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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1977
Robert Allen Gange, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An insulating substrate is provided with a plurality of discrete electrode pads on a surface thereof. A thermionic line cathode, e.g., a directly heated filament, is positioned to one side of the substrate surface and extends across a surface of each one of the electrode pads. An apertured electrode is positioned in spaced relation to the cathode in a direction away from the surfaces of the electrode pads. The apertured electrode may include a single slit-shaped aperture or a plurality of colinear apertures. The structure may also include a pair of spaced parallel filter plates whose surfaces are disposed in parallel relation to the longitudinal axis of the line cathode and in orthogonal relation to the surfaces of the electrode pads. The filter plates function to collimate the electron flow emitted from the cathode.