ABSTRACT
Discrete display devices play a very important role in both commercial applications and display research. This chapter examines a single technology or issue of image displays, also examines the similarities and common characteristics of all discrete display devices and presents general analysis techniques for them. It focuses on the much more common situations where the display device is the final component in a system, presenting information to human observers. The explosion in the availability and power of personal computers and workstations in the 1970s and 1980s was a major cause of the similar explosion in the types and capabilities of discrete display devices. Discrete displays are very useful devices, with applications found throughout industry, business, research, and consumer products, especially in the display of computer-generated information. Electrons are produced in a continuous beam by a hot cathode in the electron gun and accelerated to a high velocity by the potential gradient in the gun.
