Cathode Ray Tube Display

Operations and Applications

What is CRT?
Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube
containing one or more electron guns, and a fluorescent
screen used to view images.

Brief History of CRT

The experimentation of cathode rays is largely

accredited to J. J. Thomson.

The earliest version of the CRT was invented by

the German physicist Ferdinand Braun.

The first commercially made electronic

television sets with cathode ray tubes were
manufactured by Telefunken in Germany in
1934.

Operations of a CRT
1. Cathode Ray Tube
2. Electron guns
3. Electron beams
4. Deflection yoke
5. Phosphor dot
6. Shadow mask /
Aperture Grille

7. Glass Lining
8. Pixel

Shadow Masks and Aperture Grilles

Shadow Masks and Aperture Grilles (Close Up)

How does it CRT works?

The electron guns blaze across the screen, row
by row, illuminating phosphors in their wake.
Varying the beams' intensity strengthens or
weakens the glow from a given phosphor dot; by
careful manipulation of every one, the triads and
pixels, seen by the eye as single units, create the
illusion of different-color dots.

Illustration

CRT Display at 10,000 fps

Applications

Television (Obsolete)

Monitors (Obsolete)

Applications

Oscilloscopes

RADARs