, Essex, England
Copyright: © 1971 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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