Raytheon Company

Varian Associates, Inc.

Amos Picker

Wolfgang M Feist

Barry M Singer

An image intensifier tube comprising an input screen assembly which includes a photosensitive semiconductor wafer having a substrate of one conductivity type material forming a plurality of P-N junctions with a planar array of mutually isolated islands of opposite conductivity type material, the islands protruding substantially equal distances from a common surface of the substrate, an opaque film of resistive material overlying the exposed areas of the islands and the common surface of the substrate, a layer of electroluminescent material disposed in abutting relationship with the distal ends of the islands and a layer of photoemissive material disposed in axially aligned relationship with the electroluminescent layer.

Image intensifier tube

A display system having a cathode ray tube signal generator in which a solid state junction target utilizes a layer of semiconductor material and a layer of dielectric material to form a junction. The signal generator may be of the monoscope type in which portions of the target are masked or it may be of the photosensitive type in which an image is projected onto the target. A signal derived from the signal generator is displayed on a second cathode ray tube.

Semiconductor heterojunction television imaging tube

A signal display system having a visual display and a display signal generator in which a semiconductor junction target has a high conductivity P layer, a low conductivity N layer, and a surface layer of insulating material having holes in the shape of letters or other characters. The target semiconductor junction is reverse biased so that when an electron beam striking the target is scanned over the character apertures, it will produce carrier multiplication in the target and an output signal several orders of magnitude greater than a conventional monoscope. The same principle may be used for a camera pickup tube when beam electrons returning from a light sensitive target are multiplied on striking a reverse biased junction target.

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