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The cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing electron guns that shoot electron beams at a phosphorescent screen to display images such as television broadcasts, computer displays, or oscilloscope waveforms. It works by accelerating electrons from the guns through magnetic coils that focus and deflect the beams to scan across color dots on the screen, creating a full color image. CRTs were largely superseded by newer display technologies like LCD, plasma, and OLED due to their lower manufacturing costs and weight.

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The cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing electron guns that shoot electron beams at a phosphorescent screen to display images such as television broadcasts, computer displays, or oscilloscope waveforms. It works by accelerating electrons from the guns through magnetic coils that focus and deflect the beams to scan across color dots on the screen, creating a full color image. CRTs were largely superseded by newer display technologies like LCD, plasma, and OLED due to their lower manufacturing costs and weight.

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Cathode ray tube

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Cutaway rendering of a color CRT:
1. Three Electron guns (for red, green, and blue phosphor dots)
2. Electron beams
3. Focusing coils
4. Deflection coils
5. Anode connection
6. Mask for separating beams for red, green, and blue part of displayed image
7. Phosphor layer with red, green, and blue zones
8. Close-up of the phosphor-coated inner side of the screen

The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns,
and a phosphorescent screen used to view images.[1] It has a means to accelerate
and deflect the electron beam(s) onto the screen to create the images. The images
may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictures (television, computer
monitor), radar targets or others. CRTs have also been used as memory devices, in
which case the visible light emitted from the fluorescent material (if any) is not
intended to have significant meaning to a visual observer (though the visible
pattern on the tube face may cryptically represent the stored data).

The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep (i.e. long from front
screen face to rear end), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile. As a matter of safety,
the face is typically made of thick lead glass so as to be highly shatter-resistant and
to block most X-ray emissions, particularly if the CRT is used in a consumer product.

CRTs have largely been superseded by newer display technologies such as LCD,
plasma display, and OLED, which have lower manufacturing costs, power
consumption, weight and bulk.

The vacuum level inside the tube is high vacuum on the order of 0.01 Pa[2] to 133
nPa.[3]

In television sets and computer monitors, the entire front area of the tube is
scanned repetitively and systematically in a fixed pattern called a raster. An image
is produced by controlling the intensity of each of the three electron beams, one for
each additive primary color (red, green, and blue) with a video signal as a reference.
[4] In all modern CRT monitors and televisions, the beams are bent by magnetic
deflection, a varying magnetic field generated by coils and driven by electronic
circuits around the neck of the tube, although electrostatic deflection is commonly
used in oscilloscopes, a type of diagnostic instrument.[4]
A 14 inch cathode ray tube showing its deflection coils and electron guns
Typical 1950s United States television set
A flat CRT assembly inside a 1984 Sinclair FTV1 pocket TV
Electron gun

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