access icon free Appendix 1: The charge storage principle

Author(s): R. W. Burns
Source: Television: An International History of the Formative Years, p. 618-620
Publication date January 1998

The essential feature of the charge storage principle is that, during part at least of a picture frame period, the photoelectric emission due to the incident light falling on a mosaic of photoelectric cells is stored as a charge on the mosaic, each of the cells of which is associated with a capacitor. The capacitors are then discharged in sequence by a switching mechanism, such as a beam of electrons: the resulting train of electrical pulses constitutes the picture signal.

Inspec keywords: capacitor switching; electron beams; photoelectric cells; charge storage diodes

Other keywords: charge storage principle; incident light; capacitor; switching mechanism; picture frame period; photoelectric emission; electron beam; picture signal; electrical pulse; photoelectric cells

Subjects: Moving charges in electric and magnetic fields

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